The Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Composers Association concluded in Beijing on the 10th, and the congress elected Feng Gong as the ninth chairman of the China Composers Association, and Feng Xinrui (female), Yan Shuping (female), Yang Fahang, Wu Wenke, Wu Xiangjun, Zhang Xudong, Fan Jun, Meng Ying (female), Weng Renkang, Sheng Xiaoyun (female), Liang Yurong (female), and Yuxi Bao Yuxi as the ninth vice chairman of the Chinese Composers Association.
In his closing speech, Feng Gong said that the vast number of opera artists should live up to the great era and the people, strive to give play to the unique advantages and role of qu art in serving the overall situation of the party and the country, closely integrate the pursuit of life and artistic life with the future of the country, the destiny of the nation and the aspirations of the people, create more classic opera works that focus on the new era, reflect the new life, and show the new style, and vividly depict the magnificent and magnificent picture on the land of China with unique and charming forms of opera art.
According to his public resume, Feng Gong, born in February 1957, is a native of Tianjin, joined the work in September 1977, graduated from Central China Normal University with a master's degree in literature and art, a master's degree in literature, a first-class actor, and is currently the artistic director of the China Broadcasting Art Troupe, the vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, the vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Associations, and the chairman of the China Qu Artists Association.
In 1973, Feng Gong studied crosstalk creation and performance with Ma Ji. In 1986, Feng Gong appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and his partner Liu Weihe said the crosstalk "The Year of the Tiger Says Tiger", and since then he has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 33 consecutive times, and is known as the "most nailed household" of the Spring Festival Gala. "Dear viewers and friends, I want to die for you" became Feng Gong's unique Spring Festival Gala opening statement, rooted in the memories of generations of TV viewers.
It is worth mentioning that after participating in the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, he disappeared from the 2019 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Regarding this "absence" phenomenon, Feng Gong once explained in an interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily at the scene of a performance event: "This is not called absence, letting young people stand on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is the expectation of the audience, and it is also the responsibility of us (old actors)." There is a saying called 'turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers', young people are growing up, how good, I also hope that young actors can emerge endlessly. ”
At the end of October 2022, Feng Gong and Zhao Yan were recommended as representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage, and according to the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Carrying out the Recommendation and Application of Representative Inheritors of National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Units Directly Under the Central and State Organs, after reviewing the application materials of Zhao Yan and Feng Gong, experts were organized to review the two from the aspects of the characteristics and level of skills and performance, representativeness and influence, teacher inheritance and apprenticeship inheritance, etc. The China Broadcasting Art Troupe agreed to recommend the two as representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage.
In addition to classic crosstalk masterpieces such as "Talking about the Tiger in the Year of the Tiger", "Fighting for Merit", "Auction", "Point Company", "Mr. Worst", "Sit and Enjoy", "Look at These Two Dads", "Bus Concerto", "Love Driver", "I'm Just Such a Person" and other classic crosstalk sketches, Feng Gong is also a multi-habitat performance artist and has made great achievements in film. In 1989, he starred in the movie "Stand Straight, Don't Lie Down", for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 16th Film Hundred Flowers Awards; In 1998, he starred in the movie "Nothing to Steal Fun" and won the Best Actor Award at the 18th Golden Rooster Awards; In 2007, the film "Don't Take Yourself as a Bad Cadre" won the 12th Huabiao Award for Outstanding Feature Film; In 2009, starred in the movie "The Great Cause of Founding the People's Republic"; In 2013, he won the 10th Huading Awards China Best Opera Actor Award; In 2016, the starring urban life drama "Life is a Little Sweet" was launched; In 2018, he directed and participated in the action comedy movie "Happiness Comes Soon".
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Cui Wei