On September 30, 2019, "Entertainment Science" which has been broadcast for 21 years has been suspended.
10 days later, a meteorite fell near Songyuan City, Jilin Province, and many residents witnessed the flames caused by the fall of the meteorite. Under this news, the most liked comment said: If "Adapting Science" keeps broadcasting, this event can be broadcast for 300 issues.
On June 1, 1998, CCTV produced the popular science program "Entertainment in Science". This show has become a shadow of the childhood of the post-90s due to its weird pictures and terrifying sound. It has also become a source of funny jokes widely circulated on short video platforms because of its curiosity and nonsense.
Netizens said: "The beginning is a horror movie, the middle is a mystery movie, and the end is a funny movie." Official media criticized: It's too curious, it's really shameless.
The mystery of "live village"
There is a small village called Ximeng in Hutai Town, Jiangsu Province. There are about 20 families living in it. Life is peaceful and comfortable.
In October 2006, the electric light of the villager Lao Yao’s home broke and he was preparing to repair it. As soon as I picked up the pen on the windowsill, the indicator light of the pen suddenly lit up.
Lao Yao was shocked: How could there be electricity in the windowsill?
He used an electric pen to measure several places, and the electric pen would light up. Even door handrails, floors, and walls can measure electricity, and the voltage is different each time. When
is high, the voltage can reach 110 volts, and when low, it is only 12 volts. Lao Yao was scared and felt that his home was surrounded by an invisible power grid, and he would be electrocuted and died if he was accidentally injured.
Lao Yao found his neighbor Chen Hegen, and said in a trembling voice: "Go and test, is there any electricity at home?" Chen Hegen took the meter and tested it: 120 volts. Lao Yao jumped up in fear.
After continuous testing, the entire village was powered on. What surprised the villagers even more was that in the open space outdoors, electric pens can measure electricity in any place. At thirty or forty centimeters above the ground, slowly raise the pen. After reaching a certain height, the electric pen will also light up, and sometimes it can even measure the voltage of 220 volts.
The villagers were frightened. Many people moved to other villages, and their relatives dared not visit each other, and only some elderly people remained in Seymour.
Not long after, something that scared the villagers even more happened: some elderly and poorly ill villagers had an inexplicable increase in blood pressure, their heads became heavy, and their legs became weak. Originally, there were only 6 high blood pressure in the village, but it soon rose to more than ten.
A mysterious force enveloped the entire village. The villagers were panicked and determined that the increase in blood pressure was related to the leakage in the village.
Simeng Village's live news spread quickly. Jiangsu Province's power experts brought equipment to Ximeng Village for on-site inspection. After a whole day of investigation, I found no abnormalities. Even at the closest place to the 220,000 volt high-voltage line, the data displayed by the instrument is normal. What makes the experts even more incredible is that the village is full of 220 volts, but no one is electrocuted. According to common sense, 36 volts can make people corona.
The staff were wearing anti-electric suits and tested the switches, meters, and wire interfaces, but there was no progress. The more the expert thought about it, the more strange it became, and asked, "Do you have any problems with your electric pen?" Lao Yao was confident that the electric pen was fine. He said, "The electric pen was produced by an authentic manufacturer in Pudong New District, Shanghai. It has a certificate of conformity, instruction manual, and a barcode. I think it is true." The expert group of
returned to the city with the electric pen and in the high voltage hall of the Power Testing Institute, used a hanging wire frame to simulate the high voltage line, and did a live simulation. The simulation results of
surprised everyone: the electric test pen is broken! There is no 220 volt voltage in the village at all.
Although the voltage was normal, the villagers were still worried because the villagers' blood pressure had not yet dropped.
program team found the medical staff of Nanjing Health Center again. The doctor said: "The causes of increased blood pressure are divided into internal and external factors. The increase in blood pressure of the villagers in Ximeng Village is caused by external factors. The most common external factor is mental tension."
It turned out that because of the concern about the "electric leakage" incident, the villagers were too nervous and too anxious. This leads to a high blood pressure increase.
fever corridor
On the evening of August 27, 2010, firefighters set up a long cordon in front of a courtyard building in Shuijiahu Town, Changfeng County, Anhui Province.
The one who called the police was an aunt over 60 years old. She had not had a good rest for many days.
Since late August, the villagers in the yard have not had much sleep. Because the dogs in the yard always yell at the door of a unit regardless of day or night.
The villagers got up in the middle of the night to check many times, but they didn't see anything abnormal.
