It’s another New Year and another Spring Festival Gala.
, a party that has accompanied the Chinese people for forty years, has presented brilliant performances to the audience every year. When "Subject Three" swept through all major evening parties, people began to miss those golden years of sincerity, purity, and happiness.
2024 As the Year of the Dragon approaches, we have compiled 24 moments from the 40 years of the Spring Festival Gala to relive the sincere and unforgettable songs and smiles with everyone.
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In 1983, the Spring Festival Gala program team tried audience demand for the first time. At that time, the penetration rate of telephones was still very low, but the phone calls did not stop as soon as the program started. Almost everyone who called in listened to Li Guyi sing "Hometown Love".
This put the Spring Festival Gala program team in a difficult position. "Nostalgia" was a banned song at the time. Director Huang Yihe asked Li Guyi to prepare first. If the on-demand rate exceeded 60%, he would discuss it with the leader.
Trays after trays of small slips of paper with "Nostalgia" written on them were brought to Wu Lengxi, the then Minister of Radio, Film and Television. Finally, Wu Lengxi said, "TV on demand, wouldn't it be deceiving the audience not to broadcast it?" !"
So this once "forbidden song" was officially lifted on the Spring Festival Gala, and the audience was able to feel nostalgia and nostalgia on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
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The only time crosstalk master Ma Sanli appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage was in 1985.
This year's Spring Festival Gala program team made a bold innovation and moved the recording location outdoors for the first time to the Workers' Stadium. 72-year-old Ma Sanli performed on stage wearing a long gown. It was his first time on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Ma Sanli was not familiar with the program arrangements of the countdown to midnight. Seeing the enthusiastic response from the audience, he returned to perform for 9 minutes after the original performance. , and asked his disciple Ma Ji to pour water into the "drinking place" during the trip.
Ma Sanli's move "scared" the Spring Festival Gala program crew, but no one stopped him. This also created the Spring Festival Gala's famous scene.
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In 1987, Fei Xiang, who was very popular in Taiwan, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala. His song "A Fire in Winter" made Fei Xiang a national idol in one fell swoop.
This is the opportunity Fei Xiang fought for. In the second half of 1986, Fei Xiang came to Guangzhou and finally met his family. Soon after, Fei Xiang sent a self-recommendation letter to the All-China Taiwan Federation, expressing his strong desire to attend the Spring Festival Gala. The then Spring Festival Gala director Deng Zaijun also arranged for Fei Xiang’s grandmother and mother to come to the scene to watch together.
After the Spring Festival Gala, Fei Xiang was "banned" by Taiwan for 14 years, but he himself said, "There are many things in the world that cannot be measured by money, such as the relationship between me and my family. I still feel that it is worth doing. , no regrets!"
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In 1987, there was a "Journey to the West" themed "Qi Tian Le" party on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Many leading actors from the TV series, including the Four Masters and Disciples, Red Boy, and the King of the Kingdom of Women, came to the scene and performed a nearly two-hour performance with the theme of "Journey to the West".
The party started with Zhu Bajie lighting firecrackers. Gods and Buddhas in the sky "descended from the sky" through special effects. Princes, gods, and monsters from the TV series restored their images in the TV series and entered in the form of a square array. The four monks and disciples of Tang Monk sang the New Year. Blessings, Chang'e's dance, Zhu Bajie also danced the ballet "Four Little Swans", and Zhao Lirong made her debut in the Spring Festival Gala sketch with "White Bone Demon" and "Black Bear Demon".
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In 1987, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage, bringing the nearly three-hour "Dream of Red Mansions Artists Extravaganza" to the audience. The leading actors all restored their costumes in the play, and the "Twelve Beauties" sat together with the audience. The well-known Hong Kong actor Li Zhi played the role of Jia Baoyu, opening the show with everyone "looking for Baoyu", and "Sister Feng" led everyone to play drums and pass flowers, and the Beijing ·Hong Kong Dream of Red Mansions Knowledge Competition.
director Wang Fulin also introduced the screenwriters, directors, cameramen, editors, composers and other behind-the-scenes creatives one by one, as well as various "red scholars" and literary consultants including Wu Zuguang, Duanmu Hongliang, Feng Qiyong, which can be called China's modern and contemporary literary world. Big party.
