The first rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala: Nearly 40 celebrities appeared, most of them were old faces, and Liu Qian and the reemployment men's group had a high voice

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The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, the taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger, and the annual Spring Festival Gala will also come as scheduled. Accompanying the audience for more than 40 years, the Spring Festival Gala has become an indispensable cultural meal on Chinese New Year's Eve, just like the annual Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and it has become a habit for the whole family to sit together to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

The 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala has attracted much attention since the announcement of the independent creation team, who the host team is, what are the language programs, what new faces will appear, what are the topics out of the circle, etc., are the focus of attention of netizens.

As time goes by, the mystery of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon is revealed. Judging from the Reuters of the rehearsal, Nigmat and Long Yang have appeared in the old CCTV building, plus Ren Luyu, the host of the Spring Festival Gala, and the host team has confirmed at least 3 people.

Nigmai is an old acquaintance of the host of the Spring Festival Gala, and Long Yang has hosted the Spring Festival Gala twice before in 2021 and 2023. Long Yang's position in CCTV is becoming more and more important, comprehensive, finance, variety shows, sports, music and other channels have successfully brushed his face, and the cultural programs such as "Chinese Poetry Conference", "Chinese Calligraphy Conference" and "Chinese National Treasure Conference" hosted by him have been widely acclaimed.

Ma Fanshu and Ren Luyu previously hosted the press conference of the Spring Festival Gala branch venue, which also released a signal that Ma Fanshu may also occupy a Spring Festival Gala host place. As for the remaining 2 host places, Sa Beining and the players of the "2023 Host Competition" have the opportunity to appear.

In addition to the gradual clarity of the host lineup, the guest lineup of the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala has gradually surfaced, on January 15, the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala completed the first rehearsal with makeup, and a number of stars appeared at the rehearsal site.

According to media reports, nearly 40 stars participated in the first rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, including Liu Qian, Gu Juji, Huang Bo, Huang Xuan, Da Zhang Wei, Yang Mi, Wei Daxun, Zeng Shunxi, Xin Zhilei, 0713 Reemployment Men's Group, Mao Xiaotong, Wei Chen, Zhou Shen, Mao Buyi, Yue Yunpeng, Sun Yue, Lu Yan, Jiang Shimeng, Zhang Chi, Bai Jingting, Chen Lijun, Li Yunxiao, Su Youpeng, Zhang Ruonan, Wang Sulong, Zhang Jie, Chen Weiting, Liu Yuning, Bai Jugang, Song Jia, Hua Xiaoyi, Shan Yichun, Wang Yang, etc.

This guest list has surprises and regrets. Attentive netizens will find that the number of professional singers in the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon has increased significantly, and singers such as Mao Buyi, Zhang Jie, Wang Sulong, Gu Juji, Zhou Shen, Shan Yichun, and Wei Chen are on the list. Professional things are handed over to professional people to do, and the emergence of singers is bound to support the façade of singing and dancing programs, and we also look forward to the Spring Festival Gala to once again appear in popular songs like "It's a Mother and a Daughter".

The stage of the Spring Festival Gala has always been the dream of singer Liu Yuning, although he has also appeared on the stage of the online Spring Festival Gala and the Lantern Festival Gala, but he has always missed the Spring Festival Gala.

Liu Yuning has been taking one step at a time over the years, and has finally been seen in the entertainment industry, and last year with the blessing of popular dramas, Liu Yuning finally got an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala. The coat and bracelet appeared, Liu Yuning was particularly aura in the crowd, and he was looking forward to his dream coming true.

Viewers who are familiar with the 0713 reemployment men's group should know very well that the "Spring Festival Gala Stalk" is often mentioned by them in the show, and Cai Guoqing also very much wants to take them to the Spring Festival Gala. It's a pity that except for Wang Zhengliang, who appeared on the Spring Festival Gala twice, the other 5 good brothers have never had the opportunity to appear.

"Welcome to the Mushroom House" made them successfully re-employed, "Happy Restart" and "Happy Friends" made them completely out of the circle, and "Brother Who Overcame Difficulties" let the audience see their stage hard power. After the launch of the Spring Festival Gala project in the Year of the Dragon, many fans called on the director team to let the 0713 reemployment men's group go to the Spring Festival Gala. The director team also heard the voices of netizens, they complied with public opinion, and finally gave the reemployment men's group a chance, looking forward to them really standing on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

For many people, the Spring Festival Gala is an unattainable dream, and putting in a lot of effort does not necessarily get a chance. But for some people, it is extremely easy to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Jie, Zhou Shen, Wang Sulong, Mao Buyi, William Chan, Su Youpeng and other singers are all "old faces" of the Spring Festival Gala.

