China Media Group on Friday released the official theme and logo for its 2025 Spring Festival Gala, marking the start of the Year of the Snake on the Chinese lunar calendar, coming in late January 2025.
周五,中央广播电视总台发布了2025年春节联欢晚会的官方主题和主标识,这也标志着将于2025年1月下旬到来的中国农历蛇年的开始。
The Chinese lunar calendar divides time into 60-year-long cycles and represents each year with 10 "Tiangan" characters and 12 "Dizhi" characters.
中国农历将时间以六十年为一个周期,每年用10个“天干”汉字和12个“地支”汉字搭配来表示。
For the Year of the Snake, which roughly fits the year 2025, the characters are "Yisi."
农历蛇年大致相当于阳历2025年,对应的汉字是“乙巳”。
The logo for the gala depicts two "si" characters placed side by side.
春晚的主标识是两个对称摆放的“巳”字。
The left character is upright, while the right one is an upside-down mirror image.
左边的字是直立的,右边的字是倒立的镜像。
This way of placing the characters matches the traditional Chinese style of placing a pair of ruyis.
这种摆放汉字的方式符合中国传统的摆放一对如意的方式。
A ruyi is a decorative object widely used in China to express the hope for wishes to come true, which will also be the first half of the gala's main theme.
如意是一种在中国广泛使用的装饰品,用来表达对愿望成真的希望,这也将是春晚前半部分的主题(巳巳如意)。
The second half is a fixed expression in the Chinese language that means the endless cycle of life.
后半部分的主题(生生不息)是汉语中一个固定的表达,意思是生命的无限循环。