In the 80s, my family lived in a small remote town, and there were very few people with televisions at home. There is a TV set in the staff activity room of the family compound of the unit, and it is also equipped with a special person to keep it, who is responsible for turning on and off the TV every day.
I was in my teens and was in elementary school. Every day when you come home from school, you should move a chair to the activity room and occupy the front position in the middle. When I went home to do my homework, I ate and ran to the activity room after I was busy, and the TV was already crowded with people, in addition to children and adults in the family compound, as well as villagers living nearby. The villagers were far away from the compound, so it was impossible to carry stools, so they all sat on the ground in front of our chairs.
Although there are many people, they are silent, everyone is immersed in the TV plot, and occasionally some people discuss and communicate in whispers. I remember watching TV series at that time including "Looking for the World Back", "Crescent Moon", "Frog Girl", and "Plainclothes Police".
In a few years, it was popular to play videotapes, and the staff in charge of turning on and off the TV often rented **. I still vividly remember that there is a drama called "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard", which is about the love-hate relationship caused by a martial arts master being invited to protect the last emperor Puyi. The theme song in the play is all the rage, "The arms of the carrots, the legs of the white radish, the face of the core of the flower, the red mouth, the little sister and the love brother are a pair, even if the knife is pressed on the neck, I will not regret it, love brother, love brother, leave the east, leave the west, but you can't leave it behind." It's been more than 30 years, and the plot has long been blurred, but I have never forgotten these lyrics, and sometimes I hum two sentences when I think of them.
Later, Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas became popular, and I watched romantic dramas such as "The Moon is Hazy, the Bird is Hazy", "I Am a Cloud", but I didn't know Lin Qingxia at that time, and I didn't know Qiong Yao. I have also watched a lot of Hong Kong dramas, most of them are martial arts dramas, and I only remember the names of "Chivalrous Travel", "Demon Paradise", "Peerless Double Pride", "Su Qier" and a few other dramas. Many years later, I learned that these dramas were starring the famous Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Chow Yun-fat. The classmates in the class seem to be watching these dramas, and when they go to school the next day, there are always classmates talking about the latest plots.
Fast forward to the early 90s, every household has a television set, and nearby villagers no longer come to the family home to watch TV. Gradually, the room was closed until it was closed completely.
Nowadays, TV shows are rich and colorful, but I no longer like to watch TV, nor do I follow dramas, and my memory of TV dramas is stuck in the 80s.