Seventh Master Wen ✎
Edited ✎ the Seventh Street Winery
As the saying goes, "The master leads the door, and the practice is in the individual."
There are countless apprentices under the cross-talk actor Guo Degang, but only Yue Yunpeng has the best development now, and the apprentice of Zhao Benshan, the king of the sketches, is also the same, and now it can still be remembered as Zhao Benshan's apprentice, and there should only be Song Xiaobao, Dapeng, Wang Xiaoli and others.
And the most unfortunate of these three people is Wang Xiaoli, if there is no contradiction between him and Zhao Benshan, perhaps his career today will not be "stagnant".
"Born" comedian
Wang Xiaoli can be said to be a late bloomer, in 2006 with the serial drama "Country Love", the role of Liu Neng, who loves greed and cheap but is an honest farmer, is widely known to the national audience, this year he is 37 years old.
Before becoming "Liu Neng", Wang Xiaoli was a professional and powerful duo actor.
In 1969, Wang Xiaoli was born into a two-person family in Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, whose parents starred in the Nenjiang County Folk Art Troupe in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province.
Therefore, he followed his parents to various local stages since he was a child, and over time, under the influence of his parents, he began to have a strong interest in the two-person turn, and proposed that he wanted to learn to sing the two-person turn with his parents.
However, Wang Xiaoli's parents did not agree with his idea very much, because they were rooted in the two-person transfer for many years, and they knew that the two-person transfer market was very sluggish.
At that time, China was just developing, and even the rich people rarely watched the duo's performance, let alone ordinary people.
And the other sign of the music and art world, the storytelling, its market situation is much better than the two-person turn, and everyone who wants to listen to the storytelling no longer needs to buy tickets to the theater or the bookstore tea house, and can hear it on the radio or television station.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoli's parents sent him to learn to review books, but unfortunately Wang Xiaoli had no interest in this kind of storyteller who "spoke the language of a thousand people with the mouth of one person" and could not learn it at all.
There was no way, despite the experience of his parents, in the end Wang Xiaoli still embarked on their old path.
It may be from childhood, or it may be the inheritance of parents' genes, Wang Xiaoli just came into contact with the two people to show extraordinary talent, good memory, flexible brain.
Unfortunately, his talent did not extend to learning.
In the fourth grade of primary school, Wang Xiaoli followed his parents to settle in the county seat, so he transferred from the village primary school to the county primary school.
I think that the difference in teaching level is too big, Wang Xiaoli, who came to the county to study, could not keep up with the progress at all, and the teacher let him be demoted to the third grade, but he still could not keep up. There was no way, so the school suggested that Wang Xiaoli start again from the first grade.
In this way, Wang Xiaoli finally successfully started his primary school career.
Perhaps he also knew that he was not the material for reading, so after graduating from elementary school, he did not continue to study, but chose to follow his parents everywhere to perform.
At that time, he had already made a name for himself in the art troupe, becoming the most sought-after duo actor in the local audience. Wang Xiaoli can also be regarded as using his own personal experience to interpret to people's strength what is called "three hundred and sixty lines out of the yuan".
After officially embarking on the road of the duo's transfer to performance, Wang Xiaoli's distress also followed, and he had not yet found a partner to cooperate with.
Singing duo turning is the same as talking crosstalk, having a suitable and tacit partner is the most important basis before performing on stage, which is like looking for a "life partner".
I just didn't expect that Wang Xiaoli really made this sentence come true and found a "life partner".
The "love" of a comedian
Wang Xiaoli has found a "life partner" twice, and he has had two marriages.
In the period when the two turned into a business, although Wang Xiaoli made a name for himself in the industry and China's economy was developing rapidly, it was still difficult for the two to turn such a folk program to be elegant, which also made Wang Xiaoli and other actors who sang the two people for a living can only rely on the audience of low and medium assets.
It is precisely because of this "barrier" that the opportunities for the duo to change actors are very small, and they often need to run several places a day to seek performance opportunities to make a living.
Sometimes it is even more tragic to meet the boss who is in arrears of wages, if in the end people do not give you wages, then your efforts that day will all be lost.
