At night.
It was three minutes to 8 PM.
At Zhang Ye's in-laws' house.
"Changhe, come quickly!"
"What?"
"It's starting!"
"What? It's not time yet? "
"Come quickly!"
…
Online.
"Ah!"
"It's starting, it's starting!"
"It's already started?"
"Why has it been brought forward?"
"I don't know."
"Eh, what's this?"
"A prologue?"
"But the Spring Festival Gala didn't have something like this in the past?"
…
America.
Chinatown.
"Mom, the Spring Festival Gala is starting!"
"Ah? How many more minutes are left? "
"Quick, watch this! It's really starting! "
"It's starting!"
…
At this very moment!
At this very minute!
The eyes of the entire world's Chinese population fell on Central TV Department 1.
In the past, the Spring Festival Gala would start right off the bat. But this year, what stunned all of the Chinese people was that the first broadcast was actually a prologue!
The music started playing.
A caption appeared on TV: "What is the Spring Festival Gala?"
An auntie: "The Spring Festival Gala is a festive and lively event!"
An old man: "The Spring Festival Gala is a reunion!"
A chef: "The Spring Festival Gala is a celebration of eating and drinking, hahaha!"
Huo Dongfang: "The Spring Festival Gala is a reunion dinner for all Chinese people around the world!"
Xiaodong: "The Spring Festival Gala, it's not much with or without it. Actually, it's just an accompaniment for the people on New Year's Eve."
A southern seafood shop owner: "The Spring Festival Gala is a joke from the North that I don't understand!"
A Beijing taxi driver: "The Spring Festival Gala is a break. This is the only day of the year where I can watch TV in peace."
A scholar: "The Spring Festival Gala? I've never watched it before. How tacky! "
His wife: "If I don't watch it, how would I know it's tacky? Ignore him, he's so pretentious!"
Ning Lan: "Criticism of the Spring Festival Gala means that they're paying attention to it. They're picking at its faults while still watching it. This shows just how important it is."
An overseas Chinese man: "The Spring Festival Gala. When we overseas Chinese watch the Spring Festival Gala, we feel homesick!"
An overseas Chinese woman: "We're not as picky as the domestic audience. We like to watch it!"
An old man feeding his wife: "The Spring Festival Gala is to make her happy! He was just like a child when he was old!
Zhang Yuanqi: "Hehe, Spring Festival Gala? Is it the night of the Spring Festival?
Old Man from a Scholarly Family: The Spring Festival Gala can't just be entertainment, it has to be educational!
The Son of a Scholarly Family: Aiyo, Dad! We've been busy for a year. The Spring Festival Gala is just for fun, so stop lecturing us!
Young Master of Scholarly Family: What's wrong with being educated?
A young man: Do you know what my greatest pleasure is watching the Spring Festival Gala?
The other young men: Puke! Shit! Ah! Haha!
Traffic Police: "The Spring Festival Gala is for everyone to watch the show. We will ensure safety!"
Nurse: The Spring Festival Gala is welcoming new life!
Navy soldier: "The Spring Festival Gala is combat readiness duty!"
Fire Alarm: The Spring Festival Gala is ready for battle!
…
The introduction video stunned all the Chinese people in front of their televisions!
There was no preaching!
He didn't deliberately raise it!
There were no compliments!
Can't understand it? Tacky? The fun of watching the Spring Festival Gala is to complain?
— There were even a lot of negative comments that were casually put up!
This prologue was too special. It was so special that many people's hearts were touched at this moment. From all walks of life, men and women, old and young, everyone had a different understanding of the Spring Festival Gala. Everyone had a different attitude towards the Spring Festival Gala. What was the Spring Festival Gala? There was never a fixed answer to it. Everyone might have their own answer to it, just like this introduction video.
The main show hadn't started yet!
But this first appetizer had already shocked everyone!
They had never seen anyone do something like this before the Spring Festival Gala!
On Weibo.
"Whose idea was this?"
"It was definitely Zhang Ye's idea."
"This is good!"
"Yeah, I quite like it!"
"The things that Zhang Ye comes up with are really different from others!"
"I like Sister Zhang's line — Spring Festival Gala? It's the night of the Spring Festival Gala — hahahaha! "
"That line about the Spring Festival Gala being fun to ridicule really hit me in the heart!"
"This introduction video is really something!"
"I'm just afraid that we'll be blinded once it starts."
"Uh, that's what I'm afraid of too."
"Yeah, I guess it'll be the same as the previous years. It'll be the same old dance, stage, and songs. Haha, then I'll really go to sleep."
…
At 8 PM sharp.
Central TV. In the production control room.
