Chinanews client, Beijing, January 28 (Reporter Ren Siyu) There is still half a month before the Spring Festival, and news about the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Ox has once again been on the hot search list.
Since its broadcast in 1983, the Spring Festival Gala has become the common memory of generation after generation, and it has also witnessed the growth and changes of countless actors and singers.
Those stars on the spring evening, do you remember how they looked when they first appeared on stage?
What are the interesting stories behind the popular shows?
How was "Unforgettable Tonight"
born?
Every year, the program of the Spring Festival Gala is announced at the last minute, but there is always one song that will be mentioned by the audience first, and that is "Unforgettable Tonight" sung by Li Guyi.
On February 12, 1983, CCTV's first live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala was successfully held.
At that time, there was no special host. Wang Jingyu, Liu Xiaoqing, Jiang Kun, and Ma Ji formed the earliest Spring Festival Gala "Hosting Heaven Group", and Li Guyi was the first singer to officially appear on stage.
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"Song of New Year", "Song of Spring", "Hometown Love", "Friends", "Young Friends", "Ways to the Motherland"...The Spring Festival Gala that year opened an on-demand hotline, and four phones were quickly hit by the audience, so Li Gu one night 9 songs were sung, which attracted a lot of people to watch.
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However, "Unforgettable Tonight" familiar to the audience did not appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage until the second year.
Huang Yihe, who served as the chief director, approached the lyrics writer Qiao Yu and the composer Wang Ming successively, hoping to write a song at the end. The content should include family reunion, motherland reunion, love between relatives and hope for the future.
At that time, there was some controversy within the director team about the song that was not completely completed. Some people said that the ending song should give people a feeling of celebrating the New Year and making firecrackers. This song is too lyrical and not suitable for the ending. But Huang Yihe persisted in keeping the song in the end.
In 1984, Li Gu repeated the Spring Festival Gala and sang "Unforgettable Tonight".
In the following decades, it appeared as the ending song of the Spring Festival Gala many times. Many people said that hearing this song is the real end of the Spring Festival Gala.
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Do you have any impression of these classics?
In those years, the artists who went to the Spring Festival Gala were flourishing, but there were also some "late bloomers", such as Zhao Lirong, who was still missed by everyone after twenty years away.
At the age of 60, he first appeared on the Spring Festival Gala. At the age of 61, he was well-known for his "Sima Guang smashing a cylinder". This always energetic artist on stage performed the image of a Chinese old lady who embraced the trend most: learning tango, English, calligraphy, and martial arts , Sing Pingju and sing pop songs, whether it is to apply for a dish or become a star.
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In 1995, Zhao Lirong's partner Gong Hanlin performed "So Packed". She wore a rivet and fringed waistcoat and turned into a "spicy chicken wire", combining rap with Pingju. Some viewers said, "It's not an exaggeration to say that she is China's first female Rapper." .
"In spring there are fourteen, five and six blooms. On June 6, I watch Gu Xiu and I hit six or nine heads in spring. This packaging is simply too uncomfortable. I can’t open my mouth and I can’t keep walking. You say it’s not uncomfortable, you say It's not uncomfortable." At the end of the sketch, she knelt on the ground and almost didn't get up. The laughing audience didn't know that she had been tortured by illness for a long time.
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Zhao Lirong said that stage art must be exquisite, not just.
She didn't know how to calligraphy, she just worked hard every day for the show, so that she could write the four characters "genuine at a fair price" at the scene.
On the 1999 Spring Festival Gala, suffering from cancer, she took "The Veteran" to the stage, vowed to say "I will show you what is the cross-century old lady", and sang the hottest theme of "Titanic" in English. The song "My Heart Is Eternal".
After saying "Welcome to China", Zhao Lirong waved to the audience. This was her last shot of the Spring Festival Gala.
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Have these newcomers surprised you?
In 1988, when Zhao Lirong made his debut, Chang Yuan, who was only six years old, and his grandfather and famous cross-talker Chang Baohua also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, performing cross talk "Interesting Dialogue".