Wang Xiaoli has lived such a life for a long time, and he is not the kind of person who can't bear to swallow his voice, so whenever a boss defaults on wages, he chases after the boss.
And because of this, he often feels that he is not like a duo-turn actor, but like a "begging person", which makes him more depressed.
Fortunately, he met her later, otherwise he might have given up the profession.
Once, during a performance at the Daqing Theater, Wang Xiaoli met a beautiful little girl named Wen Meiling.
She has fair skin, a tall figure, and a very outstanding appearance at a glance, a young and beautiful girl, and also a temporary partner for Wang Xiaoli's performance of the duo this time.
Maybe it is "seeing the color", or it is really found a suitable partner, when learning that Wen Meiling also has no fixed partner, Wang Xiaoli put forward the idea of cooperation, and the two finally hit it off and began to work hard and struggle hard for the cause together.
The two people's feelings for each other were really punctured in a theater backstage, when Wang Xiaoli was resting in the background because he was tired to have a hypoglycemic attack, he was sweating and his face was pale.
None of the people passing by noticed that wang Xiaoli was wrong, and only when Wen Meiling saw his condition did someone worry about him.
Later, Wen Meiling ran out to buy him water and snacks despite the torrential rain outside, and Wang Xiaoli saw that Wen Meiling, who was "wet" for him, could no longer suppress her inner emotions.
Over the years that the singers have turned around, he has tasted the warmth and coldness of human feelings, it can be said that except for his parents, no one on this road cares so much about and cherishes him, and Wen Meiling's concern for Wang Xiaoli is because she likes him.
So when Wang Xiaoli confessed to Wen Meiling, she agreed without hesitation, and soon after, the two were upgraded from tacit partners to husband and wife partners.
Maybe at this moment they both think of each other as their lifelong partners.
It's just that the world is unpredictable and people's hearts are changeable.
After marriage, Wen Meiling and Wang Xiaoli gave birth to a little boy, Wang Liang.
Wang Liang
The birth of the child has undoubtedly doubled the economic pressure for their family, and wen Meiling has also taken a back seat for the sake of the family, and has not performed with Wang Xiaoli on the same stage, and all the expenses of the family are suddenly pressed on Wang Xiaoli alone.
Despite this, Wang Xiaoli did not ignore the education of his son Wang Liang, but instead had great expectations and sent him to learn Peking Opera from an early age.
Before marriage, Wen Meiling and Wang Xiaoli were tacit partners who fought side by side, but after marriage, Wen Meiling and Wang Xiaoli went farther and farther.
Wen Meiling once again used the "fact of blood" to prove to people the truth that "women must be independent and self-reliant", while Wang Xiaoli once again showed people the inferiority of men, "after easily getting the hand, it is not cherished."
Wen Meiling, who has been looking forward to being at home for a long time, gradually has no common language with Wang Xiaoli, and Wang Xiaoli is even more "busy" and has no time to listen to his wife's heart.
After that, Wang Xiaoli went to Changchun to develop and began to live separately from Wen Meiling, and the estrangement between the two became deeper and deeper, and even after meeting, there was nothing to say.
In the end, the two chose to divorce and gave up the marriage that lasted for seven years.
In the second half of 1998, after the divorce, Wang Xiaoli successfully settled down in the Changchun Peace Theater and began to sing two people with his previous fame.
But in order to sing the two better in the theater, having a good partner must be an indispensable condition.
So Wang Xiaoli, through friends, met an actress who sang a two-person turn, Li Lin.
Also in a certain theater, when Li Lin was performing the program "June Snow" on stage, her voice was crisp and pleasant, full of charm, and Wang Xiaoli was instantly "conquered" by her voice after hearing it.
And this "conquest", Wang Xiaoli not only wants Li Lin to be his partner, but also wants to become a family with her.
After Li Lin stepped down, Wang Xiaoli stopped her for the first time and told her about the idea of cooperation, but Li Lin did not agree at that time.
She did not agree to be a partner with him because she did not know Wang Xiaoli, did not know how strong he was in singing the two-person turn, and did not promise Wang Xiaoli's confession that he was naturally disgusted with his old age and a child.
