National Tide 1980

Sunday, August 12, 1984, was no ordinary weekend.

In addition to the successful conclusion of the 23rd Olympic Games with the closing ceremony on this day, in fact, for many people, this is a very important intersection of destiny.

Although some things may seem insignificant at the time, over time, we will eventually find out how important these things will be in the future.

For example, this morning, an 18-year-old boy with a natural baby face took a flight from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport to the capital.

Then, without even having time to take a breath, he rushed to the Old Summer Palace with his luggage and met with director Wang Fulin who was running a training class for actors in red operas.

To be honest, the young man himself was not confident that he would be chosen by the director.

Because in the troupe, because his face is suitable for few roles, he has been a redundant person sitting on the bench for a long time.

If he hadn't been asked by the group to go on a business trip and could fly, he wouldn't have come.

But what he never expected was that he, who had just taken a trip to the capital because he had no choice, would be caught by Director Wang because of his young face.

Ten days later, the crew of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", which the state television invested heavily in, officially announced that the actor who will play Jia Baoyu - Ouyang Fenqiang from the Emei Film Studio Actors Troupe has been confirmed.

At this point, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions", which has gone through auditions nationwide and for more than half a year, has finally completed the last important piece of the character puzzle and is ready to start filming.

And this young man from Sichuan and Sichuan ushered in the highlight moment of his life completely unintentionally.

Also on August 12th.

A fourteen-year-old girl named "Gao Min" lives a closed life in Sichuan Sports School.

The only window to understand the outside world through the sports school is the black and white TV that can only be turned on on weekends.

She finally watched the replay of the finals of this Olympics diving competition.

Louganis was recognized as the greatest diver in the world at that time, known as the "King of Diving" and "Aerial Artist".

It gave her a great visual impact.

In this game, Louganis performed very well and once again won two gold medals for the United States team in diving and platform.

Especially his sculptural figure and difficult diving movements made Gao Min realize that diving can be so beautiful!

Just for this reason, she sat on the small bench and took only one bite of the watermelon in her hand before completely forgetting about it.

After the replay, she was holding a big piece of watermelon in her hand and still couldn't forget Louganis's action of entering the water.

Even her long-established idea of ​​quitting the team couldn't help but hesitate again.

To be honest, she fell off the ten-meter platform at the beginning of the year and was seriously injured to the point of vomiting blood. It took her more than two months to recover.

But the injury healed, but the psychological shadow was not easily dispelled.

In addition, high-intensity training is really hard, and the probability of elimination for divers is also very high.

She really felt that she couldn't bear the tremendous pressure, so she decided to quit.

In fact, she had even written the application to quit the team and kept it in a drawer for more than a week.

The only thing she is waiting for now is for her family to contact her school and then talk to the coach.

But on this day, the wonderful moments on the TV screen aroused her heart eagerly again, and the choice she had already made up her mind showed signs of loosening again.

She seemed a little unwilling and just gave up.

Should I go or stay?

At a young age, Gao Min was deeply at a loss as to what to do and worried about the obstacles in his choices.

As luck would have it, just before noon, the little girl was inspired by the sound of a vendor shouting from outside the sports school wall.

The vendor outside the wall is a sugar cookie seller.

At that time, this kind of small business had an interesting and special feature, that is, it was gambling.

After customers spend money, they can turn the wheel and give you whatever pattern it turns to. Some patterns have more candies, while others have less.

This made Gao Min couldn't help but have a cute and childish idea, why not let God decide his future.

So she walked out of the school and gave fifty cents to the vendor.

At this time, the little girl made up her mind that if she was transferred to Long, she would stay, or she would just leave and go home.

The result... I never expected it!

This time she turned, she actually turned to a dragon with the largest pattern!

Miracles in life just happen!

Everything is different!

After returning with the big candy cake, Gao Min smiled and licked the dragon in her hand while quietly tearing up the application to withdraw from the team.

History is so interesting.

Not many people know that our future diving queen came very close to choosing mediocrity.

It was a dragon-shaped sugar cake that kept the crown on her head so that she would not miss the future "coronation ceremony."

