On the 8th, well-known CCTV host Han Qiaosheng posted an article saying that director Yuan Dewang, who had directed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, passed away. Later, Yuan Dewang's friend and Benshan Media Art Director Liu Shuangping also confirmed the news to Red Star

html On the 18th, well-known CCTV host Han Qiaosheng posted an article saying that director Yuan Dewang, who had directed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, passed away. Later, Yuan Dewang's friend and Benshan Media Art Director Liu Shuangping also confirmed the news to Red Star News reporters. Public information shows that Yuan Dewang was born in 1947. He founded the "Cultural Perspective" and "Friends" columns on CCTV, directed the Spring Festival Gala in 1984, 1986, and 1987, and served as the director of the Spring Festival Gala in 1997 and 2004. director.

Han Qiaosheng posted a message to commemorate

As a senior director in the CCTV Arts Department, Yuan Dewang discovered many stars, such as Zhang Mingmin and Zhao Benshan.

In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1984, Zhang Mingmin, a singer from Hong Kong, China, sang "My Chinese Heart" in Mandarin that was not so precise. Overnight, the song seemed to have wings and resounded throughout the country. According to Huang Yihe, the director of the Spring Festival Gala that year, Zhang Mingmin's arrival also went through many twists and turns.

In 1983, CCTV held its first large-scale Spring Festival gala. This format was welcomed and recognized by the audience. In order to bring the Spring Festival Gala to a higher level the next year, Huang Yihe sent deputy director Yuan Dewang to Shenzhen to collect music. A song played by the local driver in the car caught Yuan Dewang's attention - it was "My Chinese Heart" sung by Zhang Mingmin. 》. Subsequently, the director team contacted and communicated with many parties and finally successfully invited Zhang Mingmin.

Yuan Dewang

Zhao Benshan’s ability to attend the Spring Festival Gala is also related to Yuan Dewang’s discerning eye. As early as the National Day Gala in 1988, upon Jiang Kun's recommendation, Yuan Dewang hired Zhao Benshan and Li Jing, who were not very famous at the time, and they co-starred in the sketch "1+1=?" 》 became the first program of that party. It was here that Zhao Benshan caught the attention of the CCTV director team and later appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

It was Jay Chou's first time attending the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and it was Yuan Dewang's last time as the general director of the Spring Festival Gala. In an interview, Yuan Dewang once recalled that when he was the general director of the 2004 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, he thought of inviting Jay Chou to participate. But after this idea was reported, some experts believed that Jay Chou could not speak clearly. Yuan Dewang and his team came up with a way to launch a signature campaign on the CCTV website. As a result, they quickly received more than 2 million signatures and support. In the end, they successfully made the young Jay Chou appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time and sang the song "Dragon Fist". 》.

Yuan Dewang guest-starred in "Big Shot"

In addition to directing the party, Yuan Dewang also guest-starred in film and television works from time to time. In the New Year's film "Counterattack", he starred as Lu Baosheng; in Feng Xiaogang's New Year's film "Big Shot", he guest-starred as "film and television tycoon" Zhang In short, the line is "My request is: throughout the funeral process, this mysterious woman covered in black veil will always be with Taylor's body... Didn't you say 4 million? Why did it go up again? That's it Let her lie on Taylor's body and cry for 30 seconds! "

Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng editor Su Jing

(Source: Red Star News)