Xiacengpu Town, Jiangyong County： The Party and the masses get together to sing new rural beauty.

2024年2月19日 | admin | B2
Red Net News February 2 nd(Correspondent Wen Yongjun) On the evening of February 1, the government of Xiacengpu Town, Jiangyong County was brightly lit and very lively. The "Longteng 2024 Welcome the New Year" party was held in the conference room of the town government. More than 80 cadres, workers and representatives of the masses gathered together to dance out of a happy new life, sing a new look of their hometown with songs and greet the arrival of the New Year with laughter.
In order to comprehensively promote the revitalization of rural culture, enrich the cultural life of grassroots cadres and workers, and promote the high-quality development of public cultural services, the trade union Committee of Xiacengpu Town carefully organized the "Longteng 2024 Welcome to the New Year" party on the occasion of the arrival of the New Year, and organized trade union members to write, direct, perform and enjoy cultural programs with local flavor. The party kicked off in a cheerful dance. Xing Teng, secretary of the Party Committee of the town, gave a welcome speech at the party. The party and government leaders of the town happily danced the opening dance. Trade union members sang and danced "Professional Front Alliance". party member cadres passionately recited "I love going to work". Communist Youth League members sang "The Internationale" in chorus. The representatives of the masses humorously performed the sketch "Those things about going to school". Finally, the party ended with all the cadres and the masses singing "Tomorrow will be better" together.
This evening’s program was splendid, with the local accent spoken, the local feeling danced and the rural appearance sung. It brought a cultural feast to the cadres and the masses who came to watch the performance, won warm applause and bursts of applause from the audience, constantly stimulated the cultural vitality of rural revitalization in the new era, constantly increased the enthusiasm of party member cadres for loving the party and patriotism, constantly enhanced the enthusiasm of cadres and workers to start businesses, and created a strong propaganda atmosphere for building a harmonious beautiful countryside.
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Hebi, Henan： Ecological Qihe River reproduces the beauty of The Book of Songs.

2024年2月18日 | admin | B2

　　People’s Daily Online, Zhengzhou, March 23 (Yu Siyuan) "Qi Shui Tang Tang, gradually wearing a car." Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released outstanding cases of beautiful rivers and lakes and beautiful bays in 2021, and the Hebi section of Qihe River was nominated by the first batch of beautiful rivers and lakes.

　　It is reported that there were three outstanding ecological and environmental problems in Qihe River: First, seasonal cut-off. In the case of non-centralized water regulation and replenishment, the Bailongmiao-Xugou hot spring section of Qihe River has been cut off for a long time, about 14 kilometers long; The downstream reach of the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway Dam is seasonally cut off, about 28 kilometers long. The second is the ecological degradation of the basin. The river buffer zone is almost lost, the national second-class protected plant wild soybean and the national second-class endangered key protected wild plant Taihang chrysanthemum are almost extinct, and the crucian carp and spotted fish in Qihe River are greatly reduced. Third, Qihe River passes through the city, and the water quality is threatened by industrial and agricultural pollution sources scattered on both sides of the river and black and odorous water bodies in the city. The task of controlling sources, intercepting pollution, ensuring quality and expanding capacity is arduous.

　　In order to protect Qihe River, Hebi City, Henan Province promulgated and implemented the Regulations on Qihe River Protection in Hebi City, which brought Qihe River protection into the legal track. Full implementation of the closed fishing period system, prohibiting all types of fishing operations (including fishing); Set up Qihe River Protection Office, implement the system of river guards, and implement normalized supervision.

　　After treatment, Hebi City completely solved the problem of seasonal cut-off of Qihe River, and basically realized the long-term flow of rivers and water. At present, the average annual flow of Qihe River reaches 16.96 cubic meters per second, and the average annual natural runoff is 535 million cubic meters. Not only that, Qihe River has fully restored the basin ecology.

　　According to reports, there are 64 species of fish in Qihe River, including 34 species of phytoplankton, 10 species of zooplankton and 14 species of macrobenthos, among which the giant panda in the water — — Peach blossom jellyfish frequently appear; National protected animals such as egrets, mandarin ducks, black storks and white swans can be seen along the river. Based on the comprehensive evaluation of water quality and aquatic biodiversity, the ecological environment quality of Huanghuaying water in Qihe River is rated as 5.0, which is the best monitoring point of water ecological status in Haihe River Basin.

　　It is reported that today’s Qihe River water quality maintains more than Class II standards all the year round, ranking first among 60 rivers announced by Henan Province over the years, and becoming the only unpolluted river in the Haihe River Basin, which is rare in North China.

Today, Qihe River has an excellent ecological environment. Photo courtesy of Henan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment

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Writer Li Chungang： Killing Year Pig Cooking Miscellaneous Vegetables; The Reunion Dinner in Xitougou, Erlang Mountain, Western Sichuan; Oral Folk Custom; My Spring Festival Memory.

2024年2月1日 | admin | B2
Text | Li Chungang
Xitougou is a natural village under Erlang Mountain in Sijing Town, tianquan county, Ya ‘an City, Sichuan Province. For me, the year of Xitougou begins on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month.
At this time, those Xitougou people who have worked outside for a whole year are almost back, and I always have time to go back until the end of the year. Therefore, as soon as they return to Xitougou, they will call me one after another, or arrange for the younger generation, or even call me after receiving instructions from a handful of elders who are getting older and less and less every year to determine when I will go back, so that they can arrange the reunion dinner.
▲ Lianggen drawing
Because it is located between the mountains in western Sichuan, the reunion dinner in Xitougou is obviously different from other places. This difference is not only what we have called it since we were born, but also the content of the reunion dinner, which has always been the same: chicken, duck, fish and meat. Meat, especially pork, is essential for every family; Chicken, duck, and fish are three kinds, depending on their habits, tastes, and even economic conditions. For many years from small to large, almost every family in Xitougou only ate pork, and it seems that overnight, every family can have whatever they want on the dinner table of the family reunion dinner.
Pork is specific, but it can’t be shaken by thunder. After winter, the slaughtered pigs are smeared with salt and hung on the stove. After a few days of smoking, they become a dried pig’s head, a "sitting pier" with tail, intestines, tongue and belly-with a "head" and a "tail", plus viscera, which indicates completeness and perfection-before cooking the new year’s meal, they are removed from the stove and burned off the remaining hairs on the skin.
▲ Kill the Year Pig (photo by Jian Hong)
The most noteworthy thing is that it is cooked with pork into "miscellaneous vegetables". The so-called miscellaneous food actually includes four kinds: dried bamboo shoots, dried green beans, kelp and radish, so it is called miscellaneous food, which is about an ancestor who started from the long-term monotonous diet in Xitougou and then passed it on from mouth to mouth. Xitougou, located in the mountains, is rich in bamboo shoots. Every late spring and early summer, drying mats (mats made of bamboo sticks and specially used for drying grain and vegetables) are placed in the drying dam in front of almost every house. Those bamboo shoots collected from the mountains and left after three meals a day are cooked and spread in the drying mats, and after several fierce suns, they become dried bamboo shoots. The processing method of dried green beans is the same, except that green beans need to be planted by themselves, and the production season is later than bamboo shoots. Kelp, on the other hand, was bought back from the supermarket in the market years ago and washed after soaking in water in advance.
After the pork in the cauldron is cooked, take it out of the cauldron. After the dried bamboo shoots, dried green beans and kelp are almost cooked, put the big white radish pieces that have just been pulled up from the ground, and then open them for a while, and a cauldron full of "miscellaneous vegetables" will become. What is not eaten at the reunion dinner is served in a big bowl and becomes an essential dish for every meal. After eating "miscellaneous vegetables", it is almost "broken five". Strange to say, on other days, the "miscellaneous vegetables" cooked with the same materials and the same cooker and firewood could never taste the same as the reunion dinner.
This past New Year, I finally got back to Xitougou the day before New Year’s Eve. When I got back, it was like rushing to the scene. Every family had a family reunion dinner: my brother-in-law’s family, my family, my big cousin’s family, my adopted mother’s family, my seventh brother’s family, and Hua Ge’s family … until the abdominal distension was like a drum, and nothing could fit in their bellies. Even so, several of them failed to participate after being invited.
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Li Chungang, born in 1973, is the deputy chief physician of orthopedic surgery, a member of Chinese Writers Association, a member of the whole committee of Sichuan Writers Association and a member of the Prose Committee. His main works are essays, Crying for Pain, Migrating Water Flowing Through, Physical Illness and so on.
▲ Li Chungang
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Beware of ＂golf elbow＂ when playing badminton.

