In the cross-talk industry, there are often people coming and going, some people regard it as a subsistence craft, some people use it as a springboard for fame, and of course, there are people who really love it, and it is regarded as an art, a traditional culture, and even as a responsibility to inherit.
In old China, our form of folk entertainment was still relatively single, and qu artists were the most valued literary and art groups, with small horns performing on the overpass for the "short-dressed" working people, and big horns performing in the opera garden for dignitaries and aristocrats wearing long shirts and large families. Regardless of all walks of life, everyone has expressed great enthusiasm for this way of entertainment, and they greatly fill the leisure time outside of people's lives.
In the most popular golden age of cross-talk, the status of cross-talk artists was very high, no less than the various celebrities in front of the screen today, who had a considerable income and a high artistic status. The popularity of television and the rise of the Spring Festival Gala have brought cross-talk to another stage. Television crosstalk began to enter thousands of households. From then on, people can catch a glimpse of them from the colorful TV screens.
However, with the reform and opening up, some new ideas poured into our lives, popular culture began to flourish, and art forms became more and more diverse and fashionable. With the growth of the younger generation, the cross-talk industry no longer has the absolute dominance as before, and the cross-talk artists engaged in this industry are also weakening, and many people have chosen to change careers.
Standing at the crossroads of life, even Wang Qianxiang, who has served xiangsheng for half his life, has been shaken, but a touching experience has made him completely strengthen his determination to continue to say crosstalk.
Wang Qianxiang
In 1987, Wang Qianxiang's master Ma Ji planned the movie "Laughing and Breaking the Love Network", he took the apprentices to participate in the filming of the entire film, at that time Ma Ji's physical condition was not very good, coupled with the heavy film shooting task, and the dubbing location of the film was in Changsha, where the humid and hot climate also made Ma Ji a little unsatisfied, and the incompetent teacher Ma Ji insisted until the end of the dubbing.
After completing the shooting task, Ma Ji said to the big guys, "Let's eat something smooth today." And Ma Ji's smooth food is the "fried sauce noodles" of old Beijing, he personally fried the sauce, and several apprentices followed behind. According to the apprentices' recollections, Mr. Ma Ji was quick at cooking. In 20 minutes, everyone ate the fragrant fried sauce noodles, and when the wine glasses were full, everyone drank them all.
Movie "Laughing and Breaking the Love Network"
In the afternoon, Ma Ji took a bath and came out, feeling more and more uncomfortable, and his stomach hurt badly. The apprentice Liu Wei first saw the abnormality and suggested that he send the master to the local hospital for treatment, and after arriving at the hospital, the experienced doctor saw that he was infarction, and even if he was left in the hospital. In the next observation, the doctors' diagnosis results came out, and the anterior wall of the heart was infarction, and the hospital immediately issued a critical notice.
Several apprentices gathered together to discuss, this must be reported to the Beijing regiment, beijing learned of Comrade Ma Ji's condition, overnight rushed to Fuwai Hospital to contact the experts, has participated in the rescue of Mr. Mei Lanfang expert Director Xu Yishu personally set up a rescue team to rescue him. Director Xu told Ma Ji's disciples that the first seven days were particularly critical and must not be neglected. Under the arrangement of everyone, Wang Qianxiang needs to be with the experts throughout the whole process, and once he receives an urgent notice from Master Ma Ji's side, he will take the experts to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
On the seventh night, seeing that Teacher Ma Ji was about to turn the crisis into safety, at three o'clock in the morning, the ward reported that he was critical again, so that Wang Qianxiang quickly took the experts to the hospital for rescue, Wang Qianxiang rushed out of the hospital, at this time, he was seeing that there was a 130 truck in the compound that was starting, he held the mentality of trying it out, ran to the entrance of the hospital to try to stop the truck that was preparing to go out, and if he hoped to take a ride along the road, he could rush to the hospital in the fastest time.
The car drove to the gate, under the illumination of the headlights, Wang Qianxiang's entire silhouette was reflected in it, he jumped on his feet, waved his hands, and the big truck braked sharply and stopped in front of him.
"Why don't you have long eyes, you stand in front of my car in the middle of the night..." The big truck driver had no time to pour out a fire in his stomach. Wang Qianxiang interrupted him.
"Comrade, I want to take the expert to the hospital to rescue Mr. Ma Ji, I think, can you ..." Wang Qianxiang did not finish speaking, this time the driver interrupted Wang Qianxiang.
"Wait, which Horse?" Is it the horse season of crosstalk? ”
"It's Ma Ji who says crosstalk," Wang Qianxiang replied.
"Go, get in the car!" Be sure to save Teacher Ma Ji! ”
On the way, the driver was speechless all the way, directly in the fastest time to send them to the hospital door, at that moment, Wang Qianxiang was completely moved, his tears swirled in the circles of his eyes.
Many years later, when Wang Qianxiang recalled the past, he couldn't help but sigh: "Before that, I didn't dare to guarantee that I could do a lifetime of crosstalk, I always felt that there was a way out in the future that I should do something else, after listening to the driver's words, I suddenly thought that Ma Ji teacher paid so much for the audience, the audience is rewarded, this return is not just laughter and applause."
Wang Qianxiang and Li Zengrui
Since then, a seed has been planted in Wang Qianxiang's heart, and now Wang Qianxiang has constantly spurred himself, striving to become an excellent actor who really speaks cross-talk for the people, and becomes a beloved people's artist like Master, which has nothing to do with how much money and status you have obtained, more important than that, whether you can really get the love of the people and live in the hearts of the people like your relatives. If you can, then so many years of hard work have not been in vain, so many years of crosstalk, even if it is not in vain.