On January 26, the CCTV 2025 Spring Festival Gala successfully completed its fifth rehearsal. Creative programs, songs and dances, crosstalk, sketches, operas, martial arts, magic and other types of programs are constantly exciting. The program arrangement of the four sub-venues and the main venue complement each other. The whole gala combines traditional culture with modern charm, artistic sense and technological sense, and is festive and full of the flavor of the New Year. At this point, all preparations for the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Snake have been completed, and a happy, auspicious and joyous national gala is about to begin.

Witty words, telling the fun of life

The skit "Borrowing an Umbrella" revolves around the classic scene of "Borrowing an Umbrella at the Broken Bridge" in "The Legend of White Snake". It cleverly links the four opera genres of Peking Opera, Cantonese Opera, Sichuan Opera and Yue Opera, and maximizes the comedy effect through a series of unexpected "misunderstandings", and also sends the audience the beautiful blessing of "all lovers in the world will eventually get married".

True feelings flow, singing out strength and warmth

The tide rises in the east, and we feel the vibrant China. Yingge Dance, which is called "the strongest New Year atmosphere group" by netizens, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Accompanied by the loud singing of "The tide of the east is everywhere, and Yingge dances in the prosperous times", "Dancing Yingge at the Tide" sings the heroism and unrestrainedness of the Chinese people. Dancers, including the descendants of Yingge Dance, danced the "Chinese War Dance", which was vigorous and powerful, and the hammers were struck loudly. "Dance" and "martial arts" stretched out their lofty ambitions and showed the confident and vigorous vitality of the Chinese nation.

The Greater Bay Area is full of love, and the medley of Cantonese hits brings back memories of youth. Singers from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area jointly performed the song "Bay Area Music", sending sincere wishes for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to be "Guangdong" and "Guangdong" to be "good".

Fantastic ideas, dancing out poetic and picturesque

It is both innovative and poetic. The innovative work "Joy on the Branches" based on Chinese classical dance transforms the stage into an unfolding Song Dynasty painting, outlining the aesthetic image of "people dancing in the painting" and conveying the beautiful meaning of "magpies climbing branches to announce good news". In the modern ballet "Beauty", the dancers lightly stroke on their toes, and the Spring Festival Gala stage turns into a pool of spring water. The elegance of ballet and the agility of water are perfectly integrated, creating a lingering artistic conception of "the so-called beauty is on the other side of the water".

Let's celebrate Chinese New Year together

After the successful application of the "Spring Festival" for World Heritage, it has been understood and loved by more and more people around the world. When the Chinese folk song "Lanhuahua" meets the world cultural heritage and Peruvian famous song "Song of the Eagle", Chinese singers and world-renowned tenors make friends through singing, and the Chinese folk instrument suona and Peruvian folk instrument panpipes resonate in harmony, the cultural exchange and collision brings surprises.

White clouds last for thousands of years, and the stars stretch across thousands of miles. In front of the Yellow Crane Tower, the American pop rock band OneRepublic and friends from the Wuhan branch venue completed a rock chorus "Counting Stars" that spanned mountains and seas. On global social media, the "Year of the Snake FUN Dance Challenge" continues to gain popularity, with interactive videos of netizens from various countries dancing on the Spring Festival Gala stage to the song "China Fun Together", extending a warm invitation to friends around the world to "check in" in China and spend the Chinese New Year together.

The old year is said goodbye with laughter and joy, and the world celebrates the new year with joy. At 8 pm on January 28, China Central Radio and Television's "2025 Spring Festival Gala" will present a splendid and heartfelt "cultural New Year's Eve dinner" to audiences around the world, welcoming the festive, joyful and hopeful Year of the Snake!