2024年1月27日 | admin | B2

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▲ Be sure to do a good warm-up exercise before playing badminton. (data picture)


　　Play badminton


　　Watch out for the "golf elbow"


　　Experts remind: Pulling the ball, saving the ball and swinging too hard can all cause joint and muscle injuries.


　　The second in a series of reports on "Sports Clinic"


　　Since he fell in love with the "civilian sport" badminton, Xiao Zhou’s physical strength and mental state are much better than before. However, after a period of enthusiastic practice, he has always felt a dull pain in his elbow recently. When he went to the hospital for a check-up, he was suffering from "aristocratic disease"-"golf elbow"! Wang Wen, an expert in sports medicine, warned that incorrect hitting posture and insufficient warm-up when playing badminton can lead to various injuries to wrists, elbows and shoulders of upper limbs. Generally, tennis elbow is well known, but in fact, such as golf elbow, head-mortar impact syndrome and articular cartilage tear may also be caused by improper badminton exercise.


　　Text/Reporter Lei Kun, Shi Shanwei


　　Correspondent Cui Yanling


　　Medical Guidance/Wang Wen, Deputy Chief Physician of Orthopedic Surgery and Doctor of Sports Medicine, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital


　　Improper playing posture can easily lead to five kinds of injuries.


　　Playing backhand: Cartilage tears easily.


　　When playing badminton, whether it is hitting, smashing or hanging, picking, pushing, pouncing and hooking, the wrist is required to have basic backward extension and abduction movements. With the different technical essentials, the wrist will quickly straighten and flash the whip to hit the ball or from backward extension to adduction, internal rotation and flashing to cut the ball. In this case, the weak link of the wrist, the triangular cartilage disc, will be continuously rotated and squeezed, which is particularly easy to cause damage.


　　"Some people are good at playing backhand, which is especially prone to the tearing of the triangular cartilage of the wrist joint." Wang Wen said that if you rotate your wrist inward, you will feel pain when you twist it, and sometimes it will be accompanied by clicking. This is the symptom of tearing the triangular cartilage of your wrist. When the articular triangular cartilage is injured, if the pain is not so severe, it is recommended to rest for a few days first. If the pain is not reduced or aggravated, you should see a doctor.


　　Frequent "killing the ball": be alert to shoulder injuries.


　　Badminton can also cause shoulder injuries. Shoulder joint is the joint between upper limb and trunk, and it is the joint with the largest range of human activities. Wang Wen said that common shoulder injuries in badminton include tear of glenoid cartilage, thickening of joint capsule and "shoulder impingement" and so on.


　　The glenoid lip is the cartilage tissue in the shoulder joint, which is connected with the joint capsule and ligament, and the tightness of the joint capsule determines the range of motion of the shoulder. Incorrect posture and excessive force when trying to kill the ball may lead to tearing of the glenoid lip. There is a typical symptom of labrum tear, that is, it doesn’t hurt, but it hurts when you lift your shoulder, and you can hear a click in the joint. Some white-collar workers usually sit still and don’t even know that their joints are injured. They don’t go to play until the weekend, and when they lift their shoulders, they feel badly hurt, only to realize that they are injured. Wang Wen pointed out that a slight tear of the labia minora can be cured by itself after a few days’ rest, but it always hurts or makes a noise when it moves, so you should see a doctor. Frequent swing hitting may also lead to the thickening of the joint capsule at the back of the shoulder, thus affecting the range of motion of the shoulder joint and the internal stability of the joint.


　　Pulling the ball too hard: beware of "golf elbow"


　　Many people know that playing badminton is easy to get "tennis elbow". In fact, playing badminton may also lead to "golf elbow". Wang Wen said that golf elbow and tennis elbow have the same cause, but the difference is that the location of the force point is different and the location of the injury is different. "Tennis elbow" is the injury on the outside of elbow, and patients prefer backhand stroke, while "golf elbow" is the opposite, and patients prefer forehand stroke.


　　"Golf elbow", whose medical name is medial epicondylitis of humerus, refers to chronic traumatic inflammation at the starting point of flexor muscles (muscles that flex wrists and fingers). Because golfers are more vulnerable to this kind of injury, it is also called "Golf elbow".


　　Repeated swing: causing "shoulder impingement"


　　When badminton is racqueted and swung, the shoulder joint abducts. At this time, the internal tissues of the subacromial joint can produce a chronic shoulder pain syndrome due to repeated friction and impact, which is called "shoulder impact syndrome". Its clinical feature is that there is a pain arc in active abduction of shoulder joint, while the pain in passive activity is obviously relieved or even completely painless. The main symptom is shoulder pain, and the pain is mainly around the acromion, which is heavier at night. The affected limb is weak and limited in movement. When the upper arm abducts to 70 degrees, it is obviously painful and feels "stuck". There is no pain at the beginning of abduction of the shoulder joint, and it begins to hurt when it reaches 60 degrees, and it disappears when it exceeds 120 degrees. Reduce or disappear during passive activity. The acute attack of "shoulder impingement" should be partially blocked, and it should be moved immediately after relief to prevent adhesion.


　　Running "save the ball": hip joint is easy to be injured


　　In the game, players who are desperate to save the ball can often get warm applause and heartfelt admiration from the audience. However, in actual playing, this kind of action is likely to lead to "head-mortar impact syndrome". Seeing that the position where the ball falls is still a long way from itself, some people will lift their legs and leap in desperation, hoping to catch up in one step. The eagerness to save the ball is commendable, but there will be a violent collision between the femoral head and acetabulum at this time. If there is no movement during warm-up, the "head-acetabular collision syndrome" may occur.


　　The characteristic of "head-mortar impact syndrome" is that there is nothing unusual at ordinary times, but flexion of hip joint will cause pain. This kind of injury may not be serious at first, but if it can’t be repaired in time, it can accumulate slowly and eventually cause big problems inside the joint. Cartilage in joints is non-renewable, and once damaged, it will never grow back.


　　How to prevent injuries when playing badminton?


　　1. Fully do warm-up exercises. Whether joints, ligaments and muscles are warmed up is of great importance, and which part may be injured if the warm-up activity is not in place.


　　The key point of the correct wrist warm-up action is to straighten the right arm horizontally forward, with the palm of your hand rushing out, and move the five fingers of your right hand back with your left hand to stretch the wrist joints and ligaments. In addition, all joints of the waist and legs, ankles, achilles tendons, shoulders and elbow joints should also be fully warmed up.


