What time does the spring dinner start?

8:00 pm.

The gala is broadcast live every New Year's Eve at 20:00 on CCTV's CCTV Comprehensive Channel, Variety Channel, Chinese International Channel and Children's Channel .

The Spring Festival Gala opens with a song and dance show, takes song and dance, song and dance, opera programs as the main body, and concludes the Gala with "Unforgettable Tonight" as the closing song. In terms of transmission method, live broadcasting is the basic means, using EFP (electronic live production) and ESP (TV in-set i.e. studio program production), multi-camera filming, on-site switching, and simultaneous recording. Live broadcasting realizes the simultaneity of filming and broadcasting, strengthens the concept of "this moment", and enhances the audience's sense of scene and participation.

Multi-camera shooting and live broadcast switching, through different camera positions and different angles, enriches the picture expression, and shows the audience in front of the TV various performance levels and sides. In the specific operation, such as armed police officers and Chinese organizations in foreign countries to congratulate the New Year, zero o'clock bell ringing, important current events and related characters interspersed appearances, etc. have formed a certain routine.

The Spring Festival Gala, as an important cultural event that has evolved over the years, is significant and far-reaching. The significance of the Spring Festival Gala lies in the fact that as a TV gala it has created a cultural miracle and accomplished a TV myth. The gala carries the content of mainstream ideology and highlights the narrative function. The Spring Festival Gala should not only be held for a long time, but it is no longer a simple literary event, a gala event.