Cross-talk examination: Hao Aimin fourteen, the "controversial" apprentice of Hou Men's grievances
1939
Hao Aimin was born in Beiping. When I was young, I loved crosstalk and dreamed of becoming a cross-talk actor. After liberation, I entered Huiwen First Primary School and was very honored to meet Teacher Sun Jingxiu. Under the influence of Teacher Sun, Hao Aimin has also become the "king of stories" in the eyes of his classmates, telling "White-Haired Girl", "Iron Warrior", Soviet movies, and foreign fairy tales. Later, he transferred to Jiangcha Hutong Primary School. Here, Hao Aimin wrote a one-act small drama "Catching Mice", and also directed and performed himself, after the whole school performed. There is a passage that says: Once in a math class, the teacher saw Hao Aimin's eyes sluggish, and his lips were still moving, so he judged that he was distracted, and intentionally woke him up, so he shouted loudly: "Hao Aimin! Answer the question! Hao Aimin stood up and said, "Hao Aimin, answer the question!" The whole class was happy, and the teacher smiled and said, "You are such a little nerve who is fascinated." Hao Aimin said, "Teacher, this line should be added with the word 'sick'." The students laughed even louder.
In 1952, Hao Aimin was admitted to Beijing No. 26 Middle School and served as one of the leaders of the 26 Middle School Repertory Theatre. Don't laugh at this troupe, there are a lot of music talents: Ai Changxu, Huang Xiaoli, Wang Xianting, Xiu Zongdi, Tang Jishen, Gu Xiaoquan and so on. Hao Aimin starred in dramas during this period, such as "Chance", "Put Down Your Whip", "The Secret of the Handbag", "Dragon Whiskers Swollen", etc.; Hao Aimin was undoubtedly lucky, and he was admitted to the Central Radio and Television Troupe before finishing his second year of high school.
In 1958, Hao Aimin was admitted to the Central Radio and Television Troupe, where he successively performed TV series such as "Dr. Xin and Dr. Chen", "The Old Accountant", and "Workshop Coincidence". At this time, he was best at imitating this, and successfully saved the scene at the 1960 National Day Literary and Art Gala, and improvised the "Song of Youth" with Xie Fang. Hao Aimin's imitation is delicate and vivid, and Wei Miaowei Xiao makes Xie Fang successfully "jump the play", saying: "Yongze, you are really a big living treasure. Hao Aimin improvised: "I have become a big tiger in the zoo!" "The melon-eating masses are all happy.
In 1961, the troupe proposed that drama actors should absorb nutrition from national art and improve their expressiveness, so Hao Aimin came to the Zhongguang Rap Troupe and followed Hou Baolin to learn cross-talk "To the Spring League" and "The Chronicle of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek Laojun". At the end of this year, when reporting on the performance, Hao Aimin performed "Empty City Plan" and "Learning Peking Opera", and Mei Yi, the leader of the bureau at the time, looked at it and said: "This actor has good conditions, and I hope that Comrade Hou Baolin will accept him as an apprentice and expand the cross-talk team." Immediately, Hao Aimin was transferred to the Zhongguang Rap Group, and Hou Baolin also "laughed" at this halfway monk's apprentice. Ma Ji, Yu Shiyou, Li Wenhua and Hao Aimin are all in the China Broadcasting Rap Group and are called the Four Little Geniuses. The four elders who taught them cross-talk were Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, Guo Qiru, and Guo Quanbao.
In 1961, Hao Aimin partnered with Guo Quanbao until Guo Quanbao retired, and later partnered with Li Wenhua.
In 1962, under the influence of Ma Ji, Hao Aimin began to create cross-talk, and created "Table Tennis" with Ma Ji. After that, he created nearly 100 works, the more influential ones are "Fashionable People", "Misfortune is Not Alone", "Movie Talk", "Song dedicated to Mother", "Naked Love", "Talk about World Etiquette" and so on.
He followed Hou Baolin to the north and south, toured the north, and often performed in Zhongnanhai, becoming another new star of the China Broadcasting Rap Company after Ma Ji. Hao Aimin has cooperated with many partners, in addition to Hou Baolin, there are Liu Baorui, Guo Qiru, Guo Quanbao, Li Wenhua, Tang Jiezhong, Jiang Kun and so on. The more partners you have, the more it illustrates a problem: you don't have your own style.
Guo Quanbao, Guo Qiru and Liu Baorui from left in the front row; Li Wenhua, Ma Ji, Hou Baolin, Yu Shiyou and Hao Aimin (Qingdao, Shandong, 1963.10) from left in the back row
Hao Aimin's cross-talk created and performed has two characteristics: one is children's cross-talk; the other is scientific cross-talk. This is unique among cross-talk actors, but it also makes him an "alternative" among cross-talk actors. He was a drama turned into the Central Radio Rap Group to say cross-talk, saying that cross-talk is biased towards warm text, there is a drama model, coupled with the lack of excellent works, so the influence is not as good as Ma Ji, Yu Shiyou, Li Wenhua, or even less than Jiang Kun. Even so, he managed to be one of the top ten comedians.
