Chinese New Year is a big event for Chinese, and it needs a sense of ritual. Some people pay attention to the "pass" and love to add new clothes to the excitement of the New Year's goods, and some people pay attention to the "year", reviewing the stories that happened in the year at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and accumulating more energy for the next year. Holding a happy and auspicious Spring Festival Gala on Chinese New Year's Eve every year, and celebrating the New Year happily with everyone in the ** program is the ritual sense of the main creative team of the Spring Festival Gala of the main station.
*In the opening short film "Our Spring Festival Gala" of Radio and Television Station's "2024 Spring Festival Gala", people from all walks of life walked to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala with their own life stories and love for the Spring Festival Gala, which is impressive. In the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, there are more such ordinary and warm stories. These stories that have been saved for a whole year come from you and me, wrapped in the fragrance of pulling noodles, the beauty of dance and music, the passion of ice and snow, and the galloping of the Xiangjiang River, which makes the ritual of the Spring Festival Gala simple and amiable, and within reach.
Write childhood into poems and sing dreams into songs.
I want to make the people happy", this sentence can best express the original intention of the main creative team of the Spring Festival Gala of the main station for the creation of this year's program. When deciding on the topic of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, the director of the General Station proposed to highlight the main tone of the "People's Spring Festival Gala". The dance should be beautiful, the song should be touching, and the cross talk sketch should be hilarious, "Strive to let audiences at home and abroad watch this Spring Festival Gala, forget their troubles, and have a happy New Year!" ”
Yu Lei, the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, talked about her understanding of the "People's Spring Festival Gala" and said: "In addition to asking creators to grasp emotions from life, tell stories that people can really resonate with and empathize, and turn them into their own creations, we feel that we need to expand the understanding of this sentence on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala." First of all, the most intuitive thing is that we will invite more people to this stage. ”
The Moon Is Gone
Long Mengyao (11 years old).
Well? Why is the moon missing on Chinese New Year's Eve?
Oh! It turned out that I was invited to be a lantern in the New Year.
Red Envelope" Zhang Yaxin (10 years old).
Hong Bao is a master runner.
Ran from grandma's hand to mine.
Then I ran from my hand to my mother.
Clinking glasses" Lin Mingxuan (10 years old).
Cup. I met my best friend.
They bumped together.
There was a cheer.
Chinese New Year" Liang Yushu (10 years old).
Spring festival. Daddy is back.
I rushed forward. Hold him tightly.
The couplet learns from me.
Hugged tightly.
Our home. The four poems full of innocence in the song "If You Want to Write the Year" come from the children of the field choir class of Suyu Hope Primary School in Huitong County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province. This year, when the director team was collecting materials in the early stage, they saw many poems written by children and were deeply moved by their imagination and observation. In the first half of 2023, the song "If you want to write about the wind, don't just write about the wind" co-created by the teacher "Little Bear" and the students in Yunnan**, it became popular on the Internet, and the director team got inspiration from this song: Why not invite Teacher Li Bolin and the children of the field choir to write some poems about "Nian"?
The director team tried to make such a program according to the fresh temperament of literature the theme of "Year", the theme to be expressed in the Spring Festival Gala. "We came from the people, and together with the people, we took the creative origin one step further, allowing children to chant their own poems, and extending the children's imagination through pop-up books to further extend the time of reading poetry. ”
How to avoid multiple rehearsals to kill the innocence of children's performances? Bi Bo, the head of the Spring Festival Gala technical group, revealed that thanks to the "actors" from another show, the children were full of freshness every rehearsal. "This trip, the children are equivalent to a winter camp, we organize from the 'Jiaolong', Dunhuang Academy, China Construction Group and other industries to teach them, each class to understand one thing, each class to see a world. ”
Why did these temporary teachers of the Spring Festival Gala "Winter Camp" come to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala? Just look at the chorus "We Grew Up Watching Cartoons".
Shuk who drives a plane, Beta who drives a tank".
Thunder is going to rain, Leo".
The sun shines brightly, and the rooster sings three times".
The director team said that the more than 50 scientists, pilots, tankers, and model workers on the stage, from age to experience, are all "us" who really grew up watching these cartoons. The Shenzhou 17 astronauts who are on a business trip in space are the "surprise easter eggs" of this show, and they are now in the heavenly palace after watching "Havoc in Heaven", which is really a wonderful fate.
The seeds of childhood are planted in the soil of dreams, and their stories not only teach the children of the field choir a vivid lesson about ideals, but also allow netizens who grew up watching cartoons to experience the full "stamina" of dreams into reality.
Seeing this year's Spring Festival Gala program, many viewers and netizens found that the word "Spring Festival Gala" is closer and more cordial to everyone: the familiar faces that are often met around and often brushed on mobile phones are on the Spring Festival Gala, and the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army who defend peace are on the Spring Festival Gala, and the "Main Station Red" ultra-high-definition broadcast vehicle is driving to the doorstep, and the people in the hometown of Jingjiao are on the Spring Festival Gala for ......The stage of the Spring Festival Gala condenses the most emotionally concentrated stories of the year in Chinese, which are personally interpreted by people who have truly experienced them, without the need for dazzling stages, and are also full of joyful, sincere and friendly Chinese New Year flavor.
