What is your star? In the past, cantonese who came from the 1980s and 1990s basically had one or more local stars they liked. For example, Cantonese opera lovers will like Cantonese opera celebrities such as Red Line Girl and Luo Pinchao, they like to listen to ancient friends, they like Zhang Yuekai, Lin Zhaoming and other ancient masters, and friends who like crosstalk They like Huang Junying, Yang Da and other cross-talk masters. They are all "business cards" belonging to the local culture, bringing us a variety of different and wonderful artists in that era when entertainment life was lacking.
The name YangDa is very unfamiliar to most Guangdong people after 90 and 00. But in the past, he was a star among stars in cantonese-speaking areas, a man who could make almost all Cantonese laugh. Contact Yang Da, he is not a sound enough to make the audience laugh, he said to rise, always can't help but stand up and paddle hands and feet, his mantra "Is there such a reason" At that time, many people followed suit.
The tapes and discs produced by his and Huang Junying's cross-talk sketches were basically used by every household at that time, and it can be said that the best-selling volume of these tape discs in Guangdong will not be worse than that of Tan Zhangmei and the Four Heavenly Kings. Many people would recite a few paragraphs of his cross-talk at that time. Nowadays, many people will argue whether Tan Yonglin opened more concerts or Jacky Cheung opened more singing, if it comes to the number of performances, Yang Da and Huang Junying can be said to be the kings of Guangdong. Their feet are all over the large, medium, and small cities in Guangdong, and the countryside, farms, troops, factories, mines, schools, squares, etc. are all all over their footprints, and the number of performances is as many as 3,000.
In 2005, at the age of 65, Yang Da chose to retire, which was a complete retirement. He said: "For decades, I have enjoyed my cross-talk stage, but the cross-talk stage is not the only thing I enjoy. I like to sing folk songs, lotus flowers, flower discs, money boards, book reviews, play magic, etc. I like it. ”
Regarding Yang Da's retirement life, he said: "After retirement, I opened a photography equipment company, and for most of the year, I carried cameras on my back, indulged in famous mountains and rivers, and even arranged my family bedroom into a colorful and multi-functional darkroom. Once, in order to shoot the flag raising on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to rush to Tiananmen Square, and before the flag was raised, I also set up the camera to wait for the exciting scene. At this time, a tour group from Guangdong came, someone recognized me, and immediately surrounded a group of people and asked to take a picture with me. I couldn't put up a shelf, so I patiently smiled and took a picture with them one by one, and the group photo was over, the flag-raising ceremony was over, and I didn't take a single photo in my camera. ”
Because Yang Da disappeared so completely in the audience's vision, there were rumors of his death on the Internet a long time ago. Slowly, the audience began to forget him, until before the New Year this year, Huang Junying uploaded a photo of him and his wife visiting Yang Da on social platforms, and the latest news about Yang Da spread online again.
Today, Yang Da is 86 years old, and the scene of a family and a neighbor watching Yang Da and Huang Junying's cross-talk performances together with their neighbors around the TV set has become more and more distant. Seeing Yang Da, who is now dying of old age, netizens have expressed their feelings and sadness. I don't know if you remember Yang Da's classic works?