With the rise of Yue Yunpeng, Zhang Yunlei and others in the cross-talk industry, the art of cross-talk is quite popular among young people.
Guo Degang and his wild road sub-team "Deyun Society" almost swallowed up the Chinese cross-talk market and popularized cross-talk.
However, in the history of cross-talk, there have been several groups of people who have achieved greater achievements than Guo Degang, among which Hou Yaowen, Li Jindou, Jiang Kun and Dabing are the most widely known.
As early as the 1990s, Jiang Kun's protégé "Dashan" achieved no less achievements and popularity than Guo Degang.
He is the only foreign cross-talk artist in the cross-talk industry, known as the nail household of CCTV Spring Festival Gala Cross-talk, deeply loved by the people of the whole country, why did he suddenly disappear? Is it really "suppressed by Guo Degang" as the outside world rumors say?
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Dashan was born in 1965 in Ottawa, Canada, to a wealthy family, whose real name is Mark Henry Roswell.
Dashan had an indissoluble relationship with China before he was born, and his parents often told him stories when he was a child, when he was a child, his grandfather took his wife and children to China to practice medicine and save people. From a young age, he had heard about China and had a yearning for it.
When he grew up, Oyama was admitted to the University of Toronto in Canada, where he took courses in "Chinese History".
Unexpectedly, Dashan's love for China far exceeded his cognition, and in his sophomore year, he changed the elective course to a main course, and his parents were very supportive of his decision and encouraged him to learn Chinese culture.
After that, Dashan became more obsessed with Chinese research.
Because of his superior academic performance, and because all the teachers and students know his feelings about China.
At the time of graduation, the school gave Dashan a place as an exchange student at Peking University, and Dashan was overjoyed when he heard the news.
He then embarked on a journey to China to "find his roots" for further study.
In 1988, Dashan entered Peking University to major in Chinese, and his fluent Chinese impressed everyone, if it were not for his Western appearance betraying him, just listening to him would not be able to hear foreigners.
During his time at the school, Oyama studied hard and won a full scholarship to become a leader in foreign exchange students.
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In 1989, CCTV needed to find foreigners to perform at the New Year's Day literary and art evening, among which Chinese dashan, who was a thief, got the opportunity, and this time, Dashan met the most important Bole in his life - Ding Guangquan.
He is the beloved disciple of Hou Baolin, a generation of Grandmasters in the Chinese cross-talk industry.
Dashan plays the role of a "Chinese" good man Xu Dashan in the sketch "Night Return", because he is locked out of the door by his wife because of overtime and late return, and the plot is that he needs to beg his wife to open the door and let him go.
He made a funny expression with a handsome face, and his face full of grievances and a mouthful of plastic Mandarin caused the audience to laugh.
Dashan also acted more and more enjoyably, playing extraordinary on stage, and the whole sketch was smooth and natural, and was well received.
Dashan's performance made Ding Guangquan very satisfied.
At that time, Ding Guangquan was committed to recruiting foreigners to speak to Chinese cross-talk, trying to promote cross-talk to the whole world.
The mountain was undoubtedly the most suitable for Ding Guangquan.
When Ding Guangquan threw an olive branch at him, he agreed without saying a word. Later, because the name "Mark" was placed in the art of cross-talk, it was renamed "Dashan" for him.
Since then, there have been more foreigners in the Chinese cross-talk community.
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In 1991, director Zhao Baogang saw the comedic soul under Oyama's handsome face and invited him to star in "The Story of the Editorial Department".
In the play, he and Hou Baolin's son Hou Yaohua staged a rival play, and after the drama was broadcast, he completely shined in the cross-talk industry and entertainment circle.
At the same time, TV drama resources and variety show resources have followed.
Despite this, he was still focused on talking only about crosstalk.
He studied the charm of cross-talk, and in terms of cross-talk, Dashan was as serious as "searching for roots".
Later, after he learned about Jiang Kun's cross-talk strength, he was bent on worshipping him as a teacher. Ding Guangquan is very supportive of this.
Jiang Kun has a very high status in the cross-talk industry, and his apprentices are all native Chinese, and he has never made an exception to accept foreign disciples.
Coupled with Jiang Kun's old-fashioned ideological tradition, Dashan ate a lot of closed-door soup when he visited him, but he still did not give up.
Kung Fu pays off.
In the end, Jiang Kun made an exception and accepted him as a disciple, and he became Jiang Kun's first and only foreign apprentice.
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With the relationship between Jiang Kun's apprentices, he did not have conceit and pride, but practiced crosstalk and allegro assiduously to make his temperament more suitable for cross-talk performances.
After studying day and night, this foreign disciple finally stepped on the stage of CCTV again.
Jiang Kun took him and Tang Jiezhong together to say the cross-talk of "Famous Teachers and High Apprentices".
On the show, Dashan took all the baggage of Jiang Kun and Tang Jiezhong, and Dashan also received a lot of fan love.
After that, Dashan became famous in the cross-talk industry and had a bright future.
