Beijing, January 28 (Reporter Ren Siyu) There is still half a month before the Spring Festival, and the rehearsal news of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Ox has once again appeared on the hot search list.
Since its broadcast in 1983, the Spring Festival Gala has become the common memory of generations of people, and has also witnessed the growth and change of countless actors and singers. Those stars at the Spring Festival Gala, do you remember what they looked like when they first appeared on stage? What are some interesting stories behind the popular shows?
How was Unforgettable Tonight born?
Every year, the program list of the Spring Festival Gala is only revealed at the last minute, but there is always a song that will be mentioned by the audience first, that is, Li Guyi's "Unforgettable Tonight".
On February 12, 1983, CCTV's first Spring Festival Gala in the form of live broadcast 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 "Host Heavenly Group", and Li Guyi was the first singer to officially appear on stage.
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"Song of The New Year", "Song of Spring", "Nostalgia", "Zhiyin", "Young Friend", "Greeting the Motherland"... That year's Spring Festival Gala opened an on-demand hotline, and four phones were quickly exploded by the audience, so Li Gu sang 9 songs in one night, which attracted a wave of watching in the crowded alley.
However, the "Unforgettable Tonight" that audiences are familiar with only appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the second year. Huang Yihe, who served as the general director, successively approached the lyricist Qiao Yu and the composer Wang Mo, hoping to write a song at the end, which should include family reunion, reunion of the motherland, flesh and blood love between relatives and hope for the future.
At that time, there was some controversy within the director group about this song that had not been completely completed, and some people said that the ending song should give people a feeling of happy New Year and firecrackers, this song was too lyrical to be used at the end, but Huang Yihe finally insisted on leaving this song.
In 1984, Li Gu repeatedly appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and sang "Unforgettable Tonight". In the following decades, it appeared many times as the ending song of the Spring Festival Gala, and many people said that hearing this song was the real end of the Spring Festival Gala.
Do you still have an impression of these classics?
In those years, the artists who appeared on the Spring Festival Gala could be described as prosperous, but there were also some "late achievements", such as Zhao Lirong, who was still missed by everyone after twenty years.
The 60-year-old debuted at the Spring Festival Gala, and the 61-year-old became a household name with "Sima Guang Smashing the Cylinder", an artist who was always energetic on the stage, performed the image of the old Chinese lady who most embraced the trend: learning tango, learning English, learning calligraphy, learning martial arts, singing and singing pop songs, whether it is the name of the dish or the star.
In 1995, Zhao Lirong partnered Gong Hanlin to perform "So Packaged", she wore a rivet tassel vest, incarnated as "spicy chicken silk", combined rap and commentary, and some viewers said, "It is not too much to say that it is Chinese first female Rapper.".
"Fourteen five six flowers bloom in the spring, june six I see Gu Xiu I hit six or nine heads in spring, so the packaging is simply too uncomfortable, I can't open my mouth, I can't keep up with the walk, you say it's uncomfortable or not uncomfortable, you say it's uncomfortable or not uncomfortable." At the end of the skit, she stumbled to her knees and almost didn't get up, and the audience who laughed didn't know at the time that she had been tormented by illness for a long time.
Zhao Lirong said that stage art should be exquisite, not just done. Originally, she did not know calligraphy, but she practiced brush characters every day for the show, so that she could write down the four big characters of "genuine goods" on the spot.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 1999, suffering from cancer, she took "The Veteran Out of the Horse" to the scene, vowed to say "I will let you see what is called the trans-century old lady", and sang the most popular "Titanic" theme song "My Heart Is Eternal" in English.
After saying "Welcome to China", Zhao Lirong waved to the audience, which was her last shot at the Spring Festival Gala.
Have you ever been amazed by these newcomers?
