On the stage of the 2016 "Golden Autumn Cross-Talk Party", Li Boxiang and Xu Xiulin performed a cross-talk "Traveling the World", which was the first time that the author learned about the big vernacular egg, and since then, I have seen many interviews and interviews, and the understanding is more profound.
Li Boxiang's pole work has two, the first is the current hanging, the second is through the mouth, in fact, can also be put together to say, the test is the actor's improvisation on the stage and impromptu play.
This not only requires the actor to have a deep artistic foundation, but more importantly, to have an understanding of cross-talk. It is impossible to have diligent effort without understanding, and it is impossible to have the understanding not to fight, and both are indispensable. The performance experience of the small theater enabled Li Boxiang to master the skills of the hanging early and have the strength to speak freely.
When Li Boxiang was young, he traveled to many places, and also spoke cross-talk in theaters in many cities, and even had a career of landlifting. There is a morning light tea house in Jinan, where Li Boxiang once worked as an apprentice, but later became the most well-known actor.
Saying cross-talk in the theater is not the same as picking up the ground, and naturally we must say some tasteful passages, such as "Geographical Map", "Reporting The Name of dishes", "Eight Fan Screen" and other partial texts and Qing school cross-talk.
When Li Boxiang was eight years old, he did not know words, nor did he have culture, relying on oral teaching, teaching a sentence to learn a sentence.
Li Jiechen's requirements for his son are particularly strict, and he has a rule: the first time he learns the passage, forget the words on the stage, don't beat you, and give you reason, because the difficulty of passing through the mouth is too great; the second reprimand warns you, as a wake-up call; the third time it is not OK, you have to punish kneeling or spanking with a board.
Old artists firmly believe in one thing, that is, they can't play out, like because they can't carry it out, it is not uncommon to be kicked by the master from the kangtou to the door, because of the efforts in the early years, there are Li Boxiang's achievements.
Li Boxiang's mouth is not only clear but also fast, and it is extremely hot. And Li Boxiang also has the ability to perform in a place, go to the street to turn around before going on the stage, and go on stage to say a piece of local shop passing.
However, in Li Boxiang's artistic career, there are still many times when there are mistakes in saying things. The earliest was when I cooperated with my father, the performance was "Open Porridge Factory", which had a passage of August Festival, and halfway through, Li Boxiang was stuck, and his father knew that he had forgotten the words.
Hurriedly pad a sentence: "Don't worry first, can you send cockscomb flowers during the August Festival?" Li Boxiang replied affirmatively yes. Li Jiechen said, "Is it one or two?" ”
At this point, Li Boxiang remembered the words and gave them a smooth ride. After the end, his father did not beat him, and bought him a lot of snacks, because he answered the reminder as soon as he was reminded, but he also told him not to forget the words next time.
In 1957, when performing "Geographical Map" in Tianjin, Li Boxiang was a little excited to see the audience full of pits and valleys, and when he talked about Paris, France, he suddenly forgot the words, and forgetting the words in his mouth was a taboo for actors, because it was difficult to use language to hide this embarrassment.
When the backstage actor had not yet noticed that he had forgotten his words, Li Boxiang said a few vague foreign words, which caused everyone to laugh and asked: "How do you speak foreign languages?" Li Boxiang replied, because when I get to France, I have to speak French, do you understand French?"
He also reacted, which was forgotten, and immediately said: "You want to use Chinese to memorize place names I can understand, french back place names, I can't understand, the audience femur length, please Mr. Li speak Chinese!" ”
Just a few words, leaving Time for Li Boxiang to think, the back of the mouth will also be said down, some young actors did not find this flaw in Li Boxiang's forgotten words, and thought that he added a burden in the mouth.
It can be seen that it is inevitable that actors forget words, but they must use the current hanging to make up for the embarrassment, which is a test of the actor's skill.
In 1999, when Li Boxiang went to Hebei Province to offer condolences to the performance, he actually said the wrong place of the performance, and he used the language of crosstalk to cover up the embarrassment, and then let the audience applaud and laugh.
That morning everyone got up very early, everyone was very sleepy, and it took more than two hours of driving to Shenzhou, the place of the performance, when there were already more than a thousand spectators waiting at the entrance of the theater, so they immediately put into the performance.
Everyone is particularly familiar with Li Boxiang, as soon as he took the stage, he gave warm applause, and as soon as Li Boxiang was happy, he made a slip of the tongue and said: "Thank you, our audience in Shenzhen is too enthusiastic!" The audience burst out laughing.
At this time, Li Boxiang reacted, this is Shenzhen instead of Shenzhen, if you let this development continue not round back, the following performance can not be performed, Li Boxiang immediately made up a set of words.
So he said: "Everyone is laughing at me, but I mean it", seeing Li Boxiang's serious look, the audience did not look like a joke, and they all listened carefully.
"Because I am talking about crosstalk, there are too many places to go, what Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen I have been to many times, I found that our Cadres and masses in Shenzhen are warm and civilized and polite as Shanghai, no less than Shenzhen, I believe that with everyone's efforts, it is entirely possible for Shenzhen to imagine Shenzhen."
At this time, the audience responded with a long applause, and some people shouted good, and when the applause subsided slightly, Li Boxiang said again, I just shouted a few years earlier.
Li Boxiang's three mistakes were flexibly resolved by his cross-talk skills, and this skill was also well passed on to his apprentice. As for the random response of the vernacular egg apprentice, we will talk about it in the next period.
Li Boxiang's master was Zhao Peiru, who also added a lot of glory to the division because of the matter of taking Hou Yaowen;
The apprentices are all ranked according to song characters, and the more well-known ones are Dai Zhicheng, Zheng Jian, Wang Ping, Gao Yulin, Sun Chenglin (Chenguang Tea Society) and so on. One of the most regrettable is Wang Ping, who died at the most prolific age, and the white-haired people sent black-haired people, which was heart-wrenching.
Another thing that makes people talk about it is that the contradictions between him and the ma family's father and son are regarded as feuds in the eyes of many people, but the author does not think it is necessary to exaggerate these contradictions. The layman looks at the hilarity, the audience looks at the level of art, as long as he can dedicate a good work, he is a good actor.