On February 14, Liu Hongyi, a famous cross-talk artist who is the master of cross-talk Wang Shichen, held a 70th birthday celebration and a ceremony to receive disciples (Xie Shi, Worship The Master). At the ceremony, nearly 100 people from the music and art circles came to wish for the birthday and watch the ceremony, and the well-known people mainly included Yang Shaohua, Chen Yongquan, Tian Lihe, Wang Wenlin, Li Boxiang, Li Guosheng, Li Jindou, Yang Yi, Li Jiacun, Zheng Jian, Zhao Lianjia, etc.
At the ceremony, a group of guests took a group photo, and from the photos circulating on the Internet, the most important C position was occupied by the 87-year-old famous cross-talk performance artist Chen Yongquan, next to Yang Shaohua and Tian Lihe, but li Jindou, the golden partner of the early years, was squeezed to the side.
The fact that he was able to personally attend Liu Hongyi's birthday and discipleship ceremony in his old age shows that the friendship between old friends is still quite deep. Liu Hongyi expressed his heartfelt thanks.
Chen Yongquan was born in Beijing in 1932, he came from a cross-talk family, and his family had a family origin. His maternal grandfather Zhong Ziliang was a representative of the "Qingmen" cross-talk in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and his father Chen Zizhen was a famous cross-talk artist in the 1920s and 1940s.
Chen Yongquan was influenced by his family since childhood, and later worshiped Tan Boru as a teacher. In 1951, at the age of 14, Chen Yongquan began to enter the cross-talk industry as a clerk in the Beijing Cross-Talk Improvement Group. In 1955, he began to compose and perform cross-talk, representative works such as "No Problem", "New Words", "Please Doctor", "Pregnant Women Questionnaire" and so on. After that, he was forced to leave the stage. At the age of 45, he began to make a comeback on stage.
Speaking of cross-talk "golden partners", there have been many decades, such as Ma Sanli Wang Fengshan, Hou Baolin Guo Qiru, Gao Yingpei Fan Zhenyu, Yang Zhenhua Jin Bingchang, Li Boxiang Du Guozhi, etc., and later, there were Ma Ji Tang Jiezhong, Jiang Kun Li Wenhua, Hou Yaowen Shi Fukuan, Niu Qun Feng Gong, Guo Degang Yuqian and other partners.
Among them, Li Jindou and Chen Yongquan are a recognized pair of golden partners.
In 1985, Li Jindou of the Beijing Qu Art Troupe, who looked exactly like a foreigner, was an obscure little cross-talk actor. One day, Chen Yongquan, a 53-year-old colleague of the unit, found him and wanted to cooperate with him and participate in the national "first young and middle-aged actor performance". For the 38-year-old Li Jindou, this is good news, and the two hit it off.
It also happens that Li Jindou has a good book in his hand called "Wusong Fighting Tiger". After deciding to cooperate, the two rehearsed while revising. In the cross-talk, Li Jindou teased "one to catch four", playing the four roles of bartender, tiger, hunter and county order, while Chen Yongquan played Wu Song.
The humorous story, the spicy irony, and the superb performance made "Wusong Fighting the Tiger" famous. In that competition, "Wusong Fighting Tiger" won the only outstanding performance award in the quyi group. Later, in 1986, they won the first prize of the first national cross-talk invitational competition and the first prize of the national new repertoire grand prix.
Since then, Li Jindou has become famous in one fell swoop, and his success has largely benefited from his mentor and friend Chen Yongquan, whether it is "Wusong Fighting Tiger", "Catching and Releasing Cao", or "So Rebellious" and "Ellipse", the two have cooperated tacitly and become a well-known cross-talk partner at that time.
Due to his age, Chen Yongquan rarely participates in various activities publicly. According to online information, on May 13, 2018, his disciple, Yao Fushan, an allegro master, received apprenticeships in Beijing, and among the 12 apprentices received on that day, 4 were 4 foreign apprentices from Switzerland, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany. This time, the disciple accepted the disciple, and Chen Yongquan came to the scene.
As a teacher, Chen Yongquan said in his speech: Toyama "taught a lot of students, both chinese and foreign, he once took the British student Da Niu to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala performance, and last year he also took the German student Bai Renrui to Tianjin to win the title of Tianjin Top Ten Song Art Ticket." I hope that Yao Fushan's students can seriously study the strengths of master, learn the teacher's character art and creation, inherit, popularize, pass on, create, surpass their master, hope that among you can produce allegro masters. ”
At the ceremony, Chen Yongquan gave two books to each of his disciples, one was Chen Yongquan's autobiography of sixty years of life published when he was eighty years old, and the other was "Li Jindou and Chen Yongquan Told You About Crosstalk".
Let us wish Mr. Chen Yongquan good luck, good health and longevity!