Preface
Speaking of Deyun Club, people will naturally think of Guo Degang and Yue Yunpeng, two superstar cross talk actors. However, there are actually three founders of Deyun Club - Guo Degang, Li Jing and Zhang Wenshun. Now, Zhang Wenshun has passed away, and Li Jing left Deyun Club as early as 2010, and Guo Degang is drifting apart, like two strangers. In the face of the great success of Deyun Club, has Li Jing ever regretted her choice back then? After 14 years of re-examining Li Jing, we really understand the fundamental reason for his and Guo Degang's breakup, not the uneven distribution of money as the outside world said.
Looking back on history, it is not difficult for us to find how great Li Jing's contribution to Deyun Club is. When she was a child, Li Jing showed an excellent memory and love for cross talk. Just by reciting the 40-minute-long stand-up comedy "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup" on the bus when he was 7 years old, it is enough to show that he was born for cross talk. Li Jing's family is well-off, and his mother originally hoped that he would embark on the path of an ordinary person, but who would have thought that cross talk would be so attractive to him? When he was in high school, he immersed himself in the world of listening to cross talk in the teahouse, and met Guo Degang, the "little black fat man" who was unknown at that time.
In this way, Li Jing firmly chose to follow the path of Guo Degang and became one of the founders of Deyun Club. At that time, Deyun Club was just a grass stage team, and there were few audiences for each performance, but Li Jing never cared about the remuneration and devoted herself to the cause of revitalizing cross talk. He not only starred in various cross talk repertoire, showing his outstanding comprehensive strength, but also was willing to act as He Yunwei's praise, which can be described as the first hero of Deyun Club. Guo Degang personally commented: "My junior brother is really kind, and he will do whatever work is assigned."
However, all good things are short-lived. In 2010, with the fermentation of the "enclosure movement" incident, Guo Degang fell into the center of the storm of public opinion. In the face of the reporter's interview, he had a tough attitude and was full of wild words, which eventually led to the forced closure of Deyun Club for rectification. This series of events may also become the fuse for Li Jing to finally leave Deyun Club.
Why did Li Jing leave? He personally revealed that it was not because of the uneven distribution of money as the outside world said, but because the development space in Deyun Club was too small. With the change of the Deyun Club system, everyone is no longer the atmosphere of the past, Guo Degang's family is dominant, and everyone else has become his followers. Deyun Club has become Guo Degang's private property, and it has gradually drifted away from the original ideal of revitalizing cross talk. Li Jing wants to try new things such as cross talk dramas, but in Deyun Club, this is already a source of water. So, in order to pursue his dream, he chose to leave with dignity.
Time flies, and now Li Jing has become a leader in the art world, not only proficient in performing Allegro and other forms of quyi, but also elected as the chairman of the Beijing Economic Development Zone Quyi Artists Association, one step closer to her dream. And the most valuable thing is that after leaving Deyun Club for many years, he has never said a bad word to Guo Degang. This tolerance and generosity allow people to further appreciate Li Jing's noble character.
Looking at the ins and outs of the whole incident, it is not difficult for us to find that the changes in Deyun Club are really suffocating. At the beginning, the three of them got together and fought side by side, with the lofty ideal of revitalizing cross talk. But with the passage of time, Deyun Club began to develop towards a person's private industrialization, and the original brotherhood gradually disappeared. Once it slides to this point of no return, Deyun Club will lose its original charm and vitality. After all, art comes from human nature and requires a free and open environment and a wide space for development. Blindly catering to a particular individual's preferences will inevitably lead to a narrow impasse.
From the stories of Li Jing and Guo Degang, we can also reflect on the current business environment. Nowadays, too many entrepreneurs are keen to turn their careers into their personal kingdoms, and it is difficult to inject fresh blood into the internal conformism of the enterprise. This is tantamount to killing talents, and will inevitably lead to the exhaustion of innovation. A real entrepreneur should not regard the company as an individual's private territory, but should create a soil for employees to develop freely, create a relaxed and inclusive atmosphere, and let all kinds of new ideas and new things have space for survival and development. Only in this way can the enterprise maintain its vitality and move towards a more brilliant future.
I sincerely hope that Deyun Club can learn from the lessons of the past and cherish the original intention of the founder. Let cross talk, an ancient art, glow with vitality and bloom with more dazzling brilliance in the new era.