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After Dabing and Qi Zhi broke up, they contacted Hubei cross-talk actor Zhao Weiguo.
Following his experience of becoming famous with Qi Zhi, the soldiers pulled Zhao Weiguo to the nightclub for a cross-talk performance.
Both were somewhat famous at the time, and they were a new group, and at first the audience was looking forward to it, but after the enthusiasm passed, the audience who paid for it began to provoke.
Once the performance came back, the performance effect was particularly poor, the two drove, neither of them willing to say a word. The soldier did not even dare to say anything about reviewing and discussing how to improve, he felt that each other's strings had been stretched to the extreme, and a little pressure would break.
< Dabing and Zhao Weiguo >
Zhao Weiguo and Da Bing said: Is it not a little slower to go to the song hall?
The soldier knew he couldn't stand it and wanted to run.
Dabing felt that Zhao Weiguo was a good cross-talk actor, but the flowers who grew up in the greenhouse began to say cross-talk on the TV station, and the audience at the bottom unanimously held the scene, unlike himself and his former partner Qizhi, who grew up in the "wild land".
In November 1968, the year the soldier was born, the family's economic structure changed dramatically.
Because of his birth, the family has an extra mouth to eat. After the mother gave birth to the soldier, she suffered a serious heart attack. The family's financial burden was all on his father, who was a police officer.
This embarrassing day was even worse after the birth of his sister. Many years later, the soldier clearly remembered: from the beginning of the beginning, the first thing he did when he got up every morning was to wash off all the clothes that the whole family had changed yesterday, dry them, and then put them in at two o'clock in the afternoon on time and fold them.
At that time, there were blind people singing Changsha lyrics on the streets of old Changsha, holding the yueqin and singing "Liu Xiu's Back Boots" and "Wusong Fighting Tigers". The six-year-old soldier went every time, clutching the five cents he had come from a popsicle, and sat in the first row. When it comes to critical moments, there will be someone with a big fan to collect money, and the soldier will hand out five cents so that he can listen. This was the job he most envied at the time, performing in front of so many people and collecting money: "I am willing to be blind." ”
When he was seven or eight years old, Da Bing saw a cross-talk documentary, which contained many famous cross-talk actors, Li Jindou, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, and Zhao Zhenduo. At that time, the soldiers did not know each other, and they only thought that the people inside were talking too interestingly.
He felt that he also had this talent for amusing others by talking: all the children in the class sat next to him, and he made up it, and when he was done, the child said that you were fake, bragging, and we didn't listen. The next day after eating, the child came to him again and asked him, where did he talk about yesterday?
The next day, at the age of 14, a soldier eager to learn crosstalk met his future teacher, Yang Qizhi, in the park.
At that time, Yang Qizhi was experiencing his own midlife crisis.
Yang Qizhi's real name is Yang Qizhi. The first half of his life was the kind of child of other people's families, who called him "Three Tops" in the family, which means that he is the third oldest and sings, dances, and talks about cross-talk.
After arriving at the army, the enterprising Yang Qizhi simply changed his name: Qizhi, determined to make some achievements in the cross-talk industry. Reading and creating became the number one important thing in his daily life, and more and more works were made. At its peak, more than half of the programs of a literary evening in Lianli were created and performed by him.
< QiZhi and the soldiers >
At this time, Yang Qizhi's life had a reversal.
In 1976, in the military hospital near the army, a female comrade named Li Xiangjuan launched a high-profile pursuit of Yang Qizhi.
What makes this peach-colored news even more explosive is the identity of Li Xiangjuan, who joined the army earlier and has already turned into a cadre, while Yang Qizhi was only a soldier at that time.
The drama of "enthusiastic female officers falling in love with me" overwhelmed Yang Qi's mind that he was determined to dedicate himself to art. At the time of demobilization, he successively refused the invitation of several local cultural and labor troupes in Beijing and transferred to a cultural center in Changsha.
The new job does not need to be performed on stage, and the past about crosstalk seems to have nothing to do with him. Yang Qizhi could not find his audience, and even his wife Li Xiangjuan could no longer serve as his fan sister, she was too busy, and after being transferred to the PLA Engineering Corps Academy, she had been promoted to colonel.
It was in this sad years that young soldiers, who were equally enthusiastic and talented in cross-talk, broke into Yang Qizhi's life as apprentices.
After encountering the Martyrs' Park, Yang Qizhi left an address for the soldiers to live in. During that time, every weekend the soldiers had to take the tape recorder and run to Yang Qizhi's house.
After learning the basic knowledge of cross-talk at Yang Qizhi, Dabing signed up for the whole school literary and art performance of his school Changsha No. 1 Middle School that year.
