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On the first Spring Festival Evening of 1983, actor Wang Jingyu took his pantomime Eat Chicken onto the stage.
Now when it comes to eating chicken, many people will think of a popular game "Good luck, eat chicken at night", but it is not easy for Wang Jingyu to eat this "chicken".
1962, 26-year-old Wang Jingyu just graduated from Chinese opera. Once, he went to Guangdong to perform and ate canned chicken in a restaurant. Because the chicken is not cooked too badly, it tastes terrible. Wang Jingyu suddenly had a brainwave, and he had the prototype of eating chicken in his mind.
The following year, Wang Jingyu performed this program at the New Year's Party held in Beijing Hotel, which caused the leaders present to laugh. However, in the next decade of catastrophe, eating chicken was criticized and once missed the stage.
It was not until the reform and opening up that this program was known to the national audience with the popularity of television in China and the rapid development of the entertainment industry. Wang Jingyu vividly imitated a series of actions, such as gnawing chicken bones, stuffing meat between his teeth, and getting stuck in his throat. His expression was exaggerated and his actions were funny.
▲ 1983 Spring Festival Evening, Wang Jingyu performed the pantomime "Eat Chicken".
In the 1980s, an old cathode ray tube TV with only a few channels could be enjoyed by a family or several families nearby. Just like a spring gale, it blew in the dark, and in this way, it quietly entered thousands of households in the Spring Festival Evening and never left.
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There was no special host for the Spring Festival Gala that year, and Wang Jingyu, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Liu Xiaoqing and other actors made the curtain call.
The following year's Spring Festival Evening, crosstalk performer Ma Ji told a stand-up comedy "A Salesman" (also known as Cosmic Smoke), with a cigarette in one hand and a virtual advertisement promoting Cosmic Smoke as the content.
"If you don't smoke my cosmic cigarette, you won't have a happy family! If you don't smoke my cosmic cigarette, you young man can't go to bed! If you don't smoke my cosmic cigarette, you students can't go to college! "
▲ 1984 Spring Festival Evening, Ma Ji performed cross talk "A Salesman".
In the form of cross talk, Ma Ji attacked some merchants who made false propaganda in the society. At the same time, behind humorous language are social phenomena such as the surge of commodity economy in China and students rushing to university campuses after the resumption of college entrance examination.
After the cross talk became a hit, some manufacturers really put "Cosmos brand cigarettes" into production, which should be regarded as one of the earliest hot marketing in China.
At that time, the market economy was booming, and those who dared to eat crabs were the first to make their first pot of gold in the trend of the times, such as the self-employed who had been discriminated against.
Self-employed is a derogatory term. In the early 1980s, it even became synonymous with unemployed youth and reform-through-labour prisoners. These people buy goods from low-priced areas to high-priced areas and earn the difference by selling clothes, electrical appliances and daily necessities. They were once ridiculed by mainstream society as "profiteering".
It happened that these people made the first batch of "ten thousand households" in China. What was the concept of ten thousand households at that time? 1980 The average annual salary of employees in China was only 762 yuan. Therefore, there is such a jingle, "It is better to sell tea eggs than missiles."
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The pantomime Eat Chicken and crosstalk A Salesman have taken shape, and the first program that really started the sketch was 1984 Spring Festival Evening sketch Eat Noodles, in which Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao cooperated.
According to Huang Yihe, the general director of 1984 Spring Festival Gala, "Eating noodles is the first real sketch of our national party. They also crossed the river by feeling the stones in their creation and encountered many difficulties. "
That year, Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao boarded the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. During the preparatory period, the two wrote a script in the hotel for a week, and the final work was not passed.
At that time, people had to pay food stamps when eating in hotels, and it was not easy for the cast members of the Spring Festival Gala. Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao were embarrassed to embarrass the leaders and ran away. Huang Yihe hurried to look for them everywhere and tried to get them back. He agreed to continue writing, and they ran away when they finished writing. They ran away or got them back and wrote again.
