Chang Baohua: I can't rest assured of the audience (2013)

Chang Baohua, a cross-talk performance artist who is well known to the audience for a number of cross-talk masterpieces such as "Hat Factory" and "Traceability", recently visited the Jinghua Tea House. Recalling the past, Mr. Chang talked and laughed, laughing that his cotton pants were wet when he first appeared on stage with his brother "Little Mushroom" to perform "The Trainer". When it comes to the audience, Chang Lao calls out that it is the parents of food and clothing, and the words reveal the infinite attachment to the stage and the audience.

　　□ talk about an artistic career

　　The first time I appeared on stage cotton pants were wet

　　"First of all, I would like to say hello to our readers and viewers, and wish you all happiness. I also want to meet you, and what I miss most is my audience, and I have been at ease. I hope that my audience will be as happy and happy as listening to my crosstalk. This is the opening statement of Mr. Chang Baohua, 83, on the day of the guest tea house, a lung disease last winter made him lose a lot of weight, but his spirit was strong and humorous.

　　Recalling his artistic career, Chang Baohua confessed that he was influenced by his father and brother, and when he was five or six years old, he first appeared on stage at the Xiaoliyuan Theater in Tianjin Taikang Mall, when he cooperated with Mr. Zhao Peiru and his brother "Little Mushroom" on "The Apprentice", "The first time I met the audience, I remember that it was winter, my mother made me a cotton coat, and I wore cotton pants underneath. Some viewers shouted 'good child', and I didn't know how nervous at the time, so when I came down, the audience applauded. Unfortunately, when I got backstage, my brother touched me here and his cotton pants were all wet. ”

　　Referring to his brother Chang Baokun, Chang Baohua deliberately wanted to tell the reader about the origin of "small mushrooms". He said: "My eldest brother was born in Zhangjiakou and grew up in Zhangjiakou. According to my father's words, how to teach him how to be, now called on the stage to see xi, when he was a child, he held a gong between performances to ask the audience for money, and some audiences liked him to deliberately not give him. He took the initiative to tease the audience, and he had to make you pay all the money. Some viewers said that this child is really our zhangjiakou baby - mushrooms, and it is called up. ”

　　Humiliated as a young man, he wanted to give up

　　Asked whether he had encountered any ups and downs in his more than 70 years of stage career, Chang Baohua admitted that he once wanted to give up crosstalk at the age of sixteen or seventeen, because some things he experienced when he was young made him feel that "crosstalk" was a lowly industry at that time, and his personality was also insulted.

　　Chang Baohua recalled: "There is a saying in Beijing called 'death is not to be seen', and this is the case with crosstalk. At that time, I often performed at the homes of officials and eunuchs in some deep mansion compounds, like a choir. When I came out with the four people carrying the lord's house, I found that he was a eunuch, and I was kneeling for the eunuch. At that time, my heart was very painful, and I had begun to have self-esteem, but crosstalk made people lose their personality and lose their dignity. ”

　　Talking about the reasons for finally persevering, Chang Laozi said that one is the audience's love and enthusiasm for him, and he feels that he cannot leave the audience, "To this day, I rely on my audience, which can be said to be a parent of food and clothing. In my father's words, the diapers you used when you were a child were bought for you by the audience. He told me to always know gratitude. Another is that the social status of cross-talk actors has changed after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and at that time, they also went to Zhongnanhai to perform programs for Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, and Premier Zhou even proposed amendments to "Yesterday".

　　□ talk about the development of crosstalk

　　Form must serve content

　　More than 70 years of stage career, so that Chang Baohua won a lot of honors, in addition to cross-talk performance, he wrote in the 70s of the last century "Hat Factory" even led the trend of cross-talk to reflect the real life of society at that time, and the "Retrospective" created in the early 90s, and created a stage style between cross-talk and sketches.