In addition to the position of cross-talk actor, Dashan also appeared as a host when Chinese leaders attended events in Canada.
A pure Chinese and fluent English let everyone call "great"
Until 1998, Dashan's comedic strength had been able to separate from Jiang Kun's auxiliary side.
In the same year, he appeared on the big stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and cooperated with Pan Changjiang in the sketch "A Stamp", and Dashan was more at ease and relaxed in the performance, and won the unanimous praise of the audience, and the applause on the scene was thunderous. Once again successfully brushed my face.
Oyama has become the most popular overseas artist at present, and his career has reached a higher level.
Dashan became the object of young people's pursuit, and at that time, the "good star" advertisement of Dashan could be seen on major television stations, and the popularity at that time could be imagined.
In 1999, after the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was completely opened, followed by an olive branch thrown to him by various industries, among which a Canadian network company offered a high salary to hire Dashan.
In the end, because he loved China, he refused to let the network company stay in China.
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All celebrities can't escape the spell of being pickpocketed by netizens for "love".
Once, netizens happened to encounter the mountain shopping, found that not far from the mountain there is a person wearing a hat, wearing a mask suspicious, passers-by mistakenly think that it is a bastard meal, the girl's photo was spread to the Internet, the girl was immediately searched for human flesh, some extreme fans also went to attack the girl, the girl's life was seriously affected.
In order to protect the girl, Dashan disclosed the identity of the girl, and netizens were shocked.
After the public relationship, Oyama's attendance at the event will inevitably be questioned. After all, there's nothing more eye-catching than the private lives of celebrities.
Oyama is happy when he mentions his wife, and the meeting between the two is like the beginning of a love movie.
In 1990, Oyama was invited to a foreign concert when Gan Lin (his wife's name) was providing a reception service for the band.
At first, it was because Ganlin's appearance was too outstanding, which attracted the attention of a man, who was taught a lesson by Ganlin when he took advantage, so he held a grudge and found her trouble everywhere.
Gan Lin is a Chongqing girl, from a young age, she has been hot, she does not bow to the evil forces, she and the man in the work of the quarrel, just passing by the mountain to come forward to break the siege.
The two fell in love at first sight, because of the working relationship, the two needed to see each other often, and over time they developed a relationship, and then the two secretly married and gave birth to a child.
As the mountains became more and more popular and their private lives attracted much attention, the dating of the two became a problem.
In order to better enjoy the world of two people, Gan Lin came up with the "two-meter shopping method" for this purpose. As the name suggests, the two are dating 2 meters apart.
But no one expected that Gan Lin would be mistaken for an illegitimate meal.
Dashan, who did not want to be overly concerned about his private life, was also forced to open up in love.
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Under the double harvest of career and love, Dashan is more and more obsessed with the idea of "finding roots".
Over the years, he has never forgotten his original intention of coming to China.
In February 2001, Dashan finally tearfully told about his grandfather "Dr. Rao" during his participation in the "Chat" program, and wanted to use the power of the program to provide convenience for himself to "find roots".
Fortunately, a female reporter from Shangqiu went through the information and field visits after watching the program to obtain the information of "Dr. Rao". The female reporter finds Dashan and tells him the truth.
The "Guide St. Paul Hospital" where Dr. Rao came to China to work is now the First People's Hospital of Shangqiu.
In the 1920s, the Nationalist government and the Church of São Paulo in Canada cooperated in a project to send doctors to China for treatment, and Oyama's grandfather bore the brunt of it.
Dr. Rao's family was first treated in Beijing and later assigned to the "Guide St. Paul Hospital".
At that time, everyone respected Dashan's grandfather very much and called him "Dr. Rao".
In 1925, the warlords in the country came to power, resulting in years of war and chaos, and the people were not happy. Dr. Rao's family was forcibly repatriated to Canada.
On the way home, he was displaced, nearly killed in several gun battles, and his two sons suffered from lung disease and died one after another.
When he finally returned to Canada, he found that his daughter was suffering from depression.
Oyama's father was born after "Dr. Rao" returned to Canada.
Oyama was extremely proud to learn that his grandfather was a hero of the Chinese people.
It turns out that all this is predestined, and Dashan's love for China is engraved in the bones.
This time, the search for roots caused the stone that had hung on the mountain for decades to fall, and later he took the family to Shangqiu to visit the place where his grandfather and grandmother practiced medicine to save people.
After learning of this news, the Shangqiu Municipal Government immediately hired Dashan to become the "Image Ambassador of Shangqiu Ancient City".
The popularity of the ancient city on the mountain attracts many tourists.
The ancient city of Shangqiu has become a tourist attraction. The international influence of Dashan really cannot be underestimated.
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The year 2003 was a turning point in Oyama's business. With the rise of the Deyun Society, the audience of the cross-talk market showed a one-sided trend.
Deyunsha's cross-talk is different from the previous style and licks a little more witty colors, and people begin to quickly accept new things.