I didn't even know what the baggage was, and the book didn't write it, and the soldier was silently reading in his heart, what the first paragraph was going to talk about, what the second paragraph was going to talk about, and then he went on stage.
As soon as they walked to the stage, the lights hit, and the people on the stage were confused, and only the light could be seen in their eyes. But he still insisted on reading out loud the words he had memorized. It wasn't until the first laugh he had imagined in his mind was finished, and someone in the audience was playing, that he woke up: I was performing, someone was laughing.
The show ended up winning the first prize. This incident gave the soldier a lot of confidence: it turned out that I could really amuse this thing on stage.
The soldier did not go to Yang Qizhi again, and the two did not see the possibility of another relationship with each other at that time. But the soldiers have already promised the future to Xiangsheng.
After the end of the college entrance examination, the soldier wanted to apply for a cross-talk major, and as a result, he could not even find a music major. After pondering the four big characters of "speaking, learning, teasing, and singing", I ran to Hunan Normal University to report a music department.
The study of music in college did not improve the basic skills of the soldier much, but he was still very confident, and in his sophomore year, he ran into the karaoke hall alone and asked the boss if he could recruit someone to perform.
The boss saw the soldier laughing first, it was not completely cold, the soldier was wearing a worn and very inappropriate cotton jacket, like a migrant worker who had just entered the city to work. But he still let the soldier try it, the soldier was not at all embarrassed, and the program worked very well. The boss asked him to come over the next day, and before leaving, he stressed again: remember to change clothes.
In 1991, dabing graduated from Hunan Normal University, just in time for the army to recruit people from school, and Dabing became a literary and artistic soldier. After changing careers, Dabing was placed as a host on the "Voice of Star sand" radio station.
The soldier never forgot to talk about crosstalk, and while working on the radio station, he also went to the nightclub to perform part-time.
At that time, there were no cross-talk groups in Hunan, and there was no place to talk about cross-talk. People who are willing to listen to cross-talk are in song halls and nightclubs. Every once in a while, a cabaret opens, and each family has its own unique entertainment program, which is the core of a cabaret's solicitation. Cross-talk performances are one of them.
In 1995, the soldier who left the radio station found his teacher Yang Qizhi, who had not been in touch for a long time, and went to the sea nightclub.
The first performance was in a small song hall in the Hongchao Hotel, and the two got the opportunity to go on stage after saying all their good words, and there were only five or six scattered spectators sitting under the stage, and the two went up to the cold field.
Yang Qizhi noticed that the artistic director on the side of the stage was frantically stomping his feet and gesturing to them. Yang Qizhi understood, which meant: if the two of them continued to talk, the director could chop the two of them to death.
After stepping down, the art director resumed his smile, gave the two people thirty dollars, and said: The performance is good, you go back first, leave a phone, and I will contact you again if you have a need.
The soldier wrote a phone number, and the man did not answer, and he reacted that the set of words was to give him the steps down.
After going out, Qi Zhi and the soldier walked by the side of the road, walked to the place where there was no one, and divided thirty yuan, fifteen per person.
At that time, the hottest song hall in Changsha was Qindao, and yang wuliu and Zhou Weixing sat there. The venue on Qindao is not large, but as long as there is a performance by these two people, the aisle can be filled. The soldiers once squeezed into the last row and watched the whole show against the wall by the front audience. Looking at the cheers and laughter caused by the two people on the stage, he sighed: One day I will be able to go to Qindao like them to talk about cross-talk, how wonderful it should be.
< Chi Chi > in the oboe performance
Yang Qizhi and Da Bing set a strict plan, every day at two o'clock in the afternoon in the office of the Literary Association where Qi Zhi was located, and at night he took the newly compiled strips to the song hall to perform, and he had to go on stage without remuneration, and used the stage to polish his own strips.
Qi Zhi has an old southern brand motorcycle, which is the only means of transportation for the two people, responsible for carrying the two people to the scene. The motorcycle was not very stable, sometimes stepping on more than twenty feet, sweating out, and the car did not start. The two people who were in a hurry often did not dare to remove their makeup, wore long coats, tied braids, and rode motorcycles on the street with prickly powder on their faces, which could frighten passers-by at night.
In 1995, the two ran at least three yards a night and five a night at most. Normal Beijing cross-talk actors can only perform once a day, and can only perform 150 to 200 times a year, but Qi Zhi and Dabing perform 1500 times a year.
Chinese New Year's Eve night in 1996, when all the fields were running that day, it was already dawn. The two embraced for a while, with tears on their faces, and went home after saying Happy New Year to each other. At three o'clock the next day, the two men came to the office of the Literary Association on time to change the stage for the night's performance.
