Speaking of Shanghai antics, Shanghainese of a little age know that Yao Mushuang (1918-2004), Zhou Baichun (1922-2008) and their apprentices have brought countless joys and memories to countless Shanghainese and the surrounding Wu-speaking areas.
Left: Zhou Baichun, right: Yao Mushuang
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Double-word actor old photo group photo
With the departure of the two masters and the gradual departure of the two-character actors, Shanghai Funny has had a serious break since 2000. Shanghai's traditional culture is on the verge of disappearing.
However, at this time, there was a person who came out, and he was Zhou Libo. Born on April 22, 1967 in Ningbo.
Zhou Libo in his youth
In 1981, Zhou Libo passed the shanghai burlesque troupe from more than 2,800 candidates, and studied under Zhou Baichun, the elder of the Shanghai qu art circle and the burlesque world, which can be said to be from the class. Zhou Libo was sentenced to 205 days in prison in 1990 for intentionally injuring people. After being released from prison, Zhou Libo and his friends went to the sea to start a business, and got involved in the financial industry, building materials industry, performance contractors, etc.
Zhou Libo and Guan Dongtian
Until 2006, Zhou Libo and his original friend Guan Dongtian returned to the stage with a haipai clearance.
Before the return, Zhou Libo asked his friends around him, who was the highest appearance fee in the burlesque world at that time, and was told that it was Chen Guoqing (A Qing), the appearance fee was 10,000 yuan, and he could also bargain, 5,000 could also be accepted, and if the relationship was good, 3,000 could also be done. It can be seen that the comic world at that time was already a very lonely situation.
Chen Guoqing (Ah Qing)
After Zhou Libo heard it, he told his friend that from tomorrow, Zhou Libo's appearance fee was 20,000, and there was no counter-offer; it turned out that as soon as Haipai Qingkou came out, the response was enthusiastic, and the alleys were empty and the field was full. At one time, the literary and artistic form of Shanghai funny was pushed to the peak of history.
From 2008 to 2010, Zhou Libo began to perform the Haipai Qingkou trilogy at the Majestic Theater, and the venue was full and it was difficult to find a ticket. Zhou Libo once became a hot topic for all Shanghainese after tea and dinner. In less than a year, Zhou Libo's appearance fee has soared from 2W to 200W. There are even many loyal fans who will go to see it, and Zhou Libo said that the paragraphs of each scene will be modified and modified and inventoryed according to the hot news at the time.
Responsible for the audience, Xu Haikou said that each person laughed an average of 500 times per show.
<h1>Laugh for 30 years</h1>
One person, one mouth, one play, one hundred and fifty minutes. Take stock of the thirty years of reform and opening up. A ticket is hard to find, thirty consecutive performances, the field is full,
<h1>Laugh at the great Shanghai</h1>
A sister piece to Thirty Years of Laughter. Set against the backdrop of the sixty years after the liberation of Shanghai, it jokes about the past and present lives of the old and new Shanghai.
<h1>I'm crazy for money</h1>
Focus on the most fashionable and vivid events and topics in Shanghai, focusing on financial topics, involving stock markets, real estate, investment, collections, entertainment, etc.
For the above three films, I watched each one an average of 5-10 times at that time, and I can still say some of the passages in it.
The best seller of pirated discs on the roadside was this Haipai Clearance Trilogy.
However, due to the excessive sensitivity of the content part, the resources on the Internet are now very, very few.
Zhou Travels to China
From 2011 to 2015, Zhou Libo began to tour Haipai Qingkou, creating a national performance of "Zhou Tour china", in order to take care of the national audience, Zhou Libo changed the Shanghai dialect to Mandarin, but the "gimmick" and the method of telling in it is still the way of Haipai Qingkou, with a strong Shanghai flavor, which has made great contributions to the promotion of Haipai culture.
One Week Li Bo Show
During the period, Zhou Libo also went to a number of TV stations to do programs, such as "China's Got Talent Show", "One Zhou Libo Show", "China Dream Show", etc., although the praise and criticism were mixed, but Zhou Libo's straightforward personality and courage to tell the truth in the program left a deep impression on everyone, although he refused the invitation of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, but the development was still flourishing.
Zhou Libo is a controversial person, half to half for the support and opposition sides on the Internet, and I will not expand in this article. Personally, I still admire Zhou Libo very much, and he can push the endangered Haipai culture to the peak of history, which is indeed full of personal charm.
Yu Qiuyu once said that if Yao Mushuang and Zhou Baichun were only produced in 50 years, Zhou Libo might not be able to produce one in 100 years. I very much agree with this view, now that more and more intangible cultural heritage is on the verge of extinction, the problem is how to pass it on, how to evolve. Blindly preserving traditions cannot be further developed rapidly than the previous generation, and blind renewal will lose the charm of tradition. Achieving a balance and being accepted by everyone is a very difficult operation, and Zhou Libo does a very good job at this point.
Although Zhou Libo later disappeared from the stage again due to personal problems, what he left us is indeed a spiritual sublimation of traditional culture.
I hope that Shanghai Funny will follow someone, in Shanghai, if you can no longer see "Shanghai Funny", it will be really funny!