It should be known that Li Lin and Wang Xiaoli are 11 years apart, Wang Xiaoli is a divorced second-married man with children, and Li Lin is in her youth.
However, Li Lin's refusal did not make Wang Xiaoli give up, but on the contrary, he became more and more frustrated and courageous, "offering hospitality" in front of her every day, sending fruits, bringing lunch, and often picking her up and dropping off her to and from work, and even sometimes carrying gifts to visit her parents.
I have to say that Wang Xiaoli's "courtesy" was very successful, and he had not yet captured Li Lin's heart before he had first managed to get his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, and this also made him attack Li Lin instantly become more effective.
One day in May 2000, Li Lin was finally touched by the help of her parents saying good things for Wang Xiaoli every day, and his daily success in giving herself sincerely.
She agreed to Wang Xiaoli's confession, and the two later held a wedding in their hometown of Nenjiang.
It can be seen that Wang Xiaoli once again used his life experience to prove to everyone that when pursuing a person, you can consider getting your father-in-law and mother-in-law first, so that the possibility of success will be greatly increased.
After Li Lin and Wang Xiaoli got married, they did not give up their careers like Wen Meiling, but performed with their husbands at the Changchun Peace Theater, and the two signed a three-year partnership contract.
Since then, Wang Xiaoli's life has ushered in an important turning point.
Master-apprentice "grudge"
2001 is the luckiest year of Wang Xiaoli's life, a year in which he not only had a happy family, but also began to soar in his career.
At the beginning of the year, the CCTV program "Dream Theater" planned to do a special program, so the director found four pairs of theater performance enthusiasts, including Wang Xiaoli.
In the show, Wang Xiaoli's partner is Yu Miao, the tacit cooperation between the two, the wonderful performance was well received, and finally successfully won the Silver Award.
At the same time, Wang Xiaoli and Zhao Benshan also began to intersect.
At that time, the commentaries and sketches belonging to the same quyi had begun to ring out all over the country, and only the development of the two people was completely at a disadvantage.
Therefore, after entering the new century, Zhao Benshan, who sang the two people on the Liao River, and other sketch star figures, determined to introduce the two into the elegant hall of art.
Also in 2001, Zhao Benshan initiated and hosted the two-person transfer grand prix in January, which was based on the concept of "green two-person transfer" to go to the vulgar and elegant.
Seeing this news, Wang Xiaoli, who has been rooted in the two-person transfer, was naturally excited, and then immediately signed up for the competition.
Wang Xiaoli performed the big drama "After the Bao GongJue" in the competition.
"After The Bao GongJue" is one of the classic plays in the two-person transfer, and many northeastern two-person actors have learned, so Wang Xiaoli's choice of this play is both risky but also has a high chance of winning the first place in the competition.
Fortunately, Wang Xiaoli's kung fu is very solid, he sang "After the Bao Gong" exquisitely, and the judges on the stage were praised for it, and he also won the final gold award.
At that time, The sketch, the duo turned into a famous actor, the national first-class actor Gao Xiumin was offstage, she liked Wang Xiaoli's performance very much, and also saw his talent and efforts in this regard, so she recommended to Zhao Benshan and proposed to let him take Wang Xiaoli as an apprentice.
Gao Xiumin and Zhao Benshan
Zhao Benshan and Gao Xiumin are old partners who have worked together for many years, and naturally they are also convinced of her vision, and he also saw Wang Xiaoli's wonderful performance at that time.
In this way, Wang Xiaoli became the first batch of disciples of Zhao Benshan after the competition.
At the end of 2001, he and Li Lin's first child was born, and at the same time won the Academy Award in the finals of "Dream Theater".
Seeing the prosperity of Wang Xiaoli's career development, the family's future life will surely be better and better, but who knows that during the time when they just worshiped under Zhao Benshan's door, their lives even reached the point where they could not make ends meet.
In 2003, after Wang Xiaoli Li Lin's contract with Changchun Peace Theater expired, he joined the Liaoning Folk Art Troupe.
In the same year, Wang Xiaoli also starred in the role of "Song Bald" in the series "Liu Laogen 2" directed by Zhao Benshan and starring gao Xiumin and Fan Wei.