In 1985, he was selected as one of the top ten comedians in the country, ranking eighth. For this result, many people said that they were stained with the light of the unit and the master.
It's been 37 years since the top ten comedians were selected, and the dust has long since settled. Although some people questioned it at that time, the vote was cast by the masses and could only be recognized. Now in question is his lineage. In the "Annals of Hou Baolin" published by Hou Baolin's daughter Hou Feng, there are Hao Aimin and Yu Shiyou both worshipping teachers in 1961. In the "Hao Aimin" entry in the "Cross-talk Dictionary", it is written: "In 1961, he was transferred to the Central Radio Rap Ensemble and became a cross-talk actor. Baihou Baolin was his teacher. Gao Yuqun, deputy editor of the "Cross-Talk Dictionary", has a good relationship with Hou Baolin, and once went to a foreign country with Hou Baolin to give a lecture, and he said one thing before his death: "In the 1980s, at a dinner, I was present with Hao Aimin and his wife. Lady Hao, Zhang Yulan, called Master, and Hou Baolin agreed. ”
However, when Hou Baohua was a guest on CCTV's "Chinese Literature and Art", he suddenly came up with a list of Hou Baolin's apprentices, without Hao Aimin and Yu Shiyou.
The brothers and sisters have different opinions on whether Hao Aimin is Hou Baolin's apprentice, who should they believe? Hou Is the heir to Hou Baolin's biography and literature, the holder of Hou Baolin's image and copyright, and she is the "spokesperson" of the Hou family.
In June 2014, Ding Guangquan received apprenticeships, and Hao Aimin was the substitute teacher; Hou Zheng came to congratulate him. Later, Hou Zheng, Shi Shengjie, and Hao Aimin also attended a program to commemorate Hou Baolin. All this shows that Hou Baolin's other disciples and Hou Zhen all recognized Hao Aimin's brotherhood.
Why didn't Hou Yaohua recognize Hao Aimin's status as Hou Baolin's apprentice? It is said that Hao Aimin has a straight personality and says some things that the mainstream cross-talk community does not like to hear. For example, he said that many cross-talk actors are now "not doing their jobs", either to sing, or to do business, advertising endorsements and to become film and television actors. At present, all the cross-talk actors want to make money, and no one has made efforts to study cross-talk; for example, he said that the decline of cross-talk, individual industry leaders need to bear 50% of the responsibility; for example, he said that cross-talk is an "art of grounding", it needs to communicate face-to-face with the audience. The current TV cross-talk can indeed play a role in publicity, but the audience can not see the appearance during the performance, and it is difficult to improve personal business ability.
Hao Aimin's performance is generous and humorous, but it gives the impression that there is a drama style.
His works include: "A Horse", "Big and Small Voices", "Movie Talk", "Learn to Speak Mandarin", "One Buy and One Sell", "Learn Yue Opera", "Laugh and Sing", "I Am a Postman", "Be a Good Salesman", "Throw Boots", "Telegram That Can't Be Sent Out", "Dialect Talk", "Supporting Role Talk", "Celebration of Return", "Fifteen Moon", "Calling People", "Drunk Man Returning Home", "Etiquette Miscellaneous", "Ear-stained", "Coaxing Children", "Five Pens", "New Trademarks" and so on.
Hao Aimin loves dramas, and he also joins the China Broadcasting Television Drama Troupe and has acted in many TV dramas. Later, under the arrangement of the organization, he was transferred to the China Guangdong Rap Group to speak cross-talk. Therefore, Hao Aimin is a halfway monk, using the method of comedy to understand cross-talk and express cross-talk; naturally, the cross-talk he expresses is different from Hou Baolin's cross-talk, and there is a difference between Ma Ji's cross-talk. The children's crosstalk and scientific crosstalk he chose can only be said to be a small branch of crosstalk, not the general direction of crosstalk, nor the general trend of the future.
To digress: Hou Baolin cut off his entire stomach because of stomach cancer, but he still failed to save his life. Hao Aimin said in a program that the reason why Master got stomach cancer was because of problems with eating habits: he always liked to eat hot mouths when eating, and he did not eat when he was not hot. For example, when eating dumplings and eating noodles, he directly picked them out of the tumbling pot and ate them with chopsticks.
It cannot be said that it was a mistake to organize hao Aimin to draw nourishment from crosstalk; it cannot be said that it was a mistake to organize Hao Aimin to stay and speak crosstalk. These were the things that people should have done in that era, and who can blame that era? Moreover, Hao Aimin really relied on his own talents to mix his own reputation in the cross-talk circle.
However, why didn't Hou Yaohua recognize Hao Aimin's master? It's not a matter of the times.