　　2. When playing badminton, use various protective devices, such as wrist protector, shoulder pad, knee protector and ankle protector, which can play a certain protective role.


　　3. Choose the right venue and sneakers. It is best to play in a stadium with wooden floors, and the soles of sports shoes should have a certain thickness and elasticity.


　　4. Don’t leave immediately after playing the ball, but relax fully, which will play a positive role in restoring the joints and ligaments of the body and various parts.


　　5. Don’t "go into battle with injuries".


　　Tips


　　Often play badminton.


　　Good for cervical spine


　　"Playing badminton often is very helpful to your health." Wang Wen said that playing badminton regularly in Xian Yi, young and old, can strengthen the muscles of limbs and waist, enhance the coordination ability and sensitivity of all parts of the body, accelerate the metabolism and blood circulation of the exerciser, and improve the functions of cardiovascular system and respiratory system. Besides, when playing badminton, we often have to raise our heads, which is contrary to our usual action at our desk. It can effectively relieve and improve the tension in the cervical spine and is very beneficial to the cervical spine.


　　However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Badminton can also cause physical injury if it is not exercised properly. "Sports injuries caused by playing badminton are very common, mainly concentrated in the upper limbs." Wang Wen pointed out that wrists, elbows and shoulder joints are the most vulnerable parts.

Editor: Zhang Toya

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We can’t have a reunion dinner： we are going home for others on the way.

2024年1月25日 | admin | B2
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We can’t have a reunion dinner: we are going home for others on the way. The 41-year-old Yuan Wen took about 5 minutes from getting off the bus to eating a "reunion dinner" with a lunch box and then preparing to leave after eating. He drives a bus on line 618 of Liangjiang Bus No.2 Branch. Bus 618 is a bus of more than 8,600 buses in Chongqing. Two days ago, everyone in the Yuanyang dispatching room where he was located discussed that this year we would have a reunion dinner in the dispatching room, and everyone would provide a dish.
What is this reunion dinner like? Chongqing Times reporter "witnessed" it on January 25th.
Seven dishes include country chicken, fat sausage and sausage.
At 11: 48 noon on January 25th, 41-year-old Yuan Wencai drove the 618 bus back to the Yuanyang dispatching room, and the shift leader in the dispatching room quickly called him to prepare for the "reunion dinner". The reunion dinner has been placed on a simple rectangular dining table in the dispatching room.
The Chongqing Times reporter saw at the scene that there were seven dishes on the table, and several of them had no heat. But this does not affect everyone’s appetite at all. Several drivers have been waiting with plastic lunch boxes. The seven dishes are Maoxuewang, Braised Pork Intestines, Sliced Mushroom Soup, Fish-flavored Shredded Pork, Stir-fried Cauliflower, Sausage and Braised Chicken. These dishes are all brought from home by these drivers.
Braised chicken was brought by Villi, a female driver. She said that the native chicken was brought by her father from the countryside of Wulong’s hometown. On the 24th, she made it specially when she was on leave, packed it in a plastic crisper, and brought it to work on the 25th. The 42-year-old captain Zhu, the captain on duty, personally made Mao Xuewang. "It was also brought in a plastic box, and a large plate was borrowed from the restaurant opposite the dispatching room and then loaded."
Xie Dingrong, 39, also provided several dishes. Xie Dingrong said, "This year, everyone decided to have a group year. In addition to so many dishes, we also hung lanterns in the dispatching room. Although it is a place of work, it also needs a festive atmosphere."
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After the rice was heated in the microwave oven, it was placed on the table and everyone began to eat. After we took a few photos, Master Yuan Wen of Line 618 put down the chopsticks.
The reporter looked at the watch time, and it took Yuan Wen only five minutes to eat this "reunion dinner". The reporter asked if he had eaten so soon. Yuan Wen said while washing dishes and chopsticks, "The same time as usual." The Chongqing Times reporter learned that Yuan Wenjia is in Beibei District, and now he rents in Renhe, and only goes back to Beibei once on weekends.
After Yuan Wen’s dishes and chopsticks were washed, the other drivers’ masters basically finished eating. There is a lot of food left on the table. Captain Zhu, the captain on duty, said that the interval between buses usually is about ten minutes. In order to ensure the convenience of citizens, even when it is like the Year of the Communist Youth League, it is necessary to ensure the punctuality of the departure. "The rest of the food, hot for a while, the next wave of drivers to eat. However, the next driver has other dishes that have not yet been taken out. "
Compared with the reunion dinner of citizens and friends, it takes several hours at a time, but the "reunion dinner" of these bus masters is only 5 minutes. Yuan Wen said, "Although it takes five minutes, it is nothing as long as it can ensure the convenience of citizens."
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After Yuan Wen left, he came back one after another with several drivers. The reporter noticed that several dishes were added to the table one after another. These new dishes were brought by these drivers’ masters from their own homes and heated in the microwave oven in the dispatching room.
"Why is there no fish in the reunion dinner?" The reporter asked everyone. Captain Zhu, the captain on duty, said: "I have been working here for so many years, and I have never seen anyone eat fish. Even if I usually eat, I have never seen anyone eat fish. Because the time is short, eating fish is easy to get stuck in the throat. “
Besides, there is no wine or drink on this "reunion dinner". Naturally, you can’t drink wine, but neither can you drink. Captain Zhu said, "Bus drivers take a long time to go back and forth on a line, so they can only go back to the dispatching room when they go to the toilet, and few people drink drinks."
This "reunion dinner" is eaten by drivers one after another, and they continue to drive one after another. A bystander, Mr. Chen, heard that it was a bus driver who had a reunion dinner, and said with a smile, "Where are you, the reunion year, the reunion New Year, and the reunion dinner can’t be round?"
However, Mr. Chen’s words were immediately covered up by the laughter of the driver who ate the reunion dinner. Someone said loudly, "so many dishes are richer than those in the family group!" "
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The whole "reunion dinner can’t be round" lasted for about an hour and a half. A master said with a smile, "this seems to be a running water mat. If it’s cold, heat it up in the microwave oven. If you come first, eat it and hurry to start." There are always drivers on the road, and a whole table of reunion dinner can’t be made up. However, we bus drivers drive on the road so that other citizens can go home faster. "
The Chongqing Times reporter learned that there are five lines in the Yuanyang dispatching room, namely 607 lines, 620 lines, 618 lines, 644 lines and 635 lines. There are 129 drivers on 5 lines. There are no more than eleven or twelve people who can get together for a reunion dinner at the same time.
Chen Shuping, chairman of the trade union of the Second Branch of Liangjiang Bus Company, said that the purpose of this driver’s "reunion dinner" is to make these bus people who work together more happy to work in the new year. "All the dishes are brought by everyone at home. Let’s get together and taste each other’s skills. It’s festive and happy. Although many people can’t spend the New Year with their families, they are also very happy with their colleagues. "
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A table of New Year’s Eve is full of affection.

