A group of young people in Beijing, not low in education, not small in ability, do not do their own business, prefer to talk about cross-talk, and also set up a cross-talk group known as "the highest education in Beijing", relying on the new paragraphs that reflect the new era and new life to "tease" in the Beijing cross-talk circle.
This teasing has been funny for 9 years.
On July 24, the special performance for the 9th anniversary of the establishment of "Beijing Great Comic Xiangsheng" was performed at the Grand Theater of the National Cultural Palace on the evening of July 24. These Beijing "children" talked to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter in the background about "thinking about the beginning".
"E-commerce Times" looks at "Big Rivers and Big Rivers" to make the people really happy
At 7:00 p.m. on July 24, some audiences entered the Grand Theater of the Palace of National Culture, and in accordance with the epidemic prevention policy, the audience purchased tickets for this special performance to maintain a 75% attendance rate. The audience sat on the stage and looked at the red background board on the stage, full of anticipation of the special performance for the 9th anniversary.
At 19:30, the performance was officially launched, and the post-95 cross-talk actor Li Han and his partner Chi Yongzhi's latest creation of "E-commerce Times" was dedicated to the audience as the first cross-talk program of the night. Last year, China won an all-round victory over the well-off. Li Han's cross-talk created around this big theme is to reflect the rise of e-commerce platforms, help more farmers buy unsalable agricultural products, and help them get rid of poverty and become rich.
"I am also brushing the network live broadcast every day to sell goods, what 'five golden flowers' to buy camellia, walnut cousin, cherry second sister." Fruit Third Aunt..." In the midst of the laughter at the scene, before Chi Yongzhi could finish speaking, Li Han stopped, "Are you sure it's to see the goods?" Many friends 'planted grass' after reading it. "'What?' Sister-in-law' ? Chi Yongzhi questioned, "When I say 'planting grass', I am not 'sister-in-law', or buying, not 'too milk'." Li Han's voice did not fall, and the scene erupted into applause. Chi Yongzhi then asked, "I don't understand what 'planting grass' is?" "It's called 'planting grass' if you want to buy it after reading it." Li Han explained.
In this new work, Li Han also uses the familiar Internet red anchor Li Jiaqi to bring goods and witty words to introduce the results of poverty alleviation; it will also satirize some bad businesses to shoddy, and the anchor exaggerates the product live broadcast chaos. In order to create this program, he also went to collect wind on the spot and learned about the sales of agricultural products with farmers who sold goods live.
It is worth mentioning that after the 80s, Li Yinfei took the stage together with his partner, Ye Peng, the founder of the big comic cross-talk, and brought the finale program "Big River" of this performance to the audience. In 2020, there is a TV series called "Big Rivers and Big Rivers", which reflects the step-by-step development process of our country over the years. Li Yinfei felt particularly good after reading it, and had the idea of cross-talk creation based on this. "Soon, I also took 'big rivers and big rivers' as the theme of creation, focusing on the Yangtze River, Yalu River and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which are closely related to China's development. Through cross-talk, the historical significance of these rivers and the cultural value of today are reflected. ”
However, what if such a grand theme is just a simple geographical science popularization and does not entertain the audience? Li Yinfei said that this needs to be applied to the cross-talk creation criterion of "big things should be novels, and serious things should be distorted". "As a comic actor, you have to keep making 'mistakes' when you tell, and then have the actors to correct them; or I will come up with popular science knowledge questions to test you, and you will not, or even answer nonsense, make some low-level mistakes." We want to throw away the baggage and make jokes through this contradiction and conflict. ”
Ye Peng, who was on the side, told the Beiqing Daily reporter that such a grand theme also needs to be grounded, lower the theme, and tell the relationship between these rivers and ordinary people. "For example, he lives in the northeast, he is far from the Yangtze River, but in fact he is very close to the Yangtze River because he can sing the Song of the Yangtze River; he is too far from the Yellow River, but he can also sing "Defend the Yellow River". We just want to use these songs to narrow the distance with the audience, and then there are some harmonics and ambiguities from them, so that the baggage is generated, and the audience will be happy from the heart. ”
Later societies said that traditional cross-talk could not attract the audience
The 9th anniversary special performance of the big comic crosstalk was mainly based on the newly compiled crosstalk, which caused the audience to applaud and continue to laugh, so how did this team do it? This has to start with the establishment of the big comic crosstalk.
Born in Beijing in 1986, Li Yinfei became acquainted with crosstalk by listening to tapes by Ma Sanli and Mr. Hou Baolin since childhood. In 2005, he entered the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University as a quyi specialty student, read all the way down with his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, participated in two national cross-talk competitions, won the best comic, and appeared on the star-studded "One Stop to the End". In 2014, he officially visited the cross-talk performance artist Wang Qianxiang as his teacher.
As early as 2010, Li Yinfei met Ye Peng, who was a year older than him and also liked to talk cross-talk. Ye Peng graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology and was an aircraft maintenance engineer at Capital Airport at that time. The common interests and hobbies have led them to dream and have bolder ideas - Ye Peng quit as an engineer and formed the "Big Comic Xiangsheng" performance team with Li Yinfei in 2012. In Li Yinfei's words, Tsinghua University taught him not only professional skills, but a way of dialogue between society and the world, he did not feel that as a high-achieving student envied by everyone to say that cross-talk is a bit "condescending", he did not want to link with Dr. Tsinghua on the cross-talk stage.
The ideal is beautiful, the reality is bone. At that time in 2012, there were more than 20 cross-talk markets in Beijing, such as Deyun Society, Hip Hop Bag Shop, and Tingyunxuan, and it was not easy to gain a foothold in such a fierce market competition. "It can be said that the audience is already familiar with traditional crosstalk in so many cross-talk communities. As a new society, da tease cross-talk and talk about these traditional cross-talk, which cannot attract the audience. In this case, we are forced to constantly create and get new baggage. Li Yinfei said to the Beiqing Daily reporter.
