Aerobics
"Yomiuri Shimbun "( Japanese) reported on November 2 , 1984: if you wanted to know how to make yourself slim and charming, you could see that the neighbor country China had aroused a fever for things of aerobics.
Specially, Chinese aerobics had combined with tai chi and modern dancing. The radio gymnastic exercises of west European style had absorbed some Chinese martial arts actions like the "kicking" and "punching".
"My Chinese Heart" The Hong Kong singing star Zhang Mingmin that debuted in that year's spring festival evening party became a hottest singing star.
Particularly speaking, his song "My Chinese Heart" became one that almost all Chinese could sing besides the national anthem.
Foreign-Related Hotel "THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR" (USA) reported on June 6, 1984: the Great Wall Hotel standing at the outskirts of Beijing was a magnificent and tall building with 20 stories.
At the first glance, it seemed having little coordination with surroundings. The Great Wall Hotel was a symbol of new-riches' luxury life and expressed the fashion of western materialism.
Recruiting Models Openly for the First Time 10 art universities or colleges such as China Central Academy of Fine Arts published an announcement on "Beijing Evening News" that the faculty of fine arts would recruit models openly.
171 people were attracted, with most were unemployed young people. Some people dared not to tell their parents and requested not opening their names.
Western-Style Fast Food United Press International reported on February 19, 1984, China's first western-style fast food restaurant- "Yihe Fast-food Restaurant" opened, which was a food revolution led by Donald Duck.
Red Skirt In Vogue 
The heroine Anran in "Lady in Red" aroused a vogue of dressing red skirt.
Video Hall The video halls could be seen everywhere. People at that time indulged in Hong Kong and Taiwan movies and Hollywood pirated films there.
The focus in this year: let's plunge into the commercial seaAfter the founding of New China there were totally 3 tides of plunging into the commercial sea, occurred in 1984, 1987 and 1993.
The first crowd of people in 1984 who "becoming prosperous first" got rich mostly by inheriting overseas inheritance , working abroad , selling commodities in short supply and partly by hard working.
This crowd of people had an account of more than 100 or 200 thousands yuan, called "class benefiting from interests".
The most popular careers at that time were ranked as: tax driver, self-employed household, cook… finally were science, doctor, and teacher.
"Cutting hairs is better than repairing computers." and "Selling tea-leaf eggs is better than studying missiles." were true portrayals of that society.
The "tycoon" at that time, according to today's standard, was merely a middle or low level of salaried person.
By People's Daily Online
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