In the editor-in-chief's office of Oriental Metropolis Newspaper, a small meeting with a small number of people was held lively.

Looking at the photos of actresses spread across a table, all the gay men had serious and intellectual expressions.

"Never mind the cover for now,"

Jiang Hai, who was holding a cup of tea, could not make up his mind for the time being:

"Let's first pick out the photos of the actress at 12 months old."

"Isn't it a hard choice?"

Rong Bin from the Information Department had already taken a good look at them: "Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong, Zhang Yu."

While he was talking, he didn't forget to pick out the photos in his hand.

Everyone in the office was excited about this.

Typesetting editor Ning Hua: "How can there be no Pan Hong?"

Pan Wensheng from the Supplement Department: "Comrade Zhu Lin is also very good."

"And Gong Xue." Jiang Hai finally said one.

In October 1980, comrades from Oriental Metropolis Newspaper, in order to enrich people's spare time life and broaden the people's artistic horizons.

Decided to take a very popular move to benefit the people and publish a "Celebrity Calendar"!

As early as 1978, Pujiang Fine Arts Publishing House internally issued a bi-monthly calendar with the themes of Liu Xiaoqing, Pan Hong and Shen Danping.

Although it only printed more than 20,000 copies, it was already a great breakthrough.

Today, two years later, Jiang Hai, the editor-in-chief of Oriental Metropolis Daily, also decided to take the plunge.

Print a hundred thousand copies of it!

In fact, wall calendars have never left the stage of the times.

It's just that a purely celebrity calendar has not yet appeared on the market.

According to the trajectory of history, we waited until the end of 1982.

There will be a photographer from the Zhejiang Provincial Fine Arts Publishing House, holding a camera and running to the home of actress Fang Shu from the Beijing Film Studio to visit.

At that time, Fang Shu had already become famous all over the country with the movie "Looking at the Family".

And this photographer went there just for this encouragement.

Then, in front of a red silk quilt background, a half-length photo of Fang Shu became the most correct photo in a subsequent celebrity calendar.

One day in the second year, several comrades from the China Film Studio sat down with the editor and had a chat.

I found that everyone has several photos of famous actresses.

As a result, a celebrity calendar called "People in the Movies" was launched.

When pork in Yanjing was still selling for RMB 1,50 a pound, this calendar sold for RMB 10 a copy.

But even so, the calendar with 220,000 printed copies disappeared in an instant.

Soon, comrades from the General Administration of Sports learned about this matter.

Immediately the next year, in 1984, a collection of competition highlights for the female members of the gymnastics team was released.

Let’s not talk about how the swimsuit-like performance clothes shocked everyone.

Just that line of advertising slogans jointly printed by "Pearl Milk Candy Factory" is not something other departments can have the courage to do.

Since then, wall calendars with themes of celebrities and beauties, cars and home decorations, scenic spots, and body art have begun to bloom.

Let alone personal business, even corporate entities use this thing as welfare.

At the same time, the one-stop printing factories in the calendar villages, towns, and townships in Guangzhou, Fujian, and Zhejiang are also singing "Good Luck Comes" every day!

According to the memories of Jiangshan's old leaders in his previous life, at the craziest time, a calendar with a print run of 300,000 to 500,000 copies could earn an annual profit of 5 million.

Zhejiang Fine Arts Publishing House, which first published the "Celebrity Calendar", relied on high-density publishing to issue the "Celebrity Calendar".

Not only did he build a high-rise building for his home, he also donated two million to the Provincial Publishing Bureau when it raised funds to build the building.

At the same time, Zhou Xun and a large group of female art school students began to rely on calendar photos that cost 10 yuan each to enter the artistic life.

A small bungalow of less than 15 square meters on Wulin Road in Hangzhou.

He Saifei, Jiang Qinqin, Chen Hong, He Qing, Tao Huimin... often visited the place where calendar photos were taken.

In 1991, director Xie Tieli chose Zhou Xun to star in the movie "The Deserted Tomb" from a wall calendar.

Qiong Yao, who was casting for "Green River Grass", also took a fancy to the gentle and watery He Qing on the cover of the calendar.

However, it was also at that time that dazzling New Year products such as “wall calendars” began to change from being in demand to attracting customers.

As a result, the wall calendar pictures linked to the market economy gradually became more unrestrained.

Not to mention Hong Kong and Taiwan female celebrities who dress sparingly, even beautiful blond girls wearing nothing can be seen everywhere.

When you open the door of every house, if you can see a book wearing three o'clock on the wall, you are considered to have entered a conservative house.

The publishing bureau seems to be getting more and more outrageous.

In 1996, the "anti-corruption and anti-pornography" regulations were urgently issued, and the relevant regulations "limited bikini calendars to sports events only".

As a result, a liberation calendar culture that would be unimaginable by later generations began to disappear quietly.

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"Comrades,"

Just when the election was in full swing in the office, Jiang Shan, the initiator of the "Celebrity Calendar", walked in excitedly holding a stack of photos:

"Look, I found a lot of photos for you."

"Show me quickly."

"These are still stills."

"Can you give me this piece of Zhang Yu's?"

"It's not good to have too many photos," Jiang Hai's eyes were dazzled: "We are all spoiled for choice."

"Who has been decided?" Jiang Shan poured himself a glass of water as soon as he entered the door: "Have you made your choice?"

"Come and see,"

Editor Cai listed out a few photos as he spoke:

"Zhang Yu, Pan Hong, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong, Fang Shu, Zhu Lin, and Gong Xue have selected 7 people in total. There are not enough for 12!"

"A photo looks too thin," Jiang Shan started digging through the pile of photos again:

"We'd better put together two or three small circular sheets on the side of each home page."

"This is a good suggestion," Editor-in-Chief Cai thought: "After all, we have to look at it for a whole month!"

"For Xiao Zhang's photo, just use their stills." Jiang Hai also reached out and picked it up.

Rong Bin reminded: "The key is to determine the number of people first."

"This one," Editor Cai picked out another one: "Shen Danping."

"And her, Siqin Gaowa."

Jiang Shan: “How many are there?”

"Nine of them!"

The theme of this calendar of "Oriental Metropolis Daily" is called "The New Generation of the 1980s", which is really not suitable for those who are older.

"Then just add a few more male actors,"

Jiang Shan felt that he should also give some benefits to lesbians: "Here comes Chen Peisi."

Ning Hua immediately said: "Here comes Tang Guoqiang again."

"By the way," Rong Bin: "There is also Guo Kaimin from "Lushan Love"."

This guy is more popular than Tang Guoqiang recently.

Before filming the hit "Love in Lushan Mountain" with Zhang Yu, he also starred in "A Little Mermaid" with Gong Xue.

"Okay, that's enough for 12 cards,"

Jiang Hai waved to the third child: "Chief Jiang, I'd like to trouble you to find some photos of the actors later!"

Finally, the star calendar of "Oriental Metropolis Daily" was born.

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Yanjing City, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

Li Bu, Lu Xuzhang and an old friend whom they hadn't seen for a long time sat down together.

"How's it going, Shiping?"

Lu Xuzhang looked at Zhuang Shiping who had returned from Xiangjiang and said with a smile: "You haven't eaten this dim sum today, have you?"
To be continued...