There is a special cross-talk actor named Hou Zhen. He was born into a famous family and was the grandson of the cross-talk master Hou Baolin, and every time Guo Degang introduced him, he said that he was the eldest son and grandson of Mr. Hou Baolin. According to his origin, it is reasonable to say that he should be an actor in the national academy, but he has long been living in the private Deyun Society.
Although he has such a prominent family lineage, he has a very weak view of fame and fortune, and seems to regard cross-talk as his main business, and now there are very few real cross-talk performances, and most of the time he works as a announcer in commercial performances.
Guo Degang also said when introducing Hou Zhen's family lineage that Hou Zhen's father was not a circle person. This is not entirely accurate. So, what did Hou Zhen's father do?
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Hou Zhen's father was named Hou Yaozhong, Hou Yaozhong's second brother was Hou Yaohua, and his third brother was Hou Yaowen. Usually, people manage Hou Yaohua as the second master, and Hou Yaowen as Hou San, all of which come from this.
However, Hou Yaozhong was different from Hou Yaohua and Hou Yaowen, he was not born to Hou Baolin's wife Wang Yalan, but a child born to Hou Baolin and his ex-wife. However, Hou Yaozhong, who was born in 1946, was raised by Wang Yalan, and was not treated differently, eating and wearing the same as Hou Yaohua and Hou Yaowen when he was a child.
The sisters do not say that among the three brothers, Hou Yaohua has been the most clever since he was a child, not only learning well in his homework, but also being naughty and mischievous, and being smarter than ordinary people. Many people do not know that in fact, Hou Yaozhong suffered from cerebral palsy when he was very young, and fortunately did not leave any sequelae. According to Hou Yaozhong's later recollections, he believed that hou Baolin's most painful child was him when he was a child.
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A few years after Hou Yaozhong was born, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, and Hou Baolin appeared on the Korean battlefield as a member of the Volunteer Army Condolence Group to bring joy to the soldiers. Although Hou Yaozhong was very young at that time and did not remember much, he often remembered this matter later, and established an ideal from an early age, that is, to join the army and become a soldier.
In 1961, Hou Yaozhong was in the second grade of junior high school, and when he saw that the school was recruiting, he applied to Hou Baolin that he wanted to be a soldier and wanted to go to the battlefield like his father. Hou Baolin was very supportive, saying that the Hou family had a man in military uniform, which was the glory of several generations.
In that year, Hou Yaozhong entered the Guangzhou Army's Cultural and Labor Corps as a literary and artistic soldier, just in time for the army competition, he was sent to the sharp knife class to study, and also participated in the operation of crossing the Qiongzhou Strait. A few years later, Hou Yaozhong was assigned to work at Peony Electric Appliances.
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However, Hou Yaozhong has not always been a worker, and for a time he also participated in amateur cross-talk performances in Beijing. After all, he is a descendant of Hou Baolin, who has heard about it since he was a child, and he will also have a little cross-talk. This is a bit like the experience of Hou Yaowen and Hou Yaohua, which was also smoked from childhood, Hou Yaowen and Hou Yaohua said crosstalk when they were young and young, and crosstalk has become Hou Yaowen's life's work.
Compared with the two of them, Hou Yaozhong is more of a work other than literature and art. For a long time, he worked as a security manager for a group. Therefore, Guo Degang's statement that Hou Yaozhong is not a person in the circle is also reasonable, at least most of the time.
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Since Hou Yaowen's death in 2007, the Hou family's affairs have always become a social topic, allowing people to see many contradictions. However, these contradictions are generally caused by Hou Yaohua, and Hou Yaozhong, as the eldest brother in the family, has not heard any voice in recent years.
What happened recently is also bizarre, before the Qingming Dynasty Hou Yaohua took He Yunwei to worship Hou Yaowen, but according to him, He Yunwei came to see the third uncle. This sentence has once again aroused controversy, because from Guo Degang's point of view, Hou Yaowen is He Yunwei's master.
Regarding these unclear right and wrong of the cross-talk circle, Hou Yaozhong, as an outsider, looks down on them very lightly. In addition, he is now 75 years old.