Watch the Exciting 2017 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Kickoff 🎉

The 2017 China Central Television (CCTV) Spring Festival Gala, or Chunwan, began on the Lunar New Year's Eve. <br /> <br />The gala variety show is to last four and a half hours with more than 40 numbers of shows, including over half in dancing and singing and nine in linguals like cross-talks and comedies. The remainders will be acrobatics and magic shows alongside traditional Chinese operas of various schools.