春晚 Chinese New Year Show - build-up and live watching

[gato]

Maybe the forum can work together on doing a transcript? Realmayo, are you up for it? That was one of the better performances of the night.

[trisha2766]

I liked the shadow part, but yeah, it did look a bit like male anatomy. 

 

I fast forwarded all through the military part.

 

I finally got to see Jackie Chan, I liked the martial arts thing. 

 

If you're in the U.S., in the central time zone: 新年好!

[Guest realmayo]

Did 大山 perform anywhere in here? 

 

大山 Dashan ‏@akaDashanJan 29

After serious & thoughtful consideration, Cui Jian and I have both decided we will not be appearing on CCTV’s Spring Festival gala this year

https://twitter.com/akaDashan

[Lu]

Mind that he follows up with 'The only difference being that he was invited.' Nice :-)

[Guest realmayo]

Dashan's a classy dude. But I never knew he had a back catalogue of subversive comedy skits from 1989 that he wanted to reperform! 

[Lu]

I suppose there's more than one difference then :-)

[Meng Lelan]

So, was wondering if anyone is watching for this year in 2016?

[trisha2766]

I was thinking of watching this year since it is a weekend.  Does anyone know what time it will be on in a US time zone?  I'm guess it will start sometime Sunday morning here?

[StChris]

Here's a sneak preview to get everyone geed up for the big event:

http://english.cntv.cn/2016/02/04/VIDE4KWeDoTI3PEQgDUA3svl160204.shtml

[abcdefg]

#86 -- Trisha --

 

I was thinking of watching this year since it is a weekend.  Does anyone know what time it will be on in a US time zone?  I'm guess it will start sometime Sunday morning here?

 

8 PM Saturday night (6 February) Beijing time will be 6 a.m. US Central time the same day.

 

Here's a table: http://www.timebie.com/timezone/centralbeijing.php

 

I'm going to Las Vegas this weekend and hope to catch some live local CNY celebrations there. LV has a large Chinese community, plus revelers come from Los Angeles. It will probably be eclipsed by the Superbowl on Sunday the 7th, but am hoping there will be dragon dances or some such on Monday the 8th. Since Mardi Gras is Tuesday the 9th, those three days have the potential to be pretty intense.

[Meng Lelan]

And will there be the obligatory laowai performances?

[trisha2766]

I was planning a day late then! I thought they started showing it on New Years eve, in the evening China time.

 

I may  not be able to watch much then - Sat. morning I'm taking my daughter to the Asian stores to buy stuff and in the evening we have a New Years show to go to. 

[trisha2766]

Does anyone know of any 'plays on words' - can't think of a better term for it - for the year of the monkey?  Like a couple years ago there was a lot of 'ma shang' imagery with money on top of horses, etc. I want to know what to look for on Saturday and at Chinese school and stuff.

 

Sorry, I wasn't sure where else to post this either.

[abcdefg]

I was planning a day late then! I thought they started showing it on New Years eve, in the evening China time.

 

I'm not sure what day it is. Will check Chinese on-line sources and return to post what I find.

 

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Looks like the main big production is the evening of Sunday the 7th at about 8 pm. That is the night of 大年三十。But there is are reruns the next day.

 

http://edu.163.com/16/0203/11/BET8IOKK00294KHN.html

[Meng Lelan]

We used to have live real time viewing on Chinese Forums complete with boredom and mockery. 

[edelweis]

3 hours to go. Considering buying jiaozi.

Edit: wait, no. It's tomorrow.

[edelweis]

No Jiaozi.

On the other hand it's the first time I understand enough of the intro to realize it's full of politicalese (did I hear 小康社会?).

 

Edit: So when you read 春联, the top part comes last?

[Meng Lelan]

It's on now? I can't find anything that's broadcasting. 

[edelweis]

I get it on CCTV-4.

走在小康路上. It's a song.

[Meng Lelan]

Thanks, I just pulled that one up. Dance routine with propaganda videos.