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At the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983, actor Wang Jingyu brought his pantomime "Eating" Chicken" took the stage.
Now when talking about eating chicken, many people will think of "good luck, eat chicken tonight" in a popular game. However, it is not easy for Wang Jingyu to eat the "chicken".
In 1962, 26-year-old Wang Jingyu had just graduated from Chinese Opera. Once, he went to Guangdong to perform and ate pot-braised chicken in a restaurant. Because the chicken was not too rotten, it was very difficult to eat. Wang Jingyu was suddenly inspired and had the prototype of "Chicken Eating" in his mind.
The following year, Wang Jingyu performed this show at the New Year's Day party held at the Beijing Hotel, which made the leaders present laugh. However, in the catastrophe that followed for ten years, "Chicken" was criticized and was not allowed to appear on the stage for a time.
Until after the reform and opening up, with the popularity of television in China and the rapid development of the entertainment industry, this program became well-known to audiences across the country. Through non-physical performances, Wang Jingyu vividly imitated a series of actions such as chewing chicken bones, stuffing meat between teeth, and getting stuck in the throat, with exaggerated expressions and funny actions.
▲In the 1983 Spring Festival Gala, Wang Jingyu performed the pantomime "Chicken Eating".
In the 1980s, an old-fashioned picture tube TV set with only a few channels could be watched with gusto by a family or a few households in the neighborhood. Suddenly, like a spring breeze coming overnight, the Spring Festival Gala quietly entered thousands of households and never left again.
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That year’s Spring Festival Gala did not have a dedicated host. Actors such as Wang Jingyu, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun and Liu Xiaoqing made guest appearances.
In the Spring Festival Gala of the second year, crosstalk actor Ma Ji held a cigarette in one hand and told a stand-up comedy "A Salesman" (also known as "Universe Brand Cigarettes") based on a virtual advertisement promoting "Universe Brand Cigarettes". cigarette").
"If you don’t smoke my cosmic cigarettes, you won’t have a happy family! If you don’t smoke my cosmic cigarettes, you young people won’t be able to find a partner! If you don’t smoke my cosmic cigarettes, you Student, you can't get into college!"
▲In the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, Ma Ji performed the cross talk "A Salesman".
Ma Ji criticized some businesses in society that engage in false propaganda in the form of cross talk. At the same time, behind the humorous language are social phenomena such as the turbulence of China's commodity economy and students moving to university campuses after the resumption of college entrance examinations.
After this cross talk became popular, some manufacturers actually put "Universe Brand Cigarettes" into production. This should be regarded as one of the earliest hot marketing in China.
At that time, the market economy was emerging, and those who dared to be the first to eat crabs made the first pot of gold in the trend of the times, such as the self-employed who had been discriminated against.
Self-employed was originally a derogatory term. In the early 1980s, it even became synonymous with unemployed young people and reform-through-labor prisoners. These people relied on shuffling clothing, electrical appliances and daily necessities, purchasing goods from low-price areas to selling them in high-price areas to earn the price difference. They were once ridiculed as "speculators" by mainstream society. .
It was precisely this group of people who became China’s first batch of “10,000-yuan households.” What was the concept of a ten thousand yuan household at that time? In 1980, the average annual salary of employees nationwide was only 762 yuan. Therefore, there is such a jingle, "Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs."
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The pantomime "Chicken Eating" and the crosstalk "A Salesman" have begun to take shape in sketches, and the real pioneer of sketches, the first program to adopt the form of dramatic performance was in 1984 Spring Festival Gala, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao collaborated on the sketch "Eating Noodles".
According to Huang Yihe, the director of the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, ""Eating Noodles" was the first skit in the true sense of our country's gala.
They also encountered many difficulties in their creation. "
That year, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. During the preparation period, the two wrote the script in the hotel for a week. The work they finally completed failed.
At that time, people had to pay food stamps to eat in the hotel, and it was not easy for the Spring Festival Gala crew. Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao were embarrassed to embarrass their leaders, so they ran away and looked for them after a lot of trouble. When they came back, they agreed to continue writing, but when they couldn't pass it, they ran away again. After running away, they found it again and continued writing.