2024年1月22日 | admin | B2
On New Year’s Eve, we had a reunion dinner, enjoyed family affection and read mulberry. Every Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriot and overseas Chinese has his own "New Year’s Eve story".
Pot dishes that mean "pots are full"
White-cut chicken "starting from eating chicken and reuniting the whole family"
Bless the long-term dish of "long life"
Qingtian sugar cake with fragrant lips and teeth
A basin full of "auspicious dishes"
The real taste is reunion.
Our reporter Chen Ran
Deep-fried goo-goo meat, hung with sweet and sour thick juice made of sugar and vinegar, and presented with colored pepper and pineapple pieces; Pinch the good tiger spots out of the pot with a stopwatch, pour steamed fish and soy sauce, and then pour a thin layer of ginger and onion hot oil …
Every New Year’s Eve, Mrs. Xie’s kitchen is full of fragrance, wrapped in a strong flavor of the year.
"In a year, my favorite meal is New Year’s Eve. Although it is harder than usual, it is the happiest thing to make your family satisfied and happy. " Mrs. Xie, who lives in Chai Wan on Hong Kong Island, and Mr. Sheng have two sons. Today, sons have grown up and left home to study and work hard. Therefore, the Spring Festival has become one of the few reunion moments for Xie Jia every year. A week before New Year’s Eve, Xie Jia had already begun to prepare for the New Year’s Eve dinner.
Speaking of New Year’s Eve dishes, Mrs Xie is always in high spirits. "The eldest son loves to eat cows. I bought the freshest oxtail early, stewed it with lobster sauce and bean paste, stewed it until it was soft and rotten, and the bovine bone marrow was also dissolved in the soup. Every bite was rich in gum and sauce. Shrimp is my husband’s favorite. In the New Year’s Eve dinner, Aauto Quicker’s braised black tiger shrimp is served, which is fried first and then stewed. The red color is festive and appetizing. My youngest son likes steamed ribs that are soft and waxy. This time, I put a layer of tender tofu under the marinated ribs and put them into the pot. Gravy and hot tofu are estimated to make him eat a big bowl of rice … "
Mrs Xie smiles brightly. A hearty and delicious New Year’s Eve dinner is full of love for your family.
Hong Kong-style New Year’s Eve dinner pays attention to "good luck", so every family must have several kinds of "auspicious dishes" on the table, "fish every year", pig’s hand symbolizing "windfall" and "round and round" mushrooms … In Tangfang Village, Pingshan, Yuen Long, New Territories, a pot dish feast meaning "full of pots" has been circulated for generations. Pingshan traditional basin restaurant started with this ancient "Hong Kong flavor". Deng Lianxing, a descendant of the third generation, introduced that the traditional potted vegetables are burned with firewood, which has a unique fireworks fragrance for a long time.
A seemingly simple pot dish is actually full of flavors. The ingredients include prawns, oysters, squid, pigskin, mushrooms, chicken, herring balls, pork, radish, bamboo shoots and Nostoc flagelliforme. Roast, stew, roast, stir-fry, marinate, stir-fry … All kinds of ingredients are self-contained, and then stacked layer by layer according to a specific order, and different flavors absorb and infiltrate each other, making people feel more delicious as they eat.
The New Year’s Eve dinner should be delicious, as the classic TV series in Hong Kong says, "The most important thing for a family is to be neat." In the laughter, the whole family sits around the table, which is the true taste of New Year’s Eve.
Mama home-cooked dish
Memories of the taste of the year
Our reporter Suning
In the small town of Haojiang, the end of the twelfth lunar month is getting stronger and stronger, and people are happily preparing for the New Year. "At the end of the day, business people will feast their buddies and give out year-end bonuses." Li Baohua, who works as a civil servant in the Macao SAR government, said that the 28th of the year is a day to wash dirty clothes, and families should clean their houses to get rid of the old and welcome the new.
New Year’s Eve is the climax of the year. "When my grandmother was alive, she always adhered to traditional customs." Li Baohua recalled that the old lady got up early in the morning every New Year’s Eve, prepared a table of small dishes to worship in front of the ancestral memorial tablet, and prayed for a smooth coming year. Then go straight to the vegetable market to prepare a reunion dinner, that is, New Year’s Eve.
In Li Baohua’s impression, the 30-year-old vegetable market has always been a sea of people. People should not only choose the freshest ingredients for the evening reunion dinner, but also prepare "year-pressing" things. According to the traditional custom, lettuce, celery and onion with roots should be tied with red rope and attached with red paper. A shad, can’t scale, can’t laparotomy, complete a tail. Some people have to put a whole white-cut chicken, and all the ingredients, together with oranges with leaves, will be stored from the 30 th of the year to the second day of the New Year’s Day, in order to have a head and a tail and have more than one year.
Reunion is the eternal theme of New Year’s Eve. When the sun sets on the western hills, the whole family sits neatly around a table. And almost every dish on this table has its meaning.
"Every family celebrates the New Year’s Eve with lettuce by the fire. Full of yellow sand makes a big cockroach, and the firecrackers ring in the sky. " Baohua Li said that the last flower-exploring Shang Yanliu mentioned the word "Xian" in his poem "Yueyuan Old Calendar Folk Bamboo Branch Ci", which is homophonic with "Xian" in Cantonese, implying that Xian is rich in years. However, yellow sand clams are rarely seen in today’s reunion dinner, but pork tongue and oyster sauce are indispensable. People in Guangfu call the pig’s tongue "pig’s tongue", and "pig’s tongue" and "profit" are homonyms. People from businessmen to wage earners have a special liking for this dish. There are chicken, boiled chicken, fried chicken with soy sauce, ginger and onion chicken … No matter how to make it, a chicken is indispensable for the reunion dinner.
For Li Baohua, the best reunion dinner must be mom’s home-cooked meal. What I miss all my life is also the figure of my mother in the taste of the year. "My memory of the taste of the year began with my mother’s soy chicken in the reunion dinner." Li Baohua said that her chicken with soy sauce was not soaked, but fried. Heat a red pot, put down the oil and chunks of ginger, fry the chicken until fragrant, pour the adjusted soy sauce, and cook slowly with slow fire. The skin is fragrant and the meat is lazy, and the thick juice is heavy.
All kinds of special flavors
Behind is hometown.
Our reporter Wang Yao
In Taiwan Province, since the first half of the year, the news of sweeping the Spring Festival and the advertisement of the New Year’s Eve at the door of the store have been repeatedly broadcast by TV stations, and the message of "Spring Festival is coming soon" has been constantly released, which makes people involuntarily look forward to the "big meal" on New Year’s Eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Zheng Shijie, who are in their forties, live in Taipei. "On New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve, I usually go to my husband’s house to eat, and I will go back to my mother’s house on the second day." Mrs. Zheng, who is usually in charge of cooking, said that she was very relaxed on New Year’s Eve. "The kitchen on New Year’s Eve is the home of her mother-in-law, and no one else can get involved."
When Mr. Zheng was young, he lived in the family village (a house built for the soldiers who moved to Taiwan and their families). The whole family village was like a big family. "At that time, every family really didn’t lock the door." Adults were colleagues and children were classmates, taking care of each other, regardless of each other; Whoever cooks something delicious will share it with everyone. As soon as possible, the residents of the village come from all over the mainland. Over time, each family’s diet has all kinds of distinctive flavors, and so does the New Year’s Eve. Mr. Zheng’s grandfather came from Jiangxi and his grandfather came from Hubei. "When we were young, we ate New Year’s Eve at grandma’s house and later at mom’s house, but there was no obvious regional characteristics."
Although many families now go to restaurants for dinner to save trouble, Mr. Zheng’s mother still insists on cooking by herself. Ten days before the Chinese New Year, I began to buy ingredients and reserve new year’s goods.
On the dinner table of the New Year’s Eve, there are bacon sausages and pot-stewed vegetables made by ourselves. "There are also stewed lion’s head, shredded pork with fish sauce, shrimp, and of course, fish is indispensable, because there is more than one year, and you can’t finish it on New Year’s Eve. Only when there is surplus will you have more than one year." There must also be jiaozi, which contains coins. Whoever eats it represents better luck. " Mr. Zheng said.
"Some families in Taiwan Province eat hot pot on New Year’s Eve, which has a surrounding atmosphere. Pay attention to a little, but also have a Buddha jumping wall. " Mrs. Zheng said. "When we were young, we all went to my grandmother’s house in Tainan for dinner. My grandmother was chaozhou people. The dinner would make chicken rolls, stewed whole ducks, radish cakes, and’ long-year dishes’ that Taiwan Province must eat around the stove. Because it is not easy to boil, it symbolizes a long life. You can’t cut it off when you eat it, but eat it whole leaves."
Sugar cakes stay fragrant for a long time.
Nourish the wandering heart
Our reporter Cheng Long
As the year is approaching, in a small mountain village in Qingtian, Zhejiang, every household is busy: washing lotus leaves, grinding rice noodles, mixing stuffing and steaming sugar cakes. This is the happiest memory of Wang Xinte, an overseas Chinese living in Spain: every New Year, he can eat Qingtian sugar cake, which is sweet but not greasy, soft and not sticky, and his lips and teeth remain fragrant.
"The taste of the year is the taste of Qingtian sugar cake!" Wang Xinte said, "It starts to be cooked around the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, and it takes more than ten hours to steam in a cauldron. Then cut it into pieces and eat it slowly. Visit relatives and friends and bring some as a New Year gift. "
In 2000, Wang Xinte arrived in Spain, and the first year of Spring Festival was simple. "There are only seven or eight China people in the whole city, so it is very lucky to eat Chinese food, let alone eat sugar cakes." Wang Xinte said that in the past, local people knew little about the Spring Festival. "Now, the Spring Festival has become a household name."
On the first day of the first month of 2018, Wang Xinte took several overseas Chinese to Aragon TV Station to introduce the Spring Festival in China by live broadcast. "We specially prepared two kinds of food. One is jiaozi, and the other is sugar cake. The audience and the host were full of praise for China cuisine. Through delicious food, Spanish friends have a deeper understanding of China and Qingtian. This has also created a more friendly atmosphere for our overseas Chinese to live and develop in the local area. "
Wang Xinte also moved the New Year’s Eve dinner to Spain. "This year, we will invite people from all walks of life in Spain to attend the Spring Festival dinner, and invite them to taste the special New Year’s Eve dinner in China and experience the customs of worshipping the New Year and giving lucky money." Wang Xinte, who is now the president of Spain’s Spain-China Friendship and Cooperation Association, hopes to take the New Year’s Eve dinner as a brand activity to promote Chinese culture and run it in Spain for a long time.
The charm of Chinese culture is getting bigger and bigger, and the China Year around the world is getting more and more prosperous. "Now many supermarkets in Spain are selling sugar cakes, and there are more and more patterns." Wang Xinte said, "My children were born and raised in Spain. They don’t have the Spring Festival experience as I did when I was a child, but I hope they can learn about the Spring Festival through these activities and never forget their roots."
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Lively and fragrant ｜ During the New Year’s Day, the average daily trading volume of seafood in Changsha exceeded 2,000 tons.

