At the beginning of the birth of cross-talk, the status of the industry was extremely low, after the founding of New China, cross-talk was gradually recognized, and it achieved rapid development in art, gradually dominating the art of music, and now there is a trend of running rampant.
1. Zhu Shaowen
The founder of Chinese cross-talk art, a Chinese Qing Dynasty artist (1829-1904), the stage name is "Poor is not afraid", and the seven cross-talk artists are called "Eight Monsters of Tianqiao". At first, he studied clowns in the Beijing opera class, but he has not been able to sing popularity, and then changed his career many times, and finally chose to say crosstalk. Zhu Shaowen was not only loved by the common people, but also favored by some princes and nobles, and often listened to his cross-talk with figures who were in the political arena of the late Qing Dynasty.
"Full of articles are not afraid of poverty, and the history of the five cars of books is poor", this is Zhu Shaowen's self-deprecating two-sentence poem. The stage name "Poor Not Afraid" was also born from here.
Zhu Shaowen was the first cross-talk artist in Chinese history and the originator of cross-talk. Zhu Shaowen is a very legendary figure, whose artistic career has experienced the three dynasties of Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, and was the first to be pioneered by him, and made important contributions to the development of northern qu art and cross-talk.
Representative works: Character Phase, Old Wo gua dou fa, Jiangnan Wei, big bodyguard
2. Ma Sanli
A famous cross-talk performing artist in China, he was an advisor to the China Qu Artists Association and an honorary chairman of the Tianjin Qu Artists Association. Born in a cross-talk family, the son of Ma Delu, one of the eight virtues of cross-talk, known as "Ma Sanye", in 1930 by his father Ma Delu recommended, Ma Sanli worshiped Zhou Deshan as a teacher, began to perform on stage, he is a generation of cross-talk taidou loved by the audience, the first person to shape small characters, the first person to cross-talk independent style.
Ma Sanli (left)
Ma Sanli is a people's artist with both virtue and art, who founded the famous "Ma's Cross-Talk", known as the "Cross-Talk Taidou", which is deeply loved by the audience. In his hometown of Tianjin, there is a saying that "no faction is not a horse", which shows the depth of his artistic attainments. At that time, he was the oldest, the most senior, the most senior and the most accomplished in the cross-talk industry.
Ma Sanli (left)
Representative works: tease you to play, buy monkeys, start at ten o'clock, open a porridge factory, sell hanging tickets
3. Zhang Shouchen
Cross-talk actor, book critic, the fifth generation leader of cross-talk art, once served as a director of the China Ququ Association. At the age of 5, he spoke cross-talk with his father, at the age of 10, he began to set up his own stall to say cross-talk, at the age of 12, he studied cross-talk with Jiao Dehai as a teacher, and at the age of 15, he became a full artist to perform in various places. In 1923, he began to cooperate with Li Dezhuo, and in 1927, Zhang Shouchen performed the cross-talk "To the Spring League" live on the Tianjin Radio Station, which is the earliest verifiable record of the "cross-talk on the radio". In 1960, he was received by Mao Zedong and the central leading comrades.
Zhang Shouchen is one of the important representative figures in the Chinese cross-talk art world, the first person to industrialization of cross-talk, and the first person to be taught by teachers. In his career of more than 60 years of art, he has made unique ingenuity, bold innovation and achieved certain achievements. He is a representative figure of cross-talk inheriting the past and the future, and is respected by posterity as "a generation of grandmasters".
Representative works: Bone Phase, Ministry of Politics, Foreign Money Typhoid Fever, Five Hundred Plays
4. Hou Baolin
He is a master of Chinese cross-talk and was a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. At the age of 12, he studied Peking Opera with his teacher Yan Zefu, in 1933 he visited the cross-talk artist Chang Baochen as his teacher, and in 1938 he worshiped under Zhu Kuoquan's door and began to give praise to his master Zhu Kuoquan. In 1949, he performed cross-talk for the first time to Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other leaders. In 1979, he announced his retirement from the stage and specialized in the research of cross-talk art.
Hou Baolin (left)
Hou Baolin is a member of the cross-talk generation and an important founder and leader of the new Chinese music industry. The first person to reform cross-talk, the first person to raise cross-talk to the first person in language art and the first person in international exchange of cross-talk. His cross-talk, clear words, natural movements, good at imitating various dialects, dramatic lines, creation, performance of cross-talk played a role in satirical art, improve the status of cross-talk in art, the development of cross-talk art to a new peak.
Representative works: Drama Miscellaneous, Nocturnal Travels, Guan GongZhan Qin Qiong, Marriage and Superstition, No. 77
5. Liu Baorui
Chinese cross-talk master, stand-up cross-talk king, the sixth generation of Chinese cross-talk artists. At the age of 9, he began to contact the art of cross-talk, and at the age of 13, he officially worshiped Zhang Shouchen as a teacher. In 1932, 17-year-old Liu Baorui and 18-year-old Ma Sanli performed cross-talk.
Liu Baorui is known as the "King of Stand-up Comedy", and has made outstanding contributions to the creation, improvement and development of cross-talk. He can be called the first person in the older generation of artists to do miscellaneous studies, the first person to stand-up comedy, and the first person to walk in the cave. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he often went to Zhongnanhai with Hou Baolin and Ma Ji to give special performances to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
Liu Baorui (right)
Representative works: Xie Xueshi, Liansheng Third Grade, Pearl Emerald White Jade Soup, OfficialDom Fight
6. Ma Zhiming
Chinese cross-talk actor, Ma's cross-talk generation, the third generation of "Ma's cross-talk", a national first-class actor. Known as "Shao Ma Ye", he is the son of Ma Sanli. He officially began speaking cross-talk in 1962, was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and returned to the stage in 1980. In 1986, he was accepted by Hou Baolin as a disciple, and he worshiped the late cross-talk predecessor Zhu Kuoquan as a teacher.