On this same day, Zhang Jing, who was only 16 years old and still studying at No. 205 Middle School in Haidian District, Beijing, sat on the back of her boyfriend's bicycle in the morning and made a special trip to the Temple of Heaven Book Market to watch Cui Jian's band perform live.

Inspired and infected, she ran to register in the afternoon and decided to participate in the upcoming Singer Grand Prix in Haidian District.

1984 should be said to be the first year that our country held the Singer Grand Prix.

In order to enrich the screen, in May this year, the National Television was the first to try to hold the first National Young Singer Television Grand Prix.

The live video of the final was broadcast live to the whole country through CCTV, and the program caused a sensation across the country.

After the game, not only many spectators wrote letters of praise and suggestions to the Ministry of Literature and Art, but more than a dozen sacks were filled in just half a month.

And other places have followed suit.

The Singer Grand Prix in the Haidian District of the capital city is of course much lower level than the competition held by the national TV station.

The good thing is that this is a singing competition open to the whole society, and ordinary people who are not professional performing groups can also participate.

And the relevant regulations are not as rigid as those of state television.

Although the competition selection items are copied from the TV station competition, there are only two types of singing: bel canto and ethnic singing.

However, many contestants choose to participate in pop music singing, and the organizing committee will not turn them away.

Like many contemporary teenagers, Zhang Jing, who is deeply obsessed with pop songs, planned to use a song that was popular in Europe and the United States in the late 1970s, "Assorted Vegetables" by the singer Carpenter brother and sister, as her performance piece.

At this moment, neither Zhang Jing nor her boyfriend, who she fell in love with early on, realized what kind of impact her impulsive registration would have on her life.

It was still noon on this day, and the Tan Palace Banquet Hall located in the North Kitchen of the Temple of Heaven finally opened, and the first banquet for 280 people was held.

While Ning Weimin achieved an important step in his career, he also witnessed the demeanor of a chess master before he became famous as a bystander of history.

I'm sorry that this banquet was sponsored by Japan's NEC company, and the banquet standard for each person is 180 yuan.

The purpose was to hold a short press conference for the "China-Japan Go Competition" sponsored by his company, and to entertain relevant personnel who promoted and participated in the event.

In addition to NEC personnel in China, the Japanese representatives also attended the banquet, including officials from the Japanese Embassy, ​​representatives of the Japanese Chess Academy as one of the participating parties, and some Japanese reporters from Japanese newspapers in China.

The Chinese representatives, in addition to Nie Weiping, are about to go to Japan to compete against the eight Japanese chess players.

There are also officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials from the Sports Bureau, staff from New Sports Magazine, and reporters from our major local newspapers and television stations.

It can be said to be a huge event with amazing influence, and it can be called an extremely grand cultural exchange event.

It is precisely for this reason that Ning Weimin is ready.

Not only were flowers cultivated in the greenhouses of the Temple of Heaven Park used for the first time, a batch of Chinese and Japanese flags were purchased for on-site decoration, and professional folk music performers were invited to join the fun.

He also personally planned the menu, prepared gifts, and was on-site.

And a total of 20 chefs, 65 service staff, and two electricians were mobilized to obey Du Yang's assignment.

The security supervisors from the special departments took the initiative to go into battle because of the mission they shouldered.

Therefore, although everyone in the Altar Palace was dealing with such a grand occasion for the first time, they inevitably encountered some minor problems because they were not familiar with the banquet reception process.

But Ning Weimin's hard work and painstaking planning will not be in vain.

Due to the artistic and solemn architectural decoration of Beishen Kitchen, the staffing is sufficient, and it also has the blessing effect of walkie-talkies.

In the end, the shortcomings did not cover up the good points, and everything was done perfectly.

Even details such as summer flowers and fruits, vegetables, old Jimo wine, and chrysanthemum arrangements were arranged to suit Japanese preferences, which won the favor and praise of the Japanese personnel.

Most Japanese people are very happy that after the banquet, there are exquisite palace pastry gift boxes and candy gift boxes available.

In particular, several Japanese representatives led by NEC Company were greatly impressed by the two dishes "Jasmine Clear Soup" and "Peach Blossom Pan".

