According to public information, November 19, 2021 is the 71st birthday of cross-talk performance artist Jiang Kun.
Of course, there is also a theory that Jiang Kun may have been born on November 19, 1950 in the lunar calendar, and many people who have reached the age have this experience, and the official information shows that it is actually a lunar birthday.
No matter how you calculate it, Jiang Kun is already an old artist who is more than an old artist.
As an older generation of performing artists who have been famous in the country for more than forty years, Jiang Kun has suffered a lot of unwarranted criticism on the Internet in recent years, in fact, many people do not know Jiang Kun at all, and even have not heard a piece of his cross-talk.
I don't know it doesn't matter, on the occasion of Mr. Jiang Kun's 71st birthday, this article uses 26 photos to take you to a brief understanding of his 71 years and understand the real Jiang Kun.
Literature and cinema
Jiang Kun was born in Beijing in 1950, his ancestral home is Yantai, Shandong, his father Jiang Zuyu is a language teacher, he likes to study calligraphy in his spare time, Jiang Kun's calligraphy is passed down from his father.
Jiang Kun liked literature and art when he was a child, his father once took him to the opera school, went to the door and regretted it or decided to let Jiang Kun continue to study, but Jiang Kun is still a literary and art activist in the school.
In 1965, Jiang Kun participated in the movie "Bethune", many people are mistaken, thinking that the tiger-headed child group member is played by Jiang Kun, that year Jiang Kun was 15 years old, it is impossible to play a seven- or eight-year-old child, in fact, this small eight road with only one play is Jiang Kun.
After Jiang Kun became famous, many directors have asked him to act in movies, and he also has a sense of film and television performances, and has guest starred in many film and television dramas, such as "Kyoto Ball Man" and "Seahorse Dance Hall", but he does not seem to be very willing to develop in this regard.
His love and pursuit of literature and art since childhood laid the foundation for Jiang Kun's future life path, but at this time he was still some distance away from crosstalk.
Second, the Northern Wilderness and cross-talk
In 1968, Jiang Kun went to Beidahuang as a Beijing Zhiqing, where he continued to engage in literature and art while working in the propaganda team, and when he was the head of the class, he also learned Shanghainese with the Shanghai Zhiqing in the class.
When he went home to visit his relatives, Jiang Kun was encouraged by his friends to apply for the Jinan Military Region Cultural and Labor Troupe, and on September 15, 1971, he made up his mind to run from the Northern Wilderness to Jinan to take the exam, from recitation to singing to various musical instruments and performance sketches, the whole hour of examination was very smooth, but for other reasons, the examination ended without illness. This photo is of Jiang Kun and his sister Jiang Jingyi, taken in 1970.
In 1973, Jiang Kun created a story "Xiao Wang Visits Relatives", and when telling the story to the audience, the audience told him: You are really funny, like saying crosstalk. This inspired Jiang Kun, who began to try to create cross-talk but never got his way. Later, Hao Aimin and Li Wenhua performed in beidahuang, and Jiang Kun, who was sitting under the stage, almost memorized the entire paragraph and went back to continue pondering.
In 1974, Jiang Kun and Shi Shengjie began to cooperate in cross-talk, Shi Shengjie came from a family of quyi, he gave Jiang Kun a little bit of basic knowledge of cross-talk, and finally opened the door to cross-talk for Jiang Kun, so Jiang Kun has always regarded Shi Shengjie as a cross-talk enlightenment teacher, and after Shi Shengjie's death, he wrote a tear-jerking long poem for his mentor and friend.
Third, start a family and establish a business
In 1976, Jiang Kun was favored by Ma Ji in the literary and art performance, ma Ji desperately tried to transfer him from the corps to Beijing, he and Tang Jiezhong together in the corps throughout the axis of the talk for a week, the voice was dumb, and finally the corps finally agreed: release people!
In September 1976, Jiang Kun returned to Beijing and was transferred to the Central Radio Rap Ensemble, officially starting his cross-talk career, and Jiang Kun later became Ma Ji's eldest disciple.
On New Year's Day 1977, Li Jingmin, a comrade-in-arms of Jiang Kun's corps, got married, and within a few days of his marriage, he and Ma Ji went to Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, to create a cross-talk. Two years later, their only daughter, Jiang Shan, was born.
4. "So Photographed" and Li Wenhua
Jiang Kun began to partner with the same young Zhao Yan, and then Zhao Yan went to praise Ma Ji, Jiang Kun cooperated with his predecessor Li Wenhua, both of them started out talking about small paragraphs, and created a sensational "So Photographed" in 1979, which made Jiang Kun immediately become a cross-talk star.
In the following years, Jiang Kun created a series of cross-talk works such as "Grandpa's Troubles" and "Thinking of Non-Wrong", and published "Jiang Kun Li Wenhua Cross-Talk Selection".
In the last few years of Li Wenhua's life, Jiang Kun went around in liaison activities and held a special "master-apprentice relationship briefing" for Li Wenhua, in which Ma Zhiming, Chang Baohua, Shi Fukuan and others proved that Li Wenhua was Ma Sanli's apprentice, but Li Wenhua's last wish was fulfilled.
5. Spring Festival Gala and Bole
The 1983 Spring Festival Gala was a big event for Jiang Kun, who together with Ma Ji served as the planner and host of the first Spring Festival Gala, and also opened his history of being a planner and host and actor for several consecutive years.
If Jiang Kun is one of the founders of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, it should not be too exaggerated.
