Speaking of Su Wenmao, he was a famous artist in the cross-talk industry before his death, and what is different from many cross-talk actors is that Su Wenmao is known for his literary skills, which is very difficult, and it is a great skill to amuse the audience on top of a high style.
Mr. Su Wenmao was born in Beijing on February 24, 1929, in Qi, he liked cross-talk since he was a child, and at the age of 14, he worshiped the famous cross-talk family Chang Baokun, who was popular in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region at that time.
In those years, Su Wenmao followed the "little mushroom" Chang Baokun to really learn the skill, and it was at that time that he laid the foundation for his classic performance style that had not changed for decades, and he appeared both elegant and charming on the stage. Before Su Wenmao became famous, most people thought that cross-talk was rooted in the bottom of the city, was a "thing" that was not on the table, and it would never be difficult to climb the elegant hall.
At the earliest time in the overpass, many cross-talk actors had to persuade female audiences to leave, because the "meat" was brought in the paragraph. But Su Wenmao's cross-talk reversed people's consistent view of cross-talk, his cross-talk is as light as a weight, a degree of holding, and the baggage is also just right, so Su Wenmao has also won the title of "Literary Giant".
Like "Three Kingdoms of Su Batch", "Encyclopedia of the Red Chamber", "Article Meeting", "On Praise", etc. are all classic masterpieces that the audience is very familiar with, and they are also the upper limit that cannot be surpassed by wen and cross-talk.
Of course, Su Wenmao came out at the age of 14 to learn cross-talk with the "little mushroom" Chang Baokun, he did not have a deep literary foundation, the reason why he was able to have such experience in these literary cross-talk, on the one hand, came from the results of his daily hand and late-night hard reading, on the other hand, from his sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask.
One year, Su Wenmao staged his representative work "Article Meeting", the audience response was very good, Su Wenmao was also very satisfied, a face relaxed backstage, at this time there was an audience in the background has been waiting for him for a long time. Seeing Su Wenmao coming over, the audience member stood up and said to him: "Mr. Su, I will correct a mistake for you, what you just said in the "Article Meeting" that there are some problems with the Tang and Song Dynasties, there is no Li Bai among the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the so-called Tang and Song Dynasties are Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Rui, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong."
At this time, Su Wenmao was stunned, he patted his head on the door, and quickly returned to the stage, there were still many spectators on the scene who had not yet had time to leave, he shouted at everyone: "Please stay."
At this time, everyone stopped and whispered to each other, saying that this was going to return to the scene or what?
Su Wenmao bent his body into 90 degrees, bowed deeply to the audience, and then said to everyone: "Just now I made a mistake, I made a mistake to attribute Li Bai to the Tang and Song Dynasties, I apologize to you, and I will never do it again next time."
In fact, the audience did not realize this mistake, but seeing that Su Wenmao was so sincere, they still gave him thunderous applause.
Another accident also appeared in the cross-talk work "Article Meeting", where an audience member sat downstage and heard Su Wenmao take Cai Yuanpei and Kang Youwei to find baggage, and the audience was not happy.
After the performance, he found Su Wenmao: "Comrade Wenmao, I like your cross-talk very much, your "Article Society" work is very good, the skills and skills have nothing to say, but I can't laugh at all, because you took our Peking University president Cai Yuanpei to live, which is not appropriate."
At this time, Su Wenmao realized his mistake, and he immediately promised this audience that he would never make this life in the future. And this audience member told him that living is a good life, and he can smash it with his cross-talk peers, but he can't smash it on our historical figures, especially the educators and revolutionaries who can't contribute to our China.
Of course, Su Wenmao understands this truth, he just wants to let this audience see his determination to correct his mistakes, and then this work is still used, but the protagonist has become the predecessor of the cross-talk industry, "Zhou Toad".
In fact, Guo Degang also explained a similar problem, saying that who can we bury cross-talk can only bury our own colleagues, we satirize the workers, then the workers and comrades are not happy; we satirize the scholars, then the scholars and friends cannot accept it, we satirize the peasants, then the peasant brothers are not happy, so we can only take our own peers to shabu. Therefore, Yu Qian has become the person who has been squeezed by Guo Degang the most times, along with his parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters, and eighteen generations of ancestors have been "badly abused" by Guo Degang, but this is no problem, who calls us to do this line, who tells us to eat this bowl of rice, this is called professional ethics, called the rules.
However, this audience is not an ordinary person, he is a peking university scholar, surnamed Fang, because he saw Su Wenmao so modest, and know how to listen to the audience's voice, he also helped Su Wenmao solve many technical problems in the text, once Su Wenmao is not sure about some historical allusions, or encounters questions that are debatable in literature, he will find Mr. Fang and let him give himself an authoritative answer, so that Su Wenmao's literary cross-talk becomes more rigorous in terms of content.
In fact, many people think that crosstalk is to make fun of everyone, who really wants to learn knowledge from crosstalk? Listening to crosstalk is for a pleasure, for a relaxation, not to receive education, if you want to receive education you can go to school, you can go to training classes, the most important purpose of crosstalk is to make you laugh.
However, Su Wenmao believes that although cross-talk does not carry the function of education and education, cross-talk cannot mislead people's children, although we cannot teach people knowledge, but we cannot mislead the audience, which is a great mistake.
Therefore, every time Su Wenmao studied a new WenQi xiangsheng, he would find a group of scholars and audiences led by Fang Ji to conduct an internal audition first, and indeed there was no common sense error before taking it to the stage to perform.
It is precisely for the rigor and humility of cross-talk that Su Wenmao is very popular with the audience and is also admired by his peers.