Once again on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Li Yuchun said goodbye to "going it alone" and sang a vibrant song "Sense of the Times" with Deng Chao and Jackson Yee. During a previous chat with Sina Entertainment, Deng Chao once laughed that the three people who worked together for the first time often couldn’t match their eyes at the beginning of the rehearsal, and the "tacit understanding" was to be investigated. Li Yuchun analyzed that "because my personality with Qianxi is a little bit introverted, I may have to find a feeling", but "now it’s very good".
For a long time, repeated epidemics have hindered countless gatherings, which also made Li Yuchun regret in the past 2021: the concert was cancelled again. Recalling the happiest moment of the year, Li Yuchun believes that it was an online concert spontaneously created by fans to make up for regret: "This was completely unexpected to me, and it really moved me." The New Year is here, and one of her wishes is that the unfinished concert can be held smoothly.
The sense of the Spring Festival ceremony is to prepare plum blossoms, and to carry out a thorough cleaning before the New Year
Sina Entertainment: It’s Chinese New Year, how do you plan to celebrate the Spring Festival this year?
Li Yuchun: This year’s Spring Festival is to spend time with my family at home. Because I don’t have a lot of time with my family this year, I still want to take advantage of the Spring Festival to accompany them at home.
Sina Entertainment: Going back to Sichuan or picking up your family to Beijing for the Chinese New Year?
Li Yuchun: Back to Chengdu.
Sina Entertainment: Every year before going home for the Chinese New Year, will you tell me what to prepare at home?
Li Yuchun: No. I was wondering, did I ask my mother to prepare anything? It doesn’t seem too special.
Sina Entertainment: Do you particularly miss anything at home?
Li Yuchun: For example, yesterday I received a photo taken by my mother. Every year when the Spring Festival is approaching, a large plum blossom will be prepared at home, and the fragrance will remind me that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so when she took it for me, I suddenly had that memory.
Sina Entertainment: Is this plum blossom a ritual of the Li family’s Chinese New Year?
Li Yuchun: I think so.
Sina Entertainment: Do you have any personal sense of ceremony?
Li Yuchun: No.
Sina Entertainment: Not at all?
Li Yuchun: Many of my childhood habits are more traditional, nothing special.
Sina Entertainment: Then share with us a habit that you continue to this day.
Li Yuchun: For example, before the New Year, I will clean my house very well. Hey, when I say it, I seem to have become a very manipulative person (laughs).
Sina Entertainment: Are you in charge of cleaning?
Li Yuchun: Yes, all the bedsheets and other things must be refreshed, including the possibility of wearing new clothes on the first day of the new year, which is a very traditional habit.
Sina Entertainment: So you clean up, Mom and Dad can eat melon seeds and watch.
Li Yuchun: No (laughs). Together.
Sina Entertainment: If I follow you back to your hometown for the Chinese New Year, teach me two auspicious dialects that can communicate with the elders.
Li Yuchun: I will teach you a difficult one. It is related to a blessing I sent today, because I just got that blessing before, but it is actually a bit difficult for Sichuan pronunciation, called Fu Hu Ji Xiang (Sichuan dialect pronunciation, the first two words are FU sound).
Sina Entertainment: "Fu Fu" is auspicious, in Sichuan dialect, right?
Li Yuchun: Yes, I find it very confusing to speak in Mandarin, but in Sichuan, it is "Fu Fu" and auspicious.
Sina Entertainment: If I give you a temporary exam question now and ask you to say a tongue twister, would you be OK?
Li Yuchun: Not OK! It’s difficult, I think.
Sharing the experience of cooperating with Deng Chao Jackson Yee, claiming that playing mahjong and grabbing red envelopes is not good
Sina Entertainment: Share your program at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala this year.
Li Yuchun: The song I sang is called "Sense of the Times". This time, it is a song that I collaborated with Deng Chaochao and Jackson Yee. It is a song full of youth and vitality.
Sina Entertainment: I interviewed Brother Chao before. He said that he was very nervous about going to the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. He also sent you WeChat to ask you what to do. Did you teach him any skills?
Li Yuchun: There are some communication skills, such as what to do if he forgets words, and what to do if he can’t remember some words. I said you can make up a dance to memorize it.
Sina Entertainment: So this rehearsal, do you think he took your approach?
Li Yuchun: Because he really performs differently every time, I think he is looking for the best state, and he may also try some different moves or something, so I don’t know which one is certain now.
Sina Entertainment: He also said that you have discussed it offstage, and you can make eye contact with each other on the stage, but it seems that during the previous rehearsals, the three of you never had the right eyes.
