Pictured: Guo Quanbao, cross-talk performance artist. He is a member of the Chinese Qu Artists Association. At the age of eleven, he studied with Yu Junbo, an old cross-talk artist, and began his cross-talk career. In 1951, he was transferred to the radio rap company. He has cooperated with Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, Ma Ji, Hao Aimin and others to perform cross-talk. More than 50 years of artistic practice, formed their own artistic style, good at single-mouth, good at teasing. The performance of cross-talk has the characteristics of tacit understanding, full of emotions, and vivid language. The stand-up performance is even more humorous and funny, speaking freely, imitating sound mimesis, and Wei Miao Wei Xiao.
Pictured: At 17:50 on July 12, 2004, the famous cross-talk performance artist Guo Quanbao died of illness at the age of 83 in Beijing Weeping Willow Hospital. In front of the First Memorial Hall of Babaoshan Mountain, the memorial service of the old man and loyal audience holding yellow chrysanthemums was everywhere, and the memorial service of guo Quanbao, an older generation of cross-talk performance artists, opened in the misty drizzle. Su Wenmao, Li Wenhua, Ma Zenghui, Tang Jiezhong, Jiang Kun, Zhu Shimao, Xiao Lin, Feng Gong, Zhang Zhikuan and other performing arts figures attended the farewell ceremony.
Pictured: More than 200 cross-talk actors attended the scene. Hou Yaowen's daughter and Ma Ji's son also came on behalf of the family. Hou kept wiping her tears, saying it reminded her of what happened when her father died. Cui Qi, a miscellaneous artist of qu art, wrote an elegy and posted it in front of the memorial hall: "Xiangsheng Taidou is amused, willing to make green leaves lined with red flowers, indifferent to fame and fortune as a teacher, and the style will always be praised in China." When the elderly people in the music and art circles saw this poem, they were all sighing.
Pictured: Thousands of unknown citizens rushed from various urban areas to attend Guo Lao's memorial service, and when they saw Guo Lao's remains, they looked even more sad than their relatives and friends. They neatly arranged a circle of yellow chrysanthemums around Guo Lao's body. The cross-talk master Guo Quanbao is gone, and the two words he chanted most in his mouth when he died were cross-talk; The most regrettable thing is that his children did not inherit his career, and Guo Quanbao's son disclosed his father's death wish: "My father loved to talk and laugh all his life, optimistic and open-minded, and regarded the art of cross-talk as his life." ”
Pictured: Elder Guo rode a bicycle every day before his illness in the community, without the slightest shelf of "cross-talk master", and the young people in the neighborhood called him Uncle Guo. After he could not appear on stage due to stomach cancer, he changed from an actor to an audience, and his favorite TV show was crosstalk. Whenever he sees those "not going the right way" cross-talk works appear on the screen, he will be very angry, he said: "Crosstalk is not happy." Xiangsheng can only get out of the trough by taking the right path!" His greatest wish is that the art of cross-talk will be revitalized.
Photo: Jiang Kun: Guo Quanbao is a living fossil in the cross-talk industry, Ma Ji: I am Mr. Guo who held it out, Hao Aimin: Guo Quanbao won the four stars, Li Jindou: Guo Quanbao's death is a major event in the cross-talk industry. Mr. Guo Quanbao is exquisite in art, good at teasing, hot in style, humorous and funny, and good at stand-up comedy, and is also proficient in various art forms such as Peking Opera, Single String, and Counting Noble. Good at single-mouth and noisy, such as "Catch and Release Cao", "Yellow Crane Tower", "Monkey Play", "Borrow Fire" and so on. Among them, in 1957, his comical cross-talk "Good, Good" was popular throughout the country. In his later years, he collaborated with Luo Rongshou to perform double reeds.
Pictured: It can be said that Guo Lao is a master of cross-talk who is very funny, and teasing people and praising people is an important division of labor of cross-talk, guo Lao is willing to be a green leaf, and there are four celebrities in one bouquet: Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, Ma Ji, and Hao Aimin, but this does not mean that Guo Lao will only do green leaves, he will do anything.