Andy Lau's indissoluble relationship with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala
Whenever the New Year approaches, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is a topic of great concern to hundreds of millions of people.
After 40 years, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is like the first gift of the New Year, before the arrival of the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, as promised, decades later, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala has become a feeling and a part of life.
However, there will be no more teacher Zhao Lirong in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, no more "super" duo of Huang Hong and Song Dandan, and no more "trio" of Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei and Gao Xiumin.
It is an objective law for a generation of new people to replace the old, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is no exception. From the time I can remember to the present, I have also watched almost 30 Spring Festival Galas, and many once familiar faces can no longer be seen on the later Spring Festival Gala programs.
Today, let's take a look at the feelings of Andy Lau, the national king, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
The four kings are the memories of a generation, Andy Lau is a very popular Hong Kong and Taiwan star of the people, "whether Andy Lau is on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala" has always been the focus of public opinion before each Spring Festival Gala.
Among the stars of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Andy Lau has not been on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala the most, Jackie Chan and Joey Yung have been on the show more times than Liu Tianwang, and Zhang Mingmin has also been on the show with him.
However, for some people, the feelings for the Spring Festival Gala are to see Andy Lau's performance on the CCTV Spring Festival Evening.
The following is a list of 6 Spring Festival Galas that Andy Lau has participated in since 1992, and also regretfully tells friends who like Andy Lau: In the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Tiger, Andy Lau will not participate.
1. "Resident Fanghua in the Heart", 1992
On the 10th CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 1992, the Spring Festival Gala made an exception for the first time and invited three singers from the three places across the Taiwan Straits, Mao Amin, Andy Lau and Zhang Yusheng, to sing a song together - "Fanghua in the Heart". This is a song specially composed by Qiao Yu and Gu Jianfen for this Spring Festival Gala, which represents the beautiful vision of a reunion of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and also sets a precedent for singers from three places on both sides of the strait to sing a song together.
At that time, Andy Lau won the most popular male singer in Hong Kong Jingge Golden Song, and the songs "The Days We Walked Together", "If You Are My Legend" and "The Dream I Chased" swept the country, and was the one who was in the limelight among Hong Kong singers, so the CCTV Spring Festival Gala invited him to participate.
Although he did not attend the scene in person, this was Andy Lau's first love affair with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
2. "Forgetting Love Water", 1995
In 1995, Andy Lau participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the second time and sang the song "Forgetting Love Water". That night, Andy Lau, wearing a pale yellow suit and a light gold tie, sang gracefully and confidently on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in Beijing for the first time, and the atmosphere was also brought more intense by Liu Tianwang.
It was also after the Spring Festival Gala this year that "Forgetting Love Water" became a popular song that everyone in the streets and alleys could hum, and Andy Lau's name was well known to more people, and he became the one with the highest popularity in the four major Chinese countries.
3. "Great China", 1998
The 1998 CCTV Spring Festival Gala was somewhat special, because the first year welcomed the return of Hong Kong, and Andy Lau, who sang "Chinese" for the first time at the Hong Kong Handover Party, was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the third time. Only this time, Andy Lau failed to sing his own song, and in an orange-red woolen suit, he sang Gao Feng's 1994 popular song "Great China" with Mao Ning and Zhang Xinzhe, which is another song sung by three singers from three places across the taiwan strait, and "Great China", which has far-reaching meaning.
After this Spring Festival Gala, Andy Lau established a deep friendship with Gao Feng, the original singer of the "Great China" song, Andy Lau honored Gao Feng as "Gao Feng Teacher", and Gao Feng also created Liu Tianwang's classic love songs - "Stupid Child" and "All Blame Me".
Gao Feng died of illness in 2002 at the age of 34, and his departure was a huge loss to the mainland music scene.
4. "Wishing you prosperity", 2005
In 2005, Andy Lau did a "bad thing", that is, he participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the fourth time and sang a "magic" song - "Wishing you prosperity". Since then, this song has become a "saliva song" of "rotten street", in every cheerful holiday, streets, alleys, stores, it replaces the previous "God of Wealth", "Good Luck Coming", "Good Day", becoming a loop of "brainwashing divine comedy".
This song, written by Andy Lau and composed by Chen Dejian, was first sung by Andy Lau at the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and has since swept the country. The lyrics of the song are festive and cheerful, which is very suitable for the festive atmosphere.
On the evening of this Spring Festival, Andy Lau, who wore a light and elegant gold robe, was very enduring. In the four Spring Festival Galas he participated in, he sang two of his own songs, making these two songs the second most sung in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala song program.
5. "The Way Home" 2015
In 2015, ten years later, Andy Lau went to the 33rd Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Goat, singing the song "The Way Home" written by himself.
"The Way Home" is the theme song of the movie "Lost Alone" starring Andy Lau, which was a month before the film and met with the national audience. This song tells the love of countless wanderers for their homeland, the song has a deep melody, and expounds the simple truth of many Chinese cultures.
Because the melody is not as cheerful as "Forgetting Love Water" and "Wishing you prosperity", it is not as high as the first two songs in terms of singing. But 10 years later, to see the national idol on such a stage, what is there to be demanding!
6. "The Cow Rises" 2021
In 2021, after violating the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 6 years, Andy Lau appeared in front of the national audience for the sixth time. Because this time is a little special to Andy Lau, this is the year of his first son born in 1961, and it is also the "old scalper" of the Chinese entertainment industry to welcome his own year of the ox.
Because of the epidemic, Andy Lau failed to appear on the scene, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala spent a lot of money to use live-action projection technology (cloud recording) to "invite" Liu Tianwang, who was far away in Hong Kong, to the Beijing Studio to perform the program with youth idols Wang Yibo and Guan Xiaotong - "Cow Up".
Seeing the three people on the same stage, a little poking to the tears, Andy Lau became popular for a longer time than Wang Yibo and Guan Xiaotong. Although he sang and danced in the show, full of vitality, the melody of "Wishing you prosperity" is still cheerful, and it is not contrary to the "same stage" with Guan Wang, but there will always be new idols in the flowing entertainment circle to replace the old stars, and sooner or later we have to accept the possibility that Andy Lau can no longer appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
The above is a clip of Andy Lau's 6 Spring Festival Gala compiled by myself, welcome friends to correct mistakes.