In 2009, an embarrassing scene occurred at the funeral of mr. Zhang Wenshun, a cross-talk master.
Just when everyone was mourning the deceased, Meng Fangui, a cross-faced cross-talk master, suddenly pointed at Guo Degang's nose and scolded him for not talking about art and morality, scolding so much that he was about to raise his fist and move, and was pulled by the person next to him before he stopped.
What deep hatred did Guo Degang have with Meng Fangui, causing him to disregard the dignity of the deceased and make a big fuss about the funeral?
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Meng Fangui was born in 1950 and once worked as a young man in the countryside. If you say that it is to find out who is the most able to say cross-talk in the food industry, and the cross-talk industry knows the most about food, it must be Meng Fangui.
During his time as a zhiqing, Meng Fangui had two major hobbies, one was singing and talking, and the other was studying food. In times of difficult conditions, it was difficult to fill his stomach, but Meng Fangui still tried to find strange food and invented a way to roast corn with a tractor chimney.
Because Meng Fangui is good at singing and acting, the program he created, "A Hundred Flowers Blooming", won the best program for quyi research, and Meng Fangui was also transferred to the Federation of Trade Unions Literary and Labor Troupe. In the cultural troupe, Meng Fangui met his mentor Gao Yingpei and learned cross-talk from him.
Gao Yingpei is a famous Chinese comedian, and he is in the same door as the cross-talk master Hou Yaowen. After Meng Fangui went to Gao Yingpei's door, he became the master's royal praise, and the two performed many classic works one by one.
Meng Fangui is a well-known person who respects teachers and values the Tao, and he always believes that he will be a father for a lifetime and treat Gao Yingpei as a father. After Gao Yingpei fell ill and was hospitalized, Meng Fangui pushed off all the performances and personally waited in front of the hospital bed to send the master to the end of his life.
After the death of the master, Meng Fangui was reluctant to find a new partner and turned to stand-up comedy. Meng Fangui's stand-up comedy is not inferior, "Buy a Donkey", "Eat Chicken" and other works are well known to the audience, Meng Fangui has become another famous stand-up comedy performance artist after Ma Sanli.
However, Meng Fangui seems to be a bit unprofessional in the cross-talk industry, because he likes to study food and likes to eat, and he has become a "drunken element" in the cross-talk industry.
Meng Fangui has an interesting nickname "Old Meng", he has studied old Beijing cuisine and is also a guest of many restaurants.
He has also hosted a number of food programs, such as "Eat in Beijing", "Bafang Food Saint", etc., and created works such as "Hungry People Say Eat" and "Restaurant Secrets".
Because of Meng Fangui's achievements in the field of gastronomy, he was invited to be a consultant and planner for a number of food magazines, and many restaurants in Beijing were free of charge for him. Gradually, Meng Fangui appeared in the audience's sight not to talk about crosstalk, but to talk about food.
With the decline of cross-talk, Meng Fangui did not have the works to hand, only the big names of gourmets were well known.
2. The feud between Meng Fangui and Guo Degang
The relationship between Meng Fangui and Guo Degang was originally quite friendly, and Guo Degang's master Hou Yaowen and Meng Fangui's master Gao Yingpei were brothers with the same disciple, and they also had a relationship with a master brother.
It is said that Guo Degang also asked Meng Fangui to ask Li Jindou if he could worship Li Jindou as a master. Later, Li Jindou said that he did not know that there was such a thing, in fact, this was just an excuse, with Guo Degang's downfall in those years, who was willing to take him as an apprentice, and with the infinite scenery of old Guo now, who dared to say that he was once unwilling to accept him as an apprentice.
The relationship between the two began with an apprentice named Liu Yuntian. Liu Yuntian was originally an apprentice under Meng Fangui's door, but for some reason he became Guo Degang's righteous disciple of Yunzike, which made Meng Fangui's heart very angry.
Although in the end, Liu Yuntian left during the crisis of the Deyun Society, Meng Fangui and Guo Degang's Liang Zi was considered to be married.
Another reason for Meng Fangui and Guo Degang's feud is the different concept of cross-talk performance. As a representative of traditional cross-talk, Meng Fangui advocates that cross-talk should consider both the audience and the same door, and that a cross-talk return is only three, and it is necessary to leave food for peers to eat.
And Guo Degang, who self-styled himself as a non-mainstream crosstalk, does not think so, he advocates that crosstalk is to serve the audience, and the ability of heaven to make the audience laugh is in vain. In a cross-talk performance in Tianjin, Guo Degang returned to the scene more than twenty times because the audience's voice was too high.
