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He has been beautiful, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala 10 times, was named one of the top ten comedians in the country, and was also honored as the "Laughing Buddha".
He studied under Liu Baorui and taught a new generation of comedy experts such as Hou Yaohua, Zhou Wei, Gong Hanlin, Xu Jinjiang, Ma Ji and Jiang Kun are his close partners.
He has been in love with his wife for 59 years, he has only loved one person in his life, and he has raised 3 children together, he is, cross talk master Tang Jiezhong.
However, after a smooth life, he suffered one blow after another in his later years, and Jiang Kun "cracked", lost his son at the age of 73, and suffered from two cancers at the age of 85.
After he died, he was tortured, but he did not get rest, and only one year after his death, his son and daughter tore their faces in court in order to fight for his inheritance......
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A hard-to-find cross talk master, but his wife bluntly said "I hate him a little"
What many people don't know is that Tang Jiezhong is actually a "two-faced person", on the stage of cross talk, he is full of smiles, and many people use "honest" to describe him.
Each of his stalks makes people feel just right and elegant, and the appearance of wearing glasses has become a classic image.
But in life, according to Mr. Tang, he is "less talkative and more temperamental", and these glasses are actually a "decoration", that is, a glasses prop with no degree.
Tang Jiezhong was born in Beijing, but it was a turbulent situation, the family fled to Dandong, Liaoning Province to make a living, Tang Jiezhong also had no money for treatment, and his ring finger was amputated in half.
Fortunately, Tang Jiezhong is very literary and artistic, at the beginning he learned Shandong Kuaishu, and his master was still the famous master Gao Yuanjun.
However, in the end, he talked about cross talk, and he also said that he became a master, which no one expected.
In 1964, Tang Jiezhong successfully apprenticed to his teacher in this year, and also created the classic cross talk "The Story of Liubao" with his teacher, which is still a classic.
After that, instead of striking while the iron was hot, he experienced a very dark time, and it was not until 1972 that he and Ma Ji teamed up on "Ode to Friendship" to finally be active on the stage again.
In 1983, the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala tested the waters, and in 1985, Tang Jiezhong began to cooperate with Jiang Kun, and also appeared on the stage of the fourth Spring Festival Gala.
Since then, he has appeared on this stage 10 times that all literary and art workers dream of.
Countless classics in the Spring Festival Gala, such as "Photography", "Reverie in the Tiger's Mouth", "Chasing the Wind and Shadows" and other cross talk works have made Tang Jiezhong famous.
In daily performances, as long as there is him, it is a grand occasion that is hard to find.
One minute on stage, ten years off stage, although he worked hard when he was young, Tang Jiezhong can be regarded as a bitter man, saying that cross talk has made him fame and fortune, and he has become a leader in the cross talk industry at that time.
But his career is extremely smooth, but Tang Jiezhong's family life is a little unhappy.
However, this "unhappy" does not refer to Tang Jiezhong himself, but his wife Jin Wenlan, after all, Jin Wenlan takes care of all the affairs of the family for him, and also raises the 3 children, how can Tang Jiezhong not be happy?
Like many literary and artistic workers, there is always one side of the balance of family and career that will be overlooked.
In the eyes of Tang Jiezhong when he was young, there was nothing more important than the cause of cross talk, so the family was naturally ignored by him.
It wasn't until he was older that he realized how confused he was when he was younger.
Jin Wenlan gave birth to 3 children, but Tang Jiezhong never stayed with her once.
Not to mention that the child is usually sick, once the child had a high fever and almost didn't come back from the ghost gate, Jin Wenlan wanted to cry without tears, and Tang Jie Zhongyuan went to perform with the acrobatic troupe in Hong Kong!
There are many such things, which also led to the fact that many years later, on the stage of the CCTV program "Art Life", Ms. Jin Wenlan said that in retrospect, she really hated Tang Jiezhong.
And Tang Jiezhong listened to his wife tell about the difficulties of running the whole family by himself in the past, and lowered his eyes, as if he was reflecting on repentance.
In the end, he just told his wife with tears: I will repay it well in the future!
But no one expected that the accident would come so quickly, before participating in the "Art Life" program this time, in 2005, Tang Jiezhong and his wife Jin Wenlan actually just experienced the pain of losing their son.
The youngest son was 39 years old that year, but he was found to have died suddenly at home due to a sudden illness, and Tang Jiezhong and Jin Wenlan did not even see the last face of the child.
The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and Tang Jiezhong almost cried until he fainted at his son's funeral.
After experiencing this time, Tang Jiezhong rarely appeared in front of the public, and some programs came to the door, but he also refused, wanting to spend more time with his family.
However, fate picks on the suffering, and 6 years after the death of his youngest son, Tang Jiezhong was diagnosed with 2 types of cancer: prostate cancer metastasized into stomach cancer after resection of the lesion.
Thin on the hospital bed, he no longer saw the vigor on the stage, and in 2018, the cross talk master left us forever at the age of 85.