Ma Zhiming has deeply grasped the essence of "Ma's Cross-Talk", and has formed an artistic style that is not tepid, not impatient, not shouting, not shouting, not being salty, and has a solid foundation, profound performance skills, and exquisite skills. It has made outstanding contributions to the inheritance of today's cross-talk art and is the representative inheritor of the representative project of national intangible cultural heritage.
Ma Zhiming (left)
Representative works: disputes, geographical maps, yellow robes and bodies, five tastes, learning music, big bodyguards
7. Ma Ji
Chinese cross-talk actor, the seventh generation of Chinese cross-talk, is a disciple of Master Hou Baolin. In 1956, he participated in the National Amateur Quyi Observation and Performance And won the national championship, in 1963 he created the cross-talk "Portrait", in 1966 the "Cultural Revolution" began to be criticized, in 1985 he was named "National Top Ten Laughing Stars", and in 1989 he won the 1st China Golden Disc Award. Having been on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, everyone still remembers the work "Universe Brand Cigarette".
Ma Ji is the representative of China's new cross-talk, the first person to develop TV cross-talk, and the first person to create the spirit of cross-talk. The literaryization of the cross-talk language began with the predecessor Zhang Shouchen and reached its peak in Hou Baolin. As a cross-talk actor who grew up in New China, Ma Ji has also received the personal biography of Hou Baolin and is a key figure in the development of modern cross-talk. It has created a new cross-talk with the theme of celebrating new life and heroic figures, bringing the development of cross-talk to a new peak.
Ma Ji (left)
Representative works: Cosmic brand cigarettes, five senses of merit, old and young music, séance, on teasing, tooth extraction
8. Hou Yaowen
Chinese cross-talk actor, a national first-class actor, former vice chairman of the Chinese Qu Artists Association, is the third son of cross-talk master Hou Baolin. The 12-year-old Hou Yaowen made his debut on stage, participated in the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1983, and became one of the "Top Ten Comedians in China" in 1985. In 1993, he was awarded the "Certificate of International Artistic Achievement", and in 1996, he was awarded the title of "Virtue and Art Double Xin" artist by the Ministry of Culture. Hou Yaowen had a total of 28 disciples, including the famous performance artist Guo Degang.
Hou Yaowen is not only the heir of traditional Chinese cross-talk, but also the pioneer of China's new cross-talk, which has opened up a new road for the revitalization and development of Chinese cross-talk. It has absorbed the nutrition of various art forms such as opera and piano books, integrated it, further developed the cross-talk performing art, and made great contributions to the Chinese cross-talk performing arts.
Representative works: Spitting Lotus Flowers, Jingjiu Yanyi, Sweet and Sour Live Fish, Politeness, Horse Racing in the Year of the Horse, Zodiac New Year's Greeting, Year of the Rooster Speaking of Chicken
9. Jiang Kun
He is a Chinese cross-talk performing artist, the head of the China Radio Rap Troupe, the president of the Chinese Quyi Society, the director of the Quyi Research Institute of the China Academy of Arts, the chairman of the China Qu Artists Association, and the leader of The art of rapping and laughter in China today. He is the descendant of Mr. Hou Baolin, the master of cross-talk, and Mr. Ma Ji, a giant of cross-talk, a representative figure of the seventh generation of Chinese cross-talk (one says eight generations), a representative inheritor of the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects (cross-talk), and a national first-class actor.
Jiang Kun is a well-known artist for ordinary Chinese and Chinese people, young and old. He has participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 11 consecutive years and served as the host of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 7 times. He has been awarded the title of "Moral and Artistic Double Xin" literary and artistic worker in the country, won the "National Top Ten Laughing Stars", and has received a total of 36 apprentices. His wish is to "sprinkle China's laughter into the world and introduce the joy of the world into China." He created a "ginger comic era" of cross-talk art.
Representative works: such a photo, tiger mouth reverie, elevator adventure, hurry, old stage, press release, mutual respect, overlord farewell
10. Guo Degang
Chinese mainland cross-talk actor, director, screenwriter, singer, actor and host, founder of Beijing Deyun Society, and the eighth generation of cross-talk artists. He began to learn art at the age of 6, Gao Xiangkai, an actor of the Baixi River Drum Book, studied storytelling for his teacher, and began to learn cross-talk at the age of 8. In 1998, he founded the Beijing Xiangsheng Conference (the predecessor of Deyun Society), began to speak cross-talk with Yu Qian in 2000, and in 2004, he took Hou Yaowen as his teacher. After 2005, the cross-talk performance of the Post-Deyun Society was extremely popular. In 2008, he became the first cross-talk actor to hold a solo performance in the Great Hall of the People. In 2018, he studied under Peking Opera master Zhao Lintong. Up to now, Guo Degang has received more than a hundred apprentices, including the representative figure Yue Yunpeng.
Guo Degang is a milestone for Chinese crosstalk. At the end of the cross-talk, he single-handedly saved Chinese cross-talk, restored the nature of cross-talk, restored the expression of cross-talk in small theaters, and successfully brought cross-talk into commercial performances, and also brought cross-talk to foreign countries to let more foreigners understand Chinese cross-talk.
Guo Degang (left)
Guo Degang is a non-professional folk grassroots cross-talk actor, all the way ups and downs, once locked up in the glass room for many days as a monkey, and once resisted the Guo Degang incident.
Representative works: On the current situation of fifty years of cross-talk, hello Beijing, I want to be happy, horse coat, white snake legend, white dog grave, you have to be a good person, crooked singing