{"id":14975,"date":"2020-01-22T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=14975"},"modified":"2020-01-20T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T20:48:18","slug":"the-spring-festival-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-spring-festival-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spring Festival Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few things that are synonymous with the Chinese Spring Festival<\/strong> (\u6625\u8282 – ch\u016bn ji\u00e9) \u2013 red couplets hanging on doors, dumplings boiling in a pot, firecrackers going off night and day, and families plopping down in front of the TV for 4+ hours. Indeed, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is a huge part of the celebration. In this post I’ll introduce this marathon TV show to you just in time for the Year of the Rat<\/strong> (\u9f20\u5e74 – sh\u01d4 ni\u00e1n).<\/p>\n

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Lanterns are another big part of Spring Festival.<\/p><\/div>\n

An Intro to the Gala<\/h2>\n

The\u00a0CCTV Spring Festival Gala<\/strong> airs every year on the eve of the Chinese New Year. It has a pretty long name in Chinese. Here’s the whole thing:<\/p>\n

\u4e2d\u56fd\u4e2d\u592e\u7535\u89c6\u53f0\u6625\u8282\u8054\u6b22\u665a\u4f1a<\/h3>\n

zh\u014dng gu\u00f3 zh\u014dng y\u0101ng di\u00e0n sh\u00ec t\u00e1i ch\u016bn ji\u00e9 li\u00e1n hu\u0101n w\u01cen hu\u00ec<\/h3>\n

That’s quite the mouthful, even for native speakers! That’s why most people just refer to it as \u201cChun Wan<\/strong>\u201d (\u6625\u665a \u2013 ch\u016bn w\u01cen) for short.<\/p>\n

It’s the most watched television show on the planet. Last year, over a billion people tuned in to watch \u2013 in China alone. That wasn’t a typo. Seriously – a BILLION people watched this show!<\/p>\n

To put it into perspective, that\u2019s more than ten times the amount of Americans who watched the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n