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In 1988, sister Ju Ping appeared at the Spring Festival Gala. At that time, she was holding a girl in her arms, pointing at the screen, and brought out the earliest "secondary program" - "The Monkey King and Donald Duck".Sun Wukong said "I'm sorry", and Donald Duck said "dumplings on the first day of the first lunar month and noodles on the second day of the lunar new year". Although
is a cartoon, in just five minutes, this cartoon tells the story of the alienation of relationships between people due to money, and in the end guides the public to treat foreign friends rationally, and even uses Monkey King in the kitchen. The scenes of cooking, son and daughter-in-law watching TV on the sofa reflect social reality, and the level of satire is not inferior to that of reality sketches.
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In 1990, in the 1990s, Zhao Benshan was about to start his era.
After three years of waiting, Zhao Benshan finally took to the stage with the sketch "Blind Date". The original name of Blind Date was "Old and Young at Heart". In 1988, Zhao Benshan had already accepted the Spring Festival Gala invitation and brought the program to the sub-venue. At that time, Zhao Benshan gathered a large circle of relatives and friends to drink and dine, and they were eagerly waiting for it. In the end, the TV shows were all covered with snowflakes, and the sketch was not released yet.
The impatient Zhao Benshan later rushed to Beijing with a whole box of Maotai. He wanted to find someone to ask but didn't know who to send it to, so he could only stay in a small guest house and drink one bottle a day. After drinking it for twelve days, he returned to the Northeast. .
In the second half of 1989, the Spring Festival Gala director team still couldn't let go of "Old and Young at Heart", so they invited the famous performing artist Wang Jingyu to help revise it. After waiting for half a month, "Blind Date" finally successfully appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
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Although Zhao Benshan became an instant hit, the limelight of the Spring Festival Gala sketches that year was still Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao. This golden pair brought the sketch "Protagonist and Supporting Role" to the 1990 Spring Festival Gala. The gun, an important prop in the performance of
, is a German shell gun from the 1930s. The gun bag was made of cowhide and remained as good as new after decades. Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao had remained intact during many rehearsals. However, on the day of the live broadcast, the gun bag broke.
The gun bag was on Zhu Shimao's body at that time, and Zhu Shimao was speaking his lines and wearing the belt at the same time. The belt was obviously shorter after being fastened, but it looked more stage-like on Chen Peisi. After leaving the stage, Zhu Shimao pulled Chen Peisi and said, "God helps us both!"
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In 1991, an animal friend was welcomed on the Spring Festival Gala stage --panda.
The panda performing on stage is called Basi, who is the prototype of the panda Panpan, the mascot of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. Panpan was born in Sichuan in 1980. She has extraordinary talent for performing and can quickly learn gymnastics, roping, and weightlifting. In 1987, she was invited to perform in San Diego, USA, attracting 2.5 million people to watch.
On the Spring Festival Gala stage, Bass lived up to expectations and performed various performances such as shooting, weightlifting, and cycling. Basi is also the world's oldest panda and completed the world's first cataract surgery on a giant panda. In September 2017, Bass passed away at the age of 37.
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In the 1992 Spring Festival Gala, the Little Tigers appeared for the first time, but in the form of a music video.
As cross-strait exchanges become more and more active, Taiwan's China Television Corporation selected and presented the song and dance "Happy New Year" co-starred by Little Tigers, Sad Party, Girls, and Red Boy. Although the song was mainly sung by Little Tigers and Sadhuan Party, with Red Boy and Girls cooperating through the camera, this was also the only duet of the four major groups under UFO Records, and it had never been made public in any form in Taiwan, becoming a generation An irreplaceable classic memory.
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"One hundred and eighty cups of palace jade liquor", this classic line that is now used as a "secret code" by netizens, comes from the 1996 classic sketch "Working Adventures", which is also the successor to Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin's previous year. Cooperation again after "Packaging This Way". At the end of the
skit, Zhao Lirong's calligraphy was "genuine." This link was not included in the original script. After watching the performances of the opera actors, the second group of directors also wanted to add calligraphy elements to the skit, but Zhao Lirong could not write and was not literate.
