The well-known teacher Zhao stepped forward to deliver the opening speech for the Spring Festival Gala, and then several hosts introduced the guests present at the gala in turn.
The first program was by the crosstalk master, Mr. Hou.
There are very few people in China who don't know Hou Lao. Almost everyone in the country with a radio has heard Hou Lao's crosstalk performances.
After Hou Lao finished his crosstalk performance, the hosts began to extend New Year's greetings to the people of the whole country.
The sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner was served, and everyone should have been focused on eating, but instead, everyone was glued to the TV and had no appetite at all.
This scene is also playing out in various parts of the country.
Some workplaces and factories even set up a television and had a group of people crowding around to watch it.
Dozens or even hundreds of people can sit in front of a small television set.
Teacher Li came up and sang "New Year's Greeting Song" for the audience, and many people in front of the TV hummed along.
Then there was a riddle game: "From top to bottom, widely united," guess a single character.
Even though no one was actually there, as soon as the riddle was read aloud, the people watching TV were all eager to come up with their own answers.
Some people even started arguing about it, making quite a scene.
After the riddle program, Teacher Ma and his partner performed two crosstalk routines, which drew bursts of laughter from viewers.
When the next program came, the audience's smiles vanished; they became increasingly solemn, and some even had tears in their eyes.
Because it was a poem recitation by a guest from across the strait, titled "Thinking of My Loved Ones More During Festivals."
Some people have been separated from their loved ones by the two sides of the strait for many years. Although people have been traveling back and forth between the two sides in the past two years, many people still have not been able to meet their relatives, and some have even passed away.
In this moment of family reunion, hearing this poem recited evokes deep emotions, bringing tears to many eyes.
Seeing this, Li Huai recalled the future his wife had talked about with him. Until his wife passed away, the island across the strait had not yet returned.
Even when the next program started, and the familiar Huangmei Opera "Husband and Wife Return Home Together" was sung, some people were still immersed in the previous emotions and had not yet come out.
After that, several programs followed, consisting of songs or song and dance performances, which finally improved the audience's mood.
When Teacher Jiang and host Teacher Wang's comedy sketch "Eating Chicken" was performed, bursts of laughter finally rang out in front of the TV.
Two Peking Opera performances and three crosstalk performances calmed the audience down.
When it came time to guess the riddles, everyone started to have a lively discussion and share their own answers.
The children, including Da Wa, Er Wa, and Xiao Duo, were all incredibly enthusiastic, which amused Zhao Qinglan greatly.
Once the magic show began, everyone's excitement reached its peak.
Few people in China have ever seen such a performance, and they were all incredibly shocked by the constant startling and exclamations.
Erwa immediately said that magic shows were the coolest thing he had ever seen.
Zhao Qinglan just wanted to say, son, you haven't seen enough. There's a lot more of the world you haven't seen.
Even the laziest third child has become quite talkative today.
The food on the table slowly cooled down, but that couldn't dampen the family's enthusiasm for watching the Spring Festival Gala.
Later, Teacher Li came up and sang several more songs, and some audience members asked her to sing "Hometown Love".
This song is one that many people have heard and love. After she finished singing it, the audience was still wanting more and wanted her to sing it again, which can be considered a unique feature of the first Spring Festival Gala.
Zhao Qinglan's true feelings for Erwa came out very quickly.
After a series of songs and skits, when a group of people came out to perform martial arts, Erwa immediately felt that this was the coolest show.
How many boys don't dream of being heroes or martial arts masters?
With the easing of policies in the past two years, many people have come into contact with martial arts novels from across the Taiwan Strait, and those who have read them are completely captivated.
There's also the movie "Shaolin Temple," which was released just a year ago and sparked a nationwide craze for martial arts dreams.
I wonder how many people watched it multiple times after watching it once, not satisfied with just one viewing.
With a ticket price of one cent, it still managed to generate over 100 million in box office revenue.
Now, when people watch this martial arts performance, many children in front of the TV are humming and hawing along.
With the final magic performance, this year's Spring Festival Gala finally came to an end.
By this time, everyone realized that several hours had already passed.
No one expected the Spring Festival Gala to be so interesting, not as rigid as people imagined, but rather lively and fun.
Before we knew it, time had passed.
Perhaps with economic and technological development, the Spring Festival Gala will have more and more programs and more and more celebrities, but the first Spring Festival Gala will still be an indelible memory in the hearts of countless people.
The Spring Festival Gala has ended, but many people are still discussing it with great interest.
In the days that followed, whenever people visited relatives or friends, they would inevitably ask, "Did you watch the Spring Festival Gala?"
If someone says they haven't seen it, those who have will feel very proud and honored. If they say they have seen it, everyone will discuss the programs from the Spring Festival Gala.
Zhao Qinglan hadn't paid attention to these things in her previous life, but this time, seeing how influential the Spring Festival Gala was, she was quite moved.
The funniest one is Erwa. After watching the movie "Shaolin Temple", Erwa was filled with longing for Shaolin Temple.
When he saw that martial arts performance again on the Spring Festival Gala, he wanted to go to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts even more.
He even went so far as to claim that he wanted to learn martial arts so that he could help the weak and punish the strong.
However, his dream was quickly suppressed by Zhao Qinglan and Li Huai.
It's not that Zhao Qinglan doesn't respect the child's dreams.
If you really like it and want to practice, and if it were a future era with well-established martial arts schools, she might consider letting her child learn something they like. But what kind of environment is this now?
Besides, she felt that Erwa was just impulsive and acted on a whim.
The second brother harbored deep resentment towards the adults' united suppression and even tried to win over the eldest and third brothers.
However, although the eldest brother longed for martial arts, he wasn't as impulsive as his younger brother. After he listed a bunch of difficulties for his brother about learning martial arts and leaving home, the second brother's interest immediately faded.
What? You have to get up before dawn every day to do horse stance?
Must I only eat vegetarian meals every day?
I still can't see my parents and friends.
When Erwa declared that he would no longer study, Dawa secretly went to his mother, Zhao Qinglan, to report and curry favor.
That's right, Zhao Qinglan told all of this to Da Wa, just waiting for Da Wa to find an opportunity to dampen Er Wa's enthusiasm.
Sure enough, when Erwa saw how much hardship he had to endure to learn martial arts, he immediately lost interest in going to the Shaolin Temple to become stronger.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala together as a family this time will become a happy memory that Zhao Qinglan's family will never forget for many years to come.
Even after Erwa grew up, his past ambitions and embarrassing moments were often brought up to amuse everyone, but that's another story.
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