2024年1月7日 | admin | B2
[Editor’s note]Changsha, a treasure city, with its diversified business forms, unique delicious food, booming new consumption, lively and extraordinary first-store economy, brilliant nightlife and wonderful exhibition activities, has jointly outlined a vivid picture of generate with ancient charm and trend intertwined, creativity and vitality. Changsha, with its unique charm, is attracting more and more attention and becoming a vibrant consumer capital.
Red Net News December 31 ST (Reporter Yang Shuhua)"I want 10 swimming crabs, 30 abalones, 5 Jin in metapenaeus ensis and 1 Australian lobster." On the morning of December 31, Mr. Li, a citizen of Changsha, accompanied his family to Mawangdui seafood and aquatic products market in Changsha, and selected several kinds of seafood that the whole family liked to eat in a seafood business.
In Mawangdui seafood and aquatic products market in Changsha, people like Mr. Li come to buy seafood in an endless stream. "Our business has been very good during this period. In recent days, the turnover has doubled, and the incoming goods can basically be sold. Hairtail, pomfret, red paste crab and other varieties are particularly popular." Seafood business owners are either busy grabbing seafood for customers or weighing heavy bags. Many seafood stall owners basically have no time to rest, and the booming business keeps them busy.
Here, every morning, a truck full of seafood keeps coming in, including Boston lobster with thick legs, Australian lobster with pliers bigger than the face, lively Pippi shrimp, king crab with large stone mill, crystal clear yellow scorpion, abalone swaying from side to side, as well as pomfret, hairy crab, swordfish, snail, eel, rare crab, grouper and octopus beard.
During the three-day holiday on New Year’s Day, the seafood market in Changsha ushered in a wave of consumption season. The relevant person in charge of Mawangdui seafood and aquatic products market in Changsha said that the Spring Festival will be ushered in after New Year’s Day, and the seafood market in Changsha will enter the peak season of buying and selling in winter. Major seafood restaurants and merchants have launched a variety of preferential packages and made preparations for holidays to ensure a complete variety, sufficient supply and stable prices. About 2,000 tons of seafood and aquatic products are traded here every day.
At the same time, in order to ensure the quality and safety of aquatic products entering the market, Mawangdui seafood market has fully implemented online "incoming goods reporting", which includes: base producer information, transportation information and market seller information; At the same time, we visited the aquatic product breeding base and signed a production and marketing docking contract with the high-quality aquatic product breeding base. All incoming vehicles that have not been "reported for arrival" in advance will also be sampled first, and they will be allowed to enter the market after passing the inspection, thus realizing the "inspection upon arrival" of seafood and aquatic products with "certificate of inspection without origin", and the food safety can be traced back.
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Nearly 1.3 billion in 3 days! Why can the box office of 2021 New Year’s Day movies set a new record？

2024年1月1日 | admin | B2

　　Beijing, Jan 4 (Reporter Ren Siyu) After the national box office in 2020 exceeded 20 billion, the film market in 2021 ushered in a "good start".

　　According to the data of the National Film Office, the total box office of the national film during the New Year’s Day holiday in 2021 (January 1 -3) reached 1.29 billion, a record high. Among them, the single-day box office on January 1 exceeded 600 million yuan, setting a new record for the highest single-day box office on New Year’s Day in film history.

　　The box office performance that exceeded expectations in the first year has brought new hope to the film and television industry.

　　Poster of A Little Red Flower, Warm Hug and Shock Wave 2.

　　A Little Red Flower leads.

　　In this New Year’s Day schedule, the movie A Little Red Flower, Warm Hug and Shock Wave 2 led the box office. According to the data, A Little Red Flower won 521 million box office titles, Warm Hug took the second place with 327 million box office, Shock Wave 2 ranked third with 220 million box office, and the three films jointly contributed nearly 80% of the box office.

　　Among them, A Little Red Flower booked the explosion at the end of the year in advance. Without the advance screening, the popularity of the film soared all the way, accounting for 42.51% of the box office on the first day, setting the highest single-day record on New Year’s Day, and it was listed on the hot search list of Weibo several times during the holiday.

　　A Little Red Flower is directed by Han Yan, starring Jackson Yee and Liu Haocun. As one of Han Yan’s "trilogy of life", the film revolves around the stories of two anti-cancer families and faces the life proposition that every ordinary person will face — — How to face and fight against death that may come at any time.

　　It is worth mentioning that this film is also the second film starring Jackson Yee. Previously, he was nominated for several important film festivals with Better Days and became a hot star.

