【新唐人2014年01月30日讯】《央视》农历除夕节目《春晚》执行总导演吕逸涛最近透露，《春晚》今年将由“台长工程”首次升格为“国家项目”，级别堪比2008年北京奥运会开幕式。大陆文化学者认为，《春晚》作为体现中共国家意志的政治仪式，改变了除夕夜的价值。《春晚》受到诟病不是因为节目质量优劣，而是根本不应该继续存在。
《春晚》执行总导演吕逸涛对大陆媒体透露，一直被定位为“台长工程”的《春晚》，今年升级为国家项目，他认为奥运会开幕式就是国家项目，而《春晚》被归入这一类型，显示国家对《春晚》的重视。
澳大利亚《悉尼时报》总经理兼副总编辑杨恒均表示，《春晚》本来是一台文艺节目，却被无限的政治化，弄成宣传爱国、洗脑的东西。而除夕应该是讲亲情，不是讲政治的时候。这些年来，《春晚》完全不应该存在了。
《悉尼时报》总经理兼副总编辑杨恒均：“《春晚》这些年为什么受到这么多诟病？其实不是说它的节目的质量不高，而是这个节目根本不应该存在了。搞成国家项目？一台文艺晚会搞成国家项目？你可以看这几个月，一个中国十四亿人，每天新闻竟然是关于一台节目透露的消息。哎呀，真是看了像弱智一样。”
杨恒均认为，《春晚》处处体现出中共国家意志。
杨恒均：“整个节目大概有将近三分之一是涉及军队警察的内容，甚至穿军装穿警察的人不停的出现在舞台上。这是在世界上没有过的。你想想这个国家，你不是警察国家，你不是军国主义，哪有这么多节目军人警察上去的？”
大陆诗人兼文化评论家叶匡政指出，就像“新闻联播”的涵义不是新闻节目，《春晚》也不是一台文艺表演。“新闻联播”是一个每天进行的政治仪式，而《春晚》是一年进行一次的政治仪式。
大陆诗人兼文化评论家叶匡政“都是把它当作一个国家项目在做，并不是把它当作一个《央视》的晚会或者真正给老百姓除夕夜看的一个晚会来做。他一直是在用各种国家意志来塑造和改变《春晚》，他表达的也是国家意志和政府的权威。它其实一直是一个传播中共政治神话的一种方式。”
叶匡政指出，在过去的除夕夜，人们会敬畏时间，会感恩自然，会缅怀自己的祖先，会礼赞生命。人们祭天或祭祖，或扫尘或放炮竹或守岁，唱大戏扭秧歌。这些都是除夕夜的主要价值。
叶匡政：“人们通过除夕夜感受生命的美好，也希望通过很多这种行为来救赎自身，完成对生命的祈福。《春晚》一旦占用了人们的这个时间以后，它就等于用国家的概念改变了除夕夜的很多价值。它就被改变成对国家意志或者政府权威的宣传。”
大陆媒体报导说，2014年《春晚》即将跟观众见面，被“上面领导”点将而勉为其难担任总导演的冯小刚也渐渐发现，《春晚》不是“私人订制”，甚至也不是“大众订制”，它是一个“国家订制”的节目。冯小刚发誓，“这辈子绝不可能干第二次。”对于他接下《春晚》总导演的活，冯小刚自爆，“我自己的团队统统认为我有病。”
展示大导演的魄力，冯小刚邀请多年来遭到官方封杀的中国摇滚教父崔健上《春晚》。崔健坚持要唱承载着六四记忆和像征意味的《一无所有》，而《央视》只允许他唱《花房姑娘》，结果一拍两散。
叶匡政：“冯小刚当时当导演的时候，我就说过，即使卓别林过来搞这个《春晚》，他也是无法有任何突破的。因为它这个政治框架已经确定了。我们看卓别林所有著名的喜剧，他都是对那个时代最苦难最悲哀的东西的揭示。卓别林的那些东西能够上《春晚》吗？”
叶匡政早先撰文说，在今天的中国，很多表演性的宏大仪式，不只是政府统治民众的手段，甚至成为国家的政治目标。各种仪式因此成为传播政治神话的最佳方式，它用情感力量，来影响人们对现实的理解，和对国家合法性的认可。
采访编辑/秦雪 后制/李勇
CCTV New Year Gala Is Nothing but Politics
CCTV Chinese New Year Gala Executive Director Lu Yitao
revealed that the New Year’s Gala has been promoted from a
TV executive project to a national project, comparable to the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony.
