CATDOLL: CCTV Spring Festival Gala's first mascot "Yang Yang" was feminized by netizens

After 33 years, CCTV Spring Festival Gala has its first mascot "Yang Yang". According to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala production team, this year's Spring Festival Gala will have a mascot based on the "goat", named "Yang Yang", which is a homophonic sound of the Year of the Goat. Yang Yang will be a special guest host on the Spring Festival Gala. After the news was announced, while congratulating "Yang Yang" for becoming the first mascot of the Spring Festival Gala, some netizens could not help but joke, "It's unscientific that the mascot of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Goat is not Pleasant Goat."

Now some netizens have started to make derivative works based on the image of "Yang Yang". This picture is a feminine picture of "Yang Yang" made by Apostle Son. Although the style is different, it is also very cute~ In fact, everyone is still looking forward to more fan-made derivative works like this.

It is reported that the production team of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Goat finally selected the design of Wu Guanying, one of the authors of the Beijing Olympic mascot "Fuwa" and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, from 14 designs collected. It is reported that the prototype of "Yangyang" is the small-tailed Han sheep, which is known as China's "national treasure" and the world's "super sheep". It is a national famous livestock breed that can be used for both meat and fur.

Wu Guanying revealed that Yang Yang's main color is golden yellow because according to traditional Chinese culture, 2015 is the "Year of the Golden Goat", which only comes once every 60 years. Golden yellow is the symbol of the "Year of the Golden Goat", creating a festive atmosphere. The red bellyband is printed with traditional Chinese patterns, and "you can tell at first glance that it is a Chinese sheep, not a foreign sheep", which fits the characteristics of the Chinese Spring Festival.

In addition, CCTV children's program host Liu Chunyan, also known as "Golden Turtle", will be responsible for dubbing "Yang Yang", and mime actor Li Kui will be the prototype of "Yang Yang's" actions. "Yang Yang" is endowed with the "universal attributes" of being cute, funny, hosting, and martial arts. He will appear on the Spring Festival Gala as a "special guest host" and interact with hundreds of millions of viewers.

Mascots are usually special images created for major events or large-scale activities, and usually carry beautiful and profound symbolic meanings. As a 33-year-old and the most influential festival gala in the country, the Spring Festival Gala has long become a new folk custom for the people of the country. However, for many years, the Spring Festival Gala has not had a mascot as an inherent image support.

The production team of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Goat hopes to vigorously promote the "zodiac" elements in Chinese traditional culture by establishing a "Spring Festival Gala mascot". On the one hand, it creates a specific image logo to enhance the public's symbolic recognition of the "Spring Festival Gala" as a national cultural brand; on the other hand, the appearance of "Yang Yang" not only conforms to people's instinctive aesthetic mentality of loving cute pets, but also runs through the structure and rhythm of the entire gala, achieving a unique innovation in the gala format.

In Chinese folklore, "sheep carry grains" to the human world, leaving a good name for generations. As an auspicious totem to welcome the Year of the Sheep, "Yang Yang" reproduced in an exaggerated way will express good wishes to the audience and best wishes for the coming year. The crew of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Sheep named it "Yang Yang", which symbolizes the beautiful meaning of "lively sunshine, three Yangs bring good luck".

Some netizens also came to the conclusion based on the design concept of "Yang Yang", "This is the legendary 'Nuan Yang Yang'... The identification is complete."

Yangyang's profile

Name: Yangyang

Birthday: Lunar September 10th

Height: Still growing

Weight: Still growing

Blood type: Very stylish

Family: He is a descendant of a famous family and is the 108th generation (or 132nd, or 168th...) descendant of the Small-tailed Han Sheep family, which is known as China's "national treasure" and the world's "super sheep".

Hobbies: Digital technology.

Favorite food: Vegetarian food, meat (what’s going on?), snacks.

Disliked food: Hotpot!

Favorite activity: Chewing

Occupation: Special host of the Spring Festival Gala

Favorite quote: Sheep are born to be leaders!