Huang Yihe said that because of this, the final product is indeed of high quality.
"Eat Noodles" won applause in the audition, but this sketch is purely amusing and has no educational significance, but it has certain political risks. Until the eve of the Spring Festival Gala, Huang Dao was not sure whether he could go.
On New Year's Eve, Huang Yihe anxiously watched Eating Noodles on the Spring Festival Evening.
As a result, "eating noodles" became an instant hit. Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao appeared in the Spring Festival Evening for ten times and became famous comedians in the 1980s and 1990s.
In Eating Noodles, Peisi Chen pushed the non-physical performance to a new peak. Obviously, there is only an empty bucket on the stage, and there is nothing in the bowl. But he showed the delicious noodles and the hearty eating, and the audience wanted a bowl of steaming gravy noodles across the screen.
▲ Peisi Chen's classic non-physical expression of eating noodles.
In the next fourteen years, Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao, the golden partners, brought classic sketches such as Hero and Heroine, Police and Thief to the audience. It was not until 1998 that they last appeared in the Spring Festival Evening and performed The Prince and the Postman.
Every performance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
1989' s essay "Pepper Noodles" doesn't have a line and doesn't need funny dialects. Peisi Chen wolfed down the chaotic performance, but made the audience feel the same way. Looking at him reminds them of being burned by food.
▲ 1989 Spring Festival Evening sketch "Chili Noodles".
1990' s sketch "protagonist and supporting role" is another classic work of their cooperation. "Captain, don't shoot, it's me!" , "Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, you Zhu Shimao also defected to the revolution", these lines, even after 30 years, countless viewers can still blurt out.
▲ 1990 Spring Festival Evening Essay "Leading Role and Supporting Role".
Their Spring Festival Gala career ended with 1998. The reason is very emotional.
1999 CCTV used Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao's "Eating Noodles", "Making a Movie" and "The Police and the Thief" in its VCD without the permission of the copyright owner.
Peisi Chen swallow not to descend this tone, without hesitation to CCTV to court. In the end, CCTV lost the case and paid Peisi Chen more than 300,000 yuan.
After winning the lawsuit and losing the stage, Peisi Chen disappeared from the CCTV stage.
Later, in an interview, Peisi Chen commented on the Spring Festival Evening at that time: "The atmosphere of the whole performance has been very bad."
Apart from the copyright dispute, Peisi Chen and the Spring Festival Gala have long been out of place. He said: "The Spring Festival Gala is an aircraft carrier, luxurious and magnificent, but you have to obey the orders of the captain, the first mate and the boatswain, and what I am doing now is like a ship, small but free and happy."
Peisi Chen doesn't want to be stumped by fame and fortune. He prefers to live a chic life. After leaving the Spring Festival Gala, he devoted all his energy to drama. His first play, Parenting, once set a box office record of 40 million. He has performed more than 200 performances and walked through more than 40 cities, with an audience of 654.38+0.7 million.
Looking back, the former comedian had a gray beard. He left the stage for more than 20 years, but he was never forgotten by the audience. Every year there are rumors that Peisi Chen will return to the Spring Festival Gala.
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Some people left the Spring Festival Gala because of lawsuits, and some people left us forever.
Rap programs have been very popular in the past two years, but these are all left over from MC Li Rong's plays.
1995, in the sketch "So Packaged" in the Spring Festival Evening, the national audience watched Mrs. Zhao wearing a sequined vest, headphones, dancing disco and singing a "rap" that can be called a foreign allegro: "Spring blossoms, on June 6, I saw Gu Xiuchun hit six or nine heads."
We can't forget her partner Gong Hanlin's magical voice: "This rhythm is rap!"
1988, Zhao, who was over 60 years old, made her debut on the Spring Festival Evening stage. Her witty Tangshan dialect spent many New Year's Eve with the audience.
Miss Zhao, who lived in a troupe since childhood, claimed to be "illiterate", but insisted on learning English in order to perform a sketch. She sang "My heart is eternal" on the stage, practiced calligraphy for several months, and wrote four big characters "true" on the stage.