In 2013, the director team of the Spring Festival Gala issued a formal invitation to Zhang Liangying, Zhang Jie, and Lin Youjia, three contestant singers, and also started the ice-breaking journey of the talent singers on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

Zhang Jie, who appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time in 2013, sang the song "Give Me Your Love" with singer Lin Youjia and won praise, and since then he has also become a guest on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. In 2016, he sang the solo song "Luminous Era", in 2017, he sang the song "Fireworks", in 2019, he sang the song "The Distance of Time", and in 2021, he sang the song "Relatives" that he participated in.

If Zhang Jie can participate in the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, this will also be his sixth trip to the Spring Festival Gala. Compared with other talent singers, Zhang Jie is indeed favored by CCTV.

In 2021, Zhou Shen appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and the song "China in the Lights" sung by him and Zhang Ye quickly went out of the circle, and later became a well-known hit song. In 2023, Zhou Shen will once again appear on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and perform his personal single "Flowers Forget Worries", which is still well received by netizens.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhou Shen, who was Guotai Min'an, was obviously more in line with the temperament of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and it was not surprising that he could be invited to participate in the rehearsal again.

Looking at the previous Spring Festival Gala guests, comedians such as Zhao Benshan, Feng Gong, Pan Changjiang, Cai Ming and other comedians were jokingly called "Spring Festival Gala Nail Households" by netizens, with the retirement of these comedians, now the "Spring Festival Gala Nail Households" have also changed, TFBOYS, Guan Xiaotong, William Chan, Zhang Jie and others are on the list.

At the first rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, William Chan, one of the "nail households", also appeared in the public eye, with a very cool pigtail shape, which suddenly filled the expectations of netizens.

William Chan appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time in 2017 and sang the song "Love You for 10,000 Years" with Lu Han, which has been out of control since then. William Chan has participated in five consecutive Spring Festival Galas in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. He has been to the Spring Festival Gala 6 times, and he is undoubtedly the representative of the root and Miao Hong among Hong Kong and Taiwan artists, and he is also a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala whose appearance rate is second only to that of a group of sketch actors.

In the lineup that participated in the first rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon, actors also accounted for a large proportion, including Huang Bo, Huang Xuan, Yang Mi, Wei Daxun, Zeng Shunxi, Xin Zhilei, Mao Xiaotong, Bai Jingting, Zhang Ruonan, Song Jia, Wang Yang, etc.

Wei Daxun, Zeng Shunxi, Xin Zhilei, Wang Yang and others have been in a hit drama for a year, and being invited by the director team is also an affirmation of their performances and works. But actors' cross-border participation in the Spring Festival Gala is often a double-edged sword, some people successfully get out of the circle, but some people cause a lot of controversy.

Affected by the Mayday incident, netizens are now very concerned about whether the performance of the party is fully open, such a large-scale live broadcast party as the Spring Festival Gala, it is indeed difficult for actors to open the microphone, and once the actor chooses to half-open the microphone or lip-syncing, it will inevitably cause large-scale heated discussions.

In addition to cross-border singing songs, actors often participate in sketch programs. Judging from the overall feedback of language programs in recent years, there are not many successful cases of cross-border actors, and the shadow left by "First Sight Photo Studio" still lingers on the audience. For the actors who have crossed over to perform sketches this year, they have to bear more pressure, and the editor also sweats for them.

In the rehearsal of the first Spring Festival Gala, Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue participated, and their cross talk was also an indispensable appetizer of the Spring Festival Gala. The outstanding contestants of the "Annual Comedy Contest" Lu Yan, Jiang Shimeng, Zhang Chi and others also appeared, and their performance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is worth looking forward to.

It is worth noting that magician Liu Qian appeared in the first rehearsal. In 2009 and 2010, Liu Qian appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala twice in a row, and his performance of the magic "Magic Hand Color" and "Ever-changing" won the first prize of the audience's favorite program "Quyi, Other Categories", and he also became popular because of the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Liu Qian returned to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 2019, and the magic of his performance is still the audience's favorite. After many years, Liu Qian once again appeared in the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, and many netizens called "Ye Qinghui", and his show was also full of expectations. Liu Qian has come back to perform magic, and netizens are also looking forward to the director team getting back the trust of Liu Qian's magic.

In the first rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in the entire Year of the Dragon, the biggest easter egg is not these artists, but the panda breeder "Grandpa Tan" Tan Jintao and the railway worker "Boss Ying" Liu Ying.

The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon launched the "Spring Festival Gala Waiting for You" project for the first time, inviting news figures in life to sit in the audience of the Spring Festival Gala, "Grandpa Tan" and "Boss Ying" appeared in the first rehearsal, and the director team's approach was also unanimously recognized by netizens.

Do you have any expectations for the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon?