Preamble:
If you were asked to define a "decent person," what would be your standard? Most people would say that a decent person should be honest and trustworthy, act fairly, not seek personal gain, and stand on the moral high ground.
However, in complex interpersonal relationships, is there really an absolutely righteous party? When the contradiction of interests and emotions conflicts, what perspective should we use to judge right and wrong?
Cheer or applause, who is the real "decent person"?
At the end of 2022, Tingyunxuan's New Year's Eve performance is in full swing, and the disciples are ready to send an audio-visual feast to the audience.
However, at the moment when the heavy curtain was slowly opened, there was a deafening boo from the audience, and the originally warm atmosphere suddenly cooled down.
Accompanied by angry boos, there were constantly audience members shouting slogans such as "He Yunwei is a traitor" and "He Yunwei step down", and the scene was very out of control for a while.
This sudden change made everyone scratch their heads, according to past experience, listening to every performance of Yunxuan was always full, and the audience was laughing back and forth.
What's even more puzzling is that He Yunwei, who bore the brunt of the attack by the loud voice, was actually the same as Cao Yunjin, the boss of Tingyunxuan, who used to be disciples of Deyun Club, and later left Deyun Club and became the so-called "Deyun traitor".
So why did the audience applaud Cao Yunjin warmly, but scolded He Yunwei? Could it be that Cao Yunjin is really more decent than He Yunwei?
This question involves the infighting process of Deyun Club over the years.
It is far more than the personal grievances of He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin, but the complex power entanglement between several generations of the entire Deyun Society.
The Deyun farce caused the three to leave one after another
In 2017, Deyun Club was restructured from a loose traditional team to a cultural communication company.
This move aroused strong dissatisfaction among the disciples, because Guo Degang required all disciples to become employees of the company, and signed a liquidated damages clause of up to 1 million yuan, which seriously restricted the personal freedom of the disciples.
The first to oppose this approach was Li Jing.
He is one of the founders of Deyun Club, and is known as the "Three Masters of Deyun" along with Zhang Wenshun and Guo Degang.
After the restructuring, Li Jingyi pointed out rhetorically that the corporatization operation will seriously affect the inheritance of cross talk and damage the development of cross talk.
But Guo Degang was unmoved, and Li Jing saw that persuasion was fruitless, and finally left angrily.
Li Jing's actions became the fuse, triggering an enthusiastic response from the disciples.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Yunjin also stood up and publicly accused Guo Degang of what he had done, the most striking of which was his disclosure that Guo Degang had repeatedly used the names of his disciples to carry out usury activities, which seriously damaged the reputation of Deyun Society.
Once these insider stories were exposed, they caused a sensation in the entire cross talk world.
Taking advantage of the climax of public opinion, He Yunwei also left behind this Deyun Club, which was about to be transformed.
The departure of the three made Deyun Club infamous, and Guo Degang's face was disgraced.
郭德纲严惩“叛徒”，两人被摘掉姓氏
Faced with the departure of his disciples, Guo Degang's reaction was very fierce.
He quickly formulated the genealogy system of the Deyun Society, and gave all his disciples the surname "Yun" to show that they were all from the Deyun Society.
At the same time, he announced in public that the disciples who left Deyun Club were all "traitors" who "deceived the heavens and destroyed the ancestors" and would not tolerate it.
Immediately afterwards, he decisively canceled the word "cloud" in He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin's names, severed their master-apprentice relationship, and made it clear that they were no longer disciples of Deyun Society.
This move caused an uproar in the entire cross talk world, and He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin immediately became the target of public criticism and were criticized by all parties.
Guo Degang's practice of severely punishing "traitors" is ostensibly to maintain the dignity of the teacher, but in fact, the deep-seated reason is the entanglement of power and interests.
The success of Deyun Club has made Master Guo both fame and fortune, and he is unwilling to give up the fruit he created.
The departure of Li Jing, He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin directly threatened his authoritative position, so he was subjected to frenzied retaliation.
This life-and-death power struggle has made He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin a thorn in the side of Deyun Club since then.
But in the face of the same pressure, the choices of the two disciples were very different.
Li Jing developed in a low-key manner, and He Yunwei defected to the Hou family in a high-profile manner
Li Jing is the least affected by this turmoil among the three.