　　"Tracing" is about marriage issues, and Chang Baohua's sketchy performance methods and creative concepts at that time were very advanced. Now on the stage cross-talk drama, music cross-talk, multimedia cross-talk is also very common, when asked whether cross-talk is important in form or content important, Mr. Chang said: "Form must be to serve the content, at that time, the form of the sketch "Traceability" was also because it was impossible to express its ideas with the traditional cross-talk interpretation method. ”

　　I hope that young actors will lay a solid foundation

　　Chang Baohua said that now every day of life is still inseparable from cross-talk, and young cross-talk actors are also very concerned, "I found that there are many good actors after the 80s and 90s, such as Wang Zijian in Beijing and Qiu Yingjun in Tianjin, who have both traditional and can also perform some new and good cross-talk." ”

　　Chang Baohua believes that the most important thing for young cross-talk actors is to lay a solid foundation and know what performance is. At the same time, he combined his own creative and performance experience to say: "Cross-talk performances should avoid the four words 'coarse, vulgar, oily, wild', and when creating, we must also avoid the four words 'straight, dew, white and shallow'. ”

　　In Chang Baohua's view, good cross-talk should have thoughts, come from life, let the audience think, he said: "Our works should be like tea, drinking into the mouth should have a hindsight, this hindsight makes you feel very fresh and smooth." How can a work have an aftertaste? This work must have thoughts and life, and it cannot be a castle in the air and be written after listening. You have to go deep into life to really grasp the main points and laugh points. ”

　　□ say family life

　　He was harsh on Chang Yuan because he was growing

　　Chang Baohua was a child star at the age of 11 and starred in the movie "Splendid Song City". In 2012, he also made a cameo appearance as "Bus Boss" in the film "Search" directed by Chen Kaige, which became another fire. In addition to movies, Chang Baohua has also acted in Peking Opera, opera, civilization drama, drama, opera, TV series, etc., but he said: "The biggest hobby is cross-talk, and chatting in life is also cross-talk." In addition, he also likes to collect coins from various countries, without paying too much attention, just trying to be happy.

　　Chang Baohua's grandson and granddaughter are worthy of his pride, the grandson Chang Yuan was the popular "beautiful man" in the spring evening of 2013, and the granddaughter Chang Si was the runner-up in the double synchronized swimming at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Talking about the secret of educating children, Chang Baohua said: "More support, more encouragement, should be good at discovering children's third intelligence." ”

　　Chang Yuan once said that his grandfather was very strict, and he was a little afraid of him. Chang Baohua explained: "Chang Yuan is still on the rise, so I am more strict with him. ”

　　□ words master-apprentice relationship

　　The two families of Changgao have a close friendship

　　Accompanying Chang Baohua that day was his newly acquired apprentice, Gao Hongsheng, the son of Gao Yuanjun, the founder of Shandong Kuaishu Gaopai. Chang Baohua introduced that the two families of Gao Chang were family friends, and Mr. Gao Yuanjun was both an apprentice of his father Chang Lian'an and a son. Later, Chang Baohua entered the Haizheng Cultural and Labor Troupe thanks to the help of Mr. Gao Yuanjun, who said: "Mr. Gao is particularly enthusiastic about the audience, we go to the army to perform, as long as there is an audience that does not watch, he takes out the board and immediately performs." ”

　　On the day of the interview, Gao Hongsheng was also busy with his master, afraid that Chang Baohua was unwell. The two have been performing in the army for nearly 30 years, and when asked why they must worship Chang Baohua as a teacher, Gao Hongsheng said: "Whether it is from my master's personality, artistic achievements, and life help, I want to worship." When visiting the master, Gao Hongsheng deliberately gave his award-winning Shandong quick book "The Legend of Xu Shiyou" and the award certificate to the master, because he knew that the master valued the apprentice's personality and creative performance ability.

　　"The creation is not a little, the performance is inconspicuous, mixed for most of the generation, and make a semi-familiar face." Chang Baohua often uses this sentence to sum up his stage career. At the end of the interview, the reporter asked Mr. Chang why he was so humble, and he said that he really thought so. He revealed that in the next hundred years, he hopes to engrave these words on his tombstone as an epitaph. Beijing Times reporter Tian Chao

　　■ Notes of Dr. Tea

　　Laugh at yourself a serious illness

　　Mr. Chang is warm, humble and self-deprecating. When he came to the teahouse lounge, the apprentice said to me intimately, turn off the air conditioner, afraid that the old man's body will not adapt. Then I talked to the old man about his physical condition, and he said happily, "Last year I had a serious illness, which destroyed my practice for more than 500 years." "Everyone present was amused by the humor of the old man.