After hearing about this matter, Meng Fangui was indignant and kept this account in mind. In 2009, Mr. Zhang Wenshun, one of the founders of Deyun Society, died, and Guo Degang held a grand funeral for Zhang Wenshun, inviting celebrities from all walks of life in the music and art world, including Meng Fangui.
After seeing Guo Degang, Meng Fangui did not come out, and when everyone was busy mourning Mr. Zhang Wenshun, he grabbed Guo Degang's collar and scolded, which basically means that Guo Degang has no artistic virtue, breaking the rules of the cross-talk industry, and the cross-talk paragraphs are all vulgar.
Meng Fangui scolded too much and even wanted to fight hard, but fortunately Li Jindou and others intervened to stop it.
Although Guo Degang is famous for his piercing head that shakes the air, after all, the deceased is the eldest at the funeral of his predecessors, so he swallows his anger and swallows his voice, and he can't fight back and scold him.
After this incident caused an uproar, the good people are discussing who is right and who is wrong, some people say that Guo Degang does not follow the ancestral regulations, he is unreasonable first, he is embarrassed to confront Meng Fangui, some people think that Meng Fangui is envious and jealous, Guo Degang does not say anything when he is not famous, and when he has fame, he will take some so-called rules to find stubble...
Objectively speaking, regardless of right or wrong, Zhang Wenshun is also a senior in the cross-talk industry, and Meng Fangui's funeral of his predecessors is indeed disrespectful, which contradicts his style of respecting teachers and respecting the Tao.
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Some people say that the struggle between Meng Fangui and Guo Degang represents the difference between the mainstream and non-mainstream factions in the cross-talk industry today. In fact, cross-talk originally did not have mainstream non-mainstream theory, only because the original Guo Degang was not recognized by the cross-talk masters holding iron rice bowls in the Beijing circle, which made the self-reliant portal called non-mainstream cross-talk, vowing to carry cross-talk forward.
Let's not talk about whether cross-talk can be defined as mainstream and non-mainstream, just from the definition of cross-talk, it is a folk art form, which is a form of music art that uses jokes, funny questions and answers, raps and so on to cause the audience to laugh. The basic skill of crosstalk is to speak, learn, and sing. To put it bluntly, as long as you can learn to sing through the way of speaking and singing, coupled with the creation of the paragraphs and baggage to achieve the goal of making the audience laugh, this is success.
In the 1980s, there were relatively few ways of mass entertainment, and listening to crosstalk after tea and dinner became a mainstream pastime, which also promoted the prosperity and development of crosstalk. In recent years, television, the Internet, and smart phones have become popular, and more and more ways of entertainment have become increasingly popular, and crosstalk has gradually declined.
In the cross-talk world, which is self-styled as the mainstream cross-talk and calls each other the cross-talk masters, it has lost its appeal to the audience, while the Deyun Society led by Guo Degang is different, flexibly using a variety of ways to amuse the audience, and recalls the audience who was disappointed in cross-talk to the theater.
Of course, deyun she's cross-talk may not be in the so-called mainstream "legal eye", such as Yue Yunpeng's expression on the stage to squeeze his eyebrows and make eyes amuse the people offstage, and he often intersperses singing and talking cross-talk to make the audience very useful.
And Zhang Yunlei, like "Braided Brother", sang "Exploring Qingshui River" and walked an idol pie with a handsome and handsome appearance.
But these people are not proficient in the basic skills of cross-talk and traditional passages, on the contrary, they have all practiced the kung fu of "speaking and learning to sing", and the traditional cross-talk passages are even more handy.
In fact, the standard for measuring cross-talk is never to see whether you are mainstream or not, one is the completeness of the performers and works, and the other is to see the audience's reaction.
Ask where the canal is as clear as promised, for there is a source of living water. As an art form, cross-talk should not only pay attention to respecting tradition, but also pay attention to pioneering and innovating, and only by inheriting the past will it always maintain its vitality.
Taking a step back, those who think that elegant mainstream crosstalk cannot save the decline of crosstalk, but the non-mainstream crosstalk that is criticized as vulgar makes crosstalk flourish, so how can we choose between the two? Art comes from the masses, the audience is the parents of food and clothing, if there is no audience to cheer, those who claim that "quality is more important than traffic" can only be shelved even if they have a good performance.
I remembered a sentence that Guo Degang said in an interview, "The reason for the decline of crosstalk is because many people who speak crosstalk do not understand crosstalk at all." "Think about it, it's thought-provoking.
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Author: Heart to Wu Tong