　　A Little Red Flower stills.

　　If the popularity of the film before screening comes from the audience’s expectation of the starring role, then the performance after that is inseparable from the reputation and quality of the film. The topic of cancer is heavy, but the film is very warm. "Physical pain is not the core I want to express, and works of art should give the audience a spiritual comfort and cure." Director Han Yan once said in an interview.

　　"It’s really great to have such a film released in the New Year’s Eve. First, it’s good-looking at the mass level, a very smooth and emotional commercial film, and second, its theme — — Overcoming difficulties and actively embracing life are also in line with the social mood in 2020. " A popular comment on Douban wrote.

　　Warm Hug, starring Chang Yuan and Li Qin, is based on the Korean film Plan Man, which conveys the theme that "love can cure everything". Although its reputation is not as good as that of Xiao Honghua, it has also achieved good box office results. Comedy and works with warm colors have satisfied the audience’s expectations for the New Year.

　　Warm Hug stills.

　　Will New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day be the next potential stock?

　　In fact, a few years ago, the box office performance of New Year’s Day holiday was not particularly outstanding in the long-span Lunar New Year file. In 2018, "The Last Night of the Earth" made the ceremony of watching movies on New Year’s Eve deeply rooted in people’s hearts through the short video of "One Kiss for New Year’s Eve", but the film subsequently suffered from the reputation of Waterloo.

　　If there is no holiday blessing, the box office performance will be more restricted. For example, in 2020, the New Year’s Day file only had a holiday on January 1 (Wednesday), and the box office on that day was only 290 million yuan. Only one movie, Pet, had a box office of over 100 million yuan.

　　But after 2020, this New Year’s Eve is of great significance to people. According to the data released by the National Film Bureau, the total box office of China movies reached 20.417 billion in 2020, of which the box office on New Year’s Eve on December 31st reached 536 million, which was second only to the single-day box office three days before the National Day holiday, and became the highest box office in recent years.

　　The excitement of New Year’s Day this year is partly due to the preheating of many blockbusters years ago. Since the middle and late December, The Rescue Shock Wave 2’s "Qing Ya Ji" and other large-scale production films have been released one after another, and the market enthusiasm they brought has also continued into the New Year holiday.

　　Shock Wave 2 stills.

　　Therefore, the three-day New Year’s Day holiday is not just the excitement of the new film. Shock Wave 2, which was released on December 24, still performed strongly during the New Year’s Day, with a box office of nearly 700 million in 9 days. Soul, which received less publicity, also ushered in a counterattack, and surpassed Qing Ya Ji to become the fourth box office in a single day. Feature films, comedies, cartoons, fantasy films, and gangster films … … A variety of films give the audience more choices.

　　And the New Year’s Eve and the New Year’s Day holiday in 2022 are also next to the weekend. In the film market where the "holiday effect" is becoming more and more obvious, can it also give some inspiration to the future booking?

　　After the excitement, is there enough "surplus grain"?

　　On the last day of the New Year’s holiday, the popularity of the film market dropped significantly, and the single-day box office fell to 262 million. After the excitement of the holiday, the cinema also has hidden concerns.

　　On the one hand, the "famine" crisis caused by the epidemic still exists. According to the data released by the State Film Administration, a total of 1037 films were produced in 2019, including 850 feature films; In 2020, there will be 650 films and 531 feature films, and the production capacity will be further compressed.

　　On the other hand, Hollywood blockbusters are also absent because of the epidemic. Looking back at the film data in 2020, domestic films have set off more than 80% of the box office, and this situation is expected to continue for some time.

　　Next, there will be films such as "Seizing the Soul" starring Zhang zhen and Zhang Junning, "Fighting the Black" starring Jiang Wu and Zhang Songwen, The Reunions directed by Dapeng, comedy "The Sun Never Set Hotel" and animated Wish Dragon.

　　Whether these "surplus grains" can still support the excitement of the cinema, I am afraid I have to put a question mark first.

　　The Reunions poster of "Hunting the Soul", "Sweeping the Black, Decisive Battle".

　　However, after entering February, the much-anticipated Spring Festival will come soon, and films such as Detective Chinatown 3 and Hi, Mom’s Crowd, The Order of the Gods, A Writer’s Odyssey, New Gods: Nezha Reborn and Boonie Bears:The Wild Life will once again ignite the market.

　　As the "first battle of the New Year", the New Year’s Day file exceeded expectations, which also made people have more expectations for the film market in 2021. On the premise that the epidemic can be effectively controlled, the "late" Spring Festival file is expected to create a new peak again. (End)

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The third part of Chinese New Year’s House Music： those car film and television works worth remembering

