Year: 1983
Location: Primary school

Yanghunzi, Shudaizi and other school boys sit straight up with their arms behind the back to show their full attention to the teacher, who is delivering a speech about the upcoming "huodong".

Huodong has a vast range of meaning: from 'school sports meeting' to 'national hygiene week' to 'wipe out all the fly larvae campaign'. Huodong is the perfect opportunity for teachers to decide which student will be nominated as the Three Goods Student -- the "three goods" meaning: good social work, good grades and good morality.

Mostly, huodong is more about the act of participation, rather than the implications or reasons of the campaign as a whole -- it's a time to show how sensitive to the issues you really are.

Location: School playground

In this huodong, Yanghunzi and Shudaizi are appointed to organize their class for the annual school sports meeting. They call on the entire class to wear the sharp looking shirts and ties for the routine Student Parade. This will soon become the trend for other 'trailblazing' classes.

Year: 1999
Location: Business street

Yanghunzi is a successful internet CEO (iCEO, to some), and the company has just finished creating the largest online Chinese portal/e-commerce community/auction-house and bookstore.

Though at the peak of his career, Yanghunzi still feels lacking of something...

"A huodong! That's right!! We need a huodong with real people! I'm missing that long-since-gone feeling of being related to a larger whole!"

Location: Nondescript KTV house

Shudaizi hears word of the Yanghunzi's huodong...

Location: Somewhere in traffic...

... the news is traveling quickly among those old classmates ...

Location: VIP Room, LL Disco

In modern times, the word "huodong" often refers to dinner party among those college classmates who have developed a successful career and still have the warm memories of their past. Use this word wisely, you will achieve great mountains of fame among the elite of the elite chuppies.