Image quoted from a screenshot of the livestream
2025 Snake Spring Festival sketches Flowery frame .
Flower racks Nothing laugh-out-loud level of laughs, and the issues involved are very shallow.
Author: Huaihe Rain
Short Review
I wasn’t going to comment on the Spring Gala, but many readers wrote me privately asking me to talk about it.
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Things have been a bit hectic for a while, so let’s take some time to talk about the Spring Festival.
First of all, I’d like to wish those readers who need to return a safe trip, and those who don’t to catch a last minute relaxation break.
It is important to understand the fact that for the average citizen, the Spring Festival Gala is a wonderful party to look forward to.
And for CCTV and the Spring Festival Gala director team, the Spring Festival Gala is a national program.
The deviation of the two perceptions leads to the expectation of the Spring Festival Gala with a great discrepancy, after all, the CCTV first of all to be responsible for the country, followed by the consideration of the needs of the people.
In the two kinds of cognition, who occupies the dominant position, I believe there is no need to say anything more.
In recent years, the Spring Festival Gala reputation is getting lower and lower, the ratings are getting worse and worse, but still year after year to invest huge resources to organize.
This is because it is not the people who have the demand, but the dominant force that needs the Spring Festival Gala to be aired on time at 8:00 p.m. on Chinese New Year’s Eve.
Therefore, we should stop complaining that the Spring Festival Gala is getting more and more boring, after decades of development, the nature of the Spring Festival Gala has long changed.
The nature of the Spring Festival Gala has long changed from a feast for the young and the old, for the elegant and the popular, to a specific program with a specific color.
I would also like to say a few words for the director team of the Spring Festival Gala, to be able to achieve their level, in the art of this track, the world can not say, at least in the national level is one of the best.
Theoretically, if they are allowed to let go, they can produce a more exciting Spring Festival Gala.
But their baggage is too heavy, and there is so much to balance.
It’s not just the content of the program that needs to be seared, but the balance outside of the program is even tougher.
Some people say that the Spring Festival Gala language programs are not funny.
Indeed not funny, even if there are laughs, but also very shallow laughs, simply can not make most of the audience laugh.
Look at the audience at the Spring Festival Gala, either athletes who have made great contributions to the country, astronauts, or academicians who are very knowledgeable.
As for the famous actors and actresses, the representatives of sponsors need not be mentioned, in short, they are either rich or noble, all decent people.
If the language program is too funny, it is not decent enough to let them show their teeth and grin with big mouths.
After all, what about live television, the Spring Festival Gala ratings are even lower, compared to other programs is also a cliff lead.
Let so many viewers see the non-rich or rich groups have a loss of decency image, the impact is not good, this is called the baggage is too heavy.
Non-rich or noble people are still just personal decency and image, a little up, if too many laughs against a current event, will not affect the higher level of decency?
So unless one day, the nature of the Spring Festival Gala changes, or to return to the past kind of pure entertainment programs, or else it is impossible to expect language programs to become as dense as the past general laughs.
I don’t quite believe that the writers of the language programs have run out of talent.
There are still good comedians coming out of the old generation, such as Chen Pesi, Zhao Benshan and Feng Gong.
Even if the younger generation can’t reach the heights of their predecessors for the time being, do you dare believe they can be brought down off a cliff?
With too much baggage under the decency, even if they are talented, they can’t make up a top-notch language program that matches the big stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Song and dance programs have similar problems, I remember one program, Yu Pan, where a group of children sang.
From an artistic point of view, the artistic index of this program is basically close to zero.
But it has to be there. If it is not there, how can it show that young and old alike can enjoy it and all people can participate in it? That is why I personally accept such a program to appear in the Spring Festival.
At the same time, there is no denying the point that the richness of the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake is enough.
From songs and dances to sketches, to comedy, to children’s programs, to opera, to public service, and magic, almost everything is included.
You can’t expect every category to be at the top level of the country, because some of the programs’ actors are not ordinary people who have been trained for a long time.
