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The "Spring Festival Gala Questions" contest has begun. Some short video clips I have seen in the past few days made me almost think that this year’s Spring Festival Gala program started early.
There is a painting style like this: college students or bloggers play the role of "host" and introduce the language program "Princess Urging the Marriage, Sweating". The camera turned and the "actor" appeared while reciting a rhyme. There is a door, a sofa, a coffee table, and a huge "fake background". The angry mother with her arms akimbo and the bitter-faced child stand facing each other. The next plot has not even aired yet, but it has already been predicted by the barrage. .
"The works of the "Title" Spring Festival Gala are all a "platter" of hot Internet memes of the year - "I only know rice, millet, what kind of rice is Hakimi", "You are an i person and I am an e person, we are in love ie family". At key pauses in the plot, there is always a timely camera switch, focusing on the "audience" in groups of three or two sitting around the red round table, showing close-ups of applause, laughter and applause.
Someone commented: Yes! There isn’t much creativity left for the director!
There are also some young people who have made short films based on the "program formula" they have studied. The essence of this formula is a fixed emotional process that does not require specific language. Even if the whole line only repeats the word "dumpling", the protagonist in the video can still perform a complete sketch.
Let’s take a look at the “Binary Sketch” with over 9 million views on station b. The protagonists wearing military coats and sanitation worker uniforms chanted “dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings”, with ups and downs in their tones, and walked to the center of the stage to greet the audience; and then The two of them started an argument with the elder brother in a suit. After the emotion reached its peak, the sound of "dumplings" turned into tears along with the sensational background music. Finally, the conflict was resolved. The three of them made gestures of "making dumplings" and ended. End, end.
This kind of irony made many netizens laugh, saying that the director of the Spring Festival Gala must have been "sweating profusely".
On the Internet platform, there are always many works making fun of the Spring Festival Gala. In 2024, this "co-creation" came earlier than in previous years. Some young people took the initiative to express their dissatisfaction with the rigid routines of language programs. Resolve, everyone is happy with the fixed paragraphs of . At the end, it deliberately creates tears.
In addition to "typing on topics", young people also edited "homemade Spring Festival Gala" to express their expectations. The program list includes popular songs by Jay Chou , Phoenix Legend and other popular singers, as well as classic sketches such as "Protagonist and Supporting Actor" and "Eating Noodles", as well as well-received national dramas such as "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and "Only This Green". There are even fashionable dance performances, which can be said to be a gathering of talented people, both Chinese and Western. Just by browsing the program title, classic scenes and quotations can be played automatically in your mind.
Actually, I just hope that the Spring Festival Gala will be better. We discuss the Spring Festival Gala and its value precisely because in our cultural DNA, family reunions and bright lights are an indispensable part of the New Year. It is not only a party, but also an important anchor in collective memory, carrying good wishes year after year. The ridicule and imagination of the Spring Festival Gala have also constituted a unique cultural phenomenon.
In language programs, people don’t like deliberate sensationalism, are dissatisfied with the frequent occurrence of old jokes, and the preaching that relies on shouting and force-cutting to tell stories. They also hope to see down-to-earth reality and the times in this symbolic evening party. Sexual footnote.
The classic sketch "Eating Noodles" was born in 1984 when laughter and relaxation were needed, establishing the true meaning of sketches to entertain people and bring happiness; "One hundred and eighty cups of palace jade liquor" both created jokes and satirized That's right; songs such as "Love Devotion" and "Missing" are still conveying love and power to this day... The retro trend of the Spring Festival Gala is ultimately our call to "let literature and art shine, make happiness simple, and let true love be natural".
Of course, we know that it is really not easy to host the Spring Festival Gala successfully. We have to take into account children, teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people, and their age span exceeds half a century.
What’s even more difficult is that once upon a time, people lacked cultural life, and watching the Spring Festival Gala became a rare cultural feast of the year. In today's world where multiple cultures coexist, the Spring Festival Gala is no longer the only choice for people's entertainment and entertainment on New Year's Eve. The family sat around, and the Spring Festival Gala was played on the big screen on the TV. The two-dimensional-loving brothers went off to work holding a homemade New Year's Eve program from "Bilibili". The shower of red envelopes in the family WeChat group caused a commotion. To put it in journalistic terms, our family’s New Year’s Eve reunion has already embraced the “multimedia” era and experienced the “innovative” New Year flavor. With the development of society, the Spring Festival Gala, a cultural product for all people, is indeed facing difficulties in arrangement.
In this rare time of family reunion on New Year’s Eve, we don’t have many requirements for the Spring Festival Gala. I hope that by telling the story of every ordinary person, the hardships and joys can be seen, and the warm scenes of daily life can be reproduced. I hope that as a proud member of the Chinese people, I can receive the most sincere New Year wishes. These are the unique values of the Spring Festival Gala, a national celebration, and the year-end answer that everyone looks forward to.
Source: China Youth Daily