Yang Qizhi said: "This period is the most fulfilling period of time, the audience's need for new paragraphs is like a whip to whip them, this sense of crisis makes their works continue to flow. ”
This year, the two received an invitation to perform at the Qindao Song Hall.
Since 1996, "Strange Zhi Bumper Soldier" has become a golden signboard, and the two have to run five fields almost every night, all year round. The audience is naturally full of places to go, but more is still not going to the ground. Some people are jealous of their popularity and feel that they have been cut off from their financial resources, and a lot of things have arisen from it.
The soldier once received a call from the underworld, threatening them to go to the scene, but the soldier refused. The cautious Yang Qizhi asked the soldier's father to be escorted in a police uniform, but he was caught.
A group of people surrounded them. Qi Zhi was kicked and flew, and his thumb was directly kicked in the wrong position, and the pain was instantly sweaty. The soldier was grabbed in the head and beaten. Yang Qizhi couldn't care about the pain in his body, so he pounced on him and used his body to protect the head of the soldier and begged for forgiveness to everyone: Don't fight, and then fight for life. When the people dispersed, the soldier's head had swollen into a dustpan.
At that time, there was no rental, Yang Qizhi lifted up the soldiers, let him sit on the southern motorcycle and rely on himself, shaking the motorcycle and sending him to the Second Affiliated Hospital at that time.
In 1997, the soldier was inexplicably arrested during the performance.
At that time, the two were about to rush to the Qindao Song Hall to perform, and there was a public security officer who came to the door to take the soldiers away to talk, and Qi Zhi came out to play the round field to say whether he could wait until the end of the Qindao performance.
The two were escorted by the police car to the Qindao Song Hall, and they finished the whole scene with a pale face. After the scene, the soldier was taken away, and Qi Zhi looked around for the acquaintance boss to contact the people, and then called to comfort the family of the soldier. At four o'clock in the morning that night, I received a large soldier at the women's education center. The two hugged and cried again.
The soldiers who had been frustrated one after another were a little discouraged, and the elder Qi Zhi told him: As long as we have an audience, no one can squeeze us!
However, it is so easy to please audiences of different ages and genders and different aesthetic tastes.
After a performance, the audience will always grab them and let them have another one. Or half shouted in crosstalk, this has been heard, change one. The two already famous comedians had to bow, wipe their sweat and beat their hands. I missed the time and had to apologize to the audience for the next show.
But they soon learned what treasure the most discerning audiences of the day had left for them.
In 1996, Long Dani, who had just joined Hunan Economic Television for a year, served as the producer of the program "Lucky 3721". After being introduced, I know that there is now a pair of groups in the song hall that are outrageous, and I want to contact them to try on the show.
Long Dani invited the Qi zhi soldiers to do a rehearsal first, only to find that the whole audience was laughed and had a bottom in her heart.
At this time, the soldier hesitated, he was calculating the account, at that time the nightclub performance fee was 1600, and the performance on the TV station was only 800. And after a segment is performed on TV, it can no longer be used.
But soon, he never mentioned the subject again. After the end of the first program, the TV station's phone was broken, and the Qizhi soldiers were all over the province.
The show decided to open a series for them, and then renewed their contracts for "Lucky 97", "Lucky 98" and "Lucky 99". The cross-talk of Qi Zhi Dabing became a fixed link in "Lucky 3721", and the program's ratings increased greatly. Compared with the current ratings of a program that can reach 2%, it can properly rank first in the ratings, when the ratings of "Lucky 3721" rushed to 50%. Other television stations refer to the day "Lucky 3721" aired as "Black Saturday."
The soldier said: "Our strips are all refined in the song hall, in the hands of the most difficult audience in the world to serve, we can get those live audiences, tv viewers are nothing." ”
< In the Spring Festival Gala of 1999, Qi Zhi Dabing performed the cross-talk "White Eat" >
In 1999, Qi Zhi Dabing appeared on the Spring Festival Gala. In the cross-talk circles, it is said that "there are cattle herds Feng Gong in the north and Qizhi soldiers in the south".
Compared with Yang Qizhi, the young and humorous soldiers have higher commercial value. In the hottest years, the TV station asked him to be the host, the newspaper invited him to be the spokesperson, and the advertiser chased after him to let him take the advertisement.
There have also been some subtle changes in the relationship between the two. A friend who was familiar with the two said: "In the past, both of them were discussing creation in Qizhi's office, but in the last period of their cooperation, it was always Qizhi who carried mineral water to the big soldier's house. ”
In the daily performance, Yang Qizhi took the initiative to ask the host to report the curtain, from the original "Qizhi, Dabing" to "Dabing, Qizhi".
