When did the sketch first appear in the Spring Festival Evening?

Strictly speaking, Wang Jingyu's 1983 Spring Festival Evening work Eat Chicken is the first step of the Spring Festival Evening sketch.

Mime plays an important role in the early history of sketch development. The sketches in the primary stage are mainly drama and performance.

In the classic "Eat Chicken", Wang Jingyu vividly shows the tenacity of chicken, not to mention the acting skills online. The whole plot design is also full of twists and turns: at first, I couldn't bite, but later I struggled to eat chicken, but I accidentally stuck the meat in my throat, which brought endless laughter to the audience.

Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao's 1984 Eat Noodles pushed the academic paper to the extreme.

In the middle and late 1980s, Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao, the golden partners, pushed academic sketches to the extreme with their superb acting skills. In particular, they integrated non-physical performances into the plot of the sketch, forming a unique comedy style. Generally speaking, their works are of groundbreaking significance in performance, plot setting and theme conception.

On performance, Peisi Chen can definitely be called "king of comedy", especially his non-physical performance, which can be called textbook level. In Eating Noodles, he faces an empty bucket and holds an empty bowl in his hand. He can interpret the three states of hunger, fullness and support. In the sequel "Making a Movie" the following year, he made the embarrassment of wearing a vest in winter shivering to perfection, making the audience feel like breathing cold air through the screen.

It is particularly worth mentioning that three works, Eating Noodles, Making a Movie and Leading Role and Supporting Role, are all about acting skills, which also reflects the performance level of early Spring Festival Evening sketches.