Sing the golden songs to your heart's content, and the living room is happy and renewed.
The New Year is full of joy, the people's Spring Festival Gala, and the familiar songs want to be sung happily.
In the song list of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, the combination of pop songs + folk songs made netizens who sang along with the whole process praise "The world is a huge singing room". The hot songs of 2023 such as "To the Clouds" were sung from the main venue in Beijing to the four major sub-venues of Changsha, Hunan, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Shenyang, Liaoning, and Kashgar, Xinjiang. There are so many folk songs full of local characteristics and life, how many can you sing?
In the planning stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Director Shen Haixiong proposed that this year, representative folk songs from all over the country could be made into a skewer program, especially to absorb classic songs from southern China, such as "The Sun Comes Out and Beams", "Falling Rain", "Mountain Songs Are Like Spring River Water", "Tea Picking Dance" and so on. In soulful songs such as "She with Light on Her Pillow", "It's Better to See You", "Pinyin", is the singer on stage or in the audience? Are the two singers "face to face" or "nostalgic and can't be seen"? What kind of netizen interaction elements need to be added to the stage? The stage presentation of these songs is also the focus of the director team.
Zhao Dazhi, deputy director of the Spring Festival Gala, said that achieving singing "one after another" is the effect that the folk song program hopes to achieve. And for songs such as "She with Light on Her Pillow", the performers will look thin if they are on stage. "The reason for singing the song in the audience is to create a sense of atmosphere for a small concert, to bring up the 'qi' and make the song warmer. "A playlist of different genres, some singing enthusiastically, some singing in a low voice, the secondary creation of the Spring Festival Gala stage will make the songs more beautiful and beautiful, and the emotions contained in them are also richer and more real.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala on Chinese New Year's Eve, what else can you do in the living room besides practicing songs? The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon calls you "jumping to a healthy health". Young people who love traditional health activities wrote a song "Health to the Order" for Baduanjin, and another cheerful song "Sharing" beckoned friends from 68 countries and regions around the world to dance the "Dragon Dance". Everyone followed the melody of Cocoa**, played a total of eight pieces of brocade, danced happily together, and the troubles disappeared, and the joy of the dragon dragon.
Is there more joy in the living room on Chinese New Year's Eve, a magic trick that allows all the audience to participate in the "moment of miracle"? This year's Spring Festival Gala has unlocked more interactive poses, singing and dancing to grab red envelopes, and tearing poker, just don't let you be idle. The director team said that the biggest significance of choosing this magic trick is because of its interactivity. "If everybody in front of the TV can participate, it becomes a magic trick for all, and miracles can happen to magicians, and it can happen to everyone, and it can happen to thousands of households. ”
Simple wishes are all on this "night".
A simple phrase of "Happy New Year" condenses the most practical wishes of the Chinese. For thousands of years, the Chinese's "fancy" New Year's greetings and blessings have not only been included in poetry and paintings, but also have long infiltrated many details of our clothing, food, housing and transportation, constituting the most festive and peaceful cultural symbol of the Chinese nation.
The antique "New Year's Brocade" contains many details of traditional Chinese patterns, full of rigorous academic research and the spirit of meticulous exploration, which can be said to be one of the most cultural programs in the whole party. The director team explained that in fact, sometimes the more "high-end" the show looks, the more simple and direct the way its expression is expressed.
Yu Lei said that Mr. Lei Guiyuan once proposed that "patterns are the art of the people, not the art of art", which is very consistent with the theme of the people's Spring Festival Gala. "Each pattern has a meaning that it was set in that period, and you can tell what he wanted to express at a glance, and this meaning can still be used today. Everyone knows that melons and melons are long, everything is satisfactory, great fortune, and gold and jade, all of which were created hundreds of years ago, and to this day the Chinese can still understand at a glance, and can redraw and use them, what a profound people's nature. ”
The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon specially invited Chang Shana, a 93-year-old Dunhuang art and arts and crafts design research expert, to serve as the program consultant of "Nianjin", invited martial arts instructor Yuan Heping to supervise "Fighting for Spring", invited film director Zhang Yimou to serve as the director of the program "Unique", and invited writer Jia Pingwa to dub "Mountains and Rivers Poems Chang'an" at the Xi'an branch.
A New Year's picture means "auspicious wishes, long happiness and eternal peace", a kung fu micro-movie tells the story of "dragon dance and pearl dance, celebrate the New Year", a bowl of smooth and strong noodles sends out a full screen of auspicious words, ** a koi will harvest a "more than every year" ......
Returning to the creation itself, in the process of polishing the program with the main creative team of the Spring Festival Gala and many cultural masters, literary creators and performers, everyone hopes that this annual Spring Festival blessing can be conveyed to more audiences smoothly and lively. As Yu Lei said, when you are thinking about every detail of the creation of the Spring Festival Gala program, "the foundation at the bottom will always be a force that leads you to go there." ”
The most popular annotation of the people's Spring Festival Gala may be the dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, featuring a carefully arranged and attentive companionship. Your Spring Festival Gala and my Spring Festival Gala, the background color is ordinary and ordinary warmth.
Director: Yang Hua, Dou Xiaowen.
Producer: Xu Chaoqing.
Editors-in-Chief: Hu Shushu, Bitong, Zhang Yadong.
*: CMG observation).