Shanghai, please answer 1999

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The topic is very vulgar, and it is also a bit empty. In fact, no one answered you, but it was just a few shouts from mortals - in today's context, it is almost a "sobs".

The origin is that there is an article that misses 2019 and refreshed this morning. I'm a little pissed. In the mud, too macro is useful. Will the right hand miss the same slow motion of the left hand a few seconds ago?

So, you might as well take a little bit of it and go back a little bit. Just like what was said in "Inception", since you are dreaming, you should dream a big one.

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Let's go back to 1999. All memories are like a printed box of color film in disarray. Any attempt at orderly editing is futile.

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In 1999, I was 28 years old. She lives on the second floor of a garden house on Anfu Road with Xiao Wang, a girl who was chased back from Beijing. The house was lent to me by Jin Feng's father, the elegant gentleman who played Zhang Xueliang in the movie "Xi'an Incident". Jin Feng had just returned from studying in Beijing at that time, and later became a famous voice actor. He was the leading actor in "Spider-Man", and Zhong Hanliang's roles in major mainland TV dramas were basically endorsed by him. Toby in "The Great Gatsby" Maguire is him, yes, Ultraman is also him.

At that time, Anfu Road did not have any Internet celebrity temperament, and almost no small shops opened. Opposite the bungalow is today's second-hand bookstore Duozhuyu. A little further east, Jinyuan is still on sale soon after it was built. The price is 8,000 yuan per square meter. After knowing the price, I exclaimed, "Cana, crazy!"

In the common area of the kitchen on the first floor, there is a stove that belongs to me. When I went to Wuzhong Vegetable Market at Wuyuan Road to buy vegetables, the stall owner was very rude at that time. When I went to the hairy crab stall, the boss's eyes turned upside down: Sun Yat-sen's granddaughter (the aunt's aunt) just came to buy 8 crabs!

Anfu Road faces west, and at the corner of Wukang Road, there is no Marion yet - the famous new wave boring film "Last Year in Marion Bar" will only enter the new 21st century until it meets chaos (the process of watching the movie). fell asleep several times). Today's sunflour is next door to a real movie theater - Yongle Palace. In 1999, when "The Matrix 1" was released, a ticket was hard to come by. At that time, I was the director of the literature and art department of the Labor Daily. The literary reporter Xiao Ha helped me get the premiere, but I could only sit in the middle aisle-Xiao Ha’s father was one of my university graduation thesis advisors. I got excellent, so I put up with it.

I went to the movies with the handset of my Panasonic cordless phone at home. I also received a phone call while watching the movie. I have a Siemens S4 mobile phone, the number is rented, 13003153485, usually do not turn on, only return calls; Motorola Chinese BB machine, 128X182227 is attached to my waist.

I have a newspaper-issued saxophone that has a cord on the back that can be pulled out to start it. This summer, after watching the match between Shenhua and Dalian at Hongkou Stadium, it was stolen. In 1999, there were no old men with cars left outside the stadium.

A little more macro.

In September 1999, the Yan'an Elevated Road was fully opened to traffic, and the short-lived and brilliant first bend in Asia was born; looking at the opposite Lujiazui from the Bund (I don't know if there is a long grassy beach today), the Oriental Pearl Tower and Jinmao Tower have already stood up. , the kitchen three-piece set is still missing two.

Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street was also completed this year, and the crowd was surging. The Tomorrow Square at the intersection of Nanjing West Road and Huangpi North Road is still under construction, and Plaza 66 has been structurally capped. The People's Square store, which once set KFC's global single-store sales record, is full of customers. The KFC colonel on the first floor of the Dongfeng Hotel is still smiling - this "dark history" has become a permanent nightmare for Waldorf Astoria Pr's after many years.

Saying KFC on the 30th day of the city's seal is cruel, like writing poetry after Auschwitz -- of course, someone still writes poetry and limericks. In the "Little Bird Special Issue" that just came out of the street, I read "KFC" signed by Jiang Yan: First acquaintance with Iraq at the Dongfeng Hotel / Surprisingly mashed potatoes / Unexpectedly after 33 years / Delicious food still counts KFC.

A wrench of fingers made Lao Jiang never forget that gourmet encounter, which happened in 1999 and ten years later, a big family.

By the way, Shanghai was wet in 1999. The yellow plum sky lasted for 43 days, more than half of the normal plum rainy season, and the rainfall exceeded 4 times.

In 1999, Shanghai actually held a Miss Internet Beauty Pageant. Is the first generation of Internet celebrities safe today?

Metro Line 2 was also commissioned this year, from Zhongshan Park to Longyang Road.

At the beginning of 1999, "Huanzhugege" was broadcast on Shanghai TV Channel 8, and Xiaoyanzi first entered the eyes of Shanghai people. This year, I met Fan Bingbing in overalls while eating at the Shudi Spicy Fish Restaurant opened by Renquan on Anfu Road, and I was astonished.

In 1999 Spring Festival Gala, Chen Hong and Cai Guoqing's song "Always go home to see" has not yet been heard, but in recent years, hometown often persuades wanderers to return to their homes; the sketch "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" is still the pinnacle of domestic sketches. , the three protagonists, one ambiguously faded out, it is said that even the plane was sold, the other was staring at the dragon madly, and the stepdaughter took the golden man and couldn't even find the name.

It is really a person without a place to rely on. In 1999, try to see the Shenzhou after 20 years. Who is the world?