However, in half a year, Tang Jiezhong's wife Jin Wenlan also followed him.
And just when the listeners who liked Tang Jiezhong's cross talk did not come out of their grief, Tang Jiezhong's remaining son and daughter actually went to court and began to fight for the inheritance he left behind.
For a while, everyone was in an uproar, why are these two children so unscrupulous?
In fact, this situation after Tang Jiezhong's death was predictable, because there were two reasons for the decision.
Two reasons led to Tang Jiezhong's death
If Tang Jiezhong learned of his death, his son and daughter would tear their faces in court, and they don't know if they would regret the family business they had earned for them.
One of the reasons why the two children fought was because of the family business that Tang Jiezhong earned.
Because there is an inheritance to be divided, the idea of "unfair distribution" will be born, and the situation of "drawing knives against each other" in court will be born.
The second reason is because Mr. Tang Jiezhong is running around performing in other places all the year round, just like Ms. Jin Wenlan said in the show, Tang Jiezhong's figure is not seen all the year round, either in the performance or on the way to the performance.
For the companionship and education of children, to be honest, Tang Jiezhong is missing, which is also likely to lead to a slightly weaker family affection for children and a weaker sense of belonging to the family.
This second reason is the most important, and it wasn't until later that Tang Jiezhong gradually understood, so he also took the initiative to propose a "crack" with his good partner Jiang Kun for 10 years in 1993.
However, in addition to wanting to return to the family, this "rift" is really Tang Jiezhong's helpless move, because he is 18 years older than Jiang Kun, and Tang Jiezhong has to be defeated by the invasion of the years.
He gradually felt powerless, but Jiang Kun was still in the prime of fighting, and he was still talking about cross talk everywhere, and he definitely couldn't hold back.
So after Tang Jiezhong made this suggestion, Jiang Kun was surprised at the beginning and later understood and agreed, and the classics of the two partners can only be seen in the video materials now.
In 1997, Tang Jiezhong and Liu Liu performed "Sending Blessings" on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and in 2001, they appeared on the Spring Festival Gala again, but this was also the last time Tang Jiezhong appeared on the Spring Festival Gala.
After losing his son and suffering from cancer, the old artist suffered a series of bad news before he could teach his children and treat his wife well, which made him exhausted.
On November 6, 2018, a year after the death of Mr. Tang Jiezhong, his youngest daughter Tang Xiaowen sued her brother Tang Xiaobu in court.
The brother and sister met in court, which also caused an uproar in the literary and artistic circles.
After the death of celebrities, it is actually very common for their families to have inheritance disputes, such as the dispute between his daughter Hou Zan and his brother Hou Yaohua after the death of Hou Yaowen, and after the death of Lin Baixin, one of the ten richest people in Hong Kong, his children are still fighting for his inheritance.
But fortunately, Tang Jiezhong's children did not make too much trouble, and after the court's pre-litigation mediation, the two reconciled out of court and gave the judge a pennant.
Such a result can be regarded as a consolation to Mr. Tang Jiezhong's spirit in the sky.
As a master of cross talk, Tang Jiezhong's children did not inherit his mantle, so there is very little news of them now.
However, most of Tang Jiezhong's more than 20 disciples are still active in the literary and artistic circles, such as the most famous Gong Hanlin, who will also have a TV series broadcast in January 2024, called "My Family Married Mulan".
At Liaoning Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala, he also sang the festive song "Congratulations" with Yan Xuejing and Yin Xiaotian, and the 67-year-old Gong Hanlin is still in good spirits this year!
Hou Yaohua, who is more controversial under Tang Jiezhong, has also been very low-key in recent years, with no large-scale public activities, and even social accounts such as Douyin have not been updated.
On April 27, some netizens broke the news that Hou Yaowen made a special trip to Tianjin to celebrate the birthday of a certain Internet celebrity, and the state in the video was still good.
Write at the end
Although in later days, Tang Jiezhong paid great attention to his wife's feelings, and even ordered two more dishes when he ate with friends, and packed them to his wife when he went back, thinking about his wife all the time.
But this can't make up for the time when Jin Wenlan worked hard to pull the three children to grow up, and Tang Jiezhong was absent.
Here's an appeal to everyone: no matter how busy you are at work, don't forget your family, don't forget your lover, don't forget your children!
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The information in this article is derived from:
[1] Tang Jiezhong's Baidu encyclopedia information
[2] China News Network "Famous cross talk performance artist Tang Jiezhong passed away and taught more than 20 apprentices in his life"
[3] China News Network ""Laughing Buddha" Tang Jiezhong: Teasing a Vegetable and Willing to Make Green Leaves and Red Flowers"
[4] Program "Art Life-Tang Jiezhong's True Confession: 73 Years of Spring, Autumn, Winter and Summer, More than 50 Years of Artistic Life"
[5] Beijing Youth Daily "Tang Jiezhong's Estate Dispute Settles Out of Court"