Memories of Chinese Life 1949 Many things needed to be done Memories of Chinese Life 1950s Clunese tunic suit replaced the western—style clothes and chi—pao Fashionable 'Lenin Coat' Girls keep on bib overa Little swallow wearing color clothes: 'platye' Food coupon starts the coupon era Residence booklet to control influxes into the urban area Free public eaterie s Dusky and greasy 'row houses' Water supply station in Shanghai lanes Walking—based transportation Dangdang Bus renunds pedestrians to keep away from cars with bells Cartoon dance needs a 'big brother' A divorce is hereby granted as mediation failed Rural women have a bath in the bathhouse for the first time Transferring Shanghai haircutters to open Silian in Beijing National steelmaking movement Wronged sparrow Women were bashful when doing radio calisthenics Merit students The first national salary reform Memories of Chinese Life 1960s The food substitute movement: Man—made meat essence and appeasing hunger with chlorella Lying—in women provided with a lump sum subsidy of lkg of eggs Quota supply ofvegetable, shallot, ginger and garlic Umbrella and alarm clocks were also supplied with coupon Three years in new, three years in old and three years in patched No white buttons for white suit in Beijing Red Guard hairstyle State Council cuts sales oflipstick in China Renovating Fangua Lane Nine—storey Anhua Building nicknamed 'lugh—ranking official building' From honeycomb briquette to gas tank Forever, Phoenix and Flying Pigeon First Beijing subway built secretly We don 't accept tips Hundred Thousand Whys Learn from Daqing Oilfield for industrial production and learn from Dazhai for agricultural production Follow the good example of Lei Feng RMB4 as cash gift and 1 kilogram of candies as betrothal present Newly—married couples bowed to the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong Each family has the Little Red Book Badge bearing Chairman Mao's profile wom on the chest Loyalty dance The Red Guards take public transportation for free across the country to exchange revolutionary ideas Open—door schooling: Learning industrial production, agricultural production and military affairs Educated youth go and work in the countryside and mountainous areas Barefoot doctor helps the local people Eggs as 'cash' Memories of Chinese Life 1970s With Dacron inside Police officers chase young people wearing bell—bottoms Pierre Cardin and 12 models debuts at Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities A hubbub of voices in the tube—shaped apartments Earthquake shelter—tents set up by making use ofevery single space The 'Stone Gate' residence, not a 'new horizon' The Bund, the dimly—lit paradise for couples First 3,000 boxes ofbottled Coca—Cola delivered to Beijing Eight model operas entertain 800 million people in eight years Chinese movies are like news summaries Sandakan 8, Proof of the Man and Kimi Yo Funme No Kawa O Watare Popular but not wlgar picture—story books 36 'legs' and 'three betrothal presents with wheels and one with sound' Shanghai products sell well The first TV commercial for ginseng tonic wine broadcasted at the first day of the Lunar Year Resumption ofuniversity entrance examination with an application fee of RMB Overseas Chinnese students make a stirin the United States Villagers of Xiaogang Village fingerprint for all—around contract Watclung CCTV News becomes a habit All Chinese people listen to the Legend of Yue Fei told by Liu Lanfang Fragrance ofpuffed rice on the street …… Memories of Chincse Life 1980s