There is an old saying in the cross-talk industry: it is easy to find a good wife, but it is difficult to find a good partner! Indeed, it is not easy to find a partner who is consistent in performance style and artistic vision. The teasing should not only cooperate with tacit understanding to help each other, but also be equal in the level of performance, which is a necessary condition for a pair of cross-talk actors to sound man'er. However, it is a great regret to be able to meet an opponent and meet a good partner who will meet a good talent and end up breaking up. Such precedents abound in the cross-talk community, such as Gao Yingpei and Fan Zhenyu, Ma Zhiming and Xie Tianshun, Niu Qun Feng Gong, Qi Zhi Dabing... And so on.
There are many reasons for the rift between the teases, some of which are divergent in artistic views; some have different aspirations for personal development; but most of the rifts still cannot escape a "profit" word. After all, in the past, cross-talk artists ate open meals, and the living conditions of the family without overnight food forced them to try their best to make a living. However, in the past, most cross-talk artists also paid attention to rules and righteousness, and there was nothing wrong with the cracks, which is the so-called "scattered business does not disperse friendship".
Is there a delay in buying, selling, and friendship? Of course! As early as the 1930s and 1940s, Mr. Wang Shichen, known as "Little Confused" in the industry, had already gained fame in the Beijing cross-talk circle, and belonged to the early Xiangman among the Baozi generation of artists. At that time, he performed in Beijing Dong'an Market, Qiming Tea House, Phoenix Hall, Xidan Entertainment Club and other gardens for many years, and it was also a well-amused Mr. Bao zi in Beijing who gave him a good job, and the two helped each other on stage to win a large number of loyal fans among the Beijing audience. A pair of fire stalls that "have a deal" naturally rise in income, but they also lay the groundwork for the crack.
Before a performance, when Wang Shichen and his partner were waiting backstage, the person suddenly proposed that from now on the two of them want five or five points. This kind of requirement is obviously not in line with the rules, and the two people in the industry usually follow the custom of three or seven or four or six accounts, that is, holding the praise to take 30% and teasing 70%. But it is not absolute, when The little mushroom and Zhao Peiru partnered, it has always been a five-and-five account, which was proposed by Chang Baokun, who was mainly teasing, and belonged to a special case. But the already well-known volume partner suddenly made this request to Wang Shichen before taking the stage, and said that if he did not agree, he would not act this time. In the face of his partner's "blackmail", "little confused" Wang Shichen was not confused at all, and he immediately refused with righteous words. As a result, it is conceivable that this old gentleman who weighed the work really "said and believed" to Wang Shichen.
The breakup of unhappiness also makes Wang Shichen, who is becoming popular, difficult, there is no suitable praise, the impact on income is a small matter, and the delayed performance time is the most critical for the actor's reputation and future development. The matter of repentance before taking the stage soon spread among the Beijing cross-talk peers, at this time Mr. Guo Qiru immediately found Wang Shichen and his partner after learning about it, hoping to be a mediator in the middle, advising the two not to split the hole as well, how can the old Guo Ye as an elder's bitter words did not shake the old man's determination to divide the account. Guo Qiru was also a lover, and he could not bear that Wang Shichen had ruined his great future because of the crack, so he proposed to give Wang Shichen a temporary measure of work. However, when Wang Shichen took the initiative to tell Old Guo Ye that he wanted five or five points of account, Yi refused, hoping to follow the old rules of three seven and four six. Hearing this, Wang Shichen excitedly knelt down in front of Old Guo Ye and said: Uncle, you must promise to "cut the account with a knife" no matter what, your ability is great, you can support me, and to temporarily measure my work is to give me food.
Under the repeated pleading of Wang Shichen, Old Guo Ye finally agreed to the proposal of five or five points. As a result, Guo Qiru also began to give Hou Baolin and Wang Shichen both sides a praise. Not long after, Mr. Wang Shichen found a new partner, Zhao Yugui (Gao Deliang's apprentice, brother Gao Fengshan), and the two worked together from 1947 until the 1965 Wen Revolution, but it is a pity that Zhao Yugui died during the Wen Revolution. And the old gentleman who was in a rift with Wang because of the account later found a new partner and specialized in teasing. Originally a pair of fire stalls that were combined, they eventually parted ways because one party coveted profits, and such an ending also made peers and audiences sigh.