Chapter 727: How Could the Spring Festival Gala Be Without Magic?

On the Spring Festival Gala stage, Chen Lili stood at the very front, her appearance solemn, calm, and compassionate.

This stage requires a great sense of atmosphere.

This is also why it is said that the background music for "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" adds so much to it.

At this very moment, the lead dancer Chen Lili no longer held her hands in a mudra, but instead stretched her body slightly and then raised her arms.

Like "Prayer," this dance incorporates many Dunhuang elements; since Dunhuang Dance does not exist on Blue Star, Luo Mo is the pioneer, so for now, it can only be said to be integrated with Dunhuang culture.

As previously introduced, Dunhuang Dance has many distinct characteristics.

At this moment, what is being displayed are the arm and waist-hip sections.

Chen Lili raised her hands, tightened her waist and hips, and pulled back slightly, forming a posture of raised arms and seated hips.

This dance posture is capable of revealing every inch of the dancer's alluring figure and the advantages of their physique.

According to Xu Cong's original version, this part was meant to embody charm and sexiness.

Yet under Luo Mo's modifications, within this theme, everything still appears holy and pure.

This is a very magical atmosphere.

Even though the dancer reveals her slender waist, her legs are kept close together, the contours of her thighs are very distinct, and her hips are tilted backward and slightly retracted, yet you do not have the feeling that you are watching a suggestive dance.

On the contrary, your attention will basically not linger on her gracefulness.

You will only feel that this dance is very beautiful.

The Buddha's light shines everywhere, briefly covering up even your lecherous attributes.

Once Chen Lili changed her movements, the 40 arms behind her appeared once again.

The form in which they appear is different each time, giving one a sense of great variety.

The background music also changed at this moment, with the sound of the pipa beginning to take a dominant position.

The earlier part was for visual impact; now that everyone has begun to get a little familiar with this dance, it begins to display the gentle and beautiful parts.

When the Bodhisattva appears in the world, you are naturally shocked.

Once you have accepted this fact, it then shows you the Bodhisattva lowering her brows.

That kind of benevolence, compassion, and gentleness...

Forty palms, wearing props on their fingertips, perform all sorts of movements, resembling a blooming lotus flower.

You will sometimes feel that you see the Buddha's light behind Guanyin, and at other times feel that you see Guanyin's precious lotus.

"How is that done?"

"It's so uniform when they are side by side!"

"Absolutely amazing, and so beautiful!"

"Precise timing, it's terrifying!"

Nowadays, there are some dance-related variety shows that have quite high popularity.

Some dancers are even called "emotionless timing machines" because they are so good at hitting the beats.

The audience simply cannot understand how these deaf-mute people, in a situation where they cannot hear the music, are able to achieve such precise control.

For this, how much effort and sweat they must have put in.

Next, when a scene resembling a rotating wheel appeared, everyone felt even more dazzled.

The stage lighting is absolutely top-tier.

Because their costumes are quite special, they are all shimmering with gold.

If the lighting is done well, it can produce very good effects.

Therefore, in this regard, Ning Dan and Luo Mo are both very strict, all for the sake of achieving perfection!

The entire dance is actually divided into about three stages.

The front is a synchronized dance standing in a line, and then, the dancers walk out and disperse.

What many people find most memorable is actually these arm movements.

But in reality, the dance after they disperse is also performed extremely well.

Some audience members call this part—Guanyin Subduing Demons.

The music for this section of the dance is more active and impassioned than the previous part.

The dancers' postures also incorporate more elements of Dunhuang Dance.

Arms twisting, waist twisting, hips twisting.

This also allows everyone in the Disabled Persons Art Troupe to appear before the audience.

Otherwise, everyone would only be able to see the appearance of the lead dancer, Chen Lili.

Guanyin has a thousand faces; it should be this way.

The drumbeats began to get denser and faster.

This made everyone feel even more incredulous.

"With such fast music, they can still hit the beats!"

"Every movement hit the beat!"

"How is that done?"

"A miracle of the silent world!"

"So impressed!"

This section of content is actually quite imposing.

When they returned to the throne, with Chen Lili in the center and the others spreading out to both sides, the visual impact was also very strong.

There is a sense of the Bodhisattva returning to her seat.

Since the subduing of demons has already ended, then, this is the final...

—Saving all living beings.

The entire background music also underwent a transformation at this moment.

When Luo Mo was producing the background music, he even felt it was a bit like working on *Journey to the West*.