And more than 20 years later, Chang Yuan and the Happy Twist team went to the Spring Festival Gala again, bringing shows such as "Skynet Recovery", "Little Things in the Big City" and "Occupying a Seat".
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Every Spring Festival Gala, not only the old faces familiar to the audience return, but also talented newcomers appear.
In 1988, Yang Liping, as a special guest of "National Dances", "peacocks open" on the stage, and her spiritual dance amazed everyone.
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Beginning that year, Yang Liping appeared on the Spring Festival Gala 7 times. In 2012, in the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, Yang Liping and her partner Wang Di performed the dance "Bird's Love". 24 years later, she changed from "Peacock Heroine" to "Peacock Queen".
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Over the past two decades, some people seem to have not changed much on the stage.
In the 1998 Spring Festival Gala, Faye Wong and Na Ying, who made the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, sang "Meeting in 1998", wearing a pink skirt and a white skirt. The images and voices of the two matched each other, and they became a classic.
In 2018, the two were on the same stage again during the Spring Festival Gala, and joined hands to sing "Years and Years".
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The stage of the Spring Festival Gala has also witnessed many young performers from youthful to mature.
In 2010, Jia Ling and Bai Kainan partnered in the cross talk "Big Talk Show", and she emerged as a cross talk rookie.
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Five years later, Jia Ling's performance was changed from cross talk to skit. In recent years, she has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala one after another, bringing "True Teacher", "Nice Smile", "Mother-in-Law" and other works, becoming an excellent comedian that audiences love to hear.
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In 2016, the TFBOYS group debuted on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, bringing the children's song and dance program "Happy Growth". After that, the three people stood on the Spring Festival Gala stage for several consecutive years. The audience witnessed that they faded from immature year after year and became unique young idols.
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"Bring goods" for the Spring Festival Gala, which one do you like?
After nearly forty years, the Spring Festival Gala is not only a testimony of technological changes, but also a fashion vane that can bring goods the most.
"The universe, the universe, the rookie of cigarettes!" In the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, Ma Ji played a salesman in the stand-up comedy "Universe Brand Cigarettes", mocking the phenomenon that advertisers did not advertise at the time, but after the skit was broadcast, it was very Soon, smart merchants discovered the business opportunity and really launched the "Universe Brand Cigarette", which became a local brand-name product in one fell swoop.
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In addition to bringing the goods, this performance also has an episode.
After the party was over, Ma Ji, who had taken off his makeup, accidentally received an on-demand call from a Shougang worker because he missed the performance on duty, and he hoped to hear the cross talk again.
Hearing the other party's regret, Ma Ji talked to the phone one-on-one on the spot.
In the Spring Festival Gala that year, there was also a song "My Chinese Heart" that was popular all over the country.
Zhang Mingmin wore a light-colored suit, a gray scarf, and gold-rimmed glasses. He sang "Although I wear a dress, my heart is still a Chinese heart", which made many audiences shine.
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After that, countless "national idols" were born on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, such as Fei Xiang who sang "A Fire in Winter" and Mao Amin who sang "Miss". Their red suit bell bottoms and golden silk shoulder pads also became that The most fashionable fashion items of the era.
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For more than 30 years, every Spring Festival Gala has produced some popular hits. For example, in 2010, Niu Li and Guo Donglin performed the sketch "One Word Thing". Niu Li's pink coat with light pink short sleeves instantly attracted many audiences. Plant grass.
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By 2020, Zhang Xiaofei, who played Jia Ling's daughter-in-law in the sketch "Mother and Daughter", has contributed to the hot search for pink sweaters.
The costumes of celebrities, and the popular symbols in the Spring Festival Gala, have also become witnesses to the aesthetic changes of this era.
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Time flies, and the annual Spring Festival Gala is coming again. Some familiar faces will return to the stage, and there will still be newcomers bringing dazzling performances. This year's Spring Festival Gala, who do you want to see on stage?
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