Full of new ideas! The 2022 Spring Festival Gala shows the spirit of the new era and new journey in laughter.
"Taurus heads up and resigns, and jade tiger receives happiness and welcomes the spring." At 20: 00 on January 31st, CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala in 2022 met the audience as scheduled in a happy, auspicious and jubilant Spring Festival atmosphere.
The content of the whole party is novel and unique, and the emotion is warm and full. The ingenious use of 720-degree circular screen and virtual technologies such as XR and AR provides the audience with a cultural feast with excellent ideological, artistic and ornamental features. From beginning to end, the party has been widely concerned by the audience and media at home and abroad. It is generally believed that the Spring Festival Evening in 2022 will be vivid and colorful, creating a lively and festive atmosphere.
According to preliminary statistics, as of 24: 00 on January 31st, the average audience rating of live TV broadcast in the Spring Festival Evening of 2022 reached 21.93%. The number of new media direct-on-demand users reached 4.932 billion times, an obvious increase compared with last year. For the first time, the number of viewers watching the Spring Festival Evening on the vertical screen was 200 million, and users under the age of 30 accounted for over 50% of the users with vertical screens. The netizens received rave reviews, with a total of 360 million praises. The feedback of the mobile phone vertical screen to watch the Spring Festival Evening was innovative and really beautiful, and they all wished the motherland prosperity, prosperity, peace and prosperity. Overseas, more than 600 media from more than 170 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Australia, India, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, South Africa, broadcast and reported the Spring Festival Gala simultaneously, and watched the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala through CNTV and CGTN overseas social matrix for more than 35.24 million times, an increase of nearly 16.58 million times compared with last year.
Sing songs for the times and express feelings for the people
Singing and dancing show the prosperous flavor of the year
The theme of this year’s Spring Festival Gala is "Spring Festival Melody on a New Journey, Ode to Joy in China". We immerse our hearts, feelings and thoughts into colorful life, and strive to start from a small incision, deeply reflecting the major themes of the centenary of the founding of the Party, rural revitalization, ecological civilization, the Winter Olympics and China’s space flight, and depicting the magnificent picture of the new era and new journey.
The opening program "Happy and Auspicious Year" is filled with the flavor of happy reunion, which instantly pushes the atmosphere of the party to a climax. Zhang Ye and Lv Jihong sang "The Millennium Dream is Sailing" and "The road to a strong country is full of hope" with a song "Our Time". Yin Xiumei and Yan Weiwen sang "A Spring Breeze of 100,000 Li", which was affectionate and simple, and sang the full vitality of spring in China. Chen Kun, Jam Hsiao (Taiwan, China), Jackson Wang (Hong Kong, China) and Peng Yongchen (Macao, China) sang the magnificent Yellow River and the Yangtze River, which made the world hear the surging of the great rivers in the East. The dance "Putting on a Spring" is based on the swing dance of the Lahu nationality. People are dressed in costumes, singing and dancing, and the songs are exciting and joyful. Shanxiang has achieved fruitful results in tackling poverty, and a full sense of gain and happiness permeates people’s hearts. "My sense of the times is the flame of a dream in my heart." The song "Sense of the Times", jointly performed by Deng Chao, Chris Lee and Jackson Yee, sings young people’s vision and hope for the future in the high and exciting rhythm.
Last year, the news that Yunnan elephants went north and returned south touched the hearts of the world. A beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is slowly unfolding in the musical short play "Rejuvenation of Vientiane". People live up to the castle peak, and the castle peak will live up to people. The original ecological scene performance "Song of the Land" gathers folk music of five places, namely, Masonry Song in western Hubei, Gonggong Ballad in northern Shaanxi, Aolu Guya in Daxing ‘anling, Tea-picking Song in Ningde in eastern Fujian, and Heart Ticket in Erhai Lake in western Yunnan. It is a dialogue between man and nature, and expresses Chinese’s most simple feelings about the ecological civilization of grass and sand in landscape forest, field and lake.
Asking the sky, in 2021, we handed over an inspiring and amazing space answer sheet. With the help of XR technology, the 720-degree dome screen is as bright as the Milky Way. In the children’s dance "Star Dream", children dressed in blue spacesuits jump into stars, and the daughter of astronaut Wang Yaping who is on a mission at the space station says "mom", which makes the "space dream" full of feathers fly into the sky and the "dream of a strong country" insert wings and fly into the hearts of future generations of the motherland.
Traditional culture lasts for a long time, and creative integration has unlimited charm.
One of the highlights of this year’s Spring Festival Gala is the fusion and innovation programs that highlight the Chinese cultural heritage and the aesthetic pursuit of the times. Music short plays, landscape Tai Chi, creative singing and dancing poems and paintings, and original ecological scene performances, etc., through the deep integration of technology and culture, create beautiful and amazing visual effects in fantasy and realism. The dance poetic drama "Only this Green" combines the cutting-edge technologies such as XR and holographic scanning, and the dancers tell the classic legend of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with dance vocabulary such as walking alone, waiting and thinking. Between pitching, the green is fixed for thousands of years; Dynamic and static contrast, listening to the sound of history.
The creative poetry and painting "Recalling Jiangnan" brings together the masterpiece "Fuchun Shan Jutu". Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng, Li Liqun (Taiwan, China), Ding Zhicheng, Ayanga, Aska Yang (Taiwan, China), Zheng Qiyuan, Cai Chengyu, etc. came into the picture, singing, fishing and reading in Xiushui Castle Peak, and the painting was blown away with the song, and people were walking in the painting. The audience read the classics in the vivid picture scroll and savored Jiangnan.