Some scholars believe CCTV’s New Year Gala represents a
CCP political ritual and changes the value of New Year’s Eve.
The show is criticized not for its quality,
but that it should not continue to exist.
The Chinese New Year Gala, CCTV’s executive project,
has recently been promoted to a national project, comparable
to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony.
According to its Executive Director Lu Yitao,
this shows the importance of the program to the state.
Sydney Times Chinese editor in chief Yang Hengjun indicates
that the CCTV New Year Gala, supposedly an entertainment,
is totally politicized and infected with patriotic propaganda
and brainwashing material.
The Chinese New Year’s Eve is a time for family, not politics.
This program absolutely should not have existed.
Yang Hengjun: “Why has this CCTV program been criticized
so much for all these years?
In fact it is not the quality of the program, but that the program
should not have existed.
A TV show is transformed into a national project?
Look at the fact that for 1.4 billion Chinese people,
the daily news is about what a TV show means to the country.
It makes you feel retarded."
Yang Hengjun says the CCTV Chinese New Year Gala is full
of the ideology of the Communist regime.
Yang Hengjun: “Nearly one-third of the entire program is about
military police.
Even characters in uniforms appear on stage all the time.
This is not what would be seen in worldwide TV programs.
How would so many police and soldiers appear in
programs so often in a non-police state or non-militarist country?"
Poet and cultural critic Ye Kuangzheng says the news is not
about news, and the show is not about entertainment.
The CCTV news is a daily political ritual,
and the CCTV New Year Gala is an annual political ritual.
Ye Kuangzheng,: “It has been treated
like a national project, rather than an entertainment for the public.
The CCTV program has been shaped and molded by
state ideology to convey the authority of the state and the
government.
It has been a propaganda tool to spread the CCP political myth."
Ye Kuangzheng explains that traditional Chinese New Year’s
Eve is when people would worship time, nature,
the ancestors and life, with rituals honoring gods and
ancestors and celebrations with fireworks, staying up all night
and singing folk music.
Ye Kuangzheng: “Through celebrating the New Year’s Eve,
people redeem themselves and fulfill the blessing of life.
The CCTV show has occupied this sacred moment and
completely changed the value of the Eve with the concept of
the state, and become propaganda for the ideology and
authority of the state."
Chinese media reported that general director of the 2014 CCTV
Chinese New Year Gala, Feng Xiaogang, appointed by the top
officials, has gradually realized the show is not private or
public, but rather a state program.
Feng Xiaogang swears that he’ll never do it again in this life time.
Since becoming the general director of the program, Feng said,
“My team thinks that I have mental issues."
To show his directorial qualities, Feng Xiaogang invited
the Father of Chinese Rock, Cui Jian, to the show.
Cui Jian, banned by the Communist regime, insisted
on singing his hit, “Nothing to my name",
symbolic of the 1989 student movement,
and rejected the invitation.
Ye Kuangzheng: “When Feng Xiaogang was appointed
director, I said that, even if Chaplin were to direct this
show, he would not have been able to make any difference.
The political framework would restrict Chaplin from revealing
the bitter sufferings of his era through comedy.
Chaplin’s style won’t appear in the show."
Ye Kuangzheng had written earlier that many performances
in China today are means to control, and demonstrate the
political agenda of the state.
The ceremonies have become the best tools to convey political
myths.
The emotion conveyed through the programs is manipulated
to influence the concept and perception of reality and
the legitimacy of the state.
Interview & Edit/QinXue Post-Production/LiYong
