Original title: CCTV's Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala is lively and exciting, and the national trend of the year is embracing the "dragon". Guangdong elements shine on the stage
At 20:00 on February 9, China Central Radio and Television's "2024 Spring Festival Gala" arrived as scheduled. "We watch the Spring Festival Gala every New Year's Eve, and we will go to the Spring Festival Gala this New Year's Eve." In Fan Wei's narration, the short film "Our Spring Festival Gala" kicked off the Spring Festival Gala. The restaurant boy played by Yue Yunpeng symbolizes countless ordinary people. For them, the annual Spring Festival Gala is a look back on the past year and a look forward to the new year.
's opening program "Inspiring the Dragon" brought the audience into the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. The main venue in Beijing and the four branch venues in Shenyang, Liaoning, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Changsha, Hunan, and Kashgar, Xinjiang "encouraged" together to dance to the high momentum of the Chinese New Year.
This year’s Spring Festival Gala creates a strong and enthusiastic atmosphere with colorful program types and energetic and steamy content. It also focuses on drawing creative inspiration and innovative power from China’s excellent traditional cultural elements, highlighting people’s desire for a happy life in every detail. confidence and pursuit. Shen Teng, Ma Li, Yue Yunpeng, Zhu Yilong, Liu Tao, Hu Ge , Liu Shishi, Tang Yan , William Chan, Ku Juji, Zeng Shunxi, Zhang Ruonan... many new and old faces gathered together to bring a program with both creativity and warmth. Let’s bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year together with the people across the country to celebrate the New Year.
original dance drama "Wing Chun", Teochew opera "Su Liu Niang", Shenzhen original pop music, special Cantonese food... Rich Cantonese elements made a shining debut on this year's Spring Festival Gala stage, adding a rich Cantonese flavor to this "New Year's Eve dinner" taste.
CCTV Spring Festival Gala dance drama "Wing Chun" (large picture), creative performance show "New Year's Brocade" (upper right) and dance "Koi" (lower right). Photo courtesy of China Central Radio and Television
"Wing Chun", Teochew opera, and Shenzhen original songs all appeared on the stage
"Produced in Guangdong" brought a new audio-visual experience
On this year's Spring Festival Gala stage, "Produced in Guangdong" created many highlight moments, giving the whole country It brings a new audio-visual experience to the audience.
The high-octane showdown between Wing Chun and Baguazhang combines the beauty of classical dance and modern dance in a thrilling way. The dancers' body movements are clean and neat, vividly interpreting the beauty and strength of Chinese martial arts - Chang Hongji, Zhang Yashu and other dancers from the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater brought excerpts from the original dance drama "Wing Chun" to people across the country. A hot wind from Lingnan. In the opera program "A Hundred Flowers in Bloom", outstanding young actors born in the 1990s from the Guangdong Chaozhou Theater Wu Jialin and Cai Jinhao jointly presented the classic Teochew opera "Su Liu Niang" excerpt "Garden Contract", which is also a national intangible cultural heritage Teochew opera For the first time, it bloomed brilliantly on the Spring Festival Gala stage of the main station. Wu Jialin introduced to reporters that the excerpts from "Garden Engagement" imply that lovers will finally get married in the new year. "The program excerpts were selected around the theme of 'joy, auspiciousness, and joy,' and we hope to express it to the people of the country in the form of opera on New Year's Eve." Sending holiday blessings."
Among song programs, "Produced in Shenzhen" accounts for half of them. Among the only four solo songs in the entire evening party, two were original songs from Shenzhen, both of which were first released in the Spring Festival Gala. The song "The Order of Health" sung by Zhou Shen was created by the creator after collecting folk songs in Shenzhen and feeling that Shenzhen is connected by mountains and seas. Young people love sports, pay attention to health, and are willing to learn traditional Baduanjin and Wing Chun.
The song "She Who Lies in the Light" sung by Ren Suxi was jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Nanshan District Committee of the Communist Party of China (District Federation of Literary and Art Circles), and Tencent Music Entertainment Group. It describes the return of children who see their elders. The love of generations, lyrics such as "Happiness sometimes doesn't speak, always sprouts in the ordinary" and "Love is when two little people meet, and they try to shine a light on each other" vividly depict the company of family members. bits and pieces of life.
In the finale program "Popular Songs Mix", three of the five popular songs sung by Huang Qishan, Tan Jianci, Wang Zulan and others were "produced in Shenzhen", namely "My Paper Plane" and "Young One". You" and "I'll Wait". These original songs appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage, allowing audiences across the country to feel the vitality and charm of original music "produced in Shenzhen".
Ordinary faces become the "main force" of the Spring Festival Gala
Showing the "fireworks" of a better life
In the annual Spring Festival Gala program, celebrity actors attract much attention, but more and more ordinary faces appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage, which also makes each of them heart-warming. Life stories have a wider world.