From the octogenarian famous artists to the seven-year-old Meng Wa, several generations performed "Endless Pear Garden Love" on the same stage, and the opera art has a long rhyme and is passed down from generation to generation. Especially in the selection of Peking Opera "Xu Ce Run to the City", 74-year-old Chen Shaoyun body of work shakes his beard, grabs his sleeve, kicks his robe, and makes people feel the cultural spirit of the Chinese nation in one go.
The building is 100 feet high and can pick stars. Standing at the height of China, it conveys the spirit of China and condenses China’s strength. Landscape Tai Chi "Flowing Clouds and Flowing Water" breaks through the stage space limitation. Three martial arts and Tai Chi champions are prancing around four cloud-top buildings in Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou, paddling the city skyline with one stroke and one style, and vividly interpreting "the unity of heaven, earth and people". The martial arts short play "Ruhu Xiaochun" integrates the plot into the martial arts performance. With the narrative clue of practicing martial arts in the morning, wading through mountains and rivers, and outwitting the chivalrous man, Huwa expresses the profound Chinese martial arts, the chivalrous spirit of treating each other with sincerity and the self-improvement personality.
Dialects in all corners of the country have their own tastes, and the folk customs in all corners of the country are varied and polymorphic. Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng’s cross talk "Happy Dialect" shows the vivid and colorful language and regional culture of China. Lu Xin and Yuhao, young crosstalk performers, teased each other with a talk about "Is it like it or not", and interpreted the traditional art forms such as storytelling, duet, and Shaanxi Opera into fashion charm.
The century-old archaeology traces back to its roots, offering the answer of "Why China" to human civilization. Zhang Guoli unveiled the bronze mask of Sanxingdui’s newly unearthed cultural relics. The country’s heavy weapon is really present, and at first glance it can witness the Millennium civilization. In the following dance "Golden Face", the dancer and the bronze mask crossed time and space and started a fantastic love, which made the "national treasure come alive".
Observing the real life and conveying true feelings and great love in joy.
Language programs observe the reality with a small incision, and the themes are diverse and grounded, showing a variety of life appearances. Guo Donglin, Shao Feng and others starred in the essay "The Story of the Rest Area", which tells the story of dual-employee medical couples taking the initiative to join the anti-epidemic cause. The dialogue revealed the great love of the small family, which is a true portrayal of countless workers fighting in the front line of anti-epidemic; In "Giving Red Envelopes", Jia Bing sells cars and gives red envelopes to relieve the worries of workers, praising the mutual help between people. The sketch "Father and Son" focuses on entrepreneurs and reflects the understanding and care between father and son. Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei and others brought the essay "Happiness on the Top" with a short video to break the topic, showing a lively and joyful family fun; Shen Teng, Mary, Chang Yuan, Allen and others interpret the essay "Don’t Pay Back", which satirizes the "Lao Lai" who is helpless and disloyal to others. The works advocate the virtue of being honest and being a man with warnings such as "It’s not that we are thin-skinned, but that our old classmates have deep friendship" and "Those who can lend you money are the people who trust you the most".
The stage of the Spring Festival Evening is also intertwined with affection, friendship and love, conveying the great love of the world. Han Hong gave an affectionate song "There are so many people in this world" to everyone who worked hard for a happy life, and made the world warmer and more powerful with love. Ronghao Li and Angela Zhang (Taiwan, China) sang "Love Together", which explained the sincere feelings of companionship and love together. The song "You are a Gift in My Life", accompanied by Uradon’s melodious piano, Liu Huan sang the freehand brushwork of love with deep affection — — The companionship of family, the help of friends and the care of lovers are all gifts given by life. Allen, Roy, Victoria Song and Summer brought the song "True Love Dancing", and the acrobatic performance was in a cheerful rhythm, and the scene was a sea of joy.
Welcome the Winter Olympics, gather positive energy and work together for the future.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be grandly opened on February 4th. In the Spring Festival Evening of the Year of the Tiger, there is a new story, telling the story of the Winter Olympics with creative works, and going to the ice and snow appointment together.
For the first time on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening, IOC President Bach wished everyone a happy New Year and a good year of the Tiger in Chinese, and invited them to celebrate the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Liao Changyong, CoCo Lee (Hong Kong, China) and many international friends sang the Winter Olympics theme song "Lighting Dreams". "Olympic Meeting, the most beautiful smile in colorful sky", the dream crosses mountains and mountains, and the Olympic spirit spreads all over the world.
In the specially designed short film "The Year of Snow and Ice Shines in China" in the Spring Festival Evening, the mascots of the Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics "Ice Dun Dun" and "Snow Rong Rong" are like elves, flying back and forth with the notes of the skating waltz and the winter Olympics symphony, and the conductor’s swallow-tailed suit turns into ice and snow equipment around them, and the baton turns into a sleigh and slides down from the winter Olympics ski platform to complete the dream transition from the stage of the Spring Festival Evening to the winter Olympics venue. Art and body blossom, violin and figure skating realize the perfect integration of ice and snow sports and classical music. Dancing with the music, two elves flew out of the stadium to show you the splendor of the Beijing Winter Olympics venues, such as the Ice Cube, Snow Ruyi, Ice Ribbon, Ice Sail and Ice Flower.
"Spring Festival Gala in 2022" expresses the excellent Chinese culture with innovative language with a sense of the times and youth, dedicates a colorful cultural feast to the audience, and sings the Spring Festival song in the new era and new journey.