Until the afternoon of August 27, there was heavy rain. Aunt Liu found a fog rising from the unit door, and the ground was as hot as a stove, so she didn't dare to reach out to touch it.
Aunt Liu was very puzzled. She had lived here for more than ten years and had never had such a strange thing. She was so scared that she called out all the villagers in the yard.
The villagers in the courtyard couldn't tell the truth, but they just linked the dog's barking to the ground's fever, thinking that this might be a precursor to the earthquake, so they finally called the police. After receiving the notice, the relevant departments of
immediately sent researchers to conduct an inspection. They used heat measurement to discuss the survey and finally found that there was a one-square meter-sized place on the ground on the first floor, which was more than 60 degrees Celsius in the rain.
, but the cause cannot be found.
The first reaction of the staff was that the wires were leaking, and the villagers immediately overturned the speculation. They checked during the day and found that the wires in the village were not buried underground.
staff checked the nearby water temperature and water level, and also ruled out the possibility of earthquakes.
An expert repeatedly poured water on the hot ground, calculated the time when the water was dried, and expected the ground to cool down.
Strangely, as the water splashes more and more, the ground temperature not only does not drop, but instead becomes higher and higher.
At this time, an expert made a bold guess based on the news that a hot spring was surveyed in a place in Sichuan a few days ago: Could it be geothermal heat?
If it is geothermal heat, this is actually a good thing.
The researchers pried open a gap with a pickaxe and inserted it into the thermometer for 75 degrees. Everyone was surprised and happy, and a little scared, and didn't dare to dig any further. The villagers were even more afraid. There must be ghosts in such high temperatures. Dogs must be barking when they see something "unclean".
stopped for about 3 hours, but the ground was still very hot. The person in charge of the geology bureau made a cruel decision and said, "Smash it open!"
swung the big hammer, and finally smashed the ground with dozens of "bang bang". As the shovel gets deeper and deeper, the temperature gets hotter and hotter. When it gets about 30 cm deep, the temperature in the pit has reached nearly 90 degrees.
"bang" and a big stone was shoveled on the shovel. The stone is 50 cm long and 30 cm wide, and it feels like it has been roasted in a fire. The leaders of the Geological Bureau ordered: continue to be smashed. everyone held their breath, wondering what was hidden underneath after the stone was knocked open.
After several hammers, a long crack was cracked on the stone surface. A pungent white smoke quickly emerged. After the fright, the staff judged that it was the smell of quicklime.
At this point, the answer is revealed. It turned out that when building a building decades ago, the construction workers on the site were lazy and buried a bag of abandoned quicklime underground. Decades later, the ground cracked and rainy, and quicklime reacted with water, resulting in continuous high temperatures.
The reason why dogs go crazy is that people cannot detect the ground temperature when wearing shoes, but dogs can judge the ground temperature difference and then they will bark in the corridor.
At the end of this episode, host Zhang Tengyue used calcium oxide to perform chemical experiments on site, with the temperature reaching 100 degrees Celsius.
He teaches the audience to believe in science and warns the audience to stay away from superstition.
midnight Ghost shaving
One day in the 1960s, in Huilong Village, southwest of Guizhou Province, villager Zhou Zhengzhong was cleaning the courtyard.
Suddenly, he heard a miserable shout from the room. Zhou Zhengzhong threw down his broom and ran into the house. He found that his 80-year-old mother had lost all her hair and a piece of black and white thing fell on the pillow.
weeks ago, I came forward and saw that it was my mother's hair.
Mother gave him a picture and said that after getting up, he picked up his scalp with his hands, and his hair fell off at the same root. As he said that, he started crying loudly, and within two days he actually cried blindly.
A week later, Zhou Zhengzhong's wife's hair began to break without cutting it, followed by himself, followed by his son and daughter. None of the six of the family survived. They all took off their hair overnight and their eyesight began to decline.
The local area is remote and the villagers are very superstitious. Zhou Zhengzhong thought that he had met a ghost and dared not go out and would not do his job.
But not long after, more and more people lost their hair in the village, and in the end, all the people in the village lost their hair.
The entire village was panicked and thought it had angered ghosts and monsters, so the ghosts shaved off their hair in their sleep. hangs divine talismans and red ropes at the door of their homes to drive away ghosts.
No one dared to go out, and people outside did not dare to interact with people from Huilong Village. They even named Huilong Village "Ghost Shaved" Village.
This mysterious hair loss incident has attracted high attention from local departments. The municipal government sent experts to Huilong Village to explore the ins and outs of "ghost shaving".
Experts start with the geographical environment of the village.
