<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="1" > Guo Degang was absent from Shi Shengjie's farewell ceremony</h1>
September 28, 2018, is undoubtedly a very painful day for the cross-talk community, because the famous cross-talk performance artist Mr. Shi Shengjie passed away due to illness. As soon as the news came out, countless people were shocked, and the cross-talk community felt extremely sad and regretful.
On October 2 of the same year, the farewell ceremony of Mr. Shi Shengjie's body was held in Harbin. In order to see the last side of this cross-talk giant, almost half of the people in the cross-talk circle at that time went out to send Mr. Shi on his last journey.
Shi Shengjie's memorial service
However, at that time, no one from the new talent of the cross-talk industry, Deyun Society, which was in its own right and beginning to take shape, appeared at the farewell ceremony. As Hou Yaowen's apprentice and Shi Shengjie's nephew, Guo Degang did not appear from beginning to end.
In response to this situation, major media began to rush to report, and various statements were various and endless. Many netizens and cross-talk fans who do not know the truth have also begun to speculate. For a time, rumors flew all over the place.
Some people say that Shi Shengjie already had a conflict with Guo Degang before he died, so Guo Degang gambled and did not come;
Some people say that because Guo Degang has become a self-reliant portal and a faction of his own, and has completely demarcated the boundaries with the mainstream cross-talk community, he will not come; some people say that after the death of Master Hou Yaowen, the relationship between Guo Degang and Uncle Shi has long been indifferent...
Under the intentional or unintentional operation of the major platforms, Guo Degang's absence from The funeral of Mr. Shi Shengjie was pushed to the cusp of the storm. Some emotional netizens even began to scold, believing that Guo Degang was ungrateful in doing so.
At that time, Guo Degang founded the Deyun Society and opened his own unique cross-talk performance style and performance form, which is undoubtedly quite rebellious for the cross-talk community that has always respected tradition.
Shi Shengjie
Therefore, many old artists in the cross-talk industry and the backbone of the cross-talk industry at that time were dissatisfied with this, and they did not agree with Guo Degang's approach, feeling that he was simply out of the ordinary.
Some people even divide the cross-talk circle into mainstream and non-mainstream, and Guo Degang is this "non-mainstream" that is excluded.
Guo Degang and Yu Qian
However, when all kinds of doubts continued, Shi Shengjie, as Guo Degang's uncle and an important master figure in the cross-talk industry, in the face of media interviews, he generously said: "There is no distinction between mainstream and non-mainstream."
Shi Shengjie believes that what can bring joy to the audience and serve the public is good crosstalk.
Shi Shengjie interview
When Guo Degang was struggling and facing pressure from all sides, it was also this uncle who said to the crowd: "I want to learn from Guo Degang." This undoubtedly gave Guo Degang, who was in an extremely difficult situation at that time, great encouragement and support.
Shi Shengjie and Yu Qian
In the field of traditional art, the rules left by the older generation are very important, and the younger generations must strive to follow the artistic achievements handed down by the ancestors, and they need to be seriously inherited.
Remember that in the movie "Farewell to the King", young Peking Opera actors through stage performances, and the reaction of the audience, combined with the social trend at that time, very seriously proposed to the teacher Fu that traditional Peking Opera needs to adapt to the times and adjust and change.
As a result, master was furious and severely reprimanded the young actor, saying that he had forgotten his grandfather and was a great rebel.
Still
In the real society, Qiu Jirong, the fourth generation of the Qiu Pai Peking Opera lineage, combined Peking Opera with modern music and dance to create his own art form "Qiu Opera", which also received a lot of criticism. It can be seen how difficult it is to innovate in traditional art.
Qiu Jirong
Guo Degang was naturally very aware of this, and he also knew that if he went at that time, he might have conflicts with others.
If such a situation occurs at a funeral, it will make the deceased uneasy and cause bad social impact. Guo Degang may have taken this into account and did not appear at His Uncle Shi's funeral.
Guo Degang
Moreover, although Guo Degang did not attend the funeral, he visited Shi Shengjie many times during his hospitalization.