This summer, at the begging of a friend, I reluctantly sold him a ticket for the friendly match between Manchester United and Shenhua on July 21 at a price of 1,800 yuan. 1,800 yuan can buy about 0.7 square meters of commercial housing in Shanghai, the size is just right to hang a print of Mr. Jin Yucheng. Of course, Mr. Jin will not start painting this print until 20 years later. Of course, a print signed by Teacher Jin is more than that price today.

In July, in the Women's World Cup final, the Chinese women's football team lost to the host United States by one goal. The sonorous rose seems to have been called that year.

This year, the first competition of the new concept. A little liar starts here. Of course I don't have much sympathy for him. It is not scary to start a business by deception, what is scary is that deception is the core competition from beginning to end. After all these years, it should be cleaned up. Otherwise, it is really a gift of fate and ancestral graves.

Is there anything else in 1999 that makes me sad?

correct. On the afternoon of April 15, a Korean Air cargo plane crashed into Minhang District after taking off from Hongqiao Airport. 5 students and construction site workers who were returning home from school were killed (including 2 elementary school students) and 42 were injured. The crash caused a magnitude 1.6 earthquake in the Xinzhuang area. The black box took seven days to find, because the pilot confused the flying height in meters and feet.

Among the family members of the 5 victims, one of them quickly agreed to a compensation of 525,000 yuan, while the family members of the remaining 4 people did not agree with the amount of the mediation compensation and insisted on suing Korean Air. In the end, the four received compensation ranging from 900,000 to 1.13 million. It became the highest precedent for compensation in the country at that time.

There is also an ironic interlude in the search for the black box. A middle-aged woman had reported to police that a man in his 50s had left the scene of the accident with an orange box. After going from house to house, the police finally found the "black box" in the man's house, and opened it and found a box of mahjong.

However, in the past 20 years, these memories that should be unforgettable in the past have disappeared.

All I remember is that in 1999 Shanghai was a big construction site. The dust is flying, but it looks like a young man with a muddy face but full of heroism. As I headed towards my 30th year, I felt that what was about to happen in this city was far more abundant than the possibilities of my life.

In November, I went to get a certificate with Miss Wang in the morning and got married at an early age; in the afternoon, the party organization of the newspaper office approved my application for joining the party. With two certificates in hand, I am full of ambition. It was still a somewhat ideal era. In Wang Shuo's novels, you can already see the phrase "you are a party member", which seems to be thunderous today, but it is because you have seen it that everything seems to be less tense.

In 1999, I was using a modem with a rate of 14.4K to surf the Internet. In order to download a picture of Xiaobei as a screen saver, the cat was "wheezing" all night.

That year, I also met Qian Ning at Haixing at Xiangyang intersection of Huaihai Middle Road, the son of the former deputy prime minister. rather. In addition to Qian Ning, Mr. Ma, and Mr. He, the editor of the evening newspaper supplement that day. Qian Ning's gestures are very elegant, a bit like Chen Baiqiang - the image of these two people in my mind is the same. I remember eating mushroom risotto at Sea Star that day.

In 1999, I used to go to the Eros Garden on Julu Road, and after grumbling with the guard, I went straight to the second floor to look for Teacher Ma. He made the bed as the editor and I slept as the senior author. This is the harmonious relationship between the editor and the author that Mr. Ma later summed up affectionately. The editorial office of "Shanghai Literature" was next door to "Shanghai Literature", but I didn't know Mr. Jin who had written "Youth Blood" at that time.

In 1999, on the newsstand opposite the Garden of Eros, a young man who was missing a hand silently lowered his head to read a book and raised his head to pay. Years passed and I never saw him again. Passing through Julu Road a few months ago, the car flashed by quickly, but I seemed to see this one-armed middle-aged man again.

In 1999, Meimei Department Store was still in Huaihai Building. The newsstands in the corner doorway are full of dazzling arrays. The man with his face as black as iron sand is stern and reluctant to strike up a conversation, and he accurately clips the literary journals to the black iron clips. A few years later, Hong Huang, who ran the magazine, hoped that the new magazine would be able to squeeze into the newsstand at the corner of the Internet celebrity, and brought a cigarette to go to public relations. It was a rainy day, and the black-faced stall owner shouted angrily and threw the cigarette onto the sidewalk of Huaihai Road. Zhonghua rolled in the drizzle, and Sister Hong's heart was bleeding.

In 1999, the Huaihai Building went east to Huating intersection, the clothing market was still there, and it would take another year before it was completely cleared. I should have walked head-to-head with the famous singer Pan Jindong in the market this year.

This year, I don't know if it's a hype or if the netizens really don't understand, everyone is talking about the Millennium Bug, just like talking about the worm today. Today I have forgotten whether I have adjusted the time display of the computer on December 31st. As long as the gangsters in the bank don't forget it.

On Millennium Eve, I went to Parkson Flower 400 to buy a green cotton jacket—Xiangyang Road Clothing Market will not be demolished in 7 years, but I didn’t go there. Parkson was one of the hottest landmarks in Shanghai at the time, and it is said that more than 10,000 people meet at the Parkson gate every day.

The next day, I'm wearing this new jacket to officiate my best friend's wedding.

Just hit the Enter key, and 23 years have passed. This friend's daughter is graduating from college next year. I still seem to be standing on the threshold of the Millennium Night.

There was only one millisecond left, as if the advance and retreat were decided by me, and that person, Yi Buren.

(The search process of this article refers to some articles on the public account of "Guide to the Life of Shanghai Citizens", and I would like to express my thanks to Morning News and Miss Han Xiaoni)