When is the Lantern Festival Gala? How long is the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala?

February 9th, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called it night"Supper", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the Little New Year, Yuan Xi or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.

The Lantern Festival, also known as"Shangyuan Festival"。Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the new year. The origin of the Shangyuan Festival, "Miscellaneous Records of the Year", records that this is according to the Taoist stereotype.

Taoism once called the fifteenth day of the first month of the year as the Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July as the Middle Yuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as the Xiayuan Festival"Ternary"。At the end of the Han Dynasty, an important sect of Taoism, Wudou Midao, worshiped the gods of the heavenly officials, the earth officials, and the water officials, saying that the heavenly officials blessed, the local officials forgave their sins, and the water officials relieved their misfortunes, and matched the three officials with three yuan, saying that the Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the 15th day of the first month, the Zhongyuan Diguan was born on the 15th day of July, and the lower Yuan Shuiguan was born on the 15th of October. In this way, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival.

Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Menglianglu":"The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of blessing from the heavenly officials. "It is said that the heavenly officials are blessed, the local officials forgive their sins, and the water officials are relieved, and the three officials are matched with three yuan, saying that the Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the 15th day of the first month, the Zhongyuan local official was born on the 15th day of July, and the lower Yuan water official was born on the 15th day of October.

In this way, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival. Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Menglianglu":"The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of blessing from the heavenly officials.

The real impetus for the Lantern Festival is that it is at a new point in time, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their wishes in life. Oh.

The Lantern Festival party lasts about 4 hours

**Radio and Television Station's "2022 Lantern Festival Gala" will be broadcast on February 15. With the theme of "Happy Lantern Festival, Strong Chinese Style", the whole party vividly showed the joyful atmosphere of the Lantern Festival in the land of China in songs, dances, cross talks, operas, martial arts, magic and other wonderful performances.

The creative program "Qi Tianle" skillfully integrates the blessings of space ** from the Chinese space station and the passionate folk music performance at the party site, creating a magical encounter that shuttles through the universe and the harmony of heaven and earth, and uses new technology to interpret the timeless charm of China's excellent traditional culture.

The original song "Tiger Step Dance" uses traditional lion dancing with mechanical tigers, VR paintings and other technological elements to create a festive color of the Lantern Festival together.

This year's Lantern Festival Gala makes full use of a variety of artistic expressions and integrates with high technology to bring a new audio-visual experience to the audience. The creative program "Selling Tangyuan" vividly interprets the classic melody by integrating symphony and cross talk; Songs such as "The Beauty of the World is Interlocked with You" and "Come to See You with Happiness" are sincere, conveying the warmth of the Lantern Festival party.

2 hours in total.

2019 CCTV Lantern Festival Gala Host:

The lineup includes Zhu Xun, Li Sisi, Ren Luyu, Nigmaiti, Zhang Zequn, and Kang Hui.

2019 CCTV Lantern Festival Gala Program List:

1, "Like You" TFBOYS Wang Junkai Wang Yuan Yi Yang Qianxi.

2, "Mapo Tofu" Zhang Yixing.

3, "Reunion Year" Wei Yunxi, Luo Yunxi, Li Qin, Zhang Binbin.

4, sketch "Say Quickly, I Do" Xie Na, Wang Xun, Ju Jingyi, Lu.

1. Yang Di. 5, "Heirs" Qin Lan, Jing Tian, Guli Nazha.

6, "Moonlight" Wang Xi, Zhou Shen, Cai Chengyu, Ju Hongchuan, Li Qi, Wang Kai.

7, "Happy Lantern Festival" Chang Yuan, Bao Bell, Sha Yi, Hu Ke, Song Ning, Li Yugang, Gao Weiguang, Liu Ruilin, Zhang Keying, Wang Yajie, Yan Xi.

8, "Love Song Singing" Gu Juji.

A series of traditional Chinese folk crafts selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list, such as Beijing lanterns, Qinhuai lanterns, Kip stone lanterns, and Chaozhou lanterns, will make a surprise appearance in the party, echoing the real-life shooting of the lantern festival in the east, west, north, south, and central places, showing the festive colors of the beautiful China during the Lantern Festival.

Program highlights: In accordance with the requirements of "thought + art + technology" integration and innovation, the main station is based on science and technology to be self-reliant and self-reliant, and create a Lantern Festival party with profound thoughts, exquisite art, and exquisite production.

The highlight of the Lantern Festival party

There are a total of 19 programs in this year's Lantern Festival Gala, 10 of which were called surprises by netizens, and only 2 programs were complained about more, and the proportion was very good. No wonder everyone unanimously feels that this year's CCTV Lantern Festival Gala is much better than the Spring Festival Gala, with a tight rhythm, the best of the best, high quality, and the host plays better than the Spring Festival Gala. During the party, netizens discussed enthusiastically, and the audience of the Lantern Festival party generally had a good reputation in Xiaozhou.

