1928: The Rise of Giants

Small talk about ballroom dancing
When I first entered college in 13, because of my outgoing and outgoing temperament, I was noticed by my junior seniors and invited me to attend the freshman party organized after military training.

At that time, the freshman party was still held at the branch level and the college level. I participated at the college level and promised that the student union would put on a program (I later learned that this was a mandatory rule that every class must put on a program, but no one in our class went. The monitor quietly recommended me to the senior).

At that time, what I was thinking about was the invitation from the seniors. I couldn’t let the seniors lose face, so I worked hard, but I didn’t have much talent. We all discussed it. The senior happened to be a dance student, so he said it would be better to put on a ballroom dance performance. .

I refused outright at that time.

I'm really scared.

Growing up, I had zero artistic talent.

Music, art, dance. Anything related to art, I am the most classic loser character in the novel!
I couldn't even imagine that a person with no basic knowledge of dance, and even a person who was certified by the instructor as having extremely poor physical flexibility during military training, would go on stage to perform and dance.

Then my senior student, Xiao Yi, tried hard to convince me that I must choose the most beautiful girl in the class to dance with.

I am convinced.

Alas, what does personal shame mean?Being able to bring glory to the class is the key, right?

After the game was released, I started learning slow three (which is a simplified waltz). I couldn't keep up with it, so I had to switch to slow four. That's it, I still had to listen to the girl playing the beat and barely keep up with the pace.

Then the second problem arose.

I was relatively thin and short, about 168cm at the time and over 90kg. Initially, my senior paired me with a girl who was full of flesh, plump and soft!

Unexpectedly, when two people dance, it turns out that in order for the girl to have a soft and beautiful body, she doesn’t use any strength and needs your arms to completely support her!

In other words, if you let go, she will fall down.

In this way, I really couldn't handle the plump girl who weighed more than 110 pounds, and I didn't have enough strength, so the senior had to change me to a beautiful girl with a skinny figure and a slender figure.

I remember the song I chose was "To Youth" by Faye Wong.

Then, the six of us practiced for two months.

Because I really don’t have much talent, so when dancing, the girl has to be very close to me, with our ears and temples touching, so that she can whisper to me the beat——

That's right, I couldn't listen to the song, I couldn't understand the rhythm, and she was right next to my ear, reminding me like "one two three four, two two three four, turn in a circle, left, back, move one, move two" !
The seniors also designed several moves that looked very exciting but had a low degree of difficulty. These moves made our subsequent performances very successful and a sensation.After the performance, in our QQ group of six people, we even said that we would dance again when we graduate.

In fact, I have almost forgotten all those months of practice.

But that feeling has never been forgotten.

After the evening classes, I ran all the way to the student activity center to practice dancing for three or four hours, and then walked back to the dormitory under the stars.

It turns out that college life is not just about games, computers, and mobile phones.

There can also be a lot of joy that has never been experienced before.

Ten years have passed.

I was watching the Ip Man movie a few days ago and when I saw Donnie Yen and Xiong Dailin dancing, I suddenly felt very emotional.

Only by experiencing the feeling of skin-to-skin contact with a girl, of rubbing ears and temples, ambiguous but not explicit or erotic, can you truly enjoy the pleasure of hormones erupting between boys and girls.

Maybe there will never be another summer like this.

But it has become a beautiful memory in my life that is difficult to let go and forget.

Every time I listen to "To Youth" after that, that feeling will come to my mind.

Therefore, I highly recommend readers to try ballroom dancing, and don’t think that it is the life of the elderly.

I also miss my college life very much.

I participated in the college sports meeting, participated in long-distance running of more than ten kilometers, danced ballroom dancing, and also fell in love crazyly. I stayed in a hotel with my girlfriend for seven days and nights. I was so scared that my roommate thought we were missing and called the police. On my birthday, my roommate gave me I had a schoolbag full of Durex (I ran out of it before graduation, as I fulfilled my mission), and I pretended to be the boyfriend of a schoolgirl, and was almost stabbed, etc.

This is also my original intention of writing urban articles.

I hope that after this book, I can write a daily essay on campus love.

(End of this chapter)