2023年12月22日 | admin | B2
[Pacific Auto Network Culture Channel] In response to epidemic prevention and control, it advocates "celebrating the New Year on the spot" to reduce going out. Is the safe house boring? Welcome to "Chinese New Year’s House Music" created by Pacific Auto Network, which is a fun column that teaches you how to respond to epidemic prevention and control at home. The car editor of Pacific Auto Network will make a decision and teach you how to play simulated racing, watch movies and buy LEGO, so that you can get rid of the idea of going shopping during the Spring Festival holiday.
On the third day of the first month, it is also a good choice to turn on the TV and watch movies after eating the New Year’s dinner. In fact, cars are indispensable elements in all kinds of movies. From popcorn movies like 007, Speed and Passion, to feature films adapted from racing cars like Speed Love and Speed Car King, there are documentaries that are completely real and have no scripts, and each category can suit your heart.
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007 series
In many people’s eyes, James Bond is more like a detective film, especially in the era of daniel craig, and it has returned to the style like sean connery. Although the plot similar to the detective film is brain-burning, for car lovers, the lack of racing scenes is not enough. Of course, in more than 20 007 series films, there are also extremely sci-fi hardcore scenes, one after another, which makes people overwhelmed. Xiaobian is the first to promote four 007 films starring pierce brosnan here.
Each of these four 007 movies is extremely rich in high-tech elements, and the most impressive one is the aston martin V12 Vanquish in "007: Die Another Day", which is not only equipped with all kinds of weapons, including missiles, machine guns and smoke bombs, but also accurately predicts a common function on smart cars now.
Before fighting with the North Korean spy Zhao Dou, Bond moved the invisible V12 Vanquish to a hidden and convenient boarding place through a portable laser car-moving device, which seems to be very similar to the automatic summoning function now, except that Bond still needs to point the device at the target location of the car-moving. But if you think about it, in 2002, communication technology was not so developed, and smart phones were still a cloud, so it was quite powerful to achieve this level. Of course, the most awesome thing is the adaptive stealth function of the whole car. Through holographic projection, Bond can make the huge V12 Vanquish disappear in any scene with one key in the car. Of course, the height of the road is one foot and the height of the magic is ten feet. This function is better than nothing in front of the thermal imaging camera equipped by Zhao XKR.
In addition to Bond’s car, the James Bond movies in the 1990s are full of all kinds of hard-core sci-fi elements, such as the artificial solar light weapon named "Icarus Lu Si" in Die Another Day, and the attacking satellite that emits powerful electromagnetic waves to destroy the electronic system in golden eye, etc. Why did these high technologies, which everyone dared not think about, burst out in the 1990s?
This is actually closely related to the international political environment at that time. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the western world ushered in a "Cold War Bonus Period", and four 007 works of Brusnan era were born in this environment, which reached the peak in both the sci-fi degree of equipment and the grandeur of narrative. In addition, these 007 films are rich in black Soviet elements, because dead people can’t speak, and so can dead countries.
After the bonus period of the Cold War, daniel craig’s 007 series movies returned to the traditional mix of spy films and detective films, but the science and technology equipment in them was less focused. Therefore, aston martin DB5 has appeared in three films in a row from "Awning" to the upcoming "No Time to Die", and the emotional effect is full.
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Speed and passion series
Like the development of the 007 series movies, the speed and passion series movies have gradually reduced the scenes related to drag racing, and instead put more scenes into the fights and gun battles from boxing to meat. In the series of speed and passion, the most thorough interpretation of racing culture belongs to the third "Tokyo Drift". Its interpretation of Japanese drifting culture and refitting culture is unparalleled in the whole series of speed and passion. Therefore, "Tokyo Drift" has also become a big show for JDM. For example, the most classic RX-7 and Nissan 350Z are very stealthy in the film.
The third generation (code name FD) Mazda RX7 driven by China and South Korea in the film can’t be overstated by the word "myth". Although the displacement of the 13B turbocharged rotor engine it is equipped with is only 1.3L, the actual output of the later version of the original factory (the nominal output is of course "harmonious" 206kW/280PS) has easily exceeded 220kW/300PS, and in many modification cases, it can even pull out the amazing power of 735kW/1000PS, which makes all reciprocating engines far behind. It’s a pity that Mazda has still failed to solve the problems of wear, fuel consumption and emission of the rotor engine, so not only RX7, but also RX8, which has been compromised to environmental protection, has to stop production. At present, the rotor engine has also left the car world temporarily.
Nissan 350Z seems to have used soy sauce in several The Fast and the Furious. It is normal to appear in Speed and Passion 3: Tokyo Drift, which is set in Japan, but it is not normal to say that it does not appear. This two-seater high-performance small sports car is sought after in many countries and regions by virtue of its considerable performance, petty bourgeoisie appearance and inexpensive price.
There is also a model that everyone likes very much, which is Nissan Silvia. In the movie, S15, the last work of Silvia series so far (also known as "flying chicken"), has once again increased the body size compared with the previous new car, making the body size of S15 almost close to that of the mid-level car. But even so, after being polished by Nissan designers, S15 is the most sports car-flavored and most beautiful model in the whole series.
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Transformers series
The animation spread of Transformers for decades has already "poisoned" more than one generation. Being able to make your own car become the protagonist in this global popular car movie is enough to make major car manufacturers rush to compete for opportunities.
Hot break-Lamborghini Centenario
Ferrari 458, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Bugatti Veyron, pagani Huayra, AMG GT R, Lamborghini Centenario, there is always a shortage of transformers based on supercars in the movies, but which car do you remember after five movies?
Peter Bilt 389
Western star 5700XE
Super run can only be reduced to soy sauce, and Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are the absolute protagonists. In the film, the original prototype of Optimus Prime is Peter Bilt 389, and later two films became the Western Star 5700XE. This kind of American truck still has a certain distance from the global audience, and the bumblebee is really popular.
◆ "Transformers"-the fifth generation Comalo concept edition
The first appearance of bumblebee on the screen is based on the second generation Camaro, which is used as a second-hand car to seduce a young man.
But what is on the screen is not the official fifth-generation Camaro, but the concept version of the fifth-generation Camaro. Although I am a little disappointed, I think that it is impossible for GM to spend a lot of money on a concept car that can’t return to its original cost. It is only a matter of time before mass production.
◆ "Transformed king kong 2"-the fifth generation of Comalo
In "Transformed king kong 2", Bumblebee is finally transformed from the fifth generation Comalo based on the official production version. Happily, compared with the concept version and the production version of the fifth-generation Camaro, there is almost no difference in appearance.
The fifth generation of Camaro restored the bulging muscle feeling of American sports cars. The whole car has sharp edges and corners, whether it is the resolute body lines, the slip-back shape and the retro V-shaped net, it seems that people have returned to the peak of the American muscle car.
But as we all know, the American V8 era is gone forever. Camaro and its competitor Ford Mustang only belong to the most entry-level "Pony car" class of American performance cars, and then there is "Compact muscle", and then they arrive at the authentic American Muscle car "Muscle Car". Authentic American muscle cars are basically extinct now. At present, only "Pony car" such as Camaro and Mustang are used as facades.
◆ "transformers 3"-the fifth generation of Comalo 1LE
Transformers 3’s Bumblebee is still based on the fifth-generation Camaro, but it has become a high-performance version of Camaro 1LE with a mid-term change.
◆ "Transformers 4"-the sixth generation Comalo TF4 concept car
By "Transformers 4", the old trilogy has come to an end, the human protagonist has changed a lot, and the prototypes of transformers have also changed. In order to keep a low profile, the bumblebee changed from the fifth-generation Camaro to the first-generation Camaro SS, but the wide-body suit and fierce black and yellow painting are even more eye-catching …
The fifth generation of Comalo has been used in the first three Transformers, and in Transformers 4, both human beings and Transformers have changed their blood. However, according to the general product replacement plan, Comalo has not yet reached the replacement period, so referring to the practice of the first one, in the later period, the bumblebee shed its disguise and turned into a sixth generation of Comalo TF4 concept car.
Just look at the name of TF4, this car is a Camaro concept car specially designed by GM for Transformers 4. The car adopts Chevrolet’s latest family-style design language. If the fifth-generation Camaro is naked in appearance, it will look like a muscle plus a dress in the sixth generation, with a stronger modern flavor and no retro muscle feeling.
◆ "Transformers 5"-the sixth generation of Comalo ZL1 1LE
In the newly released Transformers 5, Bumblebee is based on the latest sixth-generation Camaro, and it is also a high-performance version of Camaro ZL1 1LE.
Friends who have seen the cartoon Transformers can easily find that the prototype of Bumblebee in the cartoon is not Camaro, but the former German national car Beetle. It is said that at that time, the public refused to give the copyright of the Beatles to the filmmakers to play. In the future, the public who knew that Transformers was extremely popular probably cried in the toilet several times. In order to pay tribute to cartoons, there was a scene in Transformers 5 in which a beetle turned into a bumblebee in its previous life.
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Rush
"Fast Wind" is set in the contest between two talented F1 drivers, Niki Lauda and James Hunt, in 1976. Director Ron Howard captured the different personality characteristics of the two drivers and restored the grand occasion from the driver’s point of view.
