In China's cross talk industry, Feng Gong is an out-and-out big man. He has been active on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 32 years, bringing countless joys and laughter to the audience.
Whether it is "The Year of the Tiger", "The Thief Company", or "It's Okay to Steal the Fun" and "Mr. Worst" and other works, they are all like strings of pearls, connecting the audience's laughter and memories.
Every time Feng Gong appeared on stage in his trademark black leather shoes, red jacket and slender face, the audience knew that a fun show was about to begin.
His sentence "Dear audience friends, I miss you to death" is like a cordial greeting from an old friend, which has warmed the hearts of countless people.
However, Feng Gong is not satisfied with being alone, he knows that the art of cross talk needs to be passed on and needs the injection of fresh blood. With this sense of mission, Feng Gong opened a cross talk class at the Central Academy of Drama.
Here, he unreservedly passes on his years of experience and experience to his students.
"There are fewer and fewer successors in our circle, and even fewer gifted people." Feng Gong often said, "Whichever family eats, you have to worry about the heart, I hope that every student can carry the faith we adhere to, full of family and country feelings to the society, and become the inheritor and promoter of this circle......."
Under Feng Gong's careful training, a group of outstanding comedy performers such as Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei, Bai Kainan, and Pan Binlong stood out. They were all helped and supported by Feng Gong, and Jia Ling was regarded as Feng Gong's best successor.
In 2019, when Feng Gong completed his 32-year journey in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Jia Ling began to take over this important task and began her journey to the Spring Festival Gala.
On the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2010, Feng Gong directed and played the role with Yang Song, Yan Xuejing, Shao Feng, and Han Xue to jointly create a sketch called "Can't Let Him Go". This story tells the story of a taxi driver who is mistaken by the identity of the perpetrator after rescuing an old man, and becomes the focus of the whole society.
This work has won the love and resonance of the audience.
Yang Song played an old man who was hit in the sketch, his performance was witty and humorous, and the tacit cooperation with Feng Gong made the sketch full of jokes. For example, "your mother called you home for dinner", "a tailor who doesn't want to be a cook is by no means a good driver", "look at your appearance, it's too freewheeling", "that's not as good as you look like doing whatever you want" and other witty lines, connecting a story of kindness to save people, pushing the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year's Eve party to a climax.
The effect of the sketch is excellent, Feng Gong is still warmly welcomed by the audience, and Yang Song, who plays the role of "the old man who was hit", also became famous in one fell swoop. His performance not only received unanimous praise from the audience, but also was a highlight of the evening.
The success of the Spring Festival Gala made Yang Song easily open the door to the entertainment industry. Advertising invitations flew in like snowflakes, and he only had to walk through the motions on stage to make a lot of money.
Soon, Yang Song tasted the sweetness of fame, and insiders praised him for his talent and the style of his teacher, predicting that he would become popular in the future.
At that time, Yang Song was at the peak of his career, and his eyes were full of vision and confidence for the future. It was as if he saw a more brilliant future beckoning him. However, he could not foresee that fate was preparing a serious turn for him.
Yang Song should have made persistent efforts in this great opportunity to create more great results. However, fame brings not only applause and flowers, but also dizzying money and temptation.
Jansson quickly lost his way in this drunken environment and embarked on a path of self-destruction.
After becoming famous, Janssong's life changed dramatically. He became no longer bored and began to try to find more exciting forms of entertainment. After a drinking party, a man who called him "Friend" took him into the casino. This step became a turning point in Yang Song's life.
Sitting at the table and watching the dice roll on the wheel, Jansson felt the thrill like never before. When he wins, his face is red; When he loses money, he refuses to give up and always wants to try again.
The magic of gambling made him obsessed, and his eyes became crazy, and his eyes lit up on the table.
Gambling is like a bottomless pit, devouring Janson's sanity and money little by little. In just one year, he lost all his savings. However, the gambler's psychology made him unable to stop the loss in time, but fell deeper and deeper.
He began to frantically borrow money from friends and family in order to continue his gambling journey.
Yang Song constantly deceived himself and others, hoping that by borrowing money, he would repay it every two months under the pretext of borrowing a little from the left, and promise to give it with a big promise of borrowing a little from the right.
However, all the borrowed money disappeared into the table like mud cows.
When friends and relatives stopped paying attention to his requests for money, Jansson felt hopeless like never before. He used to be proud, but now he is in debt. Those in the casino who used to be respectful to him are now treating them coldly, even with blank eyes.
Yang Song's ears kept echoing harsh sentences, such as "dogs look down on people" and "I am your uncle if I am rich". His thirst for money has reached its extreme, but he has lost patience with making money through normal means.
He thought that acting was too slow to make money, so he began to look for a career that would not cost anything.
In such a state of extreme desire but powerlessness, Yang Song's psychology began to become distorted. He began to look for crooked ways and hit the idea of Feng Gong, a nationally famous teacher.
Yang Song's experience just confirms the old saying: "No matter how big or small gambling is, nine out of ten gambles will be lost, and long-term gambling will definitely lose, which may eventually lead to bankruptcy." However, he had lost his mind in the temptation of gambling and could not see this simple fact.
From a promising comedy star to a debt-ridden gambler, Jansson's experience has made people deeply realize that "one wrong step, one wrong step". His downfall not only ruined his future, but also made his mentor Feng Gong feel heartache.
However, this is only the beginning of the story, and even greater disasters await him.