Recruit college students to let crosstalk plug in the wings of knowledge
At the beginning of the establishment of DaJu Xiangsheng, how to recruit soldiers and buy horses became a hurdle blocking li yinfei and Ye Peng. "Many cross-talk actors who have been inherited from small schools, as well as professional actors who have graduated from qu art schools, have almost all performed for many years in these cross-talk clubs that have been established for many years. As a newly founded cross-talk society, where do we recruit actors? We have limited choices, so we can only try to recruit students who are more interested in cross-talk from the literary and art clubs of various universities in Beijing to cultivate, and the result is that we have taken an unusual path. ”
Li Han, who graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music majoring in orchestra, is a cross-talk actor recruited by Li Yinfei from the art club of the university. Although Li Han learned Western musical instruments, he has loved music since he was a child, and his parents bought him a set of CCTV Spring Festival Gala language programs from 1984 to 2003.
In 2014, 18-year-old Li Han participated in the CCTV cross-talk competition and met the same year's players Li Yinfei, Ye Peng, Dong Jianchun, Li Ding, and everyone became friends with similar interests. Li Han more agrees with the creative concept of big comic cross-talk - to make new innovations, so that "cross-talk plugs in the wings of knowledge". In his view, this is not to educate the audience, but to let the audience learn something from it. Li Han also officially joined the big comic cross-talk team in 2016 with such a concept. He also created the music cross-talk program "Aftersound Around the Beam" according to his major, created a cross-talk of the sub-alto trumpet he was good at playing, and on this basis, he adapted and added instruments such as the oh na and the kazudi, and adapted the sound music to be performed in the cross-talk, and achieved a very shocking performance effect.
After Dong Jianchun, who graduated from Beijing Union University, joined Datuo Xiangsheng, his university alumnus, Song Weijie, who graduated from information management major, also entered Datuo Xiangsheng, and Wang Zixin, who graduated from the school's hotel management major, and Li Hang, who majored in communication engineering, also became members of Datuo Xiangsheng. In addition, Zhao Ze and Wang Xiao, who graduated from Beijing City College, and Qian Qi from the Beijing Nursing School became the only female cross-talk actors in Datu Xiangsheng.
Launched the series of "Language Books" and "Science and Engineering" crosstalk
In this way, nearly 20 students from Beijing universities formed a large comic cross-talk and gained the reputation of "the highest-educated cross-talk group in Beijing". Based on their professional and life experience, they have created hundreds of original works in nine years. The works are full of knowledge, interest and profundity, and have launched a series of "language books" including "Big Talk Lu Xun", "Big Talk Ancient Text", "I Love Writing Essay" and other works, including "The Guidance and Application of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity in Cross-Talk Performance and Creation", "Newton's Three Laws", "Alpha Dog" and other works of the "Science and Engineering Cross-Talk Series", far from the "three vulgar contents" that are criticized by people, and the audience group that pursues "from eighty to eighty years old", has become a clear stream in the current Beijing cross-talk market.
These children, who were born and raised in Beijing, also made the slogan of "Beijing Children's Beijing Taste" louder through works such as "Miscellaneous Talk about Beijing Dialect", "I Love Fried Sauce Noodles", "Guoan Diary", "Beijing Big Mom", "Geography Class Representative" and so on.
Since 2016, when the comic actors Li Yinfei and Li Ding first appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the only cross-talk "I Know" of the party, the big comic cross-talk has entered the vision of the people of the whole country. Immediately after, the CCTV Lantern Party in the same year, the "Noisy Lantern Festival", the counterpart cross-talk "Bicycle Q&A" at the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala and the "Idiom of Words" at the Lantern Party, as well as the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala "Shouting"... The big comic cross-talk ushered in a series of highlight moments at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Squat point to collect wind, to solve the problem of cross-talk needles and needles
In the face of these achievements, Li Yinfei bluntly said that he was not good enough, "Most of the current cross-talk actors are immersed in the Internet world and are generally divorced from real life, which is very unfavorable to cross-talk creation, and there is no way to do the drawbacks of needlework, which is a problem that needs to be solved urgently." ”
In the past two years, Li Yinfei and his team have also tried to break this bottleneck, including participating in the Huitian Community Squatting Project of the Beijing Qu Artists Association. In his opinion, this style must be squatting, not consolation. He went to the Huitian community seven or eight times the year before and saw the public bicycles parked randomly in the residential area of Huilongguan to Shangdi. A square dancing aunt told him that she didn't dare to wear a skirt out of the house, and that she had hung two skirts one summer by this haphazard bicycle. Later, after community rectification, this chaos was contained. She dared to go out and wear a skirt. "I compiled what I saw and heard into a cross-talk program and performed in the Huitian community, which resonated with the audience and spoke their minds." This inspired and touched me. ”
Li Yinfei said that in the future, he will organize more squatting activities to make a big laugh. He planned to let the team members go to the Temple of Heaven Hospital to personally experience the difficulty of registration, understand the anxiety of the elderly with children waiting in line, and what is it like for the number dealers guarding the door to fight for interests? What is the doctor-patient relationship, whether the doctor's attitude is not good, or the patient is unreasonable, these very vivid first-hand information needs to be observed in the hospital for a long time to obtain. He hopes that the team members can create such cross-talk works that are both grounded and ideological and serve the public, so that the function of cross-talk should return to the acupuncture and time drawbacks, which is the effect that he and his team should pursue persistently.
Photo courtesy/Big Comics Society
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Ying Qiao