It felt like this final part was a bit like the master and his disciples finally arriving at the Western Heaven.

The entire dance was nearing its end.

At the very end, there definitely had to be a big finish for everyone!

Therefore, Chen Lili and the others began to rise and walk forward.

The lead dancer sat at the very front, while the others sat behind.

But according to the stage design, everyone's height after sitting down was different.

Chen Lili sat the lowest, and everyone else sat higher than her.

However, everyone's headpieces were of the very tall kind.

This ensured that only Chen Lili's face was exposed, while the faces of the others were blocked by the hair and tall headpieces of the person in front of them.

Opening their arms at this moment, it was no longer the fan shape from the beginning.

Some arms were positioned very high.

Using this as a finale brought about a new kind of shock.

Today happened to be New Year's Eve, and the bullet comments went instantly crazy.

The four characters "Bodhisattva bless us" began to flood the screen frantically.

Some people had no specific content; they were simply spamming these four characters.

But some messages did have content.

For example, "Bless my mother with good health," "May my grandparents live to be a hundred," "May the new year go smoothly," and so on.

Of course, because several previous programs had a grand enough scope and the patriotic sentiment was Ox enough, some netizens also commented: "Hope Huaxia gets better and better!"

"May the motherland be prosperous and flourishing!"

Once the dance ended, enthusiastic applause erupted at the venue.

In the bullet comments, everyone was full of praise.

"I'm kneeling!"

"Don't ask me why I'm watching this on my knees!"

"Too Ox, it also feels very auspicious."

"This is the aesthetic that CCTV should have!"

Now everyone understood why this dance was arranged after *Prayer*.

As the only purely pre-recorded program, *Prayer* indeed should have been placed earlier.

The former gave people the feeling of: Wow! He filmed a goddess!

The latter was more direct, giving you a Bodhisattva bestowing blessings on the spot!

When people watched *Prayer*, they also had moving emotions.

That was a moving feeling for Huaxia culture.

When watching *Thousand-Hand Guanyin*, it was not just moving because of the culture, but also moving because of the dancers themselves.

After the program ended, the four sign language teachers off-stage breathed a sigh of relief.

The four of them were actually the stopwatches for this program.

They had to be precise enough to convey the most appropriate information at the most appropriate time.

The dancers could not hear, and when lined up, they could not see much in front of them either.

They needed to use their peripheral vision to look at the sign language teachers at other angles and watch their signal cues.

Only after the girls from the Disabled Persons Art Troupe left the stage did their expressions change.

The previous solemnity and the previous calm compassion were all gone at this moment.

Some were excited, some were thrilled, some wanted to cry...

Everyone's expressions seemed quite different.

Luo Mo saw this scene from afar.

He felt that everything before his eyes was their most vivid side.

"They are actually still very young," he said in his heart.

*Thousand-Hand Guanyin* was a huge success.

It was conceivable that this program would bring immense shock to the whole country and even the whole world!

This was a recognized national treasure-level dance.

It was a program that, after people watched it, even five, or even ten or twenty years later, they would immediately remember it upon hearing the name.

It was worthy of a world tour.

And no matter where it went, everyone who watched it would be greatly shocked.

On Earth, many countries had also either plagiarized, imitated, or learned from this program.

But in the end, the effect presented by these people was far inferior to these deaf-mute dancers.

From this, one could see how much heart and blood they had put into this.

Luo Mo knew very well that Chen Lili would become an overnight sensation because of this.

However, he actually did not know to what extent the Disabled Persons Art Troupe would eventually achieve.

You must know, the identity of the lead dancer on Earth was truly extraordinary.

Later on, by virtue of her social status, she was truly able to bring help to the vast number of people with disabilities.

However, all of this depends on individual fortune.

He only knew that the stage for "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" would absolutely leave a heavy, colorful stroke in the dance history of Blue Star.

Moreover, with "Prayer" and "Thousand-Hand Guanyin," a new dance genre, 【Dunhuang Dance】, would very likely be born from this!

This depends on their subsequent influence.

If that can truly happen, then Luo Mo is equivalent to founding a school of thought once again!

At this moment, the golden time of this year's Spring Festival Gala is indeed reaching its end.

Taking advantage of the fact that many children have not yet fallen asleep, Luo Mo and Ning Dan are preparing to arrange a category that children are also very interested in during the tail end of the golden time.

——Magic!