▲ 1996 Spring Festival Evening essay "The Adventure of Working".
Her sketches also don't forget to criticize the shortcomings of the times. In 1996' s Spring Festival Evening sketch "Adventures of Working", Zhao plays an old lady who goes to work in the city and strongly resists black-hearted merchants who raise prices indiscriminately: "Gong Yuye wine, 18 1 cup, how about this wine?" Listen to me blow for you ... "
However, this versatile slash old man who brought laughter to the national audience has been suffering from illness since 1992. 1995 There is a scene in the sketch "So Packaged" in the Spring Festival Evening. After singing rap, Zhao stumbled and knelt down on one leg. Many viewers think this is a comedy effect created by the script. In fact, Zhao almost fell down because of his perennial leg injury.
▲ 1995 Spring Festival Evening essay "So Packaged".
1999' s sketch "The Veteran Comes Out" is the last stage of 72-year-old Zhao Zaichun. Two months before the Spring Festival Gala, she coughed up blood backstage. Two weeks before the Spring Festival Gala, she was taken to the hospital because of illness, but she persisted until the end.
The following year, Zhao died of lung cancer.
She has been gone for 20 years, but no one can replace this naive old lady who speaks authentic Tangshan dialect on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening.
▲ Make up your own "Hey" and "Mm-hmm".
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People in the city want to go out and people outside the city want to come in. In the year when Peisi Chen left the Spring Festival Gala stage, an uncle from Northeast China, wearing a shabby liberation hat and a wrinkled Chinese tunic suit, began to dominate the Spring Festival Gala stage. He is Zhao Benshan.
The Spring Festival Evening of 1999 is like a relay race. A group of Northeast sketch actors headed by Zhao Benshan, such as Huang Hong, Pan Changjiang, Gao Xiumin and Fan Wei, became the main force of the Spring Festival Evening in the following years, and some people are still active on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening.
Zhao Benshan 1990 made its debut in the Spring Festival Evening, with a total of 2 1 times, of which 15 won the first prize, which can be said to be a well-deserved "king of sketches".
▲ 1999 Spring Festival Evening essay "Yesterday Today Tomorrow".
From 65438 to 0999, Zhao Benshan's Spring Festival Evening essay Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, co-authored by Song Dandan and Cui Yongyuan, was a milestone.
This is how the story of Aunt Baiyun and Uncle Black Soil began. This sketch reflects social changes through humorous interviews. Among them, from 65438 to 0998, several jingles based on current events at home and abroad have become excellent materials for video editing:
"The spring breeze of reform is blowing everywhere, and the people of China really live up to expectations; Qixin joined forces across the century and a flood did not happen. "
"In 9898, there was a bumper harvest of grain and the flood was driven away. The people live and work in peace and contentment and praise the leadership of the party. Especially the people's army, is hard to find in the world. Foreign countries are in a mess and intrigue all day. The cabinet will step down today and the prime minister will be fired tomorrow. After the financial crisis, we must impeach the leaders. Throughout the world, the scenery here is better. "
Nowadays, Uncle Black Soil and Aunt Baiyun don't play skits, and Xiao Cui has become a fighter of the times. After resigning from CCTV, she completely got rid of the shackles, diss genetically modified food, exposed stars to tax evasion, laughed and scolded, and enjoyed life until she disappeared.
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Xiaogang Feng, who still bears a grudge against Cui Yongyuan, is actually a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala. He not only served as the general director of the 20 14 Spring Festival Evening, but also created a sci-fi sketch "Robot Funny Talk" with a wide brain.
1996 Spring Festival Evening, The Funny Story of Robots performed by Guo Da and Cai Ming is still not out of date. If it is adapted into a sci-fi movie, it is estimated that it will be a box office hit.
In the sketch, the lazy "single dog" Guo Da? Statham sang "I want to get married after being single for a long time, but now women are really annoying" and bought the female robot "simpleton" played by Cai Ming to go home.