Li Yuchun: There will be a little bit, because after all, it is the first time to cooperate. In addition, Qianxi and I are a little introverted, so we may have to find a feeling. At the beginning, we didn’t get along a bit, but now we are doing well.
Sina Entertainment: Share the styling of this year’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Li Yuchun: I think the style of this year’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala is very festive, a kind of festive Spring Festival Gala. This year because this song is also more positive and lively, the whole feeling is festive.
Sina Entertainment: In addition to watching the Spring Festival Gala, what other activities do you usually have to get together on New Year’s Eve?
Li Yuchun: Watching the Spring Festival Gala, chatting and eating, and Chengdu people playing mahjong.
Sina Entertainment: Are you at the table?
Li Yuchun: When there is a shortage of people, I will fill it up.
Sina Entertainment: How are you playing?
Li Yuchun: I really can’t.
Sina Entertainment: So who is the top mahjong player in your family?
Li Yuchun: I can’t say that about my mother.
Sina Entertainment: You’ve just revealed the answer.
Li Yuchun: I don’t think she can, but she thinks she can, but I definitely can’t.
Sina Entertainment: Anyway, I ranked myself third.
Li Yuchun: Let me rank a few, we have too many relatives in our family.
Sina Entertainment: When do you usually send out your Chinese New Year greetings?
Li Yuchun: New Year’s Eve or around the third day of the new year.
Sina Entertainment: Do you send personalized blessing text messages or copy and paste group messages?
Li Yuchun: I don’t copy and paste very much.
Sina Entertainment: Are you the type of person who spends a lot of time writing text messages?
Li Yuchun: Okay, I think it’s definitely better than copying and pasting.
Sina Entertainment: Do you send red envelopes to everyone? When is it usually sent?
Li Yuchun: I will not send red envelopes to the elders, but to the younger generation, children at home, colleagues in the company, or my good friends.
Sina Entertainment: Are you a generous friend?
Li Yuchun: Sending red envelopes is an unlimited thing, and I dare not say that I am generous.
Sina Entertainment: It’s good that everyone is happy, and you have fun grabbing red envelopes.
Li Yuchun: Yes.
Sina Entertainment: Do you have any chance to grab red envelopes in some groups now?
Li Yuchun: I can grab red envelopes in our elders’ group, because the young people’s group moves quickly and the number is limited, which is usually the case. But the elders generally take care of a lot, and sometimes there will be more, just the kind that has been left there and no one grabs it. You can pick up a few.
Sina Entertainment: It feels like you’re picking up the leak.
Li Yuchun: Yes.
Sina Entertainment: So is it good luck to pick up red envelopes every time?
Li Yuchun: Not so good.
2021 Annual Summary: The most regrettable concert cancellation, the happiest to see fans organize online activities
Sina Entertainment: What are the low moments or regrets in 2021?
Li Yuchun: The concert has been cancelled again.
Sina Entertainment: So how did you spend those days yourself?
Li Yuchun: I spent it in a comprehensive mood, including being particularly depressed, irritable, and crazy. There are not only one state of ups and downs.
Reporter: I hope to hold this concert if I have the opportunity this year.
Li Yuchun: Yes.
Sina Entertainment: What are the moments that make you feel happy in 2021?
Li Yuchun: Before the concert was completed, the fans held an online concert, which was completely unexpected for me and really moved me.
Sina Entertainment: Are there any small tears?
Li Yuchun: It’s a little more joyous, but when I think about some of the things behind it, I feel really touched and moved.
Sina Entertainment: Share one of the most memorable work experiences of 2021.
Li Yuchun: I think it should be to participate in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party. That work experience is indeed something I have not experienced since I started my career. Rehearsing with everyone and participating in a performance at a very important moment will be quite unforgettable when I think about it.
Sina Entertainment: What if you want to challenge something that has never been done before in 2022?
Li Yuchun: I didn’t think about it.
Sina Entertainment: Challenge to sweep the building at the office of Sina Entertainment.
Li Yuchun: Okay, I’ll go sweep the building when I release the album!
Sina Entertainment: Finally solitaire, a question for the next artist who comes to chat with us.
Li Yuchun: Do you want to go sweeping together? Is that okay? I don’t know who was dragged into the water by me.
Sina Entertainment: Answer the question of the last artist Wang Mian, when can I collaborate with Wang Mian on a music talk show?
Li Yuchun: He can’t do this casually, right? There are certain difficulties. I’ve seen his performance, and I think it’s quite interesting, and he also plays and sings by himself, so I think it’s possible, because it’s not a ballet or something, I can’t do it, I think it can still be done.
(Yiwen/Wen Wang Yuanhong/Photography, Wang Cian/Videography)