Huang Yihe said that because of this trouble, the final thing came out too. It does have quality.
"Eating Noodles" won acclaim in the audition, but this sketch was purely for fun and had no educational significance. It was not until the eve of the Spring Festival Gala that Director Huang came to the show. Not sure if he could even attend.
On New Year's Eve, Huang Yihe watched "Eating Noodles" appear on the Spring Festival Gala with trepidation.
As a result, "Eating Noodles" became a hit. After becoming popular, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao appeared on the Spring Festival Gala ten times and became well-known comedians in the 1980s and 1990s.
In "Eating Noodles", Chen Peisi pushed the non-physical performance to a new peak on the stage. Although there was only an empty bucket and nothing in the bowl, he vividly demonstrated the deliciousness of the noodles and the joy of eating them. The audience wanted to have a steaming bowl of braised noodles across the screen.
▲Chen Peisi’s classic non-physical performance in "Eating Noodles"
In the following fourteen years, the golden pairing of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao brought another performance to the audience. Classic sketches such as "Protagonist and Supporting Actor" and "Police and Thief" were performed until 1998 when he performed "The Prince and the Postman" for the last time in the Spring Festival Gala.
Every time he performed, he was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In the 1989 sketch "Pepper Noodles", there was no line and no need for a particularly funny dialect. Chen Peisi's performance of gobbling up chaos made the audience feel the same. Looking at him, they were reminded of themselves being burned by food.
▲The 1989 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Pepper Noodles"
The 1990 sketch "Protagonist and Supporting Role" is another classic collaboration between the two. "Captain, don't shoot, it's me! ", "I didn't expect that Zhu Shimao, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also betray the revolution." These lines, even today, 30 years later, can still be blurted out by countless audiences.
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▲The 1990 Spring Festival Gala skit "Protagonist and Protagonist"
The two people's Spring Festival Gala career ended in 1998, and the reason was emotional.
In 1999, CCTV used the sketches "Eating Noodles", "Making Movies" and "Police and Thieves" performed by Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao in the Spring Festival Gala in its published VCD without the permission of the copyright owner.
Chen Peisi. Unable to swallow this, he took CCTV to court without hesitation. In the end, CCTV lost the case and paid Chen Peisi more than 300,000 yuan.
After winning the lawsuit, Chen Peisi lost his stage on CCTV.
Later in an interview, Chen Peisi commented on the Spring Festival Gala: “The atmosphere of the entire performance was already very bad. "
In addition to the copyright dispute, Chen Peisi has long been out of tune with the Spring Festival Gala. He said: "The Spring Festival Gala is an aircraft carrier, luxurious and elegant, but you have to obey the orders of the captain, first mate, and boatswain, and I What I am doing now is like a boat, although it is small, it is free and happy. ”
Chen Peisi does not want to be hampered by fame and fortune, but prefers to live a free and unrestrained life. After leaving the Spring Festival Gala, he devoted all his energy to drama. His first drama "Career" set a box office record of 40 million, and has successively It performed more than 200 times and visited more than 40 cities, with an audience of 170,000.
Looking back, the former comedian’s beard has turned gray. He has been away from the Spring Festival Gala stage for more than 20 years, but has never been forgotten by the audience. Every year, there are rumors that Chen Peisi will return to the Spring Festival Gala.
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Some people left the Spring Festival Gala because of lawsuits, while some people left us forever.
Rap shows have been very popular in the past two years, but these are all leftovers from MC Lirong’s show.
In 1995, in the Spring Festival Gala sketch "Packaged Like This", audiences across the country watched old lady Zhao Lirong wearing a sequined vest and headphones, dancing to the disco and singing a "Rap" that can be called a foreign allegro. : "Fourteens and fivesixes bloom in the spring. Oh, June and Sixth. I watch Gu Xiuchun hit six or nine heads."
We can't forget the magical voice of her partner Gong Hanlin: "This rhythm is Rua Pu (Rap)! ”
In 1988, Zhao Lirong, who was over 60 years old, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time. Her witty Tangshan dialect accompanied the audience through many New Year’s Eve nights.