However, because he is only a marginal figure, plus he has become a person of Zhao Benshan, Wang Xiaoli finally got very little remuneration.
In the years that followed, there were hardly any opportunities to perform, and Zhao Benshan seemed to have forgotten about him, plus the art troupe forbade disciples to take over privately, and these rules and regulations doubled Wang Xiaoli's financial pressure.
Because when there was no performance in the theater before, Wang Xiaoli and Li Lin could also take on private work to maintain a family's livelihood, and now after having one more family member, they can only get a fixed salary of 2,000 yuan per month, which is naturally not enough for a family of four with two-year-old children.
So in the end, Wang Xiaoli had to take the risk and go out to work and make money in violation of the rules of the art troupe.
Zhao Benshan was very angry when he found out, and not only angrily rebuked Wang Xiaoli, but also fined him 100,000 yuan.
This is undoubtedly worse for Wang Xiaoli's family, who thought that following Zhao Benshan and not saying that his career would go to a higher level, at least it would not make Wang Xiaoli have no financial resources to maintain family life.
Therefore, after hearing Zhao Benshan's punishment of him, he was immediately discouraged and had the idea of quitting, but Li Lin did not approve of Wang Xiaoli's impulsive decision.
First, Wang Xiaoli was not reasonable, although he had to make a move for his family, but as the saying goes, there are no rules and no circles, if Wang Xiaoli communicated with Zhao Benshan in advance, perhaps there would be no current situation.
The second is that Zhao Benshan already had a certain position in the qu art world at that time, and Wang Xiaoli is now running away from Zhao Benshan's door because he violated the door rules, so his reputation that he has accumulated in the industry will naturally be greatly affected, and it may even be difficult to have a head start.
Finally, under the persuasion of Li Lin, Wang Xiaoli also realized that he was wrong, and after thinking clearly, he took the initiative to find his master Zhao Benshan to apologize.
Zhao Benshan forgave Wang Xiaoli, but at the same time admonished him, praised him for having a good wife who knew him in general, and woke him up in time.
Judging from these remarks, it can be seen that both the beating of Wang Xiaoli and zhao Benshan's expectations of him do not want him to ruin his great future under impulse.
After this incident, Wang Xiaoli finally got zhao Benshan's "reuse".
In 2006, Zhao Benshan began to plan the "Country Love" series of TV series, and he specially wrote a role for his disciple Wang Xiaoli in the script, which was the honest and responsible agricultural name "Liu Neng" mentioned at the beginning.
As soon as "Country Love" was broadcast, it was welcomed and supported by the majority of the audience, and it was popular all over the country for a time.
Wang Xiaoli vividly interpreted the character image of bald head, stuttering, love of greed and cheapness, suspicion of poverty and love of wealth, stinginess, and many eyes, but not remembering revenge, gentle personality, and willingness to help others, and the audience praised it like a rave, and "Liu Neng" was gradually known by more people.
Later, "Liu Neng" almost became the exclusive label of Wang Xiaoli, saying that Wang Xiaoli may not be known, but when it comes to Liu Neng, there must be someone to respond.
Wang Xiaoli took advantage of the "Liu Neng" fire, and Zhao Benshan then took him to the Spring Festival Gala stage in 2010, starring in the sketch "Donation" with him and Xiao Shenyang and won the first prize of the small category program.
At that time, it can be said that as long as the sketches starring Zhao Benshan must be fine products, and in Wang Xiaoli's own words, "as long as the master is willing to be a 'green leaf', he will definitely be able to win a person."
For example, Xiao Shenyang at the beginning, and Wang Xiaoli, who was brought to the Spring Festival Gala later.
Unfortunately, neither of them grasped the correct direction, nor did they seize the opportunity in their hands, Xiao Shenyang "left" Zhao Benshan's career deteriorated, and Wang Xiaoli's development today is not as good as before.
After following his master to the Spring Festival Gala stage twice, Wang Xiaoli was finally seen by the people of the whole country, and this became the highest peak of his career.
As we all know, since the beginning of the epidemic in 19 years, all offline activities in China and the operation of various stores have been seriously impacted, which has also made many businesses that are mainly physical operations have no economic resources.
Groups like Zhao Benshan and Guo Degang who make a living from theater performances are naturally also a huge blow, and this is an unprecedented test for the two leaders of Zhao Benshan and Guo Degang.
They had to feed the disciples in the team, pay the lease fee for the venue, and all sorts of other miscellaneous expenses.
Compared with Zhao Benshan, Guo Degang may be a little more relaxed, because he also has a son Guo Qilin who is "fishing for gold" in the entertainment industry, and can help him share a little.
However, Zhao Benshan could only carry it alone, and in the end he was not understood by the apprentice.
At that time, the real economy was hit hard, and the online live broadcasting industry rose instantly, and now there are "new stars" from all walks of life who live stream goods everywhere.
In desperation, Zhao Benshan could only follow the trend and violate the door rules, allowing the disciples to go out to take private work, after all, the situation forced people not to go hungry.
After that, some disciples received invitations to bring live broadcasts with goods, and everyone began to make money during the epidemic.
However, most of the people who learn qu art have begun to practice since they were young, and they have also delayed their studies, and their cultural level is not high, which is not reflected in the stage performance, but it is immediately exposed when it is broadcast.
Zhao Benshan Art Troupe found that many disciples had become speechless, and all that should be said and should not be said poured out, so the company asked artists to stop live broadcasting, and at this time, the epidemic was also controlled, and the art troupe gradually began to resume performances.
Perhaps in Zhao Benshan's view, this was to consider their future development, but unfortunately, some disciples led by Wang Xiaoli believed that the master was "hindering" their money-making plan.
It is precisely because of this live broadcast incident that Wang Xiaoli clashed with Zhao Benshan again, he insisted on continuing to broadcast live, Zhao Benshan left a sentence to him, "If you want to broadcast, don't act", Wang Xiaoli still goes his own way, and even put harsh words at Zhao Benshan, "If you don't act, you can't act, where can you still mix?" ”
Unexpectedly, his words finally became a slur, and he couldn't mix anywhere without Zhao Benshan.
In 2020, Zhao Benshan in "Country Love 13" replaced the role of "Liu Neng" with Zhao Mingyuan, who is extremely similar to Wang Xiaoli's appearance and temperament.
This news caused an uproar for a while, after all, everyone has "deeply rooted" feelings for liu neng before, and now the sudden replacement will inevitably cause dissatisfaction and suspicion among the audience.
So someone directly turned out the beginning and end of the "temporary change of horns", and then saw the revelations of Zhao Benshan's master and disciple, and only then did they know that Wang Xiaoli and the master had a contradiction.
In an instant, people began to accuse Wang Xiaoli of being ungrateful and disregarding the teacher, and Li Lin and Wang Liang, who were Wang Xiaoli's family, began to "shout injustice" for him, saying that Wang Xiaoli had almost zero remuneration for starring in "Country Love" for so many years.
At this time, the people who were still sane put down the keyboard in their hands, while some people did not believe Li Lin and Wang Liang's words at all, only thinking that they were excusing themselves, bluntly saying that Zhao Benshan was not that kind of person.
After a year of fermentation, Zhao Benshan finally went down to "prove his innocence" for Wang Xiaoli, saying that Wang Xiaoli was replaced because he was ill and could not participate in the shooting.
However, this statement is like coaxing a three-year-old child, but the so-called "some people believe it, it is true"
Later, although Wang Xiaoli continued to participate in the filming of "Country Love 14", now looking at his development, he has gradually begun to go downhill.
Once Zhao Benshan was still in a program with Guo Degang said, "At present, no apprentice has left me", and Guo Degang returned, "No hurry, no hurry, there is an opportunity".
The hustle and bustle of the world is all profit, and the world is all profitable.
Wang Xiaoli and Zhao Benshan's "quarrel" is ultimately inseparable from a "Li" character, which is extremely similar to the birthday party of Cao Yunjin who once made a big fuss about Guo Degang because of "money" completely ignoring the love of his master and apprentice for many years.
Looking back at the dialogue between Zhao Benshan and Guo Degang now, I thought it was a joke, but I didn't think it was a joke in the end.