Brief introduction of the event:
"We have received your letter, and we have also read your' My Opinion on the 94 Spring Festival Gala'. First of all, thank you for your concern and strong support for the Spring Festival Gala, and we will seriously discuss your views ... "One day in September 1993, Cai Yongping, who worked in Jinan, received a handwritten reply from the Spring Festival Gala crew. For the next 24 years, this letter has been with him until today.
since the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala was held in 1983, it has carried the feelings of home and country and collective memory of everyone in China, and it has long been more than just a party.
detailed introduction:
1.1993: I wrote this letter because of the tender report of the Spring Festival Evening
"The Spring Festival Evening is an important event that affects people's minds all over the country. It accompanies the people to greet the New Year bell year after year, accompanies countless families to have dinner in jiaozi, and accompanies lonely overseas travelers from generation to generation to feel the strong flavor of China. Suggestions for the Spring Festival Evening should also be a responsibility of the Chinese people. " Cai Yongping said.
In 1993
, newspapers all over the country published reports about the Spring Festival Gala, and there were even rumors that it would not be held. "Yang Weiguang, director of CCTV, announced that the selection of directors and schemes should introduce a new competitive mechanism, and the form of" bidding "should be conducted for directors and audiences inside and outside Taiwan. Break the old framework of ten years, make bold breakthroughs, deliberately innovate, and face domestic and overseas. " Cai Yongping decided to write a letter to the cast of the Spring Festival Evening after seeing the report of People's Daily from Yangcheng Evening in 1993. "The Spring Festival Gala belongs to China people. There are so many talents in China. Is it necessary to invite foreigners to be directors?" Cai Yongping said, so he used his usual accumulation to write down his expectations and suggestions for the Spring Festival Gala.
2.5 pages of stationery: showing the responsibility of ordinary citizens
Cai Yongping, who was born as a soldier, has a unique pursuit of art, and once
by chance, he was sent to the military camp for playing the violin well. "I was 35 years old when I wrote this letter. At that time, I was a secretary and spent more time writing materials." Cai Yongping said, "I stayed up all night for 12 hours and wrote five pages of
paper, which was completed on July 1, 1993. Because my handwriting is not good-looking, I specially asked a friend who studied hard pen calligraphy to help me copy a copy. There was no printer at that time, so I asked someone to print a copy of the manuscript. "
Even the theme of the letter made him think for a long time, and finally it was named "My Opinion on the 94 Spring Festival Gala". In his letter, Cai Yongping analyzed the reasons why it is difficult for people to tune in the Spring Festival Evening, and put forward some suggestions for updating ideas, such as adopting the combination of live broadcast and copying recording and broadcasting inside and outside Taiwan. Inviting tenders to the whole country; Give mandatory program tasks to provinces and cities, focusing on humor and fun, and submit them to the Spring Festival Gala crew for screening, so as to attend the party in Beijing, which can not only discover talents, but also mobilize enthusiasm; Emancipate the mind and introduce excellent foreign programs; Strictly control the quality of the program and cannot be divorced from the psychological needs of the masses. Looking at it now, the reasonable suggestions put forward by Cai Yongping will be realized one by one after several years.
3.24 years: My heart has been full of emotion
"About two months after the letter was sent, I received a reply from the cast of the Spring Festival Evening. The letter was signed on September 21, 1993. I really didn't expect them
to write back to me after I sent it, and I didn't expect them to have such a high opinion of what I wrote. I don't know if the Spring Festival Evening crew wrote back to other writers at that time, and I don't know if they would write back to the Spring Festival Evening now? "
Cai Yongping pointed to the well-preserved reply and read it word for word. "The letter said that I read my letter, thanked you for your strong support and seriously discussed my views. I was really touched."
It has been 34 years since 1983, and it seems that everyone in China has a Spring Festival Evening "menu" of their own. Perhaps, we don't have to be too demanding about the Spring Festival Gala. It is just a cultural reunion dinner, and the significance of the Spring Festival Gala lies more in companionship.