In 1988, when Zhao Lirong made her debut, Chang Yuan, who was only six years old, and his grandfather and famous cross-talk family Chang Baohua also appeared at the Spring Festival Gala, performing the cross-talk "Dialogue Fun Talk". More than twenty years later, Chang Yuan and the Happy Twist team went to the Spring Festival Gala again, bringing programs such as "Skynet Recovery", "Big City Small Things", and "Occupying Seats".
Every year at the Spring Festival Gala, there are both old faces familiar to the audience returning, and talented newcomers appearing. In 1988, Yang Liping, as a special guest of "National Dance", "peacock open screen" on the stage, full of spiritual dance style surprised everyone.
Since that year, Yang Liping has been on the Spring Festival Gala 7 times, in 2012, the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, Yang Liping and her partner Wang Di performed the dance "The Love of the Bird", and 24 years later, she changed from "Peacock Heroine" to "Peacock Queen".
Spanning two decades, some people on stage seem to have changed little. In the Spring Festival Gala of 1998, Faye Wong and Na Ying sang "Meet 1998" for the first time, a pink skirt and a white dress, and the image and voice of the two cooperated with each other, achieving a classic. In 2018, the two once again shared the stage at the Spring Festival Gala and sang "Years" hand in hand, and the style did not diminish that year.
The stage of the Spring Festival Gala has also witnessed many young performers moving from youth to maturity. In 2010, Jia Ling and Bai Kainan performed the cross-talk "Big Talk and Teasing" and emerged as a cross-talk newcomer.
Five years later, Jia Ling's performance changed from cross-talk to sketches, and in recent years, she has successively appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, bringing works such as "True and False Teacher", "Laughing", "Mother-in-law" and so on, becoming an excellent comedian that the audience likes to hear.
In 2016, TFBOYS group debuted at the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, bringing the children's song and dance program "Happy Growth", after which the three people stood on the Spring Festival Gala stage for several consecutive years, and the audience witnessed them fade away from their innocence year by year and become independent youth idols.
Spring Festival Gala "with goods", which one do you like?
The Spring Festival Gala has gone through nearly forty years, which is not only a witness to the changes in science and technology, but also a fashion vane that can best carry goods.
"Universe, universe, cigarette rookie!" In the Spring Festival Gala of 1984, Ma Ji played a salesman in the stand-up comedy "Universe Brand Cigarette", satirizing the phenomenon that advertisers were not advertising at that time, but after the sketch was broadcast, soon some flexible merchants found business opportunities, really launched the "Universe Brand Cigarette", and became a local famous brand product in one fell swoop.
In addition to bringing goods, there was also a small episode in this performance. After the end of the party, Ma Ji, who had finished his makeup, accidentally received an on-demand call from a Shougang worker, because he missed the performance on duty, and he hoped to hear crosstalk again. Hearing the other party's regret, Ma Ji spoke one-on-one to the phone on the spot.
At 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 with a gray scarf, wore gold-rimmed glasses, and sang affectionately "Although the dress is worn on the body, my heart is still the heart of China", which made many viewers shine.
After that, countless "national idols" were born from the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, such as Fei Xiang, who sang "A Fire in Winter", Mao Amin, who sang "Miss", and their red suit flared pants and golden silk shoulder pads also became the most fashionable fashion items of that era.
For more than thirty years, every Spring Festival Gala can give birth to some popular hits, such as in 2010, Niu Li and Guo Donglin performed the skit "A Word of Things", Niu Li wore a pink coat with light pink short sleeves and instantly let many audiences plant grass.
By 2020, Zhang Xiaofei, who played Jia Ling's daughter-in-law in the sketch "Mother-in-law", contributed a hot search for pink sweaters. From the star costume to the host's lipstick trumpet, the popular symbols in the Spring Festival Gala have also become a witness to the aesthetic changes of this era.
Time flies, the annual Spring Festival Gala will come again, some familiar faces will return to the stage, there will still be newcomers to bring eye-catching performances, this year's Spring Festival Gala, who do you want to see on the stage? (End)
Source: China News Network