1. Open-air movies, which are rare to watch several times a year, are now personalized home theaters;

2. Listening to model plays on the radio, karaoke is now everywhere;

3. From the simple pursuit of "eating enough" to the pursuit of quality-of-life fitness exercises;

4. Playing billiards, now an online game;

5. From reading novels to watching various TV series.

For each specific person in the past 30 years, the best reflection of the change process is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Spiritual consumption is unimaginable by people 30 years ago. Nowadays, people’s experience and thoughts surpass those of their parents’ generation. Typical examples include daily exposure to TV, movies, and records.

Mobile phones connect the world and affect most Chinese people.

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Various entertainment methods today:

1. Television

The introduction of television into China can be traced back to the last century In the 1950s, a representative event was the trial broadcast of CCTV, which was established in 1958 (it was still called "Beijing TV" at the time). CCTV was also the first TV station in China.

Take neighboring Japan as an example. In the nostalgic "Eternal Sunset at Sanchome", people in urban Tokyo watched black and white TV in the late 1950s. Almost twenty years later, the scene of people gathering in front of TV sets in the streets and alleys to watch was repeated in China.

Television is a treasured memory for generations of people who lived through the 1980s. The 13-inch TV set with a glowing screen opened a door that had been closed to a country for a long time.

2. Movies

Whether it is an audio-visual art or a means of entertainment, movies appeared earlier than television, and they have brought strong impact and changes to Chinese people’s lives. .

Although it has been impacted by television in the past and even now, movies still have its unparalleled charm, which has also allowed thousands of people to flock to movie theaters instead of staying at home to face the epidemic. An environment that cannot be replaced by technologies such as rear projection. Chinese cinema began at the beginning of the century and followed the trend of world cinema through multiple stages such as silent films, sound films and color films.

3. Video cassettes

The popularity of video cassettes can be discussed separately. In the 1980s, televisions were rapidly popularized, and the video recorders that matched the televisions followed them onto the stage of history. At that time, there were not many TV programs. It could make up for the single shortcoming of TV and be used to watch movies. It was extremely practical.

From the 1980s to the 1990s, influenced by the prosperity of Hong Kong films at that time, the video tape field basically maintained a model of audience reception with Hong Kong films as the main body and foreign films as the supplement.

In short, the good times of video tapes and video halls lasted until the mid-1990s. Finally, they were eliminated and ended by VCD and DVD without any suspense, and their traces are hard to find. Many people didn't learn until later that the tapes they had been watching were only in VHS quality.

4. Records

Like movies and television, the music behind records is another base for popular entertainment. Records have made countless singers from Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan popular. After more than two decades of turmoil and interregnum, blaring tweeters are a thing of the past.

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, records and cassette players took the Chinese people away from the current reality and longed for a beautiful and indescribable future. The love, dreams and hopes in the songs have become the aspirations of many people. Copying lyrics and looking for posters is more like a national movement. It is from this field that the true expression of star chasing comes to the fullest.

5. Turntables

The reason why turntables are not popular on a large scale is that in foreign countries in the 1970s, vinyl turntables had been replaced by cassette tapes. Due to the large size of the turntable, which is far less portable than the cassette, coupled with the limited number of songs recorded on each side and the cumbersome procedures, the turntable has always seemed to have a high quality and few songs in China, and it is only a matter of time before it is replaced.

However, to this day, there are also a very small number of vinyl record enthusiasts who miss the music of those years. They believe that the slightly rough and realistic texture cannot be presented by later media such as CDs.

6. Cassettes

Since the 1980s, the popularity of cassettes has formed a three-legged rivalry with black-and-white TV and film movies. The super influence of cassettes has made it the leader of tapes. The general term refers to cassette tapes when talking about tapes.

Cassettes are low-cost and can be used repeatedly. Overseas, like Japan, cassettes appeared together with the Sony Walkman. Due to limited conditions in China, cassettes have been accompanied by radio cassette players for more than ten years.

Although there are differences in form, they are equally popular. In the 1990s, the Walkman also became the choice of urban young people.

7. MP3

MP3 is a digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. It uses an algorithm to prevent human hearing from recognizing the discarded audio part, thereby greatly It greatly reduces the amount of audio data and has extremely small capacity.

MP3 can play a role in far more areas than this. It can be stored in computers, mobile phones and other terminals. Even if MP4 or even MP5 is launched later, MP3 is still very popular in China.

8. Mobile terminals

The three fields of television, movies, and records influence each other, but the emergence of computers brought them together and even greatly changed their roles and status. . For example, no matter how good the album sales of singers are now, they are only a few tenths of what they were in the golden era.

With the emergence of LCD monitors and digital TVs, the connection between computers and TVs has become closer, but there are still natural flaws that cannot be overcome.