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CGTN | 10-Feb-2021
The Spring Festival Gala, also known as “Chunwan” in Chinese, broadcasts on the eve of the Lunar New Year when millions of Chinese families get together. This year’s gala will fall on February 11 and will go ahead despite the ongoing pandemic. 2000: When the millennium meets the Year of the Dragon. The year 2000 was the start of the new millennium, also the Year of the Dragon. In Chinese mythology, the dragon is generally portrayed as a symbol of good luck in China and is said to bring rain and fertility. For thousands of years, Chinese people have been dubbed “the descendants of the dragon”, and the year 2000 was deemed an extraordinary one.
In 2000, the first Spring Festival Gala in the 21st century had unprecedentedly 15 anchors in total, a record for the show. As the first female star of the millennium, actress Zhang Ziyi, starring the world-renowned film “My Father and Mother” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, represents not only the hope of the new generation of actors/actresses but also people’s expectations for a new century.
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