Huilong Village is remote and the traffic is blocked. The villagers' job is to mine mercury mine on the mountain a few miles away, and sell it for money. Experts speculate that hair loss incidents may be related to mercury poisoning . But the doctor quickly concluded that mercury will not cause hair loss and will not damage the visual nerves.
Experts are in trouble again and their work is stagnant.
The entire village is shrouded in dark clouds. After a few weeks, some villagers were already scared. A villager said that he dreamed of a ghost at night. The ghost had no hair and had empty eyes. He asked for his hair to wear it on his head.
experts start with diet. During an accidental urine extraction, it was found that local residents contained a particularly rare trace element: thallium.
After testing, thallium element is toxic. After eating too much, it will damage the peripheral nerves, cause hair follicles to shrink and lead to hair loss.
staff were surprised by the discovery of thallium, because thallium is very rare throughout China. Later, I learned that the locals were carrying water from a river to drink. Experts took samples of the river water and took it back to the laboratory to observe. They really found that there were thallium elements in the river water, but the capacity was very small.
The local government immediately ordered the use of river water and drink well water instead. After that, the phenomenon of "ghost shaving" gradually disappeared. But a few years later, the villagers in the village began to lose their hair again.
The mysterious power that plagued the villagers came back.
Finally, after decades and the examinations of two generations of doctors, they finally successfully locked in the "real murderer" who caused hair loss: Lotus White.
Because of rainwater washing, the residual chemical element in the slag flows into the soil, and the local large number of lotus whites planted in the fields absorb these elements and finally enter the human body.
was extracted and the thallium content in the local lotus white is equivalent to 11 times the thallium content in water. In the early 60s, it was the year of famine. In order to fill the stomach, the villagers ate a lot of wild vegetables, bark and their own planted lotus whites.
Therefore, the thallium element can accumulate in the body for a long time, causing hair to fall off.
"ice cubes" fell from the sky
On June 5, 2010, a villager in Fengning County, Hebei Province was working in his own field when he suddenly heard a plane passing by. With a "boom", a flashing white ball fell from the sky.
The villagers thought it was a bomb dropped by the plane, but it didn't sound for a while. She wondered and called all the villagers in the village to find out. found that what fell from the sky was not a bomb, but two groups of ice hockey .
The two balls of ice are light blue overall, with a diameter of 30 to 40 cm and a weight of nearly 50 kilograms. A pit as deep as a washbasin was smashed on the ground.
Big guys were talking around the ice hockey, not knowing what it was.
The sky was clear that day, and it could not be hail. Later, an elderly villager began to become popular. This was called "drooping celestial phenomena", and God wanted to warn the villagers in all corners of the countryside.
Everyone was scared and invited a local elder. The old man looked at it for a long time and said, "This thing is called rootless water. It is from the sky. Eat one bite a day to cure all diseases."
When the elder left, he also brought a piece home to cook.
A bold villager picked up two pieces of broken ice and tasted it, saying, it was delicious, salty. Some people also say that it is not delicious and has a fishy smell.
At this time, the village party secretary stood up and asked everyone to free up the refrigerator, hide the ice, and then contact experts from Beijing.
"Add to Science" program team heard about this and brought the director of Beijing Planetarium to the village. The investigation team first asked the meteorological observatory experts to identify it. The experts guess that since this ice comes from the sky, is it the " Ice " from space? Laboratory tests show that this substance does not come from the universe.
"Meteoric Ice" speculation was overturned, and some people suspected it was alien matter. The test results show that the elements contained in this ice are relatively common, basically water and inorganic substances.
and the group stared at the irregular ice cube that emitted faint blue light and fell into deep thought.
At the moment of helplessness, an expert remembered his early experience working at the airport. The excrement of the passengers of the aircraft was vacuum treated and added to chemicals were sealed into ice, showing a blue color.
One word awakens the dreamer. The investigation team followed this idea and successfully analyzed the substances in the ice, confirming that this was the waste that fell on the plane.
investigation team informed the villagers of this result, but the villagers didn't believe it and insisted that it was "rootless water".
But some people still raise questions, questioning the difference in volume of this ice and blue ice.
For this reason, the Beijing Planetarium specially collected this piece of ice and kept it at minus 100 degrees Celsius for future research.
The above stories that start with guessing and ending are all high-energy programs in "Attack on Science".
In addition to these, there is also a "blood-sucking" guy who can suck blood from his body without hurting his skin; the 78-year-old woman arched her abdomen, claiming to feel signs of life, and the Bodhisattva gave her children; the pharmaceutical factory employee found " flying stick ", and laid a wire net to capture UFO, etc.
