There are many interesting things about the cross-talk industry, one of which is the cross-talk spectrum that is often spat out as feudal. The author believes that the cross-talk industry can be passed down for more than a hundred years without much deviation, and this so-called "feudal scum" still plays a considerable role in it.
Let's leave this matter aside, but let's talk about the protégés of each generation of xiangsheng and the leaders of each period.
There is a rule in the cross-talk industry, that is, each generation of artists has a protégé, which is generally served by the first artist of this generation to worship the teacher, also known as the master brother. The artists who worship the teachers in the back generally have two rankings, one is the ranking of the main door, and the other is the big ranking of the industry generation. For example, when Liu Wenheng visited the master, he was ranked behind Ding Wenyuan, and he was the second master brother, and he was the old ninth in the text generation. However, with the increasing number of cross-talk artists, the big row has disappeared, and if you really want to rank, the big row is ranked 52,800, and it doesn't mean anything.
In some specific periods, the prestige of the door chief was great, such as Ma Sanli's worship ceremony, which respectfully invited the door chief of the previous generation, Yu Delong. Zhang Shouchen's prestige is not to mention. However, after liberation, everyone was comradely, all were literary and artistic workers, and even the teacher-apprentice system was abolished for a time, so there was no concept of a master.
1, the first three generations of crosstalk
Although the cross-talk industry respects Zhu Shaowen as the grandfather of the "poor and not afraid", in the common cross-talk genealogy, Zhang Sanlu is still respected as the first generation of cross-talk artists, although he is only Zhu Shaowen's teacher, not a master.
There are only three people in the second generation of xiangsheng, Zhu Shaowen, Ah Yantao and Shen Chunhe, of which Ah Yantao represents Qiren and Qingmen Xiangsheng, and Shen Chunhe is from the Commentary, and they are all considered to be Zhu Shaowen's disciples. This generation can only be Zhu Shaowen if it is not the head of the door, but it has no practical significance, and the whole industry is full of people.
There are more than a few third generations of cross-talk, but there are only a dozen people, if the platoon leader, it should be Zhu Shaowen's big apprentice Poor Youben, it is said that he is also the first in the history of cross-talk. However, this great disciple did not have a good relationship with the master later, and there was no inheritance. This generation also does not have the concept of door chiefs.
The concept of character generation already exists in the third generation of cross-talk artists, and several of Zhu Shaowen's apprentices have the word "have" in their names, such as poor Youben, Rich Root, Xu Youlu and Fan Youyuan, but this "have" word is not the character of the entire industry.
The first three generations of xiangsheng are still in the initial stage, this period due to the small number of practitioners, there is no substantive concept of door length, if the leader is elected, it should be Zhu Shaowen and Enxu. Zhu Shaowen is the grandfather of the ancestors, and Enxu is an important figure, he is not only ma Sanli's grandfather, but also the master of Li Dezhao, who once entered the palace to perform Taiping lyrics to Cixi, and his influence is relatively large. Later, Li Dezhuo frequently pulled his disciples, and also let a group of well-known cross-talk artists gather under Eun Seo.
2. The fourth generation of cross-talk - the German generation
This generation is also the famous Xiangsheng Bade period, the head of the door is Yu Delong, he is the eldest disciple of Zhu Shaowen's apprentice Gui Zhen (Fugen), it is because he worshiped the teacher early, so later the artists who worshiped the teacher changed their names with him, such as Li Peiting changed his name to Li Dezheng, Lu Bosan changed his name to Lu Dejun, etc., which formed the famous Xiangsheng Bade.
Of course, there are also those who have not changed the German characters, such as Guo Rongqi's father Guo Ruilin, and the lotus flower girl's father Ji Pingsan.
The leader of the cross-talk industry in this period was obviously Li Dezhao, who became popular by relying on cold-faced funny and civilized cross-talk, and was the first cross-talk artist whose influence could be extended to both Jiangnan and Northeast China.
If you choose one more leading figure, it should be Jiao Dehai, on the one hand, he has a great influence in Beijing Tianqiao, and together with Liu Dezhi, he has become the bearer of the Tianqiao cross-talk market. On the other hand, Jiao Jiamen's disciples and his son's disciples have a very high status in China's cross-talk circles. Zhang Shouchen was Jiao Dehai's apprentice, Zhao Peiru was Jiao Dehai's student, Jiao Shaohai's apprentice.
3. The fifth generation of cross-talk - Shou Zi generation
This generation is the period of great development of cross-talk, and its protégé is Zhang Shouchen. Zhang Shouchen is Jiao Dehai's apprentice and the most capable of being one of the Shouzi cross-talk artists. He is first-class in his comics, book reviews and stand-up comedy are also top-notch, and his creative and adapting abilities are even better, which can be called the top figures in the cross-talk industry.
Not all of the cross-talk artists of the Shouzi generation changed their names with Zhang Shouchen, such as Li Delin changed his name to Li Shouzeng, Ma Yihua, also known as Ma Shouyan, etc., and more did not change their names, such as Ma Guiyuan, Ma Sanli and Guo Rongqi.
Zhang Shouchen's prestige is extremely high, and during his long period of time, xiangshengxing not only developed rapidly but also had strong cohesion, and he was an absolute leader in the cross-talk industry in the thirty years before liberation.
After the liberation, the leader of the fifth generation of Xiangsheng Became Ma Sanli, and Ma's Xiangsheng became the artistic benchmark of the Xiangsheng industry, and countless Xiangsheng descendants embarked on the road of Zongma from an early age.