Teacher Zhao Lirong has lived in a theater troupe since she was a child. She calls herself "illiterate", but in order to perform skits, she insists on learning English, singing "My Heart Will Go On" on the stage, and practicing calligraphy hard. Within a few months, I wrote four big words on the stage: "Genuine."
▲1996 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Working Adventures".
Her sketches also do not forget to criticize current ills. In the 1996 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Working Adventures", Zhao Lirong played the role of an old lady who went to work in the city, and strongly criticized the unscrupulous merchants who raised prices: "Palace Jade" Ye wine, one hundred and eighty cups, how do you like this wine? Let me blow it for you..."
However, this versatile old man who has brought laughter to audiences across the country has started in 1992. He was already suffering from illness. There was a scene in the 1995 Spring Festival Gala skit "Packaged Like This" where Zhao Lirong stumbled and knelt on the ground with one leg after singing a rap. Many viewers thought this was a comedy effect created by the script. In fact, Zhao Lirong almost fell down due to chronic leg injuries.
▲The 1995 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Packaged Like This".
The 1999 skit "Veteran Takes Action" was the last time 72-year-old Zhao Lirong appeared on stage in the Spring Festival Gala. Two months before the Spring Festival Gala, she coughed up blood backstage. Two weeks before the Spring Festival Gala, she was sent to the hospital because her condition worsened, but she still persisted dedicatedly until the end.
The next year, Zhao Lirong died of lung cancer.
It has been 20 years since she left, but no one can replace this naive old lady who speaks authentic Tangshan dialect on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
▲ Make up "hi" and "uh-huh" by yourself.
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People in the city want to go out, and people outside the city want to come in. The year Chen Peisi left the Spring Festival Gala stage, a Northeastern uncle wearing a shabby liberation cap and a wrinkled Chinese tunic suit began to dominate the Spring Festival Gala stage. He was Zhao Benshan.
The 1999 Spring Festival Gala was like a relay race in which the baton was handed over. A group of Northeastern sketch actors led by Zhao Benshan, such as Huang Hong, Pan Changjiang, Gao Xiumin, Fan Wei, etc. became the Spring Festival Gala in the following years. The main force, some of them are still active on the Spring Festival Gala stage to this day.
Zhao Benshan first appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in 1990. He has appeared 21 times in total, and won first prize 15 times. He can be said to be the well-deserved "King of Sketch".
▲The 1999 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow".
In 1999, Zhao Benshan collaborated with Song Dandan and Cui Yongyuan on the Spring Festival Gala sketch "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", which was his milestone work.
This is how the story of Aunt Baiyun and Uncle Kurotsuchi begins. This sketch reflects social changes through humorous interviews, in which Kurotsuchi compiled a few jingles based on current events at home and abroad in 1998. It has become an excellent material for video editing:
"The spring breeze of reform is blowing everywhere, and the Chinese people are really up to date; working together to cross the century, a flood has made no difference."
"1998 In 1998, there was a great harvest, and the floods were driven away. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Especially the people's army was in a state of chaos. Today the cabinet is down, and tomorrow the prime minister is fired. After the financial crisis, we have to impeach the leader again. Looking at the world situation, the scenery is better here."
Nowadays, Uncle Kurotsuchi and Aunt Baiyun no longer act in sketches, and Xiao Cui has become a fighter of the times. After resigning from CCTV, he completely got rid of the constraints, dissed genetically modified foods, exposed celebrities' tax evasion, laughed and cursed, and took pleasure in grudges until he disappeared.
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Feng Xiaogang, who has an unresolved feud with Cui Yongyuan, is actually a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala. He not only served as the general director of the 2014 Spring Festival Gala, but also created the imaginative science fiction sketch " Robot Funny Quotes".
"Robot Funny Talk" performed by Guo Da and Cai Ming at the 1996 Spring Festival Gala still seems to be timeless, and it is expected to be a box office hit when adapted into a science fiction movie.
In the skit, the lazy "single dog" Guo Da Statham sang "I want to get married after being single for a long time, but women nowadays are really annoying", and bought the female robot played by Cai Ming, "Heartless and short-sighted" "go home.
As soon as Guo Da unpacked the package, he saw that the female robot had air bangs and a tutu skirt. It was really fashionable and the most fashionable. He just complained: "Why does he look like Cai Ming? No wonder he slapped me." 20% off. ”
▲1996 Spring Festival Gala skit “Robot Funny Talk”.
