"Ladies and gentlemen, on this happy New Year's Eve, all staff of CCTV wish you a happy family, all the best and a happy Spring Festival." This is the first greeting of Zhao Zhongxiang, the host of the year, at the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. From 1983 to 2023, a CCTV party has accompanied several generations of Chinese people for 40 years on New Year's Eve, which is affectionately called "Spring Festival Gala". After 40 years of companionship, "watching the Spring Festival Gala" has become another folk custom in addition to pasting Spring Festival couplets and eating New Year's Eve dinner for Chinese all over the world. Year after year, the Spring Festival Gala has developed from a literary gala to a national cultural project; Year after year, the Spring Festival Gala moved from TV screen to multi-screen interaction; Year after year, the Spring Festival Gala has developed from one evening in that year to 25 programs called "Spring Festival Gala" around the Spring Festival. Over the past 40 years, the Spring Festival Gala has been developing continuously, and the audience also has higher requirements for it. Tonight, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala will open again. Let's review the songs and laughter brought by the "Spring Festival Gala" in the past 40 years. The proportion of song programs in the past 40 years has reached the highest. The Spring Festival Gala is a comprehensive evening. If you ask which type of program is the most popular on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, it should be a song program - it has been the same for nearly 40 years. "Your figure and your voice will always be printed in my heart!" Li Guyi sang "Love in the Countryside" at the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983. Li Gu sang six songs in a row, becoming the best of the year. Later, there were many golden songs in the Spring Festival Gala, from "Shepherd Song" and "Sea, Hometown" sung by Zheng Xulan to "Clouds in Hometown" and "A Fire in Winter" sung by Fei Xiang; From "My Chinese Heart" sung by Zhang Mingmin to "Always Go Home" sung by Chen Hong, Cai Guoqing and Jiang Tao; From Faye Wong and Na Ying's "Meet in September" to Song Zuying and Jay Chou's "Spicy Girl". The golden song of the Spring Festival Gala undoubtedly became the hottest song of the year, and has been handed down to this day, becoming a classic work. In the past two years, the song programs that account for the most of the Spring Festival Gala programs have emerged new features: fewer solo programs and more chorus programs; More and more non-professional singers, especially film and television actors, have joined in song programs. According to the statistics of the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, due to the increase in the number of people, the average performance time of the singers on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is becoming less and less: in 1983, the average performance time was 4 and a half minutes, and in 1984, it reached 5 minutes, and then it has been declining. Jiang Yuheng, as a senior singer in the Chinese music circle, still has fresh memories of his first appearance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Jiang Yuheng will sing "Cheers to the Past" at the 2023 CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Rabbit, but the performance form and guests have new interpretations. Let's look forward to what "new wine" will be brewed in this year's Spring Festival Gala. In the past 40 years, the language programs are most expected to be the "New Forces of Comedy", and ask the Chinese audience what kind of programs are most expected at the Spring Festival Gala, which must be language programs. Language programs on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala,