At the end of the 1980s, many female celebrities who were red and purple in China wanted to open foreign meat very much, so they went to distant beautiful countries one after another.
At this time, there is also a foreign young man who takes Chinese as his main course at university, and is full of yearning and curiosity about China on the other side of the ocean, this person is the famous cross-talk actor Dashan.
When those female celebrities brush dishes abroad and work as nannies,
Dashan threw himself into China with a wooden peach, and China reported him as Qiong Yao, becoming the first foreign winner of the Magnolia Award, the first foreigner to become one of the "Top Ten Youths in Beijing", and one of the most influential foreigners in China.
As the People's Daily said:
"Dashan is a foreigner, but he is not an outsider."
What did Dashan do in China that allowed him to gain so many honors? And why did he disappear again during the boom period?
01
In the distant 1922, a Canadian doctor, Roswell, crossed the ocean to Shangqiu, Henan, China, and he arrived in China 26 years before Bethune.
Roswell, with two sons and a daughter, practiced medicine in São Paulo, Henan Province, and after 3 years of war, he had to leave China with his children.
After returning to China, he had 4 more children, and the youngest son added a grandson to him in 1965, which was later a "foreign comedy star" mountain that became popular all over the country.
Dashan's original name was Mark Henry Roswell, he was very interested in Chinese culture, majored in the Department of East Asians during college, and also took a course in "modern Chinese", the teacher saw that he liked Chinese so much, he gave him a Chinese name Lu Shiwei.
The profundity of Chinese culture made Lu Shiwei often soak in the library and forget to eat, and later, he directly changed the elective into a major.
In 1988, when there was an opportunity for exchange and learning between China and Canada in front of him, he did not hesitate to seize it and came to Peking University.
When he first arrived in China, he couldn't wait to get in touch with the culture that had not spread to Canada, and crosstalk was his favorite, and he liked the very warm interaction between the actors and the audience when performing crosstalk.
Therefore, he often listens to the tape recorder, cassette tape, and sometimes imitates two sentences when eating.
Through listening to crosstalk, he knew Hou Baolin, Ding Guangquan, Jiang Kun, and the idea of worshipping Jiang Kun as a teacher, but Jiang Kun repeatedly refused him.
By chance, he attended the 1989 New Year's Day party, in which he played Xu Dashan in the sketch "Night Return", the name of Dashan is the name of a chef in the school.
The show made Oyama a hit, and he also received many letters from the audience, and the letters were sent to the school chef. After that, he knew that the audience thought he was called Dashan, so he changed his name to Dashan.
In 1989, CCTV was going to organize a Lantern Party, when the director designed a sketch for foreign students to perform "New Kong Yiji", and the chief planner was Ding Guangquan.
Ding Guangquan has made outstanding contributions to the promotion of national culture, was awarded the title of world art master, and he received more than 100 foreign apprentices from more than 70 countries in his lifetime, and the beginning of the foreign apprentices was the beginning of the insight into the mountains.
Ding Guangquan went to Peking University to pick actors, he heard that the international students in the most favorite cross-talk is Dashan, on the spot finalized to let Dashan to play, seemingly hasty decision is actually very correct, interest is the best teacher.
In this way, Dashan stepped onto the Chinese stage with the largest audience in the world, and became famous in one fell swoop, and was also called "foreign comedy star" by the audience.
He felt qualified to worship Jiang Kun as a teacher, just like falling in love, chasing Jiang Kun, wherever Jiang Kun went, he would follow him, and he never forgot to remind Jiang Kun that he wanted to worship the teacher.
But Jiang Kun just did not agree, until one day, he made four dishes for Jiang Kun, and the "hungry" Jiang Kun was finally defeated by the temptation of "food".
02
Also in 1989, the Cultural Exchange Office of Peking University organized an event to invite Jiang Kun over, and after Dashan knew about it, he went to see Jiang Kun very enthusiastically:
"Teacher Jiang, you are here",
Jiang Kun glanced at the mountain:
"How is it you again, annoying, endlessly."
Dashan understood Jiang Kun's impatience as "hitting is scolding is love" in love, and the worse Jiang Kun's attitude toward him, the more he felt that there was a drama in worshiping the teacher, so he quickly said:
"I'll make you four dishes with two green onions, two eggs, and a piece of tofu,"
Jiang Kun thought about how he could make four dishes, and thought he was going to do magic, so he said to him:
"Don't worship the wrong teacher, you go learn magic."
Dashan did not give up, and pleaded with Jiang Kundao:
"You must make me perform,"
Without hitting the smiley face, Jiang Kun gave Dashan a chance, and as a result, Dashan really made four dishes.
First course: two egg yolks, plus two green onions, called two yellow oriole crisp willows;
Two-course dish: the egg white is boiled and arranged into a line, called a line of egrets on the blue sky;
Three courses: He chopped the tofu again and sprinkled it with a little salt, called the window containing the Xiling Qianqiu Snow.
At this point in the performance, Jiang Kun thought that the three things were used up, and he would definitely not be able to make the fourth dish, so dashan brought out a bowl of water and put two egg shells on it, which became the Door Berth East Wu Wanli Boat.
Jiang Kun was deeply touched after watching his performance, and did not expect that a foreign student knew so much about Chinese culture, and the obstacles to the cultural differences and hype that he had previously thought were suddenly cleared.
Therefore, under the witness of Li Jindou, Chen Yongquan, and Tang Jiezhong, Peking University specially held a banquet for him to worship the teacher of "famous laughing stars receiving apprentices, foreign disciples worshiping teachers".
Ding Guangquan is Dashan's Bole, teaching him allegro, and the two often cooperate, many viewers think that Ding Guangquan is Dashan's master, and after he worships Jiang Kun as a teacher, the audience also thinks that he is jumping to worship the master.
In the fall of 1990, he went to Liaoning with an American country band, and the orchestra was coordinated by a Chongqing girl, Gan Lin, who spoke English very well, and both of them understood the same two Chinese, which made their relationship better than with others.
The two soon fell in love, when Oyama's popularity was already very high, and everywhere he went, there were audiences who knew him.
Once, they walked hand in hand on the street, passers-by thought that their relationship was not normal, so they insulted Ganlin, but Dashan Qi also moved with the other party and entered the police station.
Later, after they got married, Gan Lin, who has always been low-key, will maintain a safe distance of more than two meters from the mountain even if she goes out shopping with the mountain, and after the audience recognizes the mountain, she will wait quietly on the side, and when the audience is gone, she will come up again.
Just because it was too low-key, for a long time, the audience thought that Dashan's wife was Zhang Kaili.
When Zhang Kaili and Dashan cooperated in "Often Go Home to See", Dashan listened to the director's advice and brought the child, Zhang Kaili naturally walked to dashan to support Dashan after seeing it, this scene was thought by the audience that they were two mouths, and passed on that there were noses and eyes.
Regarding this scandal, Dashan did not clarify, and his wife did not mind, Gan Lin believes that work is work, life is life, but in order to protect his wife and children, Dashan settled in Canada with them.
After worshiping the teacher, Dashan's progress was very fast, and he began to follow Jiang Kun around to perform, and even walked onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, just when he was planning to show his fists, Feng Gong's words made the mountain that had been climbed 4 times to the Spring Festival Gala almost disappear.
03
Following Jiang Kun, Dashan's career has developed rapidly, but he has not limited his future development to the aspect of cross-talk, and now it seems how correct his plan is.
In 1998, after acting in the mountain of cross-talk for 9 years, he and Pan Changjiang and Hei Mei took the sketch "A Stamp" to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
The next year, he performed the cross-talk "Same Joy and Happiness" with foreign actors Such as Carlo on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
By this time, he had become one of the most influential foreigners in China, and in 2004, he was named one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Youths in Beijing".
Mandarin is as good as Chinese, so that his career can not stop, in 2006, starred in the Qing Palace drama "Court Painter Lang Shining", and in the same year also starred in the drama "Red Star Shines on China".
Because Grandpa had been in Henan for 3 years, after this news was known to Shangqiu City, Henan Province, he helped him look for traces of Grandpa's stay, but he did not expect to really let them find it, and also found several photos of Grandpa's life in Shangqiu.
Dashan and Henan established a "new love" and were hired by Shangqiu City as the image ambassador of the ancient city.
In 2007, he starred with Guo Donglin in the comedy "Super Stupid", which toured more than 50 times and won him the Magnolia Award, the highest award in the drama industry.
After that, he appeared twice on the Spring Festival Gala.
His career was in full swing, and he began to be complacent in familiar territory.
At this time, Feng Gong, who had already transformed from cross-talk to acting sketches, said a word to him:
"If you want to keep going, you have to step out of your comfort zone and try more possibilities."
But he was enjoying the heat brought to him by the aura of the Spring Festival Gala, but he would often think about Feng Gong's words in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep all night.
And Guo Degang, who had already married his master, also told him:
"The 1980s and 1990s were the most prosperous time for cross-talk, but with the passage of time, the decline of cross-talk was the inevitable of the times, and the addition of Dashan just gave the audience a sense of freshness, but it was not far away."
"Walk not far" and "go down" became two words that often haunted Dashan's brain, and he began to review the bits and pieces along the way, and even remembered the scene when he first met Liang Zuo at Jiang Kun's house.
Liang Zuo is the older brother of Liang Tian and Liang Xiao, who created works such as "Tiger Mouth Reverie", "Thief Company", "I Love My Family", "Idle Centaur Big Sister" and so on.
When he saw Dashan, he said to the point that Dashan's conditions were very suitable for being a cross-talk actor, but Dashan didn't have his own things, and he said that they were all other people's things.
Dashan thought about the three seniors' statements and finally made a decision in a quiet late night, but he did not expect that his decision would one day cause Master Jiang Kun to fall into the "plagiarism gate incident".
04
"My brother's name was Dan, my brother's name was Ben, and after I took the name Dashan, the three of us brothers were collectively called 'Big Stupid'", a few simple words made the audience laugh back and forth.
After that night of deep thinking, he knew that he had always wanted to add his own things to the crosstalk, but it had been limited to modification and polishing, and he had no way to create a new crosstalk.
Therefore, he thought of combining the popular talk show in Canada with the Chinese cross talk, breaking through the rigor and completeness of cross talk creation, using the arbitrariness of the talk show, taking the things from all over the world, thinking of where to say, do not have to care about the integrity of the story.
So he made a more life-like talk show "Big Mountain Kan Dashan", and the "Big Idiot" segment is a segment of his talk show.
Oyama's talk show is performed in a small offline theater, and only a small audience participates in each performance, so many people can't see him for many years and think he has disappeared.
In fact, he has always been there, but in another form.
In addition to talking about talk shows in front of the stage, he turned most of his energy into the background, participated in the production of the English education program "With the Mountains and Miles", and produced "International Chinese" and "Tourism Chinese" together with CCTV, which was popular with him.
Dashan's native language is English, the advantage is Chinese, he combined the two, compiled a bilingual textbook "Uncle Dashan Tells Stories", easy to understand and standard rigorous, very popular with children.
Nowadays, short video platforms have sprung up, and Dashan has also seized the dividend period of the explosion of short video platforms, and has opened accounts on major social platforms.
Although he is active on popular platforms, he does not blindly conform to the slogans of the audience, others are funny and funny to attract people's attention, and he often shares ancient Chinese poems on the Internet, and even uses bilingual to recite texts and texts.
In 2019, the mountain that has not appeared for a long time appeared on the Chinese Spring Festival evening, and he used a stand-up cross-talk about the difference between Beijing dialect and Cantonese to "Learn Chinese", which made the audience laugh to tears.
At the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng performed the cross-talk "Happy Dialect", which is almost exactly the same as Dashan's "Qiaoxue Chinese".
Therefore, on February 9, 2022, the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger came to an end for a week, and the mountain that had not been on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for more than ten years suddenly rushed to the hot search.
Jiang Kun's cross-talk is suspected of plagiarizing dashan's program "Learning Chinese Dialect" performed abroad a few years ago, and for a time, Jiang Kun fell into the "plagiarism door incident", and the voices questioning his artistic virtue on the Internet rose and fell.
In order to clear master's "suspicions", Dashan posted a video on the Internet in response to Jiang Kun's "plagiarism".
It turned out that the original author of this cross-talk was Jiang Kun, and it was Dashan who knew that there was this cross-talk, and Jiang Kun wanted to come to perform on overseas spring evenings, and later, CCTV named Jiang Kun to perform this program on the spring evening, and only then did the "plagiarized" oolong appear.
epilogue
People have borders, but art does not, Oyama uses his extraordinary talent to spread Canadian culture in China, spread Chinese culture in Canada, and bridge the gap between many countries that do not understand.
Let the mountain continue to talk about the mountain.