He also sent such a Weibo: "Went to Shanghai to visit His uncle Mr. Shi Shengjie, and saw that he was in a good mental state." The two grandfathers talked very happily and agreed to cooperate in the performance. When I left, I said goodbye and felt a lot of feelings. ”
Guo Degang Weibo
The word "怹" has a deep meaning, it is a dialect, it is an honorific name used by people who respect themselves incomparably, which is equivalent to the commonly used you, and in this Weibo word, they all reveal their admiration for Mr. Shi Shengjie.
After the news of Shi Shengjie's death came out, he also sent a Weibo for the first time to express his sadness and sorrow.
Therefore, Guo Degang is not a ruthless and unrighteous person, nor is he an ungrateful person. The reason why he did not go to the funeral was also for the sake of the overall situation.
So what kind of life experience does this uncle who dares to stand up to the public and stand up to support Guo Degang have?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="61" > a natural cross-talk wizard</h1>
Shi Shengjie's parents were famous cross-talk actors in the Beijing-Tianjin area at that time, and it can be said that from birth, he and cross-talk formed an indissoluble relationship.
Other people's children listen to lullabies and sing children's songs, but Shi Shengjie has listened to various cross-talk passages since he was a child, singing traditional songs one after another.
Unconsciously, the seeds of cross-talk art quietly and silently took root in his young heart.
At the end of the 1950s, in response to the call to support the construction of art in Northeast China, his father Shi Shiyuan came to Harbin with his family to work.
At that time, the economic conditions were poor, and the primary problem of the people was to solve the problem of food and clothing, so they were willing to spend very little money on culture and entertainment.
Those who can go to the theater garden for recreation are all the families of those who live in wealth and do not worry about eating and wearing. It is impossible to have thousands, or even tens of thousands, of performance tickets like this now.
Shi Shiyuan
Therefore, as the parents of the cross-talk actors, their income is very limited. At that time, Shi Shengjie was at a lively and active age, and he could not run two laps after eating, so he digested it.
In order to fill his stomach, he began to play in the theater garden where his parents worked. The clever and clever Shi Shengjie quickly won the favor of the audience. So the east family stuffed a handful of fruit, the west family gave a piece of sugar, a bunch of snacks under the stomach, and did not feel hungry.
Shi Shengjie was young
When he was full and tired of playing, he stood in the audience and listened to his parents talking. Listening to it day by day, watching it over and over again, after a long time, I can even remember seven or eight minutes.
By chance, my parents found that Shi Shengjie, who was only 7 years old, could tell the cross-talk segments they had performed on stage in its entirety. It really surprised and delighted them.
In this way, with his amazing talent, the little Shi Shengjie took the stage at the age of 7 and presented the audience with his first cross-talk performance in his life - "Catch and Release Cao". Listening to the warm applause from the audience and the continuous applause, Shi Dad felt very pleased.
In order to have a better platform and development opportunities in the field of cross-talk, his father took Shi Shengjie to worship Zhu Xiangchen and officially started his cross-talk learning career.
Since then, in addition to going to school, Shi Shengjie has seriously studied cross-talk, said and sang four homework lessons, and his professional kung fu is very good.
Yang Baozhang and Shi Shengjie
After entering the Harbin Children's Palace Art Troupe, he performed for Chairman Liu Shaoqi, Premier Zhou Enlai, and Prince Sihanouk.
When he was a student, Shi Shengjie used practical experience to test his learning results over and over again, laying a solid foundation for his future artistic life.
Shi Shengjie cross-talk performance
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="73" > ushered in the spring color change</h1>
Shi Shengjie's originally peaceful life was shattered by sudden changes. Between 1966 and 1976, the country entered the "most turbulent decade," with chaos and madness pervading every moment of people's lives.
In the movie "Farewell to the Overlord", there was such a scene: it was also in this turbulent period, reason has long been lost, and the normal emotions belonging to human beings seem to have disappeared.
In order to vent his anger, the apprentice ignored the master who taught him to learn drama word by word and tirelessly taught him the principles of life, and personally pressed him to kneel on the ground and prostrate his mistake, forcing him to say his crime word by word. This person who has only been able to sing opera all his life and only knows how to sing can only pale and desperately read the words of the plays he has sung.
