Why does it become a folk custom for the whole family to watch the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve?

Spring Festival Gala is short for Spring Festival Gala. The Spring Festival Gala is a comprehensive literary evening to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is broadcast by China CCTV every year on Lunar New Year's Eve.

According to research, the tradition of watching the Spring Festival Gala can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. At that time, although there was no TV, there was a big banquet in the palace on New Year's Eve every year, which lasted for more than 10 hours. During the dinner, Fei Bin and his ministers accompanied the emperor in New Year's greetings and watched various performances, including singing and dancing, sword dancing, sumo wrestling and fire swallowing. Nowadays, with the changes of society and the development and popularization of TV technology, watching the Spring Festival Evening has entered the lives of ordinary people.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which has the nature of Spring Festival Gala, began broadcasting on 1979 New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival Evening of 1 983 was broadcast live for the first time. After that, the Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast on CCTV at 8: 00 every year on Lunar New Year's Eve, and the program will last for 4 to 5 hours until 1 in the morning.

There are many kinds of programs at the Spring Festival Gala. In addition to modern dance, singing and magic performances, there are China traditional drama, cross talk, sketch, national dance and China martial arts. It is precisely because of the strong national cultural color of the Spring Festival Evening that pop culture, elite culture and popular culture can be harmonious and inclusive here, so as to satisfy both refined and popular tastes. The Spring Festival Evening has also become a large-scale cultural activity with both nationality and times, and a colorful visual feast.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival for China people. As the highlight of New Year's Eve, the Spring Festival Gala should naturally carry important cultural connotations at such a specific time and constitute a distinctive cultural symbol and symbol of the Chinese nation in the new era. China people are most interested in the core emotional appeal of family reunion during the Spring Festival. Against the strong concept of reunion, the Spring Festival Gala, with its huge audience coverage, not only becomes an emotional substitute for those who can't go home for the New Year for various reasons, but also an excellent form to bring Chinese people around the world together to the maximum extent. The Spring Festival Evening embodies the national psychological trend of reunion, harmony, auspiciousness and beauty of China people. Many cultural programs at the party also expressed such interpersonal relationships and natural feelings. Therefore, it is China people's favorite to celebrate the whole family's ethical affection expressed by the inkstone in the Spring Festival Evening.

Nowadays, it has become a new folk custom for China people to sit around and watch the Spring Festival Gala on the eve of family reunion.