Around the level of each program, the host's style, and the performance level of the actors, there are constantly hot topics.

Guest lineup: Zhou Shen, Xilin Nayi Gao, Zhang Yuan, Wei Chen, Guo Junchen, Mao Buyi, Huang Ling, Huang Xiaoyun, Wang Sulong, Da Zhang Wei, Mao Xiaotong, Huang Zhibo Qishan, Pan Binlong, Cai Chengyu, Rong Zishan, etc.

Generally on the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Yuan Xi Festival or the Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" as the "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival key seepage".

According to the Taoist "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also known as the "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the customs of the Lantern Festival have been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing customs. The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to the general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been valued in the Western Han Dynasty, the first month of the first month of the Han Dynasty Emperor Xin night in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice the "Taiyi manuscript boring" activities, by later generations as the fifteenth day of the first month to sacrifice to the gods of the forerunner.

However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties. The custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is related to the eastward spread of Buddhism. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and the officials and ordinary people generally "lit lamps for Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the lights of Buddhism were all over the people.

Since the Tang Dynasty, lantern lanterns have become a legal thing and have gradually become a folk custom.

The Lantern Festival is one of the festivals of Sun Tong in China and the Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion playing, stilt walking, rowing boats, twisting Yangge, and playing Taiping drums.

In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

There is a party during the Lantern Festival.

**Radio and Television Station's "2023 Lantern Festival Gala" was successfully broadcast. The party covered a variety of traditional cultural elements such as intangible cultural heritage lanterns, southern lions, operas, and operas, and integrated various art forms such as singing and dancing, magic, rhythmic gymnastics, and mime, showing the festival of thousands of lights and the reunion of thousands of families.

A lantern has been circulating for thousands of years, lighting up the Lantern Festival, and deepening the emotional rent of the "flower planter". Viewing lanterns has been the most important festival of the Lantern Festival since ancient times, and the Lantern Festival Gala of the main station uses lanterns as the medium, and takes the traditional Chinese folk craft "lanterns" on the national intangible cultural heritage list as the core symbol of the entire Lantern Festival Gala.

The origin of the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is also known as the "Lantern Festival", the "Shangyuan Festival", the "Small New Year's Day", the "Yuan Xi Festival" or the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago in the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month be designated as the Lantern Festival.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the "Taiyi God" sacrifice was set on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Taiyi: the god who rules all the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

The Lantern Festival is the first major festival after the Spring Festival, and is one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon night of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

There are many TV stations that have held Lantern Festival parties, of course, the most concerned is CCTV's Lantern Festival party. CCTV's Lantern Festival Gala can be watched on CCTV 1, and the Lantern Festival Gala organized by local stations can be held on their respective TV stations**. For viewers who missed the CCTV Lantern Festival party, they can also watch it through CCTV's **.

The Lantern Festival Gala after the Spring Festival Gala, although the attention is not as high as the Spring Festival Gala, there is still a certain degree of attention. The festival of the Lantern Festival itself has the custom of eating Lantern Festival, so for the audience who understand the customs of Mingyuan's photo covering, they will also look forward to the Lantern Festival party itself.

CCTV's Lantern Festival Gala is the most concerned, but the Lantern Festival Gala of local stations also has many highlights. For example, Henan Satellite TV's Lantern Festival Wonderful Tour, there are some dance programs and singing programs that have attracted the attention of the audience. Interested viewers can also go to **** to watch.

The Lantern Festival party is on ** radio and television station.

**Radio and Television Lantern Festival Gala", also known as CCTV Lantern Festival Gala, is a large-scale party produced and broadcast by **Radio and Television Station. The party covers songs, dances, cross talk, sketches, acrobatics, magic and other art forms, presenting the audience with a lively, joyful and festive gala full of folk atmosphere.

**The Lantern Festival Gala of Radio and Television Station is called the "Old Sister Gala" of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala by the audience, and the degree of attention is second only to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In terms of content presentation, the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala covers songs, dances, cross talk, sketches, acrobatics, magic and other art forms, presenting a lively, joyful and festive gala for the audience.

On the basis of continuing the theme of the 2019 Spring Festival Gala "Striving for a New Era, Celebrating the Year of Happiness in front of the Hall", the 2019 CCTV Lantern Festival Gala focuses on the theme of "Golden Pig Spring", and "fun" and "music" have become the two key words, focusing on the three main lines of traditional culture, art performance, and party characteristics.

In the 2022 party, Shang Wenjie, Li Sidani and the Chinese women's football girls who won the 2022 Women's Asian Cup won the championship sang "Wind and Rain Rainbow Sonorous Rose" with the live actors through cloud connection, conveying the courage and belief to move forward bravely with singing; The mascots of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, "Regret Qi Bingdundun" and "Xue Rongrong", also came to the scene to "make trouble" for the Lantern Festival. Gu Ailing, Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and other Winter Olympic champions sent the best wishes of the Lantern Festival to the Chinese audience.