Cctv newsAs a unique cultural symbol of New Year’s Eve, the TV Spring Festival Gala has been with the audience for 35 years and has become another New Year’s Eve dinner that people all over the country are looking forward to. The annual TV Spring Festival Gala not only engraves the brand of the times, but also constructs the common meaning space of the national party. As "the first Spring Festival Evening in the new era", this year’s program presents a new sports atmosphere that is eye-catching. Recently, Wen Wei Po praised the CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 2018 as "the dance language and music language are very rich, grounded, warm and magnificent." "Let the large-scale song and dance of strength and beauty show the majestic momentum."

　　Traditional program forms integrate sports elements.

　　This year’s Spring Festival Evening still continues the pattern of dance, song, language and folk art programs. Different from previous years, this year, under the traditional program form, it not only absorbed the spirit of national traditional culture, spread the fresh flavor of the times, but also integrated diversified sports elements.

　　Martial arts program "Double Heroes" and so on, combined with the grand and magnificent dance design, show a period of flowing, vigorous and powerful martial arts movements; Against the backdrop of the magnificent army and all kinds of advanced weapons, "Sharpen Soldiers in the Battlefield" shows the audience the powerful military strength and majestic spirit of the motherland through the dancers’ difficult sports movements. "Above the Waves" is an innovative combination of sports and dance, which makes the program both enjoyable and thrilling, attracting applause from the audience, and sports elements have become a beautiful landscape in this year’s Spring Festival Evening.

　　Sports athletes participate in program performances.

　　The choice of performers also reflects the promotion and promotion of sportsmanship in this year’s Spring Festival Evening. The dancers in Above the Waves are from the Nanjing Institute of Physical Education’s Skill Team, who once won the gold medal in the World Skill Championship. This year, the performance form of sports combined with dance appeared for the first time on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening. It was the participation of professional athletes that ensured the technical height and program quality and presented the audience with a wonderful performance with world-class difficulty.

　　Not only live performances, but also sports athletes appeared in off-site videos. After careful rehearsal and training, 48 parachutists from all over the world finally completed the challenge of forming the Chinese character "Fu" in the air, and achieved the double success of combination and shooting. Foreign athletes have presented the most sincere New Year greetings to the people of the whole country with their professionalism and spirit of striving for perfection.

　　Tai Chi and Wushu are on the same stage for the first time.

　　One of the highlights of this year’s Spring Festival Gala program is the wonderful scenes of Tai Chi versus Wushu and Shaolin versus Wudang. The poetic stage background, elegant and elegant costumes, and heroic martial arts movements make an unforgettable audio-visual feast come to the fore.

　　On the one hand, the performance of combining rigidity with softness reveals a strong cultural charm. There is a cultural pulse that lasts for thousands of years between the exchanges between Wushu actors. While watching the program, people taste the strong core of Chinese culture. The perfect interpretation of the program fully inspired people’s cultural consciousness and self-confidence, and also expressed China people’s strong desire to promote their excellent culture "going out".

　　On the other hand, the program realizes the perfect integration of stage art and sports competition, and the suspense brought by competition just enriches the plot clues of martial arts performance programs, and the high-quality stage effect that fits the theme also sets off the unique charm of sports competition. This year’s Spring Festival Gala has become a dazzling confrontation stage, bringing a fresh and special viewing experience to the audience.

　　Four sub-venues advocate "sports for all"

　　In addition to the live broadcast of CCTV Hall 1, this year’s Spring Festival Evening also set up four sub-venues in Qiandongnan, Guizhou, Zhuhai, Shandong Qufu Taian and Sanya, Hainan. The grand festival of the sub-venue not only reflects the different customs and cultural characteristics of China’s vast land, but also conveys an open cultural temperament from the scene of people gathering in the square.

　　On the "Colorful Guizhou" branch, the Dong people dressed in traditional national costumes sang big songs of the Dong people, which constituted a shocking scene of a chorus of thousands of people. It conveys the new atmosphere and full happiness of Guizhou people, and also shows the pride and sense of gain of people of all ethnic groups entering a new era. On the "friendly shandong" branch, when the song "Descendants of the Dragon" was played, the dancers standing on the steps of the square held hexagonal bronze mirrors in their hands, and vividly imitated the surging magnificent landscape of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River … …

　　The program design of the sub-venue fully takes into account the characteristics of the square stage, combines the square culture emerging in China with the appearance of the city, and shows the new achievements of urban development and the new pursuit of people’s life in the new era. The elements of the square highlight the mass and show the spirit of the people of the whole country who are positive and sunny. On the Hainan Branch, the appearance and blessing of the representatives of China athletes conveyed the life concept of national fitness to the national audience and spread the majestic glory of China sports to the world.

　　Chinese culture has a long history. In the long historical years, the Chinese people, through unremitting thinking and practice, have created cultural treasures that condense national cultural characteristics and strong sportsmanship. The artistic presentation of traditional Wushu in this year’s Spring Festival Evening is the inheritance and development of traditional culture by Chinese sons and daughters in the new era, expressing strong cultural consciousness and self-confidence.

　　National fitness is national happiness. The strength of the Spring Festival Evening program in sports is the concrete embodiment of the program group’s insistence on taking the people as the center, paying attention to the masses and people’s livelihood. Advocating a healthy life for all is conducive to improving people’s quality of life and enhancing people’s happiness.

　　The golden rooster resigns the old year, and the Swiss dog announces the spring. CCTV Spring Festival Evening in the Year of the Dog of 1898 shows the vigorous development of sports culture and the diversified connotation of sports spirit through the integration of sports elements, the participation of athletes, the confrontation between Taiji and Wushu, and the setting of sub-venues, leading a unique new sports atmosphere.