Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Wang Tao
Who are the hottest Shandong people in front of the camera in 2021? If this question is thrown out, I believe many people will say that Xu Zhisheng is definitely one of them. This post-95 boy whose hometown is in Liu Lou Town, Wenshang County, Jining City, is deeply loved by everyone for his brilliant performance on the talk show stage. With the advent of the 2022 Spring Festival, Qilu Evening News Qilu OnePoint reporter exclusively connected with "talk show actor" Xu Zhisheng, listening to his authentic Jining dialect and greeting his fathers and fellow villagers in his hometown.
Xu Zhisheng. Photographer: Vincent
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala on satellite TV
Partner Song Xiaobao benefited a lot
Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point (hereinafter referred to as "One Point"): Zhisheng, hello. At this moment, on the occasion of the 2022 Spring Festival, and it is an interview with the media in my hometown, do you have anything to say to the readers in your hometown?
Xu Zhisheng (hereinafter referred to as "Xu"): First of all, it must be a new year's greeting!
Here, I wish my fathers and fellow countrymen in my hometown, grandparents, uncles and uncles, aunts and aunts, brothers and sisters, and my old relatives and relatives all the best, reunion, and harmony in the new year.
One point: It is really a special New Year's Eve with our Shandong flavor.
We all know that "talk shows" come from the West and have become more and more popular among young people in China in recent years. After you stood out from last year's talk show conference, your popularity has continued to increase, and this year you have been invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala of multiple satellite TVs. How is your mood? How do you see this change?
Xu: I'm very excited, which shows that "talk shows" are being liked by more and more audiences. Being able to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala on satellite TV shows that comedy is connected. Although I come from a stand-up comedy background, I can also participate in traditional comedy programs such as sketches on the Spring Festival Gala stage of several David TV.
One Point: What kind of impact has it had on you on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala?
Xu: At the Spring Festival Gala of Beijing Satellite TV, I was partnered with Teacher Song Xiaobao. He is a regular at the Spring Festival Gala, with superb acting skills and rich experience. And I was on the stage for the first time, I felt that the performance was still very young, and I was very nervous, he gave me a lot of help, we both discussed the script together, discussed the performance together, I learned a lot. At the Spring Festival Gala of Oriental Satellite TV, I performed on stage with another stand-up comedian, He Guangzhi, who I had worked with before, so the performance was smoother.
In any case, I can have the honor of being on the SATELLITE TV Spring Festival Gala, so that more viewers can access the "talk show".
When I was in graduate school, I came into contact with talk shows
After watching the offline performance, I decided to "take an adventure" once
One point: We all know that you are a master's student at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, majoring in "materials science", how did you turn into a talk show actor who "can't beat the eight rods" with the profession?
Xu: It's also a coincidence. When I was a graduate student in Beijing, I came across a talk show on the Internet and thought it was funny. Although the talk show was only just emerging at that time, but There were already offline performances in Beijing, so I went to see the scene, and then reported a short training class, thinking of practicing writing and saying paragraphs, I did not expect that I gradually liked the talk show.
One Point: Do you regret not working in a job related to your major?
Xu: No. To be honest, after graduating from a master's degree at that time, I didn't have a long exposure to talk shows. So, going to be a stand-up comedian is actually an "adventure." At that time, I thought that I had this talent, I could try it boldly, but I could still go back to my professional field when I couldn't get through. But now, the effect is not bad.
Childhood farming busy memories are deep
The optimism of Shandong people has influenced so far
One point: You grew up in Wenshang County, Jining City, and didn't leave here until you were admitted to college, what deep impressions did your hometown leave on you? Does it have a big impact on you?
Xu: It should be the kind of simplicity, hard work, and love of life that is unique to our Shandong people.
One Point: What do you mean by that?
Xu: I grew up in the countryside, and at that time, there were not many large agricultural machinery in the busy season, and I had to follow the elders of the family to work in the fields, harvest wheat, harvest corn... I remember that my uncle, uncle and other relatives came to the house to help, all day long tired waist can not stand up straight, at dinner, even in the face of a table is not a hearty meal, the family sat around but happily drinking, chatting, the voice is particularly loud, as if the tiredness of the day has been forgotten.
I remember that scene vividly, and that optimism and love for life has always affected me. When I leave my hometown and start a new life in a new city, I can still look at everything with an inclusive heart, even if I am tired and tired, I can face it calmly.
One point: Your hometown of Jining is known as the "hometown of Confucius and Meng, the canal capital", and the traditional culture is rich, does this have an impact on your later career as a stand-up comedian?
Xu: There must be an impact.
Since I was a child, I have listened to the elders in the village tell the story of "Confucius Zaizhongdu", as well as the legend of the "Four Shangshu" in Wenshang, the Prince Lingzhi Pagoda, the Dragon King Temple of the Grand Canal, the Confucian culture of Kong Mengyanzeng, the Shuihu culture of Liangshan, and so on.
Because of these rich historical and cultural accumulations, I can have a certain cultural literacy, which has played a great role in my later becoming a talk show actor and being able to independently create talk show content. I don't think this background can give me anything that external factors such as academic qualifications can give me.
Childhood anecdotes have become talk show classics
In the future, I will create a paragraph to promote my hometown
One point: You have some talk shows that tell interesting things about you when you were in school, like the Mandarin of your teacher in elementary school, and the Tibetan poems you wrote in high school, is it true?
Xu: Of course it's true. My elementary school was in the village elementary school, and the people who had attended the primary school in the village were already very cultured, and they were also very old, so Mandarin was not standard. As for the Tibetan head poems in high school, they were indeed written, and they were still written as ancient poems.
By the way, don't look at me as a science subject, my Chinese grades were not bad at that time, and it may have also planted the seeds for the future to engage in the talk show industry.
One point: Looking at it this way, your study and life in your hometown have provided you with a lot of inspiration for creating talk shows in the future?
Xu: Yes, real and interesting coexist, talk show strips can be infectious. Because my life in my hometown is really colorful and has left too many interesting memories, I can create some passages that everyone likes to see today.
One point: Will you create some interesting talk show content around Jining and Wenshang in the future?
Xu: Definitely.
I am a young man who went out from the hometown of Confucius and Meng, and no matter where I am, I am still a Jining person. I am very happy to be loved by my fathers and fellow countrymen in my hometown now.
In the future, when I have a better cultural accumulation and creative level, I will definitely create talk show content about my hometown, so that more people can know Jining and Wenshang.