The truth is: the guy has gingivitis ; the old lady has abdomen bloating; the "flying stick" discovered by the surveillance is actually a moth.
At the beginning of each episode, the program team will do their homework to whet the audience's appetite. After watching it, people can't help but complain: What does this have to do with science! Netizens joked: "The beginning is a horror film, the middle is a mystery film, and the end is a funny film."
Han Han was also deceived by the program. He said: "It is because "Getting to Science" has been going on for several years and has not yet gotten close, so he has been persistent in trying to get close to science."
In "His Country", Han Han set up a plot and complained about the program: "A farmer planted white radish, but a carrot actually grew. He invited agricultural experts and gene experts to analyze it from the perspective of gene mutations and other aspects. Finally, he found that it was the carrot seeds that accidentally got in."
can be scolded. Every night at 8:30, the audience will still sit in front of the TV and wait for the program to start broadcasting.
Between 2005 and 2007, "Adopting Science" reached the peak of the Chinese TV industry. The title of the light has attracted the audience's attention: immortal water longevity soup, mysterious nine-can-eighteen pots, fried evil spirits, and ghosts pulling lights in the middle of the night. The ratings are far ahead.
Zhang Tengyue is popular. He said: "In the past, even the newspaper seller at the door didn't know that I was a CCTV host. Now, people ask me for signatures wherever I go."
writer Zheng Jun wrote: "Southern readers may not understand. Northern cities are full of mass bathrooms. A ticket costs a few dollars per ticket. After taking a shower, the bathers lay in the lounge, drinking tea, playing cards, smoking, swearing, and talking pornographic jokes... One day I walked into a bathroom and found it was very quiet. It turned out that everyone was watching a program called "Add to Science". "
When he went to Beijing to participate in the program, a female friend entrusted him to kiss Zhang Tengyue for himself.
, this popular science program suitable for both young and old was questioned soon.
In an interview, producer Zhang Guofei said that his criterion for selection is "4321": the topic should be attractive (4 points), the story should be tortuous (3 points), the topic should be visibility (2 points), and the explanation of the topic should be scientifically authoritative (1 point).
But because the story is too tortuous and attractive, "Entertainment of Science" has been criticized by the official media. People's Daily published an article saying: It is a shameless thing for a national-level TV station to make a scientific column that is originally a public welfare program.
" People's Daily " also published criticism articles, accusing "Going to Science" of "the flag of the media pretending to be a ghost."
During that time, "Adopting Science" reported a series of stories about "thunder and raindrops". For example, an elderly man in his sixties and seventies would spontaneously ignite his body, and he would find out that it was the fire that his granddaughter lit. According to local reports, the elderly who ignite spontaneously are "lucky stars", and the granddaughter wants to use this method to let the parents support the elderly.
Chengdu police received an alarm about smuggling pandas and found that the panda looked like a dog. Experts said this was a genetic mutation after the panda mate with the dog. Finally, they found that this was a colored Chow Chow.
and the " Chinese Water Monster Investigation " series. After a full 3 years of investigation, the water monster in Changbai Mountain Tianchi turned out to be a kayak in North Korea.
Netizens are both angry and regretful that they are not strong enough. They listed the "three sins" for "Entering Science": slandering the person involved and treating people as madmen; insulting the audience and treating people as fools; intimidating the audience and making a popular science program a ghost movie.
Zhang Tengyue felt a little aggrieved: "Many materials are enthusiastic about the audience's call to expose the information... They should be entertained and entertained. I think it's enough to tell a story in a limited space and tell him a scientific knowledge."
Zhang Tengyue said the iconic quote of "Adopting Science" in the program: Is this a distortion of human nature or a depravity of morality?
burst into laughter from the audience.
, which was criticized, "Entertainment Science", gradually revisioned, cut off the curiosity selection and moved out of the golden period, and the production team also changed. Since 2010, there have been few ghosts and gods, which are hard-core scientific topics, but the ratings are much worse than before.
Netizens missed the story of coming and said, "Although it has a ghost-like beginning and a funny ending, it still can't stop watching it."
"Adopting Science" seems nonsense, but in those days, supernatural events such as UFO, water monster , and ghosts and gods had a broad mass base.
In 2010, the 6th national population census, the number of illiterate people aged 15 and above dropped to 54 million.
In the fifth census in 2000, this number was 85.07 million, with an illiteracy rate of 9.08%, while the illiteracy rate in 1990 was as high as 22.2%.
