"Dear viewers, in this joyful Chinese New Year's Eve, all the staff of CCTV wish you happiness for your family, all the best, and a happy Spring Festival."
This was the first New Year greeting of the host Zhao Zhongxiang at the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
From 1983 to 2023, a party on CCTV has been accompanying generations of Chinese for 40 years Chinese New Year's Eve night, affectionately known as the "Spring Festival Gala".
After 40 years of companionship, "watching the Spring Festival Gala" has become another folk custom for Chinese people around the world in addition to sticking Spring Festival couplings and eating Chinese New Year's Eve meals.
However, about the Spring Festival Gala, the most is the voice of complaining.
The most nostalgic Spring Festival Gala in the 80s
Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival Gala began in 1979, but it was all recorded and then played when the time came.
The current live broadcast format was held at the Spring Festival Gala in 1983.
In the 80s, everything was simple, and we naturally can't compare with it today.
If you look at the previous documentaries now, you have the urge to donate money to CCTV.
At that time, the host was who the audience liked this year, and who would be the host, such as Liu Xiaoqing.
Sometimes, because the comedian is slippery, he simply makes a guest appearance as a host, which Jiang Kun and Ma Ji have done.
When reporting the curtain, Jiang Kun forgot the words several times, Ma Ji reminded him over and over again, and finally Jiang Kun came and said: "Let you report, everyone knows, Xiaoqing, you can say two words casually." ”
Although he is not a professional host, this eclectic way of reporting the curtain caused everyone to laugh.
Teacher Ma Ji's "A Salesman", "Our cosmic brand cigarettes have been sold all over the country", although it did not respond to the public welfare call for smoking ban, but added classic jokes and jokes to the world.
When the Spring Festival Gala ended, a Shougang worker who missed the live broadcast and stayed at his post learned that the show was the best and contacted Ma Ji through the on-site hotline, hoping that he would say another paragraph for himself, and Mr. Ma Ji repeated it to him on the phone.
In the 80s, many Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas singers entered our eyes through the Spring Festival Gala.
Alan Tam's "Flowers in the Water" and Zhang Mingmin's "My Chinese Heart" are both popular songs all over the streets that year.
In 87, Fei Xiang expressed the longing for the motherland of overseas travelers (Fei Xiang was born in Taiwan, but grew up in the United States, which is considered overseas) with "Clouds of Hometown".
Fei Xiang's ability to attend the Spring Festival Gala itself is also a coincidence, and the chance began when Fei Xiang and his mother went to Yantai to visit his grandmother.
But it was the "A Fire in Winter" that became popular.
When Fei Xiang continued to challenge himself in 1990, he went to Broadway to participate in musicals and held farewell concerts, and when he Chinese mainland had a frenzy of chasing stars for the first time.
90-2000: Hong Kong and Taiwan singers increased, and sketches overshadowed the Spring Festival Gala
With the successful experience of Fei Xiang and these people, more Hong Kong and Taiwan stars appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in the 90s, such as Andy Lau, Yip Qianwen, Anita Mui and so on.
Especially in 2000, the authentic idol singer Nicholas Tse and Dong Jie sang a song "Together in This Life", and some crazy female fans once thought that Nicholas Tse was really married and looking for death and life, and Dong Jie also began her acting career because of this Spring Festival Gala.
However, in this decade, the most impressive thing is the language program, especially the sketch began to steal the limelight of crosstalk.
Sketches were originally a form of training students at film schools, but in the 80s and 90s, after the performances of Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi, the form of sketches became more and more mature.
Moreover, the crosstalk program of the Spring Festival Gala in the 80s accounted for a significant proportion, and a bunch of crosstalk actors, such as Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, and even Mr. Ma Sanli, who was at the level of Taidou, also said crosstalk at the Spring Festival Gala.
With so many people crammed into one trough, someone is sure to look for other development space.
The comedian is blessed with eloquence, and will naturally develop in the direction of sketches.
For example, Mr. Hou Yaowen, a crosstalk family, after cooperating with teacher Zhao Lirong in "A Day in the Life of a Heroic Mother", found that acting in sketches was more popular, and simply talked about sketches.
Even, Hou Yaowen and Huang Hong, who is also a crosstalk foundation but is developing in the sketch industry, openly ridiculed: "Now crosstalk obviously can't do sketches." ”
But the flow of talents in the crosstalk industry to sketches can only be said for one reason, the most important thing is the rise of a large number of excellent sketch actors.
For example, teacher Zhao Lirong, who cooperated with Hou Yaowen, the old man was a veritable "sketch king" back then
Teacher Zhao Lirong sought a breakthrough at the Spring Festival Gala in 96 and began to participate in group creations and pursue fine work, such as "Working Adventure" with Gong Hanlin.
To this day, we can still recall the old man's casual saying: "Court jade liquor, one hundred and eighteen glasses, how is it, listen to me blow it for you," and many other popular works, such as "Tango just flows around."
