CCTV Spring Festival Gala Host’s Makeup Disaster: Sa Beining’s Thick Eyebrows Criticized.

In the live broadcast of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on January 28th, netizens seemed to pay little attention to the programs that used artistic forms to influence the audience, but instead focused on the makeup of the hosts. The eyebrows of the host Sa Beining appeared to be drawn too thick, prompting netizens to comment, “Who turned Sa Beining into Crayon Shin-chan?” The topic quickly trended on Weibo.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala has always been criticized online year after year. In this year’s opening live broadcast, the hosts Ma Fanshu and Long Yang made mistakes, with one misreading an idiom and pronouncing “膾炙人口” (popular among the people) with the character “膾” pronounced as “hui,” and another host experiencing vocal issues right at the beginning. Although only observant netizens noticed these slip-ups, it still led to widespread questioning of the quality and capabilities of CCTV hosts.

Despite this, what caught the most attention on social media during this year’s Spring Festival Gala was not the content of the program, but the eyebrows of the CCTV host Sa Beining. From the visuals, it could be seen that Sa Beining’s right eyebrow appeared sparse, while the left eyebrow was excessively thick and dark. A report by the Chinese media outlet “NetEase News” remarked, “We don’t know what’s going on with the makeup artist today, who forcibly drew Sa Beining’s eyebrows to look like Crayon Shin-chan, making Sa Beining look even older.”

Sa Beining’s eyebrows sparked a flurry of comments from netizens, with remarks like “I’m laughing so hard, these eyebrows are really thick,” “Crayon Shin-chan is hosting the Spring Festival Gala,” “My mom says he looks like Crayon Shin-chan,” “Haha, before he became famous, I didn’t believe this was Sa Beining;” and one netizen quipped, “Sa Beining’s eyebrows are drawn so thick, they look like two snakes, hosting the Spring Festival Gala with an illness, starting with the phrase ‘national security and prosperity’.”

During the interlude segment, Sa Beining couldn’t help but make a self-deprecating remark. While watching a robot performance, he joked, “This robot is great in every aspect, it just lacks two eyebrows.” Some netizens also noticed that the eyebrows of female star Yan Ni, host Nigemaiti, Reheman, and other celebrities also seemed to be part of the “accident scene,” raising questions about whether their makeup was done by the same makeup artist.