In 1995, the country proposed the "Science and Education to Prosper the Country". "Entertainment in Science" is the product of CCTV's "bank of legal publicity" and is the product of this strategy.
"Entertainment Science" director Wang Minyang said: " The strange powers and chaos among the people are endless. Some imaginations and descriptions cannot be as elegant as the hall. We even weaken it most of the time. "
Cui Yongyuan once made a report revealing the scam of human electronic enhancer. For the sake of objectiveness, Cui Yongyuan did not use derogatory words. However, after the program was broadcast, the program team received more than 500 letters of help, hoping to buy this product on their behalf.
When we grow up, we will feel that the story is absurd and the conclusion is full of complaints.
However, there are many people with low education levels in my country. There are still a large number of illiterate groups in remote and rural areas. The number of farmers who are cheated of health products and medical products every year is huge.
The remaining poison of feudal superstition has never completely dissipated.
can be seen in the circle of friends and family groups of elders. For example: "Soymilk fried dough sticks reveal the 7 most prone food combinations!" "Crayfish are actually used to deal with corpses, and foreigners never eat them!"
has made considerable contributions to popular science for the public. Sina.com comment: "Entertainment of Science" fills the gap that popular science TV rarely involves rural audiences.
A netizen cleared the name of "Entering Science". He concluded: "Entering Science" insists on implementing my country's materialist ideas, and to a certain extent it incorporates Li Bai's -style romantic thoughts, and Hitchcock -style suspense and horror style.
Zhihu netizen @Shi Erlang said that his favorite episode of "Adapting Science" is "I Want to Fly".
Xu Bin, a rural guy who graduated from junior high school, has had the dream of a pilot since he was a child. He taught himself the aircraft manufacturing technology through the Internet and made a simple rotorcraft .
The first test flight was taken, and Xu Bin fell to the ground after only two seconds. The wooden spiral leaves were smashed to pieces and almost died. The second time, everyone in the village came to see him for a joke, but the young man succeeded and flew high up. The villagers were so moved that they shed tears.
To a certain extent, "Adopting Science" is like Xu Bin, with a dream in his heart and a long journey on the road of popular science.
reporter asked producer Zhang Guofei: "Do you have a specific audience?"
He replied: "Even those with primary school education must be served!"
Another reporter asked Zhang Tengyue: "How long will the program last?"
He said: "It's hard to say about , (do it) everyone believes in science. "
On September 30, 2019, "Entertainment Science" was suspended. Countless netizens left messages and sighed:
"The people have finally entered science, and the science popularization task has been successfully completed."
Among the hundreds of thousands of messages, a comment was as follows:
"This year's Nobel Prize for Science has been announced. My circle of friends has been flooded with the Chemistry Award. Those who follow scholars' interpretation of Nobel Prize for naturally look down on "Entertainment Science". But I will always remember that 10 years ago that summer vacation, I graduated from the third year of junior high school and was most passionate about CCTV's ten sets. "Entertainment Science" attracted me because of its name. I had already made up my mind at that time. No matter what university I went to, I must learn chemistry in the future!"
The last episode of "Entertainment Science" broadcast was called "Governing Water Peanuts".
tells the reproductive conditions and governance process of the plant, which is ordinary. The only high-energy part of
is that the villagers complain that the survival ability of peanuts is too strong: "Pigs and cows, they dare not give them food, because after eating it, they will sprinkle feces into the paddy fields, so that peanuts will continue to grow."
Finally, the program ended with the host's blessing to celebrate the harvest. The ending picture stayed in a yellow orange orchard, the sun shining golden, and the light and darkness were flashing through the gaps of the leaves. Everything looks beautiful. After the program
10 days after the broadcast was suspended, a meteorite fell near Songyuan City, Jilin Province. Many residents in Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin and other places witnessed the red flames caused by the fall of meteorites.
If "Adapting Science" keeps broadcasting, this event can be broadcast for more than 300 episodes.
Partial reference materials:
1. "Entering Science", CCTV 10th set
2. "Zhang Guofei and Zhang Tengyue's guest on Sina Chat Record", CCTV International
3. "Children's Shadow "Entering Science" is suspended, this is the most unscientific", New Weekly
4. "Zhang Tengyue: "Entering Science" is not prepared for those who read the original Discovery", New Weekly
5. "Entering Science" is suspended, does your childhood shadow have it?", Bazi intersection
Author: Cha Shao, Source: Past Char Shui, focus on discovering the shining moments in the old time. What we write about here is the past of the cultural circle and the entertainment circle. Time is a magician. What seemed irrelevant back then determined the direction of history and life in the dark.
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