As the earliest founder of Deyun Club, he was deeply disappointed with Guo Degang's actions, but he didn't want to continue to entangle with this declining cross talk team.
So he ignored the criticism of the outside world, continued to quietly busy with his career, and founded a folk cross talk group, dedicated to inheriting and innovating traditional cross talk.
This low-key and pragmatic style also made him gradually fade out of the sight of the Deyun dispute.
Cao Yunjin chose the opposite path.
He took the initiative to publish a long article on the Internet, revealing in detail Guo Degang's various bad deeds and the shady scenes within Deyun Club.
Once these revelations were revealed, many people in the industry were impressed, and they had to face up to the potential corruption problem of Deyun Club.
Cao Yunjin also established an image of righteous resistance in front of the public.
But in comparison, He Yunwei's choice was even more extreme - he simply and decisively threw himself into the disciple of Guo Degang's apprentice Chang Baohua, claiming to be Hou Yaowen's apprentice and nephew, directly overpowering Guo Degang by one generation!
This move is undoubtedly the biggest stimulus and humiliation for Guo Degang.
According to Chinese tradition, disciples can only look up to their masters, and they must never despise or rebel against their elders.
He Yunwei's practice of skipping grades and recognizing seniors directly challenged Guo Degang's authoritative position.
The two have changed from master and apprentice to rivals, which shows the dissatisfaction and resentment that He Yunwei has accumulated with Guo Degang in his heart.
曹云金博取同情，何云伟再受批判
The news that the disciple and the master had turned their faces was like a boulder thrown into the calm lake, stirring up a thousand waves.
In the midst of different opinions, Cao Yunjin and He Yunwei received very different evaluations.
Cao Yunjin exposed the scandals of Deyun Club and Guo Degang in financial operations and disciple restraint to the public in detail through live broadcasts and posts, which made many viewers who originally blindly admired Deyun Club instantly sober up and became supporters of Cao Yunjin.
They praised Cao Yunjin for his courage in exposing the truth and for being a righteous person who truly fought for Deyun Club and the art of cross talk.
In contrast, Mr. Ho has received more criticism.
Some people say that although he left Deyun Club, he did not really take the art of cross talk as the foundation of his life, but relied on Chang Baohua to mingle in the film and television industry;
These negative comments have left him with no image in the public eye.
At the end of 2022, when Tingyunxuan, founded by Cao Yunjin, invited He Yunwei to perform for New Year's Eve for the first time, the audience's reaction to this "traitor" was so fierce, fully showing the embarrassing situation that He Yunwei has been abandoned in the cross talk world.
Listen to Yunxuan's success and break the monopoly of Deyun Club
This "family dispute" between Deyun Club and its disciples actually has a far-reaching impact on the entire Chinese cross talk industry.
Cao Yunjin's move to create Tingyunxuan was an unprecedented success, and he became famous for a while.
The cross talk world has been dominated by Deyun Club for a long time, and this time it has finally been activated.
More and more originally unknown actors began to open their own live broadcast platforms on the Internet, showing different styles of cross talk programs.
It can be said that Tingyunxuan has injected a shot of strength into the cross talk industry, and also provided a stage for more actors to show their talents.
This is undoubtedly good news for the entire industry.
After the turmoil subsided, Li Jing, He Yunwei and Cao Yunjin also opened up the situation in the field they are good at through their own efforts.
Li Jingjing is committed to the excavation and innovation of traditional cross talk, He Yunwei also has his own place in the entertainment industry with film and television resources, and Cao Yunjin has become a new star of online cross talk.
It can be said that the farce back then also allowed them to get out of the historical burden of Deyun Club and find their own way out.
Epilogue:
Over the years, the disciples of Deyun Club and Guo Degang have been fighting openly and secretly, some of them may be genuinely worried about the development of art, and some of them may be fighting for their personal interests, and even the closest master-apprentice relationship is difficult to avoid cracks.
But as Cao Yunjin himself said, the audience only cares about whether your performance is good or not, and whether you can make them laugh.
The most fundamental duty of an actor is to bring joy to the audience, which He Yunwei, Li Jing and Cao Yunjin have never changed.
No matter how their positions are divided, they will eventually return to the lively laughter on stage.
This may be their duty as actors, and it is also their common starting point and destination.