Feng Gong was seen by people in previous years, most of the situation was on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and in the past two years, it has been seen more in the mobile phone screen. People will find that among the many short videos filmed by Feng Gong, there is a person who is called "potato" by Feng Gong from time to time and shouts master or sir to Feng Gong. This person still looks familiar, so who is he?
His name is Cao Suifeng, and he is also a cross-talk actor, and he used to be a partner with another Wang Tong, who often appears in short videos. However, more audiences saw him on the Spring Festival evening, and in 2014, he followed Feng Gong to perform the sketch "I Am Just Like This". He played a porter, running up and down with Feng Gong, speaking a Henan dialect. Because of his round head and short hair, he was called "kiwifruit" by Feng Gong in the sketch.
This time, let's talk about the "kiwi" Cao Suifeng.
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Whether in sketches or cross-talk performances, Cao Suifeng insists on speaking Henan dialect instead of Mandarin, although his Mandarin is actually very standard. Why? His hometown is Henan, and he wants to use his hometown dialect to create more images and let people see the humor in the bones of Henan people.
In 1983, Cao Suifeng was born in Yanshi, Henan, whose real name was Cao Jianfeng. Cao Suifeng has a strong ability to imitate since childhood, can learn many animal sounds, and is always asked by relatives to perform in public. After graduating from junior high school, Cao Suifeng dropped out of school to work, worked as a cook for a while, and then simply went home to practice ventriloquism and performance, which was not understood by his family and the villagers.
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He sent the video tapes of his performances to many entertainment program groups, almost thirty or forty groups, and finally received an invitation from the "Happy 100" program group of Southeast Satellite TV. After overcoming the tension, Cao Suifeng finally took the second place and got a 5,000 yuan bonus.
It is reasonable to say that his family's conditions are not good and he needs this money, but Cao Suifeng gave it to a teacher with worse conditions in his hometown. This incident was seen by the head of the unit, who asked Cao to follow the wind to become a soldier. When he arrived at a propaganda team of the Jinan Military Region, Cao Suifeng began to learn cross-talk and performed three or four hundred performances successively.
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In 2006, Cao Suifeng participated in the CCTV cross-talk competition and won the third prize, so he became acquainted with Feng Gong, and later Feng Gong also accepted Cao Suifeng as an apprentice. By 2008, Cao Suifeng and Wang Tong competed together and won the third prize.
By April and May 2013, Cao Suifeng followed his master Feng Gong to create Spring Festival Gala works, from wearing short-sleeved rehearsals to wearing cotton jackets, and finally performing "How I Am" on Chinese New Year's Eve Night. Although the porter played by Cao Suifeng is a small supporting role, whether it is the appearance or the lines, it is very brilliant, such as "you just live on the 18th floor underground - that place is not going", "I just made it up with Fan Bingbing".
In particular, the two talked about potatoes and kiwifruit, and since then, Cao has been called kiwifruit everywhere he goes. Before that, he had been called a big head because he played the big head in the movie "Really Not a Joke".
A few years later, Cao Suifeng and his master appeared on the Spring Festival Gala to perform the group cross-talk "I Love Poetry", and he also spoke Henan dialect.
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As for the fact that Cao Suifeng always speaks Henan dialect and does not speak Mandarin in his performance, there is a reason behind it. When Cao Suifeng first arrived in Beijing, it was not easy, and he even encountered the blank eyes of others because he spoke dialects. Since then, Cao Suifeng has made up his mind to insist on speaking Henan dialect and not speaking Mandarin when performing on stage in the future, just to prove to those who look down on their hometown people, "We are really not worse than others."
That's what Cao Suifeng did. And Henan dialect has a characteristic, ordinary sentences can also make others laugh. Nowadays, in Feng Gong's short videos, Cao Suifeng is always heard speaking Henan dialect, and the audience really feels both funny and kind. Cao Suifeng's goal that year was achieved.