Zhang Ye said loudly:
"Three!
"Two!
"One!
"Let's begin! Music!"
…
On TV.
The scene changed and the camera focused on the main stage!
The music and the sounds of singing and dancing suddenly blasted out!
The dancers took the stage!
The opening dance was starting!
The Spring Festival Gala was starting!
This was the first act of the entire Spring Festival Gala, and also the most difficult act to handle. The importance of the opening dance was self-evident, but at the same time, it was also very difficult to handle. Dancing? Singing? Inviting a bunch of celebrities to perform? After so many years of the Spring Festival Gala, it had already been used so many times that it could no longer pique the interest of the audience. That was why Zhang Ye had stood his ground and spent close to a billion yuan to build the main stage of Broadcasting Studio 1. He even selected the biggest and best-reviewed song and dance act from the previous Spring Festival Galas of his previous world to be used as the opening!
From the act!
To the stage!
To the actors!
To the special effects!
Zhang Ye had put in a lot of effort!
He had spared no expense in order to get off to a good start!
…
In front of the television.
"Is this a new stage?"
"The equipment has been changed?"
"Yeah, it's different from the previous years."
"It looks like it's going to be very impressive."
At the beginning, no one thought much of it.
But all of a sudden, the entire stage was filled with the vibe of spring. Fresh flowers bloomed on the stage, on the big screen, on the floor, and in the air. There was a sea of flowers everywhere, with no blind spots at all. The 3D lighting effects looked like real flowers!
Then came summer.
Then autumn.
Finally, winter.
The blazing sun.
The sea breeze.
Snowflakes.
Wave after wave appeared on the stage!
People were dancing!
The four seasons were also dancing!
…
At Zhang Ye's maternal grandma's house.
His three sisters exclaimed in surprise.
"Oh my God!"
"That's amazing, Brother!"
"H-How did they do it?"
"It's so beautiful!"
His uncles and aunts were also dumbfounded!
…
At Old Wu's parents' house.
"Aiyo!"
"What's with this opening dance?"
"Really? And it's even special effects? "
"These special effects are too good!"
…
At a television station.
"Damn!"
"They've really changed the equipment set?"
"How much would that cost!"
"The Station Head has asked the Americans about it. Not counting the other costs, just this equipment set alone would cost 400 million RMB! If we add everything together, it would cost at least 800 million RMB! It might even cost more than that! Not to mention our television station, no television station in the world can afford that! Even the Americans have not tried using this equipment set before! This was only developed this year, so Central TV should be the first in the world to purchase it! "
"Central TV has gone crazy!"
"It's not Central TV that has gone crazy, it's Zhang Ye who has gone crazy!"
"This prodigal!"
"Zhang Ye is really going all out!"
…
In front of the television.
Countless viewers were stunned!
"It's so gorgeous!"
"Holy shit, I'm so shocked!"
"Are these really special effects? How is that possible! "
"Is the technology these days that advanced?"
"Of course! I heard that this stage has the best lighting equipment in the world! It was previously exposed in the news, but as for how good it was, the media did not say anything about it, so no one really knows. That's because no one has seen it before. What the hell, just what kind of stage is this? It's finally been revealed today! As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. This saying is so true! This money is definitely worth it! "
"This is so awesome!"
"This lighting, this color, if the full score is 100 points, then I'll fucking give it 10,000 points!"
"Look at this! The entire floor is filled with screens! "
"Th-Won't it be damaged by stepping on it?"
"Who knows! How fucking much money would this have cost! "
"This year's Spring Festival Gala has changed so much! It's really been upgraded from a shotgun to a cannon! "
"I'm going to cry! Fuck, our Spring Festival Gala finally has world-class stage equipment? This opening dance has really amazed me! "
"Me too!"
"It's a feast for the eyes!"
"Everyone, quickly complain!"
"Fuck, I really can't complain about this!"
"This year's Spring Festival Gala's main stage is too awesome!"
"This is what a Spring Festival Gala should be like!"
"Yeah, this is what a Spring Festival Gala should be like!"
What kind of stage was the Spring Festival Gala like in the past?
It was just the most ordinary big screen. At most, it would get bigger and more colorful every year, but there wouldn't be much of a change. Even the seats in the audience had not been changed in the past two years. A lot of people complained about this during last year's Spring Festival Gala. But no one could have expected that this year's Spring Festival Gala would have such a drastic change. Zhang Ye had withstood so much pressure to open up the advertising business model. This was the most direct and shocking result!
The opening dance had stunned the entire world's Chinese population!
At home!
On Weibo!
Online!
Everyone was going crazy with discussions!
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