During this period, Dashan almost did not have the opportunity to appear, and the news that Guo Degang was at odds with Jiang Kun and maliciously suppressed Dashan began to come out of the market, and it was even more rumored that there was a nose and a face, making people unable to distinguish between true and false for a while.
Guo Degang once commented that Dashan's cross-talk is "more routine" and "smooth-talking" and "not cross-talk in the traditional sense"
Such words have become ironic and insulting in the ears of netizens, and more netizens have said that "this is pointing at Jiang Kun's nose and scolding him for not entering the stream."
Deyun She's performance was full of friends, and Guo Degang was even more unscrupulous in commenting on his opponents, including "I picked you up, you are a glass jade cup." As soon as I let go, you are the glass ballast" is the most famous, which reminds netizens of dashan being praised by Jiang Kunli before he had the honor of being on CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times and becoming a widely known superstar.
Dating back to China, which had not yet reformed and opened up in the 1990s, people heard foreigners say that Chinese had a sense of freshness.
Later, with the growth of China's economic strength and the intermingling of cultures between countries, Chinese is not new to foreigners, and in today's talented China, the bottleneck in Dashan's career is an inevitable result.
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At this time, Feng Gong said that "once again succeed, we must jump out of the nest of comfort" made him enlightened.
He realized that he should not be limited to the genres of crosstalk, sketches, and comedies. Rather, it should be developed in many ways. Step out of your comfort zone and seek another mode of work.
People can't be red for a lifetime, and Dashan understands this truth.
In 2006, he began to enter the drama circle, starring in the drama "Red Star Shines on China".
The following year, he collaborated with Guo Donglin on the drama "Super Idiot", which toured the country and made the mountain a big fire.
Dashan also won the "Best Supporting Actor Award at the Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Art Award", becoming the first foreigner in Chinese history to receive mainstream recognition.
In 2008, Dashan was invited to become the special envoy of the Beijing Olympic Games and served as Canada's general representative at the World Expo.
Over the past few years, Oyama has proved that even if it is not crosstalk, it is very successful in other fields.
After that, the mountain disappeared into the Chinese's field of vision.
Some people say he's made enough money and runs, some say he's gone after higher ideals.
09
The next time he appeared was that he launched a creative cross-talk program that combined Chinese and Western cultures, "Dashan Kan Dashan", which received full praise.
"Big Mountain Kan Big Mountain" has toured all over the world, and the venue is full. He sparkles in areas that no one knows.
In 2018, The teacher Ding Guangquan died, and Dashan sent a tribute for the first time after learning the news, and netizens praised Dashan's move.
Subsequently, Dashan attended the Overseas Spring Festival Gala in Toronto, he wore a coat, bearded beard to that station, spoke fluent Beijing dialect, and was a cross-talk actor.
Although he still plays with his previous gadgets, the baggage he adds to cross-talk makes the listener not embarrassed, which makes Chinese, who is accustomed to the "lower three-way" cross-talk of deyun society in recent years, shine.
Can't help but let netizens sigh "time has turned him from a young man into Saddam Hussein", his performance is once again loved by Chinese netizens, and some people call him "the last WenQi"
Dashan has found a balance between cross-talk and Chinese and foreign cultural propaganda, not caring about fame and fortune, but committed to spreading cross-talk culture to the world.
The "Wu Yifan Incident" in 2021 made dashan fire again.
Because of the Canadian nationality, the mountain that was "pulled into the water" by netizens was helpless.
Wu Yifan and Dashan, one who earns huge sums of money and does illegal things, teaches bad teenagers. A one-man ability to promote cultural exchanges at home and abroad. The contrast between the two makes people lament the gap between people.
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In recent years, the rise of the short video industry has allowed foreigners to master the method of making money in China, and they have begun to live-stream praise China's greatness and prosperity.
Dashan is different, he knows that this is the best shortcut to making money, but he is reluctant to use this string of "wealth codes". Although he also followed the trend of the times to enter the short video industry, he only shared his life on the platform and shared the cultural differences between China and foreign countries that he recognized.
He does not say the slogan of "love China" can also let everyone feel his love for China.
In his own words, "When I'm used to freedom, I like to go it alone."
Choose to be independent in the era of traffic.
It is rare to speak a few words of English and has been ridiculed as "a Chinese flavor".
In the hearts of Chinese netizens, it is to regard him as a Chinese.
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Dashan is deeply loved by everyone because of his precious character and his reverence for China, although his cross-talk is not as good as Guo Degang, but he is willing to study carefully and is committed to promoting the art of cross-talk to the world.
Dashan has witnessed the rise of cross-talk in China and has also promoted the development of cross-talk.
The People's Daily said of Dashan: "Although [Dashan] is a foreigner, he is not an outsider. "Truly affirms the value and status of the mountain.
Over the years, the back wave of the Yangtze River has pushed the front wave, but this does not mean that the mountain has been forgotten, he is just the stage handed over to the young people, and he has retreated behind the scenes to realize his greater value.