For the older generation of audiences in Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangdong, the best pairs of Huang Junying and Yang Da, Zhang Yuekai and Lin Zhaoming can be said to be unknown to everyone. In the past era when entertainment life was lacking, they were the four kings in the minds of Cantonese people, and the cantonese voices that had a far-reaching influence on Guangdong people. Huang Junying and Yang Da's Cantonese cross-talk, Zhang Yuekai and Lin Zhaoming's ancient, they all carry the collective memories of Cantonese people.
First, let's introduce Huang Junying and Yang Da. Speaking of Cantonese cross-talk actors, Yang Da and Huang Junying, a "dream combination", are recognized as bull ears holders, authentic Cantonese cross-talk experts, and they are also one of the pioneers of cross-talk dialects. Yang Da was born in Kaiping, Guangdong in 1935, and Huang Junying was born in Luoding, Guangdong in 1936. Today, they are all elderly people, but when the audience recalls the Cantonese cross-talk they used to make the audience laugh, there is still a kind of joy that is endlessly evocative.
At that time, they were really big stars in Guangdong. Tape recorders, televisions, theaters, the sound of the two of you ringing incessantly. And almost every household has one or two of their audio tapes or videotapes, they have staged more than 100 cross-talk segments, humorous sketches, harmonic rap, and a large number of audio-visual products are widely distributed, and have gone deep into the mountains, rural areas, factories and mines, troops, schools and other performances more than 3,000 times.
Dozens of classic cross-talk works such as "Guangzhou Talk Fun", "Borrowing the Phone", "Breaking the Routine", "Life and Death Love", "Ah Mao A Shou", "A Little Higher Than You" and so on are still memorized by many viewers. Some relatively young viewers said that their cross-talk segments look very old-fashioned. However, we cannot look at the things of the past era with the eyes of the present. Moreover, works such as "Guangzhou Dialect Fun" are simply the essence of Cantonese, and many young people nowadays may not understand the meaning of it.
Since Yang Da retired at the age of 65, Huang Junying's main partner has been replaced by He Baowen, and there are also disciples such as Chen Jianxiong. But for the audience, except for Yang Da, no matter who Huang Junying has changed around, it is difficult to find the feeling that makes people laugh. Now Chen Jianxiong has even become the head of the Guangzhou Cross-Talk Troupe, but his funny skills are really difficult to say.
Look at Zhang Yuekai and Lin Zhaoming, the partners of the ancient world. Zhang Yuekai was born in 1925 and Lin Zhaoming was born in 1928. Now the two of them have long left us, but their voices are still circulating in the land of southern Guangdong. "The original text continues again..." In the past, whenever you turn on the radio and hear this sentence, it will make people's blood boil. Their language is fluent and clear, their voices are expressive, and the characters are vivid, which has overwhelmed the audience in the two Cantonese-speaking regions.
From the 1970s to the early 1990s, due to the underdevelopment of the economy at that time, the entertainment of the Chinese mainland people was mainly based on radios. The Cantonese "Speaking Of Ancients" of Zhang Yuekai Lin Zhaoming and others is usually broadcast at 12 noon and 6 pm, which meets people's entertainment needs and is therefore well received by people. Their voices are the best "next meal" for the listener.
Zhang Yuekai's "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Yang Jiajian" and other novels have been broadcast continuously and have become followed by Cantonese people. His language is fluent and clear, his voice is expressive, and his characters are vivid, which has overwhelmed countless audiences in Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangdong. And Lin Zhaoming's works such as "Journey to the West", "Ji Gong Biography", and "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" also won countless flowers and applause.
The same rigor and dedication to art made Lin Zhaoming and his good partner Zhang Yuekai form a deep friendship. Lin Zhaoming once said: I have nothing to talk about with Zhang Yuekai. Originally, we agreed to Chinese New Year's Eve night every year, and after 12 o'clock, I would go to his house to pay respects to the New Year, and then he would follow me to my house to pay respects to the New Year, and so on every year. The year he died (1997), he came to his house before I could get to his house. "Lin Zhaoming passed away in 2016.
Today's Cantonese culture is no longer what it used to be. Thinking back again to the artists of the older generation who have contributed to Cantonese culture and brought us countless joys, there is always an indescribable feeling. Unfortunately, many of today's children can't even speak Cantonese.