On April 14, the family of Chen Yongquan, a famous cross talk performance artist of the Beijing Quyi Troupe, released an obituary, Chen Yongquan died in Beijing at 8:48 on April 14, 2024, due to ineffective medical treatment, at the age of 92.
Chen Yongquan, born in Beijing in 1932, his maternal grandfather Zhong Ziliang was a representative of the "Qingmen" cross talk in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His father, Chen Zizhen, was a famous cross talk artist from the 20s to the 40s of the 20th century, and his representative works include "Eight Cats", "Theory of Wealth and Poverty", "Sheep on the Tree" and so on. In 1955, Chen Yongquan began to create cross talk, and successively published "I'm No Problem", "New Words and Old Words", "Please Doctor", "Pregnant Woman Questionnaire" and so on. In the 60s of the 20th century, Chen Yongquan created and adapted a number of cross talks, such as "So Amorous", cross talk dramas "Who Do You Look Like", "Miss City" and so on.
Mr. Chen Yongquan inherited the elegance of "Qingmen" cross talk and the popularity of professional cross talk, he has comprehensive skills, can hold and tease, and is good at stand-up comedy. Mr. Chen Yongquan's performance is crisp, his voice is loud, he can speak and sing, the typhoon is positive, and the language is vivid and clean.
In 1977, after Chen Yongquan returned to the stage, he cooperated with Li Jindou for a long time, with tacit understanding, and was known as a model of cooperation in the cross talk industry and a golden partner. The two have worked together for nearly 30 years and have performed more than 100 cross talk works together, among which "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" is one of their most representative works and has won many awards. In addition to his collaboration with Li Jindou, Chen Yongquan has also participated in the creation and performance of many other cross talk works. In 1995, in the first national "Hou Baolin Golden Image Award" TV cross talk competition, Chen Yongquan won the "Outstanding Contribution Award to the Art of Cross Talk".
The cross talk "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" was written by Lian Chunming, a professional author of the Beijing Quyi Troupe at that time. Chen Yongquan once recalled, "After the two of us got the book, we began to process and modify it repeatedly, and we changed it a total of eight times. In order to keep improving, the two took the notebook and found the famous Peking Opera performance artist Mr. Li Wanchun to humbly ask for advice, and as a result, they got a lot of true legends. Chen Yongquan said: "We have blended many performance techniques in Peking Opera, such as the appearance of small flower faces, playing fans, as well as some fairy tale dramas and local operas, with the performance skills of cross talk itself, so that the audience can see the live effect, so that the audience can feel a lot of intriguing meanings in laughter." ”
Crosstalk artist Jiang Kun and his disciples mourn Chen Yongquan. Chen Yongquan's partner, Li Jindou, a famous cross talk performance artist, said sadly in an interview: "Mr. Chen Yongquan is our cross talk predecessor in Beijing, a famous cross talk artist, and also my teacher and old partner, and his death is a great loss to the cross talk industry. In April 2020, Mr. Chen was hospitalized due to a heart attack, and the last time I saw him was two months ago, he was still chatting and laughing, talking to me about cross talk creation, and sending us out of the door when he said goodbye. ”
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
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