At the banquet, they openly stated that Tan Gong Restaurant is the best Chinese cuisine they know, and they hope to open Tan Gong Restaurant to Japan as much as possible.

There is no doubt that hosting such a banquet is not only equivalent to witnessing an important historical event, but also plays a very surprising role in raising the level of publicity for the Beishenchu ​​Banquet Hall in Tan Palace.

Ning Weimin lost no time in taking many photos of the scene with his camera.

In particular, I have to say that there was a surprising scene during the banquet, which was Nie Weiping's live speech.

You must know that the Japanese representatives' attitude towards this event is only superficially polite. What they really hide is condescending arrogance.

Because the level of Japanese Go players today is recognized as world-class.

Before this event was determined, Japan's "Go Club" monthly magazine conducted a public opinion poll on the streets of Tokyo on the hypothetical outcome of the game.

Including many foreigners, only three out of more than 10,000 players from the Republic can win.

Later, upon closer inspection, I found that the three people who said the Republic had won were all students from the Republic.

Even Japanese chess players generally believe that the level of chess players in the Republic is limited and really not good enough.

Almost everyone condescends to fight for money, with the certainty of victory.

That's the actual situation.

In this way, because the format of the Go match between China and Japan is very similar to that of martial arts, which is quite special, it inevitably makes us have many concerns and hesitate to accept the challenge. .

For no other reason than this, although this kind of group competition attracts a lot of attention, losing can also be ugly.

However, despite such overwhelming external public opinion and huge pressure, after the Sports Bureau and the chess players held a meeting to discuss, they still felt that the opportunity was rare and were still determined to participate in the competition.

It's obvious, how can you make progress if you don't participate in high-level actual combat?

Necessary tuition fees must be paid.

So, as long as we think about it carefully, it is not difficult for us to come to a conclusion.

These Japanese people didn't hold their shit in at all.

From the beginning of the war, the little devil used the exchanges between the two countries as an excuse for Sino-Japanese friendship.

They want their own citizens to gain a sense of national superiority from this seemingly disparate competition.

His heart is so cruel!

But then again, although Nie Weiping has not yet become famous at this time, he is quite strong and wise.

During the speech at the banquet, he brilliantly countered the Japanese arrogance with the humility unique to ancient oriental countries.

At that time, a Japanese reporter asked what ambitions the chess players of the Republic had.

Nie Weiping answered on behalf of everyone, saying that we don’t have much ambition, we just hope that each of us can win a game.

At first, the Japanese didn't react, thinking that this ambition was ordinary.

Well, only one win?

It's still modest, as long as you know the difference.

Therefore, the Japanese personnel applauded after Nie Weiping's speech, showing great enthusiasm and giving special face.

But it didn't take long for them to figure out that the chess players of the Republic still wanted to win.

According to the rules of the arena, everyone wins a set, and in the end, of course, the Republic wins.

But by this time, it was too late to regret, the cucumber vegetables had already gone cold.

The Japanese personnel at the scene could only look at the Chinese chess players with unkind expressions, lowered their heads and complained in whispers.

I have to suffer the loss of being dumb.

On the contrary, the Chinese personnel, including Ning Weimin, were indeed very happy.

And as someone who understands the direction of history and Nie Weiping's future achievements.

Ning Weimin was even more certain that this "Chess Saint" would most likely become famous after he trampled these Japanese under his feet in this game.

So when the banquet was coming to an end, in order to get some benefits and to form a good relationship.

Ning Weimin took the initiative to express his opinions to the officials of the Sports Bureau and several participating chess players.

He said that on behalf of the Pierre-Carton China Corporation, he was willing to sponsor overseas clothing for the chess players competing this time.

And after the chess player returns home, as the general manager of Tan Palace, he will sponsor another reception banquet according to today's specifications and standards.

Nothing to say, given the current probability of losing more than winning.

Ning Weimin can be so generous. In the eyes of the sports bureau and chess players, this is an act of righteousness that provides help in times of need.

No one would have thought that Ning Weimin, a man with a cheerful face, eager for justice and justice, is actually a philistine who can benefit most from opportunism.

If I really cut open this kid's belly, it would actually be filled with abacus beads.