Desperate, Yang Song finally came up with a "bad move". He decided to use his identity as a "Feng Gong student" to defraud under the banner of a teacher. In his own circle, Yang Song began to hype, claiming that through the teacher's network, he could "guarantee" art candidates to enter major art academies.
Yang Song knows that the competition in the field of art examination is fierce, and the easiest to get hold of is the parents of fresh candidates. In Beijing, there are a large number of children from wealthy families, who have studied various arts since childhood.
In the year of the exam, parents always hope to find a "shortcut" for their children, and Yang Song took this opportunity to start his own fraud plan.
The first person to be attracted was Mr. Lee. His daughter began learning to sing, dance and perform on stage when she was in elementary school, and dreamed of entering the Beijing Film Academy. However, in the fierce competition, Mrs. Li accompanied her daughter to walk around the examination room, but found that all the girls around her were beautiful and had good temperament, and they seemed to have a foundation of "children's skills".
Although his daughter had passed the preliminary examination, the results of the re-examination had not yet been announced, and Mr. Li began to feel uneasy.
In 2011, Mr. Li met Yang Song. Mr. Li asked directly: "I am willing to pay 300,000 yuan, as long as you give me peace of mind, can you do it?" Yang Song was overjoyed and thought, "If you're lucky, won't you be able to bump into it!" So he agreed.
After Yang Song received the money, he also made a symbolic phone call to Mr. Li, saying, "Don't worry, I have said hello." Mr. Li felt that there was a spectrum in this matter, so he waited for the result with peace of mind.
Immediately afterwards, another Ms. Zhao came to visit. Her children applied for the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and they also hoped to be able to "guarantee the bottom". This time, Yang Song was even more rampant, directly asking for 800,000 yuan.
However, there is not so much good luck in the world. When Li Qianjin's college entrance examination results came out, she was not admitted to Beiying. At this time, Beiying's admission letter had been sent out, and the school had already opened, and Mr. Li learned the truth, expressed his dissatisfaction with Yang Song and asked for a refund.
However, Yang Song had already lost all his money in the casino at this time, and there was nothing left. This fact made Mr. Li and Ms. Zhao immediately understand that they had been deceived. So, the two decided to join forces to take Yang Song to court.
Yang Song changed from a comedian of the Spring Festival Gala to a criminal who used the master-apprentice relationship to defraud, and his behavior ruined his future and also brought trouble to his mentor Feng Gong. But the French Open is restored, and Yang Song will definitely pay the price for his actions.
January 6, 2012 is destined to be enshrined in the pillar of shame in Yang Song's life. On his way home from the casino, the police came to the door. Yang Song was taken away for investigation on suspicion of defrauding more than 1 million yuan, his hands were handcuffed coldly, and the once glamorous comedian is now a prisoner.
In December of the same year, Yang Song's case was tried in court. In the face of a large amount of hard evidence, Jansson realized his mistake, but it was too late. In the end, the court sentenced him to 12 years in prison. , the comedian on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the past, can only regret his previous absurd behavior behind bars.
From 2012 to 2024, Jansson will spend a long 12 years in prison. This period of time was enough for him to put down his acting career and learn the skills of "stepping on a sewing machine" and "making umbrellas". Reflecting on 12 years in prison, a former star can be forgotten by the world.
The verdict not only brought a devastating blow to Yang Song's acting career, but also caused his mentor Feng Gong to fall into a lot of trouble. Although Feng Gong was never directly involved in this fraud case, many people still doubted the relationship between him and Yang Song.
In order to set the record straight, Feng Gong had to publicly announce the severance of the teacher-student relationship with Yang Song, and issued a statement saying that he had never been involved in these things, and even before the incident, he did not know that the apprentice had gone astray.
Feng Gong called on Yang Song to repent and become a new person after he came out, which is undoubtedly the most severe punishment for Yang Song and the most ardent expectation for him. However, 12 years in prison is enough to change a person's life, and when Jansson is free, whether he can still stand on the stage again and regain his former glory, only time can tell.
Comparing the life trajectories of Yang Song and Feng Gong's other disciples, Yang Song's case is particularly special. During the years that Yang Song was in prison, his fellow sister Jia Ling made great progress.
In the Spring Festival Gala of 2010, when Yang Song and Feng Gong collaborated on "Can't Let Him Go", Jia Ling and Bai Kainan's "Big Talk Tease" also performed on the same stage, but because it was broadcast after midnight, it did not attract much attention.
However, ten years have turned their fortunes upside down. In 2021, the box office of Jia Ling's self-directed and self-starred movie "Hello, Li Huanying" exceeded 5 billion, making her a "5 billion female director" in the history of Chinese film, promoting the development of the careers of Zhang Xiaofei and others, and becoming the mainstay of the comedy industry. At the same time, Yang Song lived behind bars.
If Yang Song hadn't gone astray, then he might now have a place in the entertainment industry like Pan Binlong. However, once a mistake is made, every step of the way is wrong, and Yang Song confirmed the true meaning of the proverb "gambling is cool for a while, looking back on two lines of tears".
Fortunately, with one day of detention worth serving one day in prison, Yang Song is expected to regain his freedom in early 2024. At this time, he stands at a crossroads in his life, and we expect him to truly repent and start anew.
There is no road in vain in life, every step counts.
Jansson's story teaches us that every choice in life is crucial, whether it is on the stage or going astray, it is our own choice. I hope that Yang Song can learn from this painful lesson, find himself again, and bloom his own brilliance again.