1983 Spring Festival Gala Program List:

Supplementary Information:

Host: Wang Jingyu? Liu Xiaoqing? Jiang Kun? Ma Ji

Chief Director : Huang Yihe? Deng Zaijun

Live broadcast time: 20:20 on February 12, 1983 to 0:56 on February 13, 1983

What is the significance of the Spring Festival Gala?

From 1983 to the present, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, a symbol that embodies the family affection and nostalgia of more than one billion Chinese people, has become the cultural memory of several generations of Chinese people.

Today, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is facing various challenges from the multicultural era. The expectations it carries and the meaning it has been given have far exceeded the party itself.

In the eyes of different people, it has an unusual meaning; but to different people, it embodies the Chinese people’s common feelings for home.

The significance of the Spring Festival Gala lies in companionship

The 30-year-old Spring Festival Gala embodies the symbol of family affection and nostalgia for more than one billion Chinese people, and has become the cultural memory of several generations of Chinese people. Nowadays, the Spring Festival Gala has evolved into a Chinese New Year custom that lingers.

This is just like the ticket to go home during the Chinese New Year or the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, nothing is missing! Therefore, we don’t need to be too demanding about the Spring Festival Gala. It is just a cultural reunion dinner. The meaning of the Spring Festival Gala is more about companionship. Year after year, it accompanies the people to welcome the New Year bell, accompanies countless families to make dumplings and eat New Year’s Eve dinner, and accompanies generations of lonely overseas travelers to experience the strong Chinese New Year flavor.

Since it is a reunion dinner, the taste is obviously not the most important thing. In fact, it is simply impossible for a feast that has been eaten for 30 years to come up with new ideas every year, to make breakthroughs every time, and to satisfy every audience.

In other words, we should be more calm and relaxed about the Spring Festival Gala, treat it with a normal mind, and not be too demanding on the form and content. Although people complain about the unsatisfactory Spring Festival Gala every year, if you don't watch the Spring Festival Gala, this Spring Festival may make people feel somewhat regretful.

Since the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala was held in 1983, the Spring Festival Gala has gradually become a new folk custom for Chinese people and a must-see TV feast every New Year's Eve.

From the perspective of cultural development, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala pioneered a television variety show and triggered major changes in the content and expression methods of Chinese television media. In 2014, the Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala was positioned as a national event for the first time, on the same level as the Olympic Games opening ceremony.