It's like this in the movie, but real life is even more tragic than this.
At the end of 1965, the father committed suicide, the brother had problems, and the originally happy family of four fell apart and the heavens were separated forever. Since then, Shi Shengjie's life has been filled with all kinds of insults and contempt, and his life has become extremely difficult.
Shi Shiyuan and Gao Xiuqin
In 1969, under the influence of the general environment, Shi Shengjie, who was only 16 years old, was forcibly sent to the countryside for seven years of labor reform.
During this period, he suddenly changed from a student, a literary backbone of the Children's Palace, and a cross-talk actor to a farmer through and through. Doing a variety of farm work, while physically exhausted, Shi Shengjie also suffered from mental torture caused by family composition problems.
But Shi Shengjie in adversity did not become depressed because of this. His love for the art of crosstalk sustained him and he never gave up.
Between labors, he used crosstalk to bring joy to everyone and comfort the lonely souls in the fields.
During the transformation, he not only did not forget what he had learned, but instead came into closer contact with rural life, personally experienced the unusual life of Zhiqing, and accumulated a large amount of materials for future artistic creation.
Shi Shengjie and Hou Baolin
His love for cross-talk and dedication to art make Shi Shengjie not give up any opportunity to return to the stage.
In 1976, he participated in the qu art study class organized by the Corps, and cooperated with Jiang Kun, a student in the same class, to use a cross-talk that reflected the life of Zhiqing as the theme, all the way from the Corps Club to the capital Beijing, and participated in the national qu art tuning performance.
Jiang Kun and Shi Shengjie
The cross-talk "Lin Hai Hongying" caused a strong sensation for a time, and many art groups threw olive branches, hoping to absorb these two artistic talents into their own ranks.
However, the composition problem still existed, and Shi Shengjie, who could not pass the examination, could only continue to return to the countryside and carry out labor reform.
Shi Shengjie and Jiang Kun
But luck always favors those who work harder. At the end of 1976, the social environment gradually stabilized, all production and development returned to the right track, and Shi Shengjie also successfully entered the provincial Longjiang Theater Music Team and became an official cross-talk actor. The tortuous life experience has given Shi Shengjie more sense of life and more love for the stage.
After that, he devoted himself to cross-talk creation and continued to give back to the public with excellent works. "I want to make up lessons", "Between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law", "Drunken Song", "Mayor Hao", "Girls and Boys Don't Be Like This" and other popular cross-talk passages are the works of this period.
As if to repay Shi Shengjie's love for the art of cross-talk for many years, in 1984, he ushered in a huge turning point in his life.
Shi Shengjie took the stage
At that time, in order to carry forward the traditional music and art culture, cultivate professional artistic talents, and enrich the cultural and entertainment life of the people, the state held a national cross-talk new performance competition.
Shi Shengjie took his cross-talk work "Liver and Gallbladder Photo" and shined in the competition. The novel and unique creative content and the calm and exquisite stage performance made him instantly gain the recognition of many judges.
Mr. Hou Baolin, a cross-talk master who attended the event as an art consultant, was very happy after seeing Shi Shengjie's performance, and he was deeply attracted by this talented young man and felt that he was very promising and a talent that could be created.
Afterwards, Mr. Hou Baolin praised him strongly at the summary meeting, and even more expressed his desire to accept him as a closed disciple.
Mr. Hou Baolin is definitely a grandmaster-level figure in the cross-talk world, and he has not accepted apprentices for many years. It was a great honor for Shi Shengjie to be able to be seen by the master at a glance.
In 1984, the thirty-one-year-old Shi Shengjie, witnessed by Ma Sanli and famous teachers from all over the country, officially entered Mr. Hou Baolin's door. At this point, his artistic life finally ushered in a spring full of sunshine.
Hou Baolin
Throughout his life, Shi Shengjie has always made efforts for the inheritance and development of cross-talk art, and has unswervingly contributed his strength to the cause of cross-talk.
He remembered the teachings of his master, Mr. Hou Baolin: "If you want to do a good job in art, you must first be a good person, so that you can speak in an authoritative way; in order to develop the art of cross-talk, you should do your best to be an artist with both virtue and art."
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