But that’s precisely why it’s so important to share elegance and vulgarity, and personally I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing that.
The past Spring Festival Gala was arranged in the same way, but the past Spring Festival Gala had a significantly better reputation.
In addition to the people usually have more contact with other cultural programs, resulting in aesthetic fatigue factors, the Spring Festival Gala in the past decade or so lack of ace program is the core reason.
People can accept programs that are not so professional, but can highlight the joy of all people.
At the same time, you have to give the fist program that is wonderful enough to form a national topic.
A song that goes national, a skit where certain punchlines form a hot streak, and so on.
As of now, the Spring Festival Gala can do the former, but not the latter.
Not only can’t do anything about it, but it makes the boredom of the Spring Festival Gala a hot topic, which is a great tease.
Picture quoted from the Internet
The 2001 Spring Festival Gala skit, Selling Abduction, starred Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei and Gao Xiumin.
Over the years, it has become one of the most successful language programs in the history of the Spring Festival Gala.
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There is a real question: Will the Spring Festival be canceled?
Of course it won’t be canceled, not only won’t it be canceled, but the existing model of the Spring Festival Gala won’t be adjusted, or at most fine-tuned.
This year’s skit, The Golden Son-in-Law, reflects some of the social problems.
But it’s not much of a reflection, and it’s shallow.
The main theme remains the same, and it can’t be changed.
Tactics On the tactical level, the Spring Festival Gala is arguably one of the most successful non-news programs on CCTV, if not the most successful.
Even today, when word-of-mouth has plummeted and negative reviews are flying, the Spring Festival Gala is still CCTV’s trump card program.
If there are no force majeure factors, CCTV will never cancel its own gold standard program.
This is from the CCTV’s own necessity, the Spring Festival Gala has the necessity to continue.
From the strategic level, the Spring Festival Gala is no longer a mere entertainment program, but has become a huge propaganda and education platform.
Zhao Benshan once said that the biggest theme of the Spring Festival Gala is happiness, and you can’t educate people with that work. We have been in the process of education for three hundred and sixty-five days, and it’s just this one night, so is it useful to educate him? Just let him be happy. Happiness is the theme, nothing else.
This paragraph has triggered a wide range of resonance, unfortunately, although Zhao Benshan is one of China’s most famous veteran comedians, but there is not much to say.
Zhang Xiaohai, a representative of the group that has the power of speech, had this to say It is the Spring Festival Gala, and it has to be meaningful first, and interesting later. Grandchildren and grandchildren have to sit together to watch it, so meaning is more important to us than significance.
Zhang Xiaohai is currently the Executive Director and President of China Television Drama Production Center Limited Liability Company (CTPC), a typical state-owned enterprise belonging to China Central Radio and Television (CCTV) that specializes in the creation and production of television dramas.
I don’t know what the meaning in Zhang Xiaohai’s mouth refers to, but if you want it to be really meaningful, just have a Spring Festival Question and Answer session.
Imitation of Shandong, Shandong and other political programs, in the Spring Festival night political four and a half hours, the significance of the value of the absolute pull full, and the ratings are sure to burst the table.
So the people are not rejecting the meaning, just the meaning of their mouths and the meaning of the people’s hearts are two completely different things.
But the problem is that they think that the meaning in their mouths is what all the people need.
Since all the people need it, they need a stage for all the people to participate in it.
The Spring Festival Gala, which can achieve a precipitous lead even with low ratings, is naturally the best platform to publicize the significance and educate the common people.
Therefore, as long as the demand for educating the common people exists, the Spring Festival Gala will still have to be held.
As for some people pointed out, the people are becoming less and less fond of this form of Spring Festival Gala.
Yes, they do! Indeed they don’t like it.
But the Spring Festival Gala is supposed to be decided by a handful of people, so what’s the point of disliking it?
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Author Huaihe Rain, an unknown 90s self-media writer, a single-cell liberal arts student, tries to share his views on the world with his friends!
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