Chang Baokun is in North Korea
Chang Baokun, whose stage name is "Little Mushroom", can be said to be the most talented, the hardest working, and the most serious cross-talk performance artist. He changed his tricks at the age of three, said cross-talk at the age of six, worshiped Zhang Shouchen as a teacher at the age of nine, partnered with Zhao Peiru at the age of sixteen, and participated in the condolence group at the age of twenty-nine and sacrificed his young life, becoming the biggest loss in the cross-talk industry.
Chang Baokun was born in Zhangjiakou in 1922, and his father was Chang Lian'an, a jianghu artist. When he was three years old, he followed his father to the Zhangjiakou trick and won the applause of the audience with "immortal picking beans". At this time, Chang Baokun's words were still unclear, and it was not easy to walk, so he and his father jointly picked up the burden of supporting the family. At the age of six, the father and son began to talk to each other, because Zhangjiakou was rich in mushrooms, and Chang Baokun got a stage name "Little Mushroom".
The father and son were able to perform more than a dozen cross-talks at that time, and the father gave his son a hug and ran away from the docks in Tianjin, Jinan, Nanjing, Dalian, Qingdao and other places. Chang Baokun returned to Tianjin at the age of eight, performed in the Shunyi Tea Garden after the Hou family, and was already able to speak more than thirty cross-talks, and established a foothold in Tianjin. When he was nine years old, he studied under Zhang Shouchen.
Chang Baokun
Three years later, Chang Baokun took the stage of the newly opened Zhongyuan Company and broadcast on China Radio, and Tianjin people slowly became familiar with this "little mushroom", who became the hottest child star in Tianjin at that time. Every Spring Festival, Chang Baokun greeted the audience on the radio, and the audience sent the money directly to his home.
No matter how popular the artists of the old society are, they must also be angry. Once, Chang Baokun and his father went to a church meeting, the head of the main family touched his newly shaved bright and shiny head, and at the same time turned to talk to others, the soot bounced on his head again and again, he could only hold back the tears and did not dare to move, Chang Lian'an still had to laugh next to him.
Chang Baokun cooperated with Zhao Peiru when he was sixteen years old. Zhao Peiru is also playing primary school tricks, worshiping Jiao Shouhai as a teacher to learn cross-talk, and the earliest among the Artists of the Baozi Generation, is the elder brother of the door. Li Boxiang was Zhao Peiru's eldest disciple, and later Hou Yaowen was led by Li Boxiang to bring his disciples to zhao Peiru's disciples. Chang Baokun and Zhao Peiru teased each other, which can be called a rare pair of hot partners in the history of cross-talk, the two made progress together, and they were still deliberating words together on the way to the radio on the bicycle.
Chang Baokun Zhao Peiru
At the age of twenty, Chang Baokun, the magician Chen Yanan and others organized a brother troupe, and in addition to continuing to study cross-talk, they also performed comedy dramas. He is known for his "living wide", learns more, will know more, the basic skills are solid, good at talking and teasing, he plays "Lantern Riddle", "Five Red Figures", "Great Trial" and other cross-talk interlocking, waves and waves, in the close and seamless to see the fire, harmonious.
After liberation, Chang Baokun found that the status of artists had increased significantly. He was young and enthusiastic, cherished his artistic future, became a new artist, began to carry out cross-talk reform, and studied with Zhao Peiru how to add new content to cross-talk, and how to remove some insulting words in cross-talk. Deeply feeling the pain of not having studied, he spoke at the Tianjin Wendai Conference, hoping that Mr. Lao She would often come to Tianjin to help the cross-talk reform. He loves to say two sentences: "Don't study, can't, learn, can't!" And copied these two sentences to the actors around them.
An audience member who had heard Chang Baokun's "Digging a Trench" earnestly wrote to persuade him to revise some words that distorted labor, accepted the opinion, and then simply stopped talking about this work. He relied on his talent and hard work to learn culture, actively choreographed new cross-talk, and enthusiastically praised the new life. Starting from "New Lantern Riddle", he adapted nearly thirty new cross-talks, and did not tire of teaching new cross-talk to other artists. Under the influence of Chang Baokun, Tianjin's cross-talk artists all participated in the cross-talk reform, and he was elected as a member of the city's literary federation and vice chairman of the trade union.
Chang Baokun performed in the factory more and more often, and more than once went to the streets to publicize the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. When he heard that the Chinese people's condolence group to the DPRK wanted to organize a Quyi service brigade, he immediately went to the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture to find Director Ah Ying and resolutely demanded to go to the DPRK to comfort the volunteer army. His wish was granted. On the Korean front, he never flinched, and the US imperialist plane calmly continued to perform cross-talk with Cho Pei-ru when it was about to turn. Volunteer soldiers loved to listen to their "New Riddles", "New Wine Orders", and "Thought Reform".
Chang Baokun made up his mind on the Korean battlefield and prepared to reduce the performance time by half after returning to Tianjin to learn culture, and only with culture could he better improve the level of cross-talk art. However, on his way home from completing his mission, at noon one day in April, Chang Baokun died honorably on the way back to China at the age of twenty-nine. Tianjin held a solemn funeral for Chang Baokun, and the people of the whole city went to see off the best cross-talk artist in Tianjin, and his body was buried in the first cemetery of Machangdao at that time. (Text: He Yuxin)
Chang Baokun's wife Sang Xiuru and son Chang Guitian lived in Zhuyuanli