Yes, I don't know if everyone is like this, but anyway, when Luo Mo was a child, he would always look forward to magic performances whenever he watched the Spring Festival Gala.

In recent years, he hasn't looked forward to it as much; even after the Spring Festival Gala ends, he is too lazy to specifically search for magic-type programs to watch.

Generally speaking, the quality of magic at the Spring Festival Gala in recent years has actually declined compared to previous years.

It must be said that when watching a magic program, one is actually not just watching magic, and not just watching the technique.

Luo Mo sometimes feels that for some magicians, it is not that their technique is inferior to others.

It is that their control of rhythm, their creation of stage atmosphere, and their management of that sense of mystery are not as good as others.

That man who disappeared from the Spring Festival Gala actually did these aspects very well.

In the past, every year after the Spring Festival Gala ended, the entire internet would be busy with magic debunking the next day.

Because in those few years, every magic stage was just too popular.

In these last few years, even the debunking has had no one paying attention to it.

Since the shock received itself is not great enough, who would still have the interest to understand the truth behind the scenes?

Luo Mo and Ning Dan did send a special invitation this year to Chen Qian, the most famous magician in Blue Star Huaxia.

But Chen Qian, who has already started living a semi-retired mode, did not have much interest.

He receives invitations every year, but later on, he felt a bit weary of the stages of large-scale galas.

The reason he is weary actually lies in magic debunking.

Chen Qian only knows how to research new magic, while they only know how to research Chen Qian.

Within the industry, Chen Qian is very unhappy.

You peers do not study and innovate properly; one by one, you only know how to study me after I come up with an innovation, then use various channels to investigate, and then expose my secrets to grab eyeballs.

This makes him feel disappointed in this industry and disappointed in his peers.

And outside the industry, among the audience, he also encountered a large amount of online hostility.

As everyone knows, magic... is fake!

There is no such thing as Magic in this world.

Chen Qian himself is the most qualified to say these things.

Magic is meant to make you unable to see through it.

As long as you cannot see through it, the performance is a success.

But after many people finish watching the debunking, they will feel it is dull and tasteless, and will even start cursing.

"That's it?"

"So it was just like this!"

"Damn it, relying on a Prop again!"

"Boring, I thought it was how Ox."

"Heh, nothing more than that."

Chen Qian is sometimes even puzzled: "Do the netizens want to see me build a magic tree of a new world? Do they want to see me start a magic civilization?"

Clearly, in many cases, he had no mistakes on site and kept the audience completely in the dark, so that was already a very successful performance.

But after the reveal, everyone got the answer and came back to step on him, came to attack him; to be honest, it was quite painful.

Plus, there was one time when Chen Qian and a Director Chen in charge of the gala at CCTV had many unpleasantries, and he became increasingly unwilling to participate in the gala.

In Chen Qian's eyes, this Director Chen really has a serious mental illness.

Clearly that year was the Year of the Pig, and he would not allow the word "pig" to be in the name of my program.

The reason was that having the word "pig" is not friendly to some people with beliefs.

Your mother's, this magic of mine is related to a pig.

You ask me to remove this element, and I can't even do it.

Why don't you let the pig disappear from the twelve zodiac signs?

Is it because Laozi was born in the Year of the Pig, so you are targeting me?

Because this program could not be changed, Chen Qian did not perform at that gala in the end.

Coincidentally, that year was also a New Year's Eve Gala.

Of course, it was also because of Director Chen that Chen Qian has a bit of a good impression of Luo Mo and Ning Dan.

He does not know if there is any conflict or friction between these few people.

He only knows that because Ning Dan and Luo Mo joined forces, the invincible Myth of CCTV was shattered, the New Year's Eve Gala went straight to the gutter, and that annoying Director Chen was in big trouble.

Just because of this, I have a good impression of you all!

But for the Spring Festival Gala, he is truly tired of performing.

To him, one time more or one time less, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, he called Ning Dan and Luo Mo separately, expressing his refusal with a very good and polite attitude, while also thanking them for their appreciation.

Upon hearing Chen Qian's reason for refusal, Luo Mo was actually stunned.

"Eh! Wait, wait!" Luo Mo said over the phone.

"Teacher Chen Qian, but the reason I am looking for you this time is precisely to have you perform a magic reveal segment on the Spring Festival Gala stage," Luo Mo said.

"Hm? What?!" This time, it was Chen Qian's turn to be dumbfounded.

Blocking the path directly and revealing the secrets himself on stage?

There is such a trick?

(End of this chapter)