Interestingly, Zhang Shouchen also has a most legendary experience, that is, he has seen Zhu Shaowen and Zhao Weizhou, starting from the second generation of Zhu Shaowen of cross-talk, all the way to the eighth generation of Mingzi artists, Zhang Shouchen has witnessed the inheritance of seven generations of cross-talk artists, and no one in the cross-talk industry has this qualification except him.
4. The sixth generation of cross-talk - Bao Zi generation
The sixth generation of Xiangsheng Baozi's headman is Zhao Peiru, who studied under Jiao Shaohai and received Jiao Dehai's teachings from an early age. Therefore, Zhao Peiru's ability is very large, some people say that he is "a lot of living", this evaluation is not accurate, or the Tongtian Sect Lord is more suitable.
Zhao Peiru is extremely skilled in business and is the first person to raise her to the level of professional art. His disciples were also extremely prominent, and Li Boxiang, Gao Yingpei, and Hou Yaowen were all leaders of the writing generation.
However, the name of the Baozi xiangsheng artist was not changed with Zhao Peiru, but with Chang Baokun, mainly because Chang Baokun was Zhang Shouchen's apprentice, and Chang Baokun's fame was indeed quite large once became a representative figure of Tianjin Xiangsheng.
Interestingly, there is still an interlude in the middle, because the order of Zhang Shouchen's descendants is "Li RenYi", so he gave Chang Baokun the stage name Chang Litong, and Zhang Men's apprentices are all Li Zi generations, such as Liu Baorui is called Liu Litang, Zhang Shouchen's son is called Zhang Lilin, his favorite apprentice is called Yu Lide, and Kang Liben and so on. However, Chang Litong's name did not ring, only the real name Chang Baokun and the small mushroom sounded, so many cross-talk artists followed the treasure character.
However, many of the apprentices under the Shouzi generation like Ma Sanli were given names by the master, and most of Ma Sanli's disciples were laughing at the characters and did not follow the treasure characters.
Of course, the leading figure of this generation of cross-talk artists is not Zhao Peiru, but Hou Baolin. Before the liberation, Hou Baolin suddenly became a cross-talk star juxtaposed with Chang Baokun in Tianjin, and after liberation, he became the leading leader in the cross-talk industry. Hou Baolin played a key role in the improvement of the overall status and taste of the cross-talk industry, and his disciples also had their own strengths and achievements.
5. The seventh generation of cross-talk - the generation of characters
From the seventh generation onwards, the concept of the door chief began to blur, and it did not matter whether there was a door chief or not, and it did not seem to matter who the door chief was. If you want to say who the door chief is, of course, it is Zhao Xinmin, because he is the first to worship the teacher. However, the names of the literati artists were changed with Zhang Shouchen's apprentice, Chang Baokun's great apprentice Su Wenmao.
Like Chang Baokun, although Su Wenmao had called Su Boren and Su Zhongren and other stage names, he finally used Su Wenmao's real name and called out, and other artists followed him to change the text, and did not follow Zhao Xinmin's heart. This is a road number with the treasure character generation, and the fame of the big name is not the door long victory like the door chief.
The leader of the cross-talk artists of the text generation is undoubtedly Ma Ji, Su Wenmao and Hou Yaowen are also outstanding, but when it comes to the influence on the cross-talk industry, Ma Ji is the leading leader of the text generation in terms of inheritance, art and innovation.
6. The eighth generation of cross-talk - Ming zi generation
The situation is more complicated in this generation. According to the traditional door chief system, the eighth generation of door chiefs should be Zhao Weizhou, who worshiped the teacher the earliest, then the characters should follow his "Wei" character. The worst can also be according to the "righteousness" character of "Li Ren Yi" set by Zhang Shouchen.
However, this generation was conventionally defined as the "Ming" generation, which was called by Su Mingjie, the eldest son of Su Wenmao. As for why su Mingjie was with him, even Su Mingjie himself was not clear. It's just that there are rumors that there are several elders in the cross-talk industry who have set up in Su Wenmao's house, and they will be called open after that.
However, from the beginning, the Ming generation was born under the red flag, and many rules have been changed, so what door is long, the character generation is gone, and no one deliberately adds the word "Ming" to their names. Feng Gong called Feng Mingguang that it was a coincidence, not that the cross-talk was changed.
The leaders of this generation of cross-talk should be viewed in different periods, and from the mid-1980s, Jiang Kun became the de facto leader of the cross-talk industry, which lasted until the end of the 1990s. In the new century, Guo Degang suddenly became the leading big brother of the cross-talk market, and Jiang Kun became a well-deserved leader in the cross-talk industry in the form of the chairman of the Qu Association.
After the Ming Dynasty, the cross-talk industry no longer has a unified generation, nor does it have a door chief, but everyone agrees that the cross-talk generation still exists, and the cross-talk actors can basically distinguish who is big and who is small when they go out to meet.
In the end, why the generational problem of the cross-talk industry is often talked about by everyone, and there is not much discussion about the same industries such as opera, book commentary and drums, which are also divided into rivers and lakes, on the one hand, the reason is that the cross-talk market is relatively large and the attention is high. On the other hand, it is also related to the unified generation of the cross-talk industry, which is simple and clear and easy to understand. Unlike the different genres of commentary and drums, each genre has a different generation, which is very troublesome to calculate.
However, the cross-talk industry will gradually enter the situation of artists acting independently in the future, and the unified generation of the industry will become history with the gradual aging of the Ming generation of artists.