Every year, China Central Radio and Television's Spring Festival Gala will naturally include a variety of programs in order to make people across the country enjoy it.

Majestic singing and dancing programs sang the joy of being together, while language programs such as cross talk sketches were responsible for adjusting the atmosphere, either moving or making people laugh.

In recent years, another category of programs has received more and more attention, such as "Man Ting Fang·National Beauty" and "Hundred Birds Returning to Nest" in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Traditional cultural elements and intangible cultural heritage programs are becoming more and more amazing, thanks to people's emphasis on cultural inheritance.

　　Speaking of intangible cultural heritage, in fact, the intangible cultural heritage "resident" in the Spring Festival Gala is opera.

Intangible cultural heritage items such as Peking Opera, Sichuan Opera, Henan Opera, Yue Opera, Cantonese Opera, Kunqu Opera, and Huangmei Opera have all appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala to welcome the New Year with people across the country.

In the 2023 Spring Festival Gala, the opera program "Hua Cai Liyuan" will invite famous opera masters, young opera actors born in the "post-80s" and "post-90s" and children's opera lovers to perform on the same stage.

In this year's "Hua Cai Pear Garden", Fujian Puxian Opera, one of the oldest surviving operas in China, made its debut on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

　　There are also martial arts programs that are also "resident" in the Spring Festival Gala.

This year's "Martial Arts" was jointly performed by Zhao Wenzhuo and nearly 100 students from Henan Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School. The change of four seasons reflects the perseverance of martial arts practitioners and the spirit of Chinese martial arts.

　　This year's Spring Festival Gala is an eye-catching program, "Hundred Birds Returning to Their Nests" must have a place.

Nanyin, also known as "string pipe" and "Quanzhou Nanyin", is one of the oldest surviving music genres in China.

During the Han, Jin, Tang, and Song dynasties, immigrants from the Central Plains brought music culture to the southern Fujian region centered on Quanzhou, where it merged with local folk music and formed a cultural expression with the charm of ancient Central Plains music, namely Nanyin.

After "Hundred Birds Return to Nest" was broadcast, the topic of #百鸟归级歌What Music# quickly aroused discussion among netizens.

Nanyin is sung in the standard ancient Chinese dialect of Quanzhou, and the pronunciation retains the rhyme of the ancient Chinese in the Central Plains, thus achieving a tactful and affectionate program effect.

Nanyin has four famous sets of divertimento, namely "Si" ("Four Seasons Scenery"), "Mei" ("Plum Blossom Parade"), "Zou" ("Eight Horses"), "Return" ("Hundred Birds Returning to Nest") .

"Hundred Birds Returning to Their Nests" also echoes the theme of the Spring Festival Gala: Wanderers returning home and family reunion.

　　The acrobatic "Dragon Leaping in Shenzhou" embodies the thrills and excitement of the Hebei Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Project.

Zhongfan originated in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was originally a folk juggling and has a history of more than one thousand years.

It is composed of streamer poles, umbrellas, flags, streamers and bells, etc., with more than a dozen routines and more than 50 movements. It integrates various difficult skills such as modeling and appearance, and has a certain degree of entertainment.

The Zhongfan (Antou Tun Zhongfan) declared by Xianghe County, Hebei Province has been included in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008.

　　The children's folk performance "My Grandpa and I Walk on Stilts" perfectly combines the stage with intangible cultural heritage.

A large number of intangible cultural heritage contents such as paper-cutting art, Jiaodong flower cakes, Haiyang Yangko, and Shandong minor tunes were put on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, awakening people's memories of the New Year.

(West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News Reporter Liu Kexin)

　　(Source: West China Metropolis Daily, January 28, 2023, page A13)