In order to practice calligraphy well in a short time, Zhao Lirong began to practice calligraphy day and night. I felt that rice paper was too expensive, so I used newspapers to practice and even found a teacher.A week later, Gong Hanlin went to Zhao Lirong's home and found that the house was full of "genuine products." Zhao Lirong's painstaking practice finally resulted in a stunning moment on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
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In 1998, Faye Wong and Na Ying, who wore two buns, sang on the same stage and left behind the classic song "Meet in 1998".
This was the first time Faye Wong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala after becoming popular in Hong Kong, and it was also the first Spring Festival Gala collaboration with Na Ying. Later, Na Ying said in an interview, "At that time, the director asked me to sing a song with Faye Wong, and neither of us thought about anything. I agreed." This song also won the Mainland's Most Popular Song Award at the 1st CCTV-MTV Music Festival that year.
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Zhao Benshan, who was getting wider and wider in the Spring Festival evening, brought a new "ip" in 1999 - the combination of white clouds and black soil.
Song Dandan and her old partner Huang Hong had different opinions. It happened that Zhao Benshan's book was handed over to him. Song Dandan liked it very much, and Song Dandan was also Zhao Benshan's first choice. When
performed at the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Benshan temporarily added details of shaking his legs, but Song Dandan was not disrupted by Zhao Benshan's "hanging up on the spot" and instead shook along with the "black soil". "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" also allowed Zhao Benshan to win the first prize for the Spring Festival Gala language program again after five years.
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Entering the new millennium, popular fried chicken Nicholas Tse made his debut in the Spring Festival Gala. He was partnered by newcomer Dong Jie. The two showed themselves as a wedding on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which led many viewers to think that the golden couple were really together. Married on stage.
But unlike the sweet interactions on stage, Nicholas Tse and Dong Jie had almost zero communication back then. Dong Jie recalled in the interview that Nicholas Tse never said a word to her except "Thank you" during the rehearsal.
Six years later, the two collaborated again in "Dragon and Tiger Gate". Dong Jie asked Nicholas Tse if he remembered him. The former "groom" on the stage shook his head in confusion and said that he had no memory at all.
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In 2001, the Spring Festival Gala continued the golden boy route of the previous year and invited Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung to sing "In the Mood for Love".
Compared with Nicholas Tse and Dong Jie’s first meeting, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung’s Spring Festival Gala collaboration is a natural one. The two had just finished cooperating in the movie "In the Mood for Love". They held hands and sang a soulful duet on the Spring Festival Gala stage, with movie scenes constantly appearing on the background screen. This was also the only time Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung sang together in the Spring Festival Gala.
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In 2004, Spring Festival Gala director Yuan Dewang always heard a name entering his ears: Jay Chou .
At that time, Jay Chou had just released the album "Ye Huimei", which was popular all over the country, but many people felt that Jay Chou's enunciation was unclear. Although Yuan Dewang couldn't hear clearly what Jay Chou was singing, he still submitted Jay Chou's name for approval.
Sure enough, the leader rejected it on the grounds that "some experts thought Jay Chou couldn't explain clearly", but Yuan Dewang still felt that the audience wanted to see Jay Chou, so he launched a signature vote on the CCTV website, and 2 million people participated. Finally, Jay Chou made his debut at the Spring Festival Gala with "Dragon Fist".
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In 2005, "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" appeared on the stage, which shocked people's hearts.
Before appearing on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" had been performed in the United States and Greece, and was called "an incredible oriental dance" by the American media. Coming to the Spring Festival Gala, due to the time limit before the first trial, the director team hoped to cut "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" from the original 5 minutes and 52 seconds to less than four minutes. Zhang Jigang, the director of "Thousand-Hand Guanyin", continued to rehearse according to the original version in order not to affect the actors' emotions. During the first trial, Zhang Jigang asked the director team to watch the entire dance. After watching it, the director team unanimously decided to keep the original version without losing a second.
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"Abba, has the sun come out and the moon come home?" "That's right."
In 2006, "Three Auspicious Treasures" became an instant hit. But few people know that the three singers on the stage are not a family of three.