From Mr. Zhao's works, we can see that the material of the sketch performance comes from life, and after the interpretation of the sketch actors, it is easier to quickly stimulate the audience's laughter within the limited time specified by the Spring Festival Gala.
This is something that the comedian is there, brewing for a long time before shaking a baggage.
Unfortunately, the old man passed away in July 2000, and the title of "Xiaopin King" also changed to another person surnamed Zhao.
As early as 2000, Zhao Benshan achieved great success because of his collaboration with Song Dandan on "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow".
Everyone remembers "autumn waves are autumn spinach", "can my old ticket board your broken ship"
But Lao Zhao also launched "his own people" through the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. ”
Before 2005, the "Point Cannon" program of the Spring Festival Gala near the end of the year was the iron triangle of Zhao Benshan, Gao Xiumin and Fan Wei.
After Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi bid farewell to the Spring Festival Gala and Zhao Lirong died, to a large extent, the Spring Festival Gala sketches were all supported by these three people.
After Gao Xiumin passed away and Zhao Benshan said goodbye to the Spring Festival Gala, the sketch show became more and more lackluster.
Spring Festival Gala in the New Century: A Land of Chicken Feathers Under Innovation
As a sketch of the highlight of the Spring Festival Gala, people may remember Jia Bing and Jia Ling.
But when they perform, they feel that they are always squeaking you, missing a little aura, and the key to art depends on whether the grandmaster appreciates the food.
And these were not seen in those artists in the early years.
There is also the Spring Festival Gala in this period, which has younger and more trendy elements, such as in 04, in the most popular Hong Kong and Taiwan singers of that year, Jay Chou and Adu, sang separately.
With the rise of the Internet, the Spring Festival Gala also finds inspiration from the Internet.
The songs sung by Mizuki Nianhua at the Spring Festival Gala were first popular on the Internet;
One year, even saliva songs such as "Mouse Loves Rice" appeared in the hall on the spring evening.
It can be seen from this phenomenon that the Spring Festival Gala has made a ruthless effort in attracting the attention of young people, but this just shows that young people do not watch the Spring Festival Gala.
In addition to the progress of the times and the increasing number of channels for people's entertainment, the grade of the Spring Festival Gala is gradually decreasing.
Take "Mouse Loves Rice", the saliva song has no nutrition except for the simple and easy to learn melody, and Chinese music would have been like that, and it would have been finished long ago.
The facts have also proved that if this is the case, who remembers the original song of "Mouse Loves Rice"?
These people don't have much creative ability.
If there is any highlight of this later Spring Festival Gala, it is probably the dance.
From "A Thousand Hands Guanyin" to Lin Zhiling's "Bloom", and last year's "Only This Green Green", dance is truly integrated with modern technology and lighting and stage effects.
Why is the Spring Festival Gala worse than the year
Teacher Ma Ji gave a special performance to Shougang workers on the phone, allowing people to see the closeness of artists in the early years;
Zhao Lirong, an illiterate old lady, specializes in learning brush writing, and the "real thing" does have the flavor of the body;
What is even more unexpected is that the old man also specializes in learning English, singing Celine Dion's songs, and singing "Love" with the Tigers live, where you can see their efforts and continuous attempts to break through.
Only in this way can the language programs they create be as funny as "moisturizing and silent".
The current actors do not have the same ability as the old artists, which is an important reason why the Spring Festival Gala is not as good as the year.
But the fundamental point is that the essence of the Spring Festival Gala has gradually faded.
Everyone gathers during the Spring Festival, so the Spring Festival Gala is a bigger party, and everyone makes a fuss together.
In the Spring Festival Gala in the 80s and early 90s, the lighting and set were poor, and the tables, chairs and benches on site were not very elegant, but this is what the party should be.
In terms of the most criticized language program, this year's Shen Teng and Ma Li's sketch "Pit" may be one of the few highlights.
And the success of this show lies in its theme of irony, and Zhao Lirong's "Working Adventure" and Zhao Benshan's "Selling Abduction" have taken this route before.
These works, because they are grounded, have real satirical objects and satirical phenomena, so they arouse the audience's laughter and have won the praise they deserve.
But for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, it is actually trying to build a harmonious and warm family entertainment environment.
Therefore, for satirical comedy works, it is obviously cautious.
Now the Spring Festival Gala is a serious book to ensure that there are no mistakes, and it is more like completing the year-end summary.
So, that's why you don't like to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
But this year's Spring Festival Gala is a little different, after these three years, many people and their families have been separated for a long time.
This year, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with my family and watching the Spring Festival Gala is estimated to have a special warmth.
After experiencing a lot, let us cherish this extremely ordinary happy life even more.
We wish you all the best in the new year. I also wish the families of all readers good health.
In the coming year, I hope that everyone will continue to support us, we will contribute better works to everyone, and we will all make progress together.
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