In 1998, the soldiers paid homage to Li Jindou. Years after the two broke up, Qi Zhi's apprentice posted on WeChat saying that the soldier was ungrateful, and was later ordered by Qi Zhi to delete the article.
The biggest friction between the two came in 2002, when CCTV was going to hold the first CCTV cross-talk competition, and Qi Zhi proposed to write a paragraph "Cure the Cold". However, dabing has no interest in "Cure the Cold" that Qi Zhi feels good about himself, and the two have a big fight with a red face for the first time.
According to the original plan, Qi Zhi and Da Bing should go to several song halls in Changsha to participate in the performance that night, but only Qi Zhi appeared in front of the audience that night, and had to temporarily cooperate with the host of the song hall to talk about a few small passages and hastily ended.
In the end, this cross-talk "Cure the Cold" advocated by Yang Qizhi only won the second prize of the competition, but the big soldier won a single best praise award. At the airport, the reporters who came to cover the interview surrounded the large regiment, and Yang Qizhi was left aside.
After that argument, the two broke up temporarily for a while. Later, due to the matchmaking of friends and the filming of the TV series "A Smile cures a hundred diseases", Yang Qizhi took the initiative to call the soldiers, and the two decided to try again.
This was the only time Yang Qizhi had saved it.
On February 28, 2003, Yang Recalled that day he had a hunch that this would be their last performance. In the performance of the day, the two cooperated and still had a tacit understanding. After all the shows, it was late at night. But that night, Yang Qizhi received a call from the soldier: Don't put up with it, let's break up. Chi Chi was silent for three minutes, hung up the phone and was sad all night.
The combination of Qi Zhi soldiers has since cracked the hole.
One night, when Qi Zhi and his friends returned from someone else's house, Qi Zhi suddenly parked his car on the side of the road, slammed the steering wheel hard, and then crouched on it and cried bitterly, and the tears couldn't stop flowing.
Years after the breakup, DaBing once said in an interview that he felt that Yang Qizhi liked to "add flowers" in cross-talk (referring to making jokes by making funny, pretending to be crazy and selling silly expressions and actions), which was a relatively unleveloped way of playing.
Qi Zhi never said that the soldier was not, but often said in front of the disciples that the soldier was the most diligent of the students he had taught, and asked the apprentices to learn from him.
After interviewing Dabing in Wuhan, a reporter came back to chat with QiZhi about the difficulties encountered by Dabing when he started a business again. Qi Zhi's eyes were red, and the reporter said: The soldier is an ambitious person, and he must not lose his goal for money. If you still have a chance to meet a soldier, be sure to remind him of this.
The soldier also spoke to Qi Zhi. Once, Qi Zhi and his new partner Xu Wen came to Hubei to perform, and the soldier pulled Zhao Weiguo to hide in the audience and secretly watched the whole show. After returning, he sorted out the content he saw, put forward his own revision suggestions and ideas, and asked Zhao Weiguo to send it two days later.
After the Qizhi soldiers cracked the hole, the two found new partners and polished new works, but no matter who they were, they could not return to the highlights of the past.
Along with the two of them, changsha's song halls, after the lively night scenes dissipated, now only three song halls are struggling to survive. The most difficult audiences of that year also returned to their own trinketive families, and after dinner, they opened a TV series with fifty or sixty episodes and fell asleep on the sofa.
Time is passing, and those stories about the past are doomed to never be reproduced, leaving only the most beautiful pictures precipitated in the memory:
One old and one young, two people in long coats, riding a tattered little motorcycle, shuttled through the lights.
Time flew by, and Zhao Weiguo, the new partner of dabing, gradually disappeared from the public eye, but Qi Zhi, who was nearly 70 years old, was still paying attention to his performance.
In 2018, Da Bing performed a skit at the Spring Festival Gala, and there was no Qi Zhi or Zhao Weiguo by his side, only Zheng Kai and a group of African compatriots.
In the summer vacation when he was 14 years old, the soldiers played alone at the south gate of martyrs' park, which was usually quiet and only couples met. But there were no couples that day, only two people practicing crosstalk there, and the soldiers crouched next to them and listened to them for a day.
The next day the soldiers went again and continued to hear them say that the sun was about to set. The soldier couldn't help it, ran over and said he wanted to worship the master, and one of them took his words and introduced me, my name is Yang Qizhi.
Some references:
[1] "The Story Behind: Those Storms, Those Lives", Hunan Satellite TV;
[2] Xu Xianglin, "The Commoner Laughing Star Qizhi: The Colonel's Wife's Flowers Make Me Smile Often", contemporary old age;
[3] "The Story Behind Qi Zhi, DaBing, xu Wen", Changsha Evening News;
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