Guo Da saw the female robot air bangs doll roll and fluffy skirt as soon as she unpacked it. It was really fashionable. She just said, "Why do you look like Cai Ming? No wonder you gave me a 20% discount. "
▲ 1996 Spring Festival Evening sketch "Robot Funny Talk".
Guo Da wants her to be an obedient and perfect wife. I didn't expect "simpleton" to be really simpleton. After tossing and turning, Guo Da was frightened. He broke the remote control in despair and was almost torn to pieces by the robot.
This essay reflects on the cross-era crisis of artificial intelligence, in which the setting of AI girlfriend will appear constantly in the film and television works in the next twenty years.
It's hard to imagine that this is 1996' s Spring Festival Evening sketch. In the 1990' s, the upsurge of learning computers has not swept the whole country, and today's internet tycoons are just novices.
From 65438 to 0995, Ma Yun first came into contact with the Internet in the United States. Later, with the help of his family and friends, he raised 20,000 yuan and founded Haibo Network, one of the earliest Internet companies in China.
1998 Liu, who has worked in a foreign company for two years, is not satisfied with being a white-collar worker. With the savings of 1.2 million, he came to Zhongguancun and rented a small counter to sell burners and CDs. This counter is called JD. COM Multimedia ",which is the predecessor of JD.COM. In the same year, Ma also began to work in the computer communication industry.
Only a few wave children like Lei Jun have completed all the credits in the university in just two years, and participated in software research and development as the backbone of Jinshan after graduation.
At that time, people knew nothing about computers and the Internet, and they didn't expect that one day, mobile phones would become an indispensable universal tool for people to contact the Internet and live. As for the fictional plot in "Robot Anecdotes", in the near future, it may be turned into reality by these Internet rookies in the 1990s.
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The story of the Spring Festival Gala seems endless. When the old people leave, new people will come.
When we mention Feng Gong, we will think of his unchanging phrase "I miss you so much" for decades. Speaking of Li Guyi, it must be the last song of the Spring Festival Evening every year-Unforgettable Tonight. Speaking of New Year's Eve, we can't forget the zero-hour bell that rings every year.
A party condenses an era, just like the recently popular Ten-year Contrast Challenge, leaving a full screen of regrets about the years, but fewer and fewer people like to watch the Spring Festival Evening.
We will find the previous Spring Festival Evening sketches good-looking, because they are the epitome of the times. However, in recent years, the Spring Festival Evening sketches have not given up the materials used in real life.
20 1 1 In the sketch "New House" in the Spring Festival Evening, the mother-in-law saw that the wedding room "newly bought" by her future son-in-law was actually rented, and immediately took her daughter away. The sketch directly hits the socially sensitive topic of housing prices and has a happy ending. How many people know the bitterness behind it?
On 20 14, Twist FunAge brought the social topic "Will the old man help after falling down" to the stage of the Spring Festival Evening with the sketch "Help or Not". Shen Teng's declaration in the last paragraph is very positive: "If this person falls, won't he fall if we don't help him?" ? If people's hearts fall, we can't even help them. "In the face of cruel social reality, we also hope that people will not fall.
▲20 14 Spring Festival Evening essay "Help or Not".
Perhaps, it is not the ugly Spring Festival Evening, but the times have changed.
In the era of mobile internet, we are always looking for substitutes for Spring Festival Evening sketches, and it is difficult to look forward to the Spring Festival Evening. The life of a group of people around 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 looked up and saw a sketch actor shouting "Happy New Year" on TV.
Popular words that have been circulating for a year are even more delicious in the Spring Festival Evening sketches. When we hear online hot words such as "sweet", "C debut" and "Panta" in the Spring Festival Evening program, we will not be surprised, but only a little embarrassed.
As Professor Tang Renwu of Beijing Normal University said:
After 38 years, the Spring Festival Evening sketch may have lost its former glory, but it is an indispensable flavor for ordinary people to celebrate the New Year.