? In 1984, the United States made a movie "Breakdancing", which set off the first craze of breakdancing. Breakdancing received widespread social attention, from the underground all of a sudden out of the ground, by the major media coverage, appeared in the National Geographic cover and the major television stations in prime time, even President Reagan live to watch the breakdancing performance. Breakdancing movies and TV movies came out in droves, with seven breakdancing movies released in 1984 alone. And the peak of the whole breakdancing frenzy occurred at the closing ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. As Lionel Richie sang the song "All Night Long," 200 dancers from more than 10 groups breakdanced in front of an audience of 100,000 people under a backdrop of fireworks, with multiple dancers doing head spins at the same time, and millions of viewers watched the excitement unfold in front of their televisions.
? In China, when VCRs were just starting to enter the home, the tapes of "Breakdance" were passed on to Chinese teenagers through various channels, and the families of those teenagers who first owned TVs and VCRs became the center of the spread of breakdancing. Many "motors" (one of the main characters in "Breakdance", named Boogaloo Shrimp, a famous dancer in the history of breakdancing) with flowery cloths on their heads and kicks on their sneakers appeared in the streets all of a sudden, and it was as if their brains were out of order, as they were moving from one hand to the other. They were like a brain disorder, one hand to the other hand, "transmission of electricity", a moment back and forth around the "space step", and a moment to the air, "wipe the glass". In fact, even the U.S. media at the time in the first street dance frenzy also confused, they put the name of the New York dance breakdancing on the West Coast dance. The movie "Breakdance" should have been called "Madcap Dance" or "Lock and Pop" because it was filmed in California and basically reflected West Coast dancing. But no matter what, "Breakdance" had a huge impact on China, and as a result a large number of street dancers appeared in mainland China almost in sync with the United States, and the level was quite high. The late young dancer Tao Jin was a well-known professional dancer who studied and practiced breakdancing at the time, and in 1988 he made a movie called "Rock 'n' Roll Youth," which utilized many breakdancing moves and received a great response from the youth at the time. He also traveled to the United States to learn the madcap dance from the famous madcap predecessor Pop N Taco, and was the earliest Chinese, including Taiwanese dancers, to receive a face-to-face transmission from a master street dancer.