On June 24, 2019, Miao Fu, a cross-talk actor of Shaanxi Qingqu Society, released an obituary that his master, Mr. Zheng Xiaoshan, had passed away at the age of 82, and a inheritor of Northwest Cross-talk had bid us farewell.
Many people know that Zheng Xiaoshan is famous from Miaofu, Zheng Xiaoshan's brother Zheng Ping'an is also known to everyone because he is Wang Sheng's master, it seems that the master is precious to the apprentice, in fact, in the cross-talk industry, Mr. Zheng Xiaoshan has been famous decades ago.
Zheng Xiaoshan was born in 1937, in the early 1950s, the teenage Zheng Xiaoshan followed the Quyi Troupe to Beijing Tianqiao and Shanghai Great World to perform, during the Shanghai period also left a precious group photo, the second row from the right the first young boy is Zheng Xiaoshan, the third from the right is Ma Ji.
Zheng Xiaoshan is a cross-talk actor of the literary generation, and his master is Wang Benlin. Wang Benlin can be described as a famous person in the cross-talk industry, his master is Lian Xiuquan, his father is Zhang Shouchen, and he once studied art with Ma Sanli. His son Wang Shuangfu is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Taiping lyrics.
Now some media on the Internet, Zhang Guan, Li Dai, regard Wang Benlin as Lian Xiaokun's apprentice, and Sheng Sheng has changed Wang Benlin from Ma Sanli's master and nephew to an apprentice, which is of course wrong. Lian Xiuquan was Zhou Deshan's apprentice and Ma Sanli's disciple.
During the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wang Benlin not only personally went to the Korean front to offer condolences, but also actively organized charity performances in the rear to donate a plane to the front line.
Wang Benlin returned to Tianjin in 1954, but his apprentice Zheng Xiaoshan stayed in the northwest, where he not only left cross-talk passages such as "Drama and Dialect", "Couplets", "Selling Cloth Heads", "Advertising Talks" and so on, but also won awards in the 1984 National Cross-Talk Competition, earning a reputation for the obscure and hard-working Northwest Cross-Talk.
Although northwest xiangsheng has Zhang Jieyao, Chang Baolin, Lian Xiaokun and other famous cross-talk artists, it has been in the corner of the quyi world for decades, and although the Kuowang Xiangsheng Society was famous for a while, it also fell into silence in the later stage like the Chenguang Tea Society in Jinan. One of the things Mr. Zheng Xiaoshan has insisted on doing for decades in the northwest is to inherit cross-talk.
Kung Fu pays off, and in the twenty-first century, with the popularity of the disciples of the Zheng brothers, Wang Sheng of Miaofu, Xiangsheng has regained people's attention in Xi'an and Shaanxi. The rise of the Qingqu Society marks the rebirth of xiangsheng in the northwest, and in recent years, the Qingqu Society has bred a new cross-talk force like Lu Xinyuhao, which is famous throughout the country.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the important towns of Xiangsheng were Tianjin, Beijing, Jinan, Shenyang and Xi'an, and after liberation, Northeast Xiangsheng rose for a period of time and fell into calm, while Xi'an and Jinan have been obscure. Nowadays, when it comes to the important town of cross-talk, Xi'an has become an important city in the territory of cross-talk.
For Northwest Xiangsheng, Mr. Zheng Xiaoshan's contribution is obvious to all, he inherits Wang Benlin and Qi Miaofu, and is a very important and indispensable inheritor of Northwest Xiangsheng.
Mr. Zheng Xiaoshan is ancient.