For car fans, if you are tired of the harsh restrictions of F1 today, you should love F1 in 1976. Looking at the paddock from the driver’s point of view and mentality will also be a different feeling. For the fans, this is not a play about two people chasing and playing handsome on the track. The director depicts the story of two drivers with equal strength and different styles competing with each other and appreciate each other.
For these two players with equal strength but different styles, their meeting on the field is destined to be an extraordinary season. The sharp contrast between the two people has become the most fascinating focus in "Fast Wind". On the field, Lauda pursues stability and clear goals, while Hunter is full of passion and dares to take risks.
Lauda told Hunter in the movie that you might beat me once or twice, but in the whole season, I must win. There are also views that Lauda was halfway through the race when he suffered an accident in newberg Forest. If it weren’t for the accident, it would be difficult for Hunter to catch up with Lauda. The film deliberately mythologizes Hunter’s talent, but focuses on Lauda’s jealousy. Of course, historically, this seems to be true, but as a commercial film, balancing two roles can make the film more interesting, which is not a bad thing for the audience.
Lauda and Hunter first met in F3, and from F3 to F1, they have been fighting on the field. That’s why the movie begins, and the two people keep an eye on each other’s strategies to adjust their own strategies. A pair of appreciate each other’s rivals are better than a friendship. In an interview when Rush was released, Lauda said: "We take care of each other from heart", which can best show the friendship between the two.
After this year, Lauda won two F1 championships in 1977 and 1984, and in addition, in 1975, Lauda won the championship three times. After officially retiring in 1985, Lauda is still active in the F1 paddock, having worked in Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz teams successively, and is still the non-executive chairman of Mercedes-Benz teams. Hunt did not return to the podium after winning the championship in 1976. In 1979, Hunt officially retired from F1.
Judging from the record, Lauda is the absolute winner. Lauda is more like a leader among ordinary people. He has made great achievements through his constant efforts. His calmness, rationality and meticulous attention to racing will really make people respect him. Hunter’s world is completely different. His free and easy life is something that most people feel but can’t do. We will try to become Lauda, but we can’t become Hunter, so we will be more envious and jealous of Hunter, including Lauda. He said, "He is one of the few people I like, one of the few people I respect, but the only one who makes me jealous."
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Ford v Ferrari
Ford v Ferrari won the best editing and sound editing at the 92nd Academy Awards, and was nominated for best film and best mixing, which is probably the best racing movie after Rush. Ford v Ferrari chose to tell a legendary story that happened in the golden age of racing before the oil crisis broke out in 1970. This seems to be the history of the hegemony between Ford and Ferrari, but different people can interpret different things from this film.
The first thing is to let you experience the truest and purest motorsport, just like the film Miles described to his son the wonderful feeling of driving a racing car on a straight road. Racing is a wonderful sport. When the speed reaches a certain level, the surrounding scenery becomes like slow motion, and the surrounding sounds gradually disappear, as if time is slowly solidifying, just as magical as traveling through space and time.
Breaking through oneself and time and space is a wonderful feeling that any human being can’t resist. Human beings, a creature created by spiral genes, have a driving force to break through the sky in their bones, and carry out the development history of human civilization faster, higher and stronger. The DNA of motor racing is intertwined with the most complex technology and the purest spirit, which is the display and competition of human intelligence, technology, cooperation and will, and the most concrete manifestation of human desire to break through the limit.
Compared with the tolerance and openness of that golden age, today’s motor racing has gradually evolved into a platform for automobile manufacturers to display their technical strength and research and development of new technologies under various seemingly fair rules. In fact, this is by no means the original intention and reason for the emergence of motor racing, but this film shows the motor racing standing at this crossroads to some extent. In the end, Ford won, while Enzo Ferrari gave everything for motor racing. After another 70 years of oil and energy crisis, motor racing has only remained superficial purity to some extent until today, but in fact it is mostly driven by commercial interests.
Racing documentary
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Extreme survival
Back to F1, we watch a lot of races every year, but there are many behind-the-scenes stories, and the live footage of the races has not been personally explained, including some big news outside the stadium, and the stories behind them are also little known. The documentary "Drive to Survive", jointly created by F1 officials and Netflix, reveals a little-known story outside the live footage of F1 stadium.
There are only 20 seats for F1 drivers and only one champion. Both those who are racing in the paddock and those who are fighting for the F1 driver’s seat outside the paddock have strong ambitions and have made their best efforts. However, the competition between drivers and teams is cruel. There are winners, and naturally there will be losers. This also contains the competition, friendship and passion between drivers and teams.
Mars teams, such as Mercedes, sometimes roll over, while drivers like Gasley, who drives a little red bull, have no chance to compete for the sub-station championship under normal circumstances, and can also taste the peak of their lives. You think the team leader is gentle and methodical, but in fact they may be swearing, which is 100 times more secure than the driver sitting in the car. This is the real F1 stadium. There is no director to arrange the plot, and everything is the most real.
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Truth in 24 II
The above "King of Speed Cars" presents the scene of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 60 years ago under the artistic processing. Then, if the time is set back to 10 years ago, will the 24 Hours of Le Mans be as tense, exciting and ups and downs as it was 60 years ago? Audi gave the answer with the documentary Truth in 24 II of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011 was, in my opinion, the hardest and most exciting race to win in the LMP1 era. This year Audi produced their latest R18 TDI racing car, and the brand-new 3.7T V6 diesel engine made them quite competitive. But not long after the game started, they suffered bad luck one after another.
The No.3 car driven by Alan Macneish collided with the Ferrari GT car shortly after the start of the race on Saturday afternoon, causing a serious accident, and the same bad luck came to the No.1 car driven by Mike Lokenfiller in the middle of the night. Audi’s No.3 insurance lost most of its function instantly, and they had to face three Peugeot 908 HDi FAP cars with the only remaining No.2 car.
The advantage of multiple cars is that the backward cars can provide more help to the leading cars when the positions and strategies of the cars in the team are different. Peugeot did the same in the race. When it rained on the track, they let the car that was two laps behind stop and put on the rain tires to test the speed, so as to provide reference for the car in the front position. On the track, they also tried to stop the No.2 Audi car, so as to delay the speed of No.2 car chasing the Peugeot car as much as possible.
Audi also has its own advantages. After the two cars retired, Audi was able to support the No.2 car with all its resources, including accessories and manpower. However, Audi No.2 car will not have any room for mistakes. Once it makes mistakes, Audi will hand over the championship. At this time, the young driver Andre Lottler showed extraordinary courage, overtook the Peugeot car in front of him by the local train outside the Porsche corner, regained the lead, and brushed the fastest laps in succession in the subsequent races, which made the opponent far behind.
Behind this, countless people silently worked hard for the No.2 car, including the then Audi team leader Wolfgang ulrich and the race engineer Lena Guardian of No.2 car. They were all monitoring every data of the car, fearing that there would be irreparable mistakes in the next second. And their efforts finally paid off.
For everyone who participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, this is undoubtedly the longest and hardest 24 hours in their lives. But in order to win the final victory, the spirit of never giving up no matter how difficult it is is The Spirit of Le Mans, which is known as "The Spirit of Le Mans".
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No matter what kind of film and television works, cars are well-deserved protagonists, and from different film and television works, you can feel the different charm of cars. The car in 007 is the epitome of all kinds of high-tech gadgets, and the car in speed and passion is the carrier of modification, drift and underground racing culture. Movies and documentaries that are closer to the real racing theme are the embodiment of the racing spirit of never giving up and striving for the first place. I don’t know which style do you prefer sitting in front of the TV? (Text: Pacific Auto Network Zhao Xinjie)
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FIFA： Saudi Arabia is the only bid for the 2034 Football World Cup.

2023年12月20日 | admin | B2

Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, October 31 (Reporter Shan Lei) On October 31, FIFA announced that Saudi Arabian Football Association was the only football association to submit an application for hosting the 2034 Football World Cup before the deadline.

FIFA confirmed that it has received an application from Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 World Cup, and Saudi Arabia is the only country that has expressed its interest in hosting the 2034 World Cup.

Previously, FIFA had announced that the only application for hosting the 2030 World Cup was jointly submitted by the Football Associations of Morocco, Portugal and Spain. At present, these three countries have confirmed their willingness to bid. As the centenary celebration of the World Cup will be held in 2030, FIFA plans to hold a World Cup in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, and these three countries have also confirmed their willingness to host the World Cup.

Like Morocco, Portugal and Spain, Saudi Arabia still needs to pass the FIFA audit. If these bidding countries can meet the requirements of FIFA and go through the whole bidding process, then FIFA will determine its right to host at the FIFA General Assembly at the end of 2024.

Photo: Li Ming

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