Guo Da wanted to make her into a perfect wife who would be obedient and obedient, but he didn’t expect that the “missing heart” was really a lack of heart. After several twists and turns, Guo Da was frightened and he broke down in desperation. He lost control of the remote control and was almost torn apart by the robot.
This sketch considered the crisis of artificial intelligence across the ages, and the setting of the AI ??girlfriend continued to appear in film and television works in the next two decades.
It’s hard to imagine that this is a sketch from the 1996 Spring Festival Gala. In the 1990s, the craze for learning computers had not yet swept across the country, and today’s Internet tycoons were still just rookies.
In 1995, Jack Ma came into contact with the Internet for the first time in the United States. Later, with the help of family and friends, he raised 20,000 yuan and founded "Haibo Network", one of China's earliest Internet companies.
In 1998, Liu Qiangdong, who had worked in a foreign company for two years, was not satisfied with being a white-collar worker. He came to Zhongguancun with 12,000 yuan of savings and rented a small counter to sell recorders and CDs. The counter was called " Jingdong Multimedia”, which is the predecessor of Jingdong. In the same year, Ma Huateng also began to work hard in the computer communications industry.
There are only a few trendsetters like Lei Jun who completed all the credits at university in just two years. After graduation, they became the backbone of Jinshan and participated in the research and development of software.
People at that time did not understand computers or the Internet, and they could not imagine that one day, mobile phones would become a universal tool necessary for people to access the Internet and live life. As for the fictional plot in "Robot Funny Talk", in the near future, these Internet rookies in the 1990s may become a reality.
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The story of the Spring Festival Gala seems to never end. When the old people leave, new people will come.
Speaking of Feng Gong, we will think of his unchanged phrase "I miss you so much" for decades. Speaking of Li Guyi, it must be the last song of the Spring Festival Gala every year - "Unforgettable Tonight", Speaking of New Year's Eve, we can't forget the zero o'clock bell that rings every Spring Festival Gala.
A gala condenses an era, just like the recently popular "Ten Years Contrast Challenge", which left the screen full of lamentations about the wasted years, but fewer and fewer people love to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
We think the previous Spring Festival Gala sketches were good-looking because they were a microcosm of the times. However, in recent years, Spring Festival Gala sketches have still not given up on using materials from real life.
In the 2011 Spring Festival Gala sketch "New House", the mother-in-law saw that her future son-in-law's "newly bought" wedding house was actually rented, and she immediately wanted to drag her daughter away. The sketch directly addresses the sensitive social topic of housing prices, and ends with a happy ending. How many people know the bitterness behind it.
In 2014, the Spring Festival Gala skit "Help or Not" presented by Happy Twist brought the social topic of "should an old man be helped when he fell" to the Spring Festival Gala stage. Shen Teng's last declaration is very positive: "If we don't help this person when he falls, won't the people's hearts fall? If the people's hearts fall, we won't be able to help them up even if we want to." Faced with the cruel social reality, we I also hope that people’s hearts will not fall.
▲2014 Spring Festival Gala skit "To Help or Not to Help".
Perhaps it’s not that the Spring Festival Gala is not good to watch, but that times have changed.
In the era of mobile Internet, we can find substitutes for the Spring Festival Gala skits every moment, and it is difficult to have expectations for the Spring Festival Gala. The life of a group of people gathered around the TV is long gone. On New Year's Eve, the TV is on at home, and the family may be playing with their mobile phones, eating melon seeds, and drinking tea. Occasionally, they look up and see a sketch actor on the TV shouting "Happy New Year."
The buzzwords that have been circulating for a year have become even more tasteless in the Spring Festival Gala sketches. When we hear "really fragrant", "debut in C position", "pan him" and the like in the Spring Festival Gala program When it comes to hot words on the Internet, I won’t be surprised, only a little embarrassed.
As Professor Tang Renwu of Beijing Normal University said:
After 38 years, the Spring Festival Gala sketches may not have lost their former glory, but they are a way for ordinary people to celebrate the New Year. An indispensable taste of the New Year.