In fact, Jiang Kun has two major contributions in the history of the Spring Festival Gala, one is to discover Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao, the leader of the comedy sketch industry, he not only discovered these two comedy geniuses, but also gave a lot of guidance to their works and integrated a lot of cross-talk skills. His discovery and guidance allowed Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao to start a comedic legend.
The other is the excavation of Zhao Benshan, when Zhao Benshan already had a certain reputation in Tieling, but he accidentally lost the opportunity to accept CCTV inspection, just when Jiang Kun led the group to Tieling to perform and found Zhao Benshan, he recommended to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala Director Group again, he and the general director Huang Yihe cooperated for many years to trust each other, so Zhao Benshan finally appeared in the 1990 CCTV Spring Festival Gala after twists and turns, opening another comedy legend.
It can be said that Jiang Kun's two times as a Bole directly laid the pattern of China's comedy industry for thirty years.
6. Tang Jiezhong and Liang Zuo
In 1986, the thirty-six-year-old Jiang Kun was facing the problem of creative and performance style transformation, and that year he met Liang Zuo, who discovered that Liang Zuo's novels contained huge comedy treasures, so the two of them began a nearly ten-year cooperation.
In 1987, the Spring Festival Gala "Tiger Mouth Reverie" became a hit, and in the following years, it successively launched masterpieces such as "Elevator Adventure", "Extra Big News" and "Anxious", Jiang Kun and Liang Zuo became a pair of classic partners in creation, the two published "Jiang Kun Liang Zuo Xiangsheng Collection", at the same time Jiang Kun and Tang Jiezhong also became a pair of classic combinations in performance.
While cooperating with Liang Zuo, Jiang Kun also carefully taught some cross-talk skills to Liang Zuo, and handed over a lot of cross-talk materials he accumulated to Liang Zuo, and with the help of Jiang Kun and the cross-talk community, Liang Zuo's other masterpiece "I Love My Home" came out.
Jiang Kun discovered Liang Zuo, not only found a collaborator for himself, but also discovered another master for China's comedy industry.
So far, Jiang Kun has single-handedly influenced the three major fields of cross-talk, sketches and sitcoms in China, which is unbeatable in China's comedy industry.
7. Rap Ensemble and Song Association
Jiang Kun served as the head of the radio rap troupe in 1985 and was elected vice chairman of the China Qu Artists Association, and Jiang Kun worked as vice chairman of the QuQu Association for more than 20 years until 2012, when he became the chairman of the China Ququ Association and was re-elected in 2017.
This incident is a natural success for Jiang Kun himself, which is the influence brought by his decades of cross-talk career, but for the cross-talk industry, this is a landmark event, which marks the success of cross-talk from the end of the old society to the top of the new social music art, and the three generations of cross-talk people represented by Hou Baolin, Ma Ji and Jiang Kun are indispensable.
8. Kunpeng Network and Innovation
Jiang Kun spent his savings in the late 1990s to establish Kunpeng Net City, based on the dissemination and innovation of crosstalk. In the first wave of the Internet, the site was once valued at 50 million yuan, and Jiang Kun was also known as the most Knowledgeable Person in the Crosstalk Industry.
But with the dissipation of the Internet bubble, Kunpeng Network City has also become history, but Jiang Kun has not stopped the pace of innovation, fifty-year-old he actively embraced the Internet and sound and photoelectric technology, launched a series of internal and external innovation of cross-talk such as "Looking Back at Nine" and so on.
IX. "Ming Chun Qu" and Dai Zhicheng
After Tang Jiezhong grew older, Jiang Kun's praise was replaced by Dai Zhicheng, which brought him two influences, one was that Dai Zhicheng could help Jiang Kun solve many tedious affairs and liberate him. The other is cross-talk, Jiang Kun is used to working with Li Wenhua, Tang Jiezhong and other elders, and suddenly replaced by the young Dai Zhicheng, but Jiang Kun's style has not changed much, which makes the cooperation between the two seem a little twisted.
Fortunately, with the growth of the number of years of cooperation, the partners of Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng are becoming more and more like mothers and daughters, and the two have found a more suitable style and are more and more tacit.
In 2003, the 53-year-old Jiang Kun joined forces with a group of cross-talk elites to launch a large-scale cross-talk drama "Ming Chun Qu", which is a major event for the cross-talk industry and a representative work in the late stage of Jiang Kun's cross-talk career.
10. Inheritors and disseminators
Jiang Kun is the successor of Hou Baolin and Ma Ji, and also the inheritor of Hou Baolin Ma Ji's dissemination of cross-talk art abroad. Jiang Kun carried out extensive cross-talk exchange activities in Japan and Southeast Asia, and sent apprentices abroad.
At the same time, Jiang Kun's apprentices in China are also all over the country, and many apprentices have become the backbone of the local cross-talk industry and the qu art department, and the light of cross-talk has been passed on.
Jiang Kun's decades-long contribution to the cross-talk industry, the music industry and the comedy industry is obvious to all, he has also been awarded the title of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Crosstalk Inheritor" by the relevant state departments, and in the case of Mr. Chang Baoting's death and Mr. Ma Zhiming's deep refuge, Jiang Kun is the person who has done the most work for cross-talk among the three national cross-talk non-hereditary inheritors.
On November 1, 2021, Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng, who are more than a year old, came on the stage at the 3rd Intangible Cultural Heritage Cross-Talk Conference, and the audience applauded thunderously, which is a tribute to an old man and a comedian who has accompanied us for decades.
Happy birthday to Jiang Kun!