One day, Mr. Zhao Zhigao, a graduate of Fudan University, who was giving lectures at the school for the children of workers in Jingang, brought one of his teachers and introduced it to Jingang.
University professors are respected in the 21st century, and even more so now.
The teacher's name is Hong Chen. He returned from the United States, where he studied ceramics! So King Kong was especially welcoming.
But in King Kong's opinion, Mr. Hong's skills in ceramic industrial technology are not so good. This is partly because the general technical level in this time and space is low, and partly because Mr. Hong's interest is not in engineering technology.
Mr. Hong doesn't touch technology at all now. He is a playwright now. The plays he wrote, such as "Wukui Bridge", "Fragrant Rice", and "Qinglongtan", are now quite influential. He came to see Mr. CAI Mi not because of King Kong's ceramic factory, but because they needed a few children to play supporting roles in one of their plays. With the consent of his guardian, his father, Mr. Hong chose Xiaofeng, Wufeng and Milong to perform in the play.
Mr. Hong, whom Mr. Kong had read in the newspaper. Last year at the Great Light Cinema, an American film called "Not Afraid of Death" was shown, with a plot that insulted Chinese people. Mr. Hong stood up to protest on the spot, and the theater owner called a police officer to take him into the police station. But when he came out and filed a lawsuit in court, he received support from the people. Finally, the film was banned from being shown in the Chinese mainland. This is what is known as the "Great Brightness" incident.
Xiao Feng has a great talent for acting, is not at all stage-frightened, and can quickly get into character. Mr. Hong Chen and others spoke highly of her! Wu Feng and Mi Long were just passable, but they thought it was just for fun. But it was manageable on stage.
Whenever he was free, King Kong would bring a bunch of children from his family to support Xiao Feng and others. Xiao Feng and others also hoped that they would come to watch and support.
In this way, King Kong and Mr. Hong will also be more familiar.
The repertoire that was popular at the time was completely different from that of the 21st century. For example, King Kong went to watch a show performed by Xiao Feng, which was mainly about: A mother leading her child saw a poor little beggar, and then the mother taught her child to sympathize with the beggar, even though her own family was poor, but still to help the beggar. A person should be kind and have a loving heart!
This kind of program is something that King Kong has never seen in the 21st century. Is this kind of good education out of date? If someone were to make such a show in the 21st century, how would the audience comment? How would netizens argue? All King Kong can imagine is that the screenwriter will be fired by a TV station or theater troupe, and no one will ever hire him as a screenwriter again. And such a script would be thrown into the trash basket at the first moment.
The performance in the 21st century time and space is mainly about bouncing and Shouting, the content doesn't matter, it's mainly about hype. Cram in some Korean, Japanese, European, American elements, and if it's really not good, cram in some Hong Kong and Taiwan elements to make it a box office hit! What would happen if someone did something serious? Just look at the pitifully low number of clicks on "King Kong's anti-Japanese Story".
It's not clear what kind of play Xiaofeng starred in, with dialogue and a few lines of singing. Although the stage and props were rudimentary and could not be compared with 21st-century performances, the performers were serious and the audience watched carefully.
Xiao Feng's portrayal of the little beggar was so lifelike that she was truly pitiful, drawing a chorus of sighs from the audience.
Did Xiaofeng recall her past life? Anyway, King Kong suddenly recalled the time when she was seriously ill.
After that, it got out of control. Little Feng and the other little devils were invited to perform in several plays.
It depicted the hardship of the lives of the lower classes, sang about the kindness of the people, and called on the people to unite and strive. It was the mainstream of the arts of this period! There is no market for things like that of the 21st century, such as jumping up and down, moaning for no reason, or love. Those so-called "pop stars" won't have any "fans" here.
There is a reason to say so. Zhang Ziping, a writer specializing in love and romance novels, would never have achieved less than Aunt Qiongyao in the 21st century. But in this time and space, his love triangle novels were criticized by left-wing writers such as Lu Xun, and later (1932) his serialized novels in newspapers were suspended. This was what some in the literary world at the time called the "cutting off Zhang Ziping" event.
King Kong also felt that this kind of novel was not in harmony with the current reality of external and internal troubles. Don't you look at how the common people live in society? Don't look at the lives of unemployed workers and farmers. Of course, there are people in Shanghai who eat their fill all day long and think only about love and affection. However, intellectuals, especially those in the media and the arts, should have a sense of social responsibility and a bit of substance themselves.
Lu Xun and others organized a league of left-wing writers, which had a significant influence in the literary world. Mr. Hong Chen was also a member of the left-wing Writers' Union.
Xiao Feng thus gained some fame and was spotted by a director surnamed Sima, who made several films (there are no unwritten rules in this time and space!) . But at the beginning, they were all supporting roles, just the children of the main characters or something.
King Kong went to the film studio a few times because of that. He saw the scenes where the film was being made. At that time, the film's light sensitivity was low, so very strong light was needed to make the film. Under such blinding light, the actors' eyes and mouths had to be made up like ghosts in order to shoot.
What is this blinding light source? The result took King Kong by surprise: It was an arc light that the human eye couldn't see directly!
To be precise, it's called a carbon arc lamp. Two graphite rods are used to create an arc that emits light. Anyone who has seen arc welding knows how strong the light is.
King Kong knows a little about electric welding because his father is a welder. Because the graphite rods are constantly melting, it is not easy to keep the arc burning steadily. In the electronic age, of course, it's not a big problem because people have designed "automatic negative feedback circuits", that is, when the arc current is too large, through electronic control circuits, the speed of sending the graphite rod is reduced a little so that the arc burns a little slower and the arc current is reduced. Conversely, if the arc current is too small, the electronic control circuit will control the graphite rod to be sent a little faster. The final result is that the arc burns steadily.
King Kong was curious to see if it was now an automatic negative feedback control circuit made of vacuum tubes?
The result gave King Kong a big surprise! The people of this time and space are really smart! This problem is not solved by electronic automation technology, but by mechanical technology! And it was a very simple mechanism that solved it!
They let the arc current pass through a two-foot-long copper wire, and when the current is too large, the temperature of the wire rises, the wire becomes longer, and the middle part is lowered. The displacement that lowers in the middle, through a lever, moves the graphite rod clamped at one end of the lever up, reducing the arc current. This is the mechanical automatic negative feedback device.
If it weren't for this time and space, King Kong would never have thought of such a mechanical electrical device! Did King Kong not know that such a clever mechanism had ever existed in another time and space? If so, with the improvement of film sensitivity and the phasing out of carbon arc lamps, I wonder if anyone will still remember such machinery in the 21st century?
Just like the plays performed by Xiaofeng and the others, these things are probably not remembered by anyone.