Noodle chefs, retired technicians, police officers, athletes, etc. took part in the opening short film "Our Spring Festival Gala" with their own stories, raising hopes for a happy future in the "fireworks". Grandpa Tan, the keeper of the panda "Huahua" and other audience representatives, together with the " Blossoms " crew, the "Fengshen" boy band and other celebrity guests, wish everyone a happy New Year amidst the sound of golden drums.
More than 50 industry representatives, including National May Day Labor Medal winners, Shenzhou 17 astronaut crew members, scientific researchers, and cultural relics protection workers, sang "We Grow Up After Watching Cartoons", in the familiar cartoon In the theme song, the beauty of dreams growing and ideals shining into reality is sung. The four branch venues of
were also full of New Year joy. The interaction between the performers and the local people showed a beautiful picture of life: the Liaoning Shenyang branch created and composed music with unique northeastern characteristics such as "Little New Year" and "Send Lover", and combined it with rock and rap , folk music, and ballet are integrated to ignite the surging passion intertwined with ice and fire; the song "Everything Comes Realized" at the Changsha branch in Hunan sings the new voice of the era with vigorous vitality and a promising future, and the charm of the "City That Never Sleeps" shines; in Shaanxi At the Xi'an branch venue, the national trend performances were brilliant, and the whole people sang and sang poems, witnessing the poetic scene of Chang'an in the dialogue between ancient and modern times; at the Xinjiang Kashgar branch venue, multi-ethnic dances and instrumental music gathered together, showing the unity of all ethnic groups as one family. A harmonious scene.
Police officer Ma Huailong, the "area steward" who moved countless netizens, well-behaved and sensible "sunshine girl" Xiao Doudou, optimistic and positive "biscuit boy" Wei Zhongshuai, rural veterinarian Long Dianjun... This year's Spring Festival Gala crew also showed their hard work and pursuit of beauty. Ordinary people in daily life extend a warm invitation of "Spring Festival Gala is waiting for you", inviting them to come to the Spring Festival Gala and take a seat in the guest seats to experience the flavor of the New Year up close. The optimistic, strong, and hard-working representatives of the strivers also brought a strong sense of warmth and confidence to the Spring Festival Gala stage and the audience.
Integration and creation of "art" lead the new cultural trend
Colorful interpretation of Chinese romance
The innovative integration of excellent traditional culture and modern art forms is a highlight of this year's Spring Festival Gala.
's creative show "Nian Brocade" uses representative patterns from ancient China that imply auspicious blessings to stage an ancient "fashion show" where people come from paintings. Through songs + virtual synthesis technology, cultural elements spanning thousands of years are reborn. . The "New Year's Brocade" that appeared in the program was personally designed for the Spring Festival Gala by 93-year-old Chang Shana, a 93-year-old Dunhuang art and arts and crafts design expert. It is a beautiful, elegant and unique traditional Chinese pattern, implying auspiciousness, celebration and happiness. The beautiful yearning for prosperity.
Zhang Yimou's creative New Year's Eve custom show "Unique" interprets "Great China in Pasta" and talks about the New Year's customs and food culture of various places. Special "New Year flavors" from Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tianjin and other places were presented one by one along with song and dance performances. The four-person group of "Flowers" - Hu Ge, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei , and Chen Long are special guests and will sing "Pork Ribs Rice Cake" in Shanghainese; as a "Shenzhen baby", young actor Zeng Shunxi will appear and will also come from Guangdong. Various delicacies such as shrimp dumplings, rice rolls, and barbecued pork buns "sing" on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
In the Shaanxi Xi'an branch program "Mountains and Rivers Poetry Chang'an", Zhang Ruoyun, the actor who plays "Fan Xian" in the high-scoring costume drama " Qing Yu Nian ", and the poet Li Bai in "Chang'an Thirty Thousand Miles" have a "dream linkage" and sing " How can I be a Penghao person?" "When the wine is about to enter, the cup will not stop. Let me sing a song with you, please listen to me." At the end of the performance, Li Bai and the whole people chanted "The wine is about to enter", which further embodied the romance of Chang'an City.
The kung fu micro-movie "Struggle for Spring" is directed by the famous Hong Kong director Yuen Woo-ping as the martial arts director. Fan Shaohuang, Wu Yue, and Ji Sha play the roles of "kung fu masters" Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong, and Bruce Lee. Classic martial arts moves such as Zongquan are presented one by one, restoring the passion and romance in the hearts of a generation.
Nanfang Daily reporters Zhang Siyi Wang Hanqi Xu Ziming Yang Yi Xu Yi
Source: Nanfang Daily
