In The Name Of Get-together For Enjoyment: A Research On CCTV Spring Festival Evening Guided By Field Theory

Guided by Field Theory, using principally the concepts of Practice and Field, this paper researches into CCTV Spring Festival Evening which has been staged for 28 years. Main work of this research is discussing CCTV Spring Festival Evening as communicating practice which produces festival enjoyment, and analyzing some power behind this communicating practice and mechanisms of shaping performers'behavior in this especial evening. This research is designed to analyze CCTV Spring Festival Evening in a three-dimensional, relational frame and tries to provide a new viewing angle for communication research. Firstly, according to Field Theory, communication field exists based on communicating practice; in view of the difference between two kinds of communicating practice logic, communication field develops two secondary fields—news field and entertainment field; CCTV Spring Festival Evening can be considered as a kind of communicating practice in entertainment field. Secondly, CCTV Spring Festival Evening utilizes particular signs to present the Spring Festival atmosphere and express sense of the Spring Festival, and then holds predominant position in entertainment field; along with the dynamic development of entertainment field, CCTV Spring Festival Evening also goes through a transformation from being learnt to being challenged. And thirdly, because of the influence from polity field and economy field, CCTV Spring Festival Evening becomes a complicated kind of communicating practice which wanders between the Court and the Folk; influenced by some kinds of practical logic and based on the accumulation of 28 years, CCTV Spring Festival Evening has possessed qualities and power as a especial field;three mechanisms of"being Saints"has formed in CCTV Spring Festival Evening Field, including"changing stone into gold","shaping pillar"and"being special guest floridly",which shape performers'behavior.