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The CMG New Year's Gala, formerly known as The CCTV New Year's Gala, also known as the Spring Festival Gala, and commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Chunwan (literally "Spring evening"), is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Media Group (CMG).
Feb 6, 2021 · For thousands of years, Chinese people have been dubbed "the descendants of the dragon", and the year 2000 was deemed an extraordinary one. In 2000, the first Spring Festival Gala in the 21st century had unprecedentedly 15 anchors in total, a record for the show.
2000 CCTV Spring Festival Gala (2000) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Origins of The Spring Festival Gala
- Traditions of The Gala
- Notable Moments
- Reach and Significance
Performances such as Chinese opera, lion dances and acrobatics have always been part of Spring Festival celebrations. They moved to the TV with the invention of the technology. Beijing Television had small-scale New Year’s Eve broadcasts starting in 1956. But in 1983, CCTV aired its first live Chinese New Year program. The show begins at 8:00 PM on...
As midnight nears, the MCs begin giving out New Year blessings and reading Spring Festival couplets. Traditionally, the Gala would end with a rendition of the song “Can’t Forget Tonight” (难忘今宵 / nán wàng jīn xiāo). The original singer was Lǐ Gǔ Yī (李谷一) and she is still invited to lead the song, though she is more than 70 years old now. The traditi...
1987: Kris Phillips (费翔/ fèi xiáng) became the first Taiwanese to perform in Chunwan. At that time, Mainland China and Taiwan had still not opened their doors to each other. Phillips further developed a career in New York Broadway. 1990: Comedian Zhao Benshan (赵本山) stepped onto the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time. He later became a re...
The Chinese New Year Gala is shown on various CCTV channels, such as CCTV-4 (international), CCTV-Español and CCTV-Français. Other TV channels relay the show and schedule their own galas on different nights to avoid competition. The performers are usually invited by the production team. Starting in the 2000s, amateur artists have been encouraged to...
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- 不差钱 I Got the Money. Year: 2009. Zhao Benshan 赵本山 is hands down a national treasure and a pure genius. Since his debut at the gala in 1990, the comedian has continually proved his knack for sketch-writing.
- 扶不扶 To Help or Not to Help. Year: 2014. First, a little background: In 2006, Peng Yu 彭宇, a young man in Nanjing, helped an elder lady after she had fallen on the street.
- 卖拐 Selling Crutches. Year: 2001. At its heart, this skit is just a story about how an experienced scammer played by Zhao Benshan tricks an innocent man into buying some stuff he never needed, but it turned out so well that there was even a sequel to it a few years later, in which Zhao repeated the tricks he used in this sketch to sell a car.
- 如此包装 Such Packaging. Year: 1995. What’s more intriguing than stories of scammers pulling off deceptive lies? Stories of scammers being scammed! When an old lady played by Zhao Lirong 赵丽蓉 gets invited to a talent management company, a manager butters her up with excessive compliments in order to convince the woman to sign a fraudulent contract.
Nov 18, 2022 · Starting at 20:00 and airing until around 00:30, the gala is usually directed and hosted by four to six presenters from CCTV channels, such as Zhu Jun, Dong Qing, Sa Beining and Li Sisi.
CMG holds final rehearsal for 2024 Spring Festival Gala. This Year of the Dragon marks the 42nd anniversary of this most-watched TV program in the world. Hey, Young People! The Spring Festival Gala is known as the most-watched television show in the world.
