The 1983 Spring Festival Gala, which was first opened on demand, and the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, which was celebrated by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, pushed Huang Yihe, who was the chief director, to the altar, but in the 1985 Spring Festival Gala, the public who hoped that he would create another miracle was disappointed with that party.
At that party that year, Chen Peisi was sent to the hospital because of this, Huang Yihe almost committed suicide, and the program team received two sacks of complaint letters, forcing "News Network" to apologize publicly, what happened behind this?
Now it seems that in that era that was not yet open, Huang Yihe's great strides in innovation would inevitably make mistakes, and these bold attempts were also destined to grow into a "new folk custom" for the Chinese people in the following years.
After the establishment of CCTV in 1958, there has always been a tradition of the Spring Festival Gala, which was originally called "New Year Party", but it did not form an influence in the country because of the different scales and other reasons.
Until 1983, Huang Yihe was appointed as the chief director, and he decisively proposed a variety of innovative party styles, such as live broadcast, on-demand, and the use of hosts, etc., which surprised the national audience.
In 1984, because of the proposal of "one country, two systems", the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait spent a reunion year on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which made the public feel more and more Huang Yihe's extraordinary strength.
In 1985, he was inspired by the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics in the United States, and boldly chose to move the stage of the Spring Festival Gala from the CCTV studio hall to the Beijing Workers' Stadium.
In today's era, such a stage location is not new, and high-end stadiums can meet the lighting and other hardware requirements required for the stage, but in 1985 these conditions were not available.
Huang Yihe once again began to make a bold attempt, but the god of luck failed to favor him this time.
It turned out that the lighting conditions of the Beijing Workers' Stadium at that time were extremely limited, although there seemed to be no problems during the day, but the grand event at night was much darker, and the picture presented by the lens always gave people a gray feeling.
In addition, such a big event requires the staff to have tacit cooperation, complete communication equipment is very necessary, but there was no walkie-talkie back then, and the only wired headset also had the problem of poor signal.
As for Chen Peisi being rushed to the hospital after the performance, it was precisely because the gymnasium was too cold at that time, although it was a cold winter season, there was no heating facility inside the gymnasium, so both the cast and crew and the audience were shivering from the cold.
However, in the Spring Festival Gala that year, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao presented a sketch that was the well-known "Making a Movie", during the performance, Chen Peisi needed to perform the character sweating bare-chested, and there was also a scene of sweating with cold water in the sketch plot, if it was placed in a warm room, there would be no problem with these scene arrangements, but Chen Peisi tossed in the cold winter open-air environment for nearly 20 minutes that night.
Just after he gritted his teeth and finished the performance, he could only be rushed to the hospital for treatment, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
As a result, the 1985 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which had high hopes, undoubtedly presented an embarrassing performance to the national audience, including the young actor Chen Chong's unscrupulous words after coming to the stage, and the unsatisfactory scene scheduling and lighting effects caused dissatisfaction among the audience.
After the New Year, when a letter of complaint was sent to CCTV, filling two sacks was a portrayal of the extreme disappointment of the people across the country.
Just when various ** overwhelmingly criticized the low quality of this Spring Festival Gala, CCTV had to sincerely apologize to the national audience through the most serious "News Network" program.
In order to understand the whole picture, the relevant departments of CCTV sent 4 investigation teams to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the various problems that occurred in the Spring Festival Gala, and Huang Yihe, as the chief director, was undoubtedly investigated and suspended for half a year.
But Huang Yihe is destined to be an artist who dares to think and dare to do and become more and more frustrated, he has participated in the War of Liberation, Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, although he suffered the blow of the 1985 Spring Festival Gala, but in his bones he is still eager to prove himself again, after all, the Spring Festival Gala he created is still evocative.
Fortunately, after some investigation, CCTV did not lose its trust in Huang Yihe, and he was still the chief director of the 1986 Spring Festival Gala, and he also succeeded in making a shame with the new event.
When interviewed many years later, Huang Yihe still thinks that the 1983 Spring Festival Gala is his most satisfactory work, indeed, when the taste of popular entertainment is becoming more and more difficult to adjust, Huang Yihe has always been a model of innovation in the Spring Festival Gala.