The "father" in "Three Auspicious Treasures" is Mongolian singer Buren Bayar. He also wrote the lyrics and composed the song for his daughter Norman.But when this song was selected for the Spring Festival Gala, their daughter Norman had grown up and her voice was not suitable for the artistic conception of the song. So Burenbayar and his wife Uzhina invited their niece Ingmar to complete the song together during the Spring Festival Gala. A classic work.
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In 2009, no one was as popular as Xiaoshenyang .
After bidding farewell to Fan Wei and Song Dandan, Zhao Benshan found his apprentice Xiao Shenyang and Yadan partner Bi Fujian to present the sketch "Not Short of Money".
Like Master Zhao Benshan, Xiao Shenyang’s journey to the Spring Festival Gala was not smooth. In 2007, Zhao Benshan took little Shenyang to participate in CCTV's "Crosstalk Sketch Competition", but the camera was temporarily cut off during the performance. The following year, little Shenyang once again followed his master Zhao Benshan on the Spring Festival Gala stage three times, but there was still no hope; until 2009 "Not Short of Money".
Later, Xiao Shenyang said in an interview that he had to make a temporary rescue 13 days before the Spring Festival Gala, and the burden was all on Yadan, and the results of the two rehearsals were a bit unsatisfactory. But "I don't know why, but the effect was particularly good that day during the Spring Festival Gala."
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In 2010, Jia Ling appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, performing the crosstalk "Big Talk". This was also the first time for a female crosstalk actor to appear on the Spring Festival Gala. Since then, Jia Ling has become a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala and has attended the Spring Festival Gala seven times in total.
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After Zhao Benshan was absent from the Spring Festival Gala, the 2013 Spring Festival Gala ushered in the debut of the "Shen Ma Group". Shen Teng and Ma Li presented the sketch "Today's Happiness 2".
Shen Teng became famous with the role of "Hao Jian", and this was also the first time Ma Li appeared on the stage. It is worth noting that the character played by Ma Li at that time was named Ma Dongmei.
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In 2014, Feng Xiaogang directed the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. In addition to inviting many Huayi artists and international stars such as Sophie Marceau and Lee Min Ho to help out, the opera program also made a splash that year. For example, it set a record of 4 million views on Station B. "Thirteen Wonders of the Same Light".
"Thirteen Wonders of the Same Light" uses contemporary Peking Opera actresses to interpret famous historical actors. Among them, Li Shengsu, a descendant of the Mei School, sang an excerpt from "Mu Guiying Takes Command", Wang Yan, a descendant of the Shang School, sang an excerpt from "Princess Shuangyang", Chi Xiaoqiu, a descendant of the Cheng School, sang an excerpt from "Suo Lin Nang", and Zhang Jiachun, a descendant of the Xun School, sang an excerpt from "The Matchmaker". The final performer was Yu Kuizhi, director of the National Peking Opera Company, who performed an excerpt from "Dingjun Mountain", which left a deep impression on the audience.
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tf boys, who have just debuted for 3 years, appeared on the 2016 Spring Festival Gala stage. At that time, the boys who were 16 or 17 years old, Sister Moon, Hong Guoguo, and Green Pao brought a song medley called "Happy Growth", which started with "Follow" My left hand and right hand move in slow motion."
In the backstage interview at that time, the "three little ones" even joked with each other. Wang Yuan said that Yi Yang Qianxi was a walking "children's song collection", Yi Yang Qianxi said that Wang Yuan was the happiest, and Wang Junkai complained that Wang Yuan's red envelope "only enters." Not out”.
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No matter how the Spring Festival Gala program changes, what will never change is the finale song "Unforgettable Tonight" sung by Li Guyi.
In 1984, Huang Yihe, the then general director of the Spring Festival Gala, felt that there was a lack of a theme song that matched the entire evening party, so he asked lyricist Qiao Yu and composer Wang Min to co-create the song "Unforgettable Tonight".
From 1984 to 2024, "Unforgettable Tonight" accompanies everyone through every Spring Festival Gala. The bitterness and sorrow of the past are transformed into expectations, hopes and wishes for the future in this song.
