When I found the fungus two days ago on Weibo, I suddenly saw such a hot one.
The young man saw that there was nothing to perceive, but the Shanghainese who were slightly older were all ignorant of the big names of the shanghai comics heroes- Yao Mushuang and Zhou Baichun.
The departure of the older generation of artists is really sad, but what makes Shanghainese feel helpless and saddest is that the art of Shanghai burlesque will also face the fate of "extinction".
Some people may say that the word "demise" to describe it is too heavy, but it is undeniable that Shanghai's burlesque culture is indeed slowly fading out of our sight, and a young man on the road is casually pulled out to ask what burlesque and burlesque actors he likes.
Found that the fungus as a post-90s, is not a generation of people who grew up watching burlesque, but today I also want to dig up the development history of this Shanghai burlesque, I hope to more or less arouse some resonance with everyone.
Shanghai burlesque is also a history of the demise of romanticism
What is burlesque? Burlesque is one of the local drama genres in the Shanghai area, the predecessor of which originated from the "one-legged play", which arose around 1920 and is characterized by burlesque and amusing.
As mentioned at the beginning, in Shanghai, when it comes to burlesque plays and one-man shows, we have to talk about Zhou Baichun and Yao Mushuang. I don't know if it is telepathy between brothers, listening to the double-gear burlesque drama of Yao and Zhou teachers always has a kind, stepping on the tacit understanding of each beat, the atmosphere is natural, and the stem always appears so surprising but just right.
In particular, Teacher Zhou Baichun's cold face is funny, that strange smile, and slow half-beat rhythm have become his signature.
Teacher Zhou Baichun said: "I proposed cold noodles, that is, to make the audience intriguing, he thinks about it and laughs, laughs when he looks at it, and laughs when he comes home." The burlesque I have acted in for more than 60 years is a purpose, to make the audience like, let the laughter, laughter spilled into the world. ”
Those years, the golden age that we walked through together
In Shanghai in the 60s and 70s, there were no television sets at that time, and radios were everyone's favorite.
Every evening at 6:30 p.m. is the broadcast time of the "rap singing" program of Shanghai People's Radio, almost every day there are Yao and Zhou programs, and many old listeners are on time at home to watch the radio and listen with relish, laughing from time to time. If anyone happens to be walking on the road, going to the shop, can't listen to the show at home, it doesn't matter, you have a store with a shop, every store has a radio, almost every radio is broadcasting this show, you can listen to the whole show almost completely.
20, 30 years ago was the "golden age" of burlesque, no matter how famous the cross-talk masters could not enter the beach, Shanghainese people like Haipai burlesque more.
"Yi Chenguang, the burlesque theater is full, and it is difficult to find a ticket."
When it comes to Shanghai's burlesque, "Seventy-Two Tenants" is a classic play that cannot be avoided.
In 1958, Yang Huasheng, Xiao Xixi, Zhang Qiaonong, shen Yile, four old comic artists wrote the sensational "Seventy-Two Tenants" based on the hard life of the low-income citizens of Shanghai before liberation. Since then, in the minds of the audience, "seventy-two tenants" has become synonymous with narrow housing, and the performances of the funny titan Yang Huasheng and the famous female funny green poplar have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The unique Shanghainese style of this play and the fresh and hot fireworks make more people understand the real Shanghai.
Burlesque funny drama is to show the fireworks of the city life in a humorous and funny way in front of the audience, the reason why Shanghainese like burlesque, because what they see is not just drama, but also life!
Around that time, burlesque became a classic that accompanied the growth of Shanghai Xiaoyuan, and in their minds, the words "burlesque" and "joy" were tied together.
Funny drama, how did it go downhill?
In recent years, Yao Mushuang, Zhou Baichun, Yang Huasheng, Lu Yang and other masters and a number of "double-character" artists have left one after another, which has made many audiences who love the art of burlesque and one-man show feel sad and worried.
In the 1980s, there were more than 1,000 people in the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe, the Shanghai People's Burlesque Troupe and the Shanghai Qingyi Burlesque Troupe, and now there are fewer than 100 people.
Seeing the news about Shanghai burlesque, most of them are words such as "decline", "lost", "eating old books", etc., which are in strong contrast with the phenomenon of "brushing the screen" of funny performances and comedy programs in TV programs in the past, and the burlesque plays in offline theaters are almost extinct. The small number of excellent works, the small number of large-scale performances, and the lack of top actors have become a fact that the Shanghai burlesque community has to admit.
On the other hand, those burlesque actors who came from the class carried the banner of traffic one by one and did things that had nothing to do with burlesque. Advertising, running announcements... How many people are willing to sink their hearts into doing script grinding skills? Some people even joked that "burlesque is not funny is the biggest funny".
The impact of online media on burlesque should not be underestimated. Similar to the "shaking baggage" of cross-talk, Shanghai burlesque dramas and one-man shows jokes called "gimmicks". Compared with the efficient communication characteristics of online media, a news hotspot can often be kept up with in a few minutes, and this wave of rhythm is far beyond the reach of burlesque. The laughs are outdated, and the corresponding result is that the audience no longer buys it.
Not only burlesque, these Shanghai cultures are gradually moving away
The big three sitcoms, no film can stand out
Remember the comic that was posted before the discovery of the fungus? The most fiercely exploded in the message area is the memories of "Old Lady Uncle", "Black Tea House" and "Happy Apartment".
A cup of tea in the black tea shop, a cup of tea. As soon as the bgm of "Black Tea House" came out, it was a wave of memory killing. Do you remember boss Wang, who stinks to death, David who is honest and cheerful, fashionable idol petite and foreign sister perfume?
The girly Manager Qiao in "Happy Apartment", Jia Shuzhen who walked out of the royal sister Fan early in the morning, the peerless warm male Wang Xiaoshuai, at that time Lina was not the boss lady of "Miss Zhao is not equal", and Xiao Baida at that time did not give everyone Amway health care products... At that time, I found that the fungus also wanted to live in a happy apartment.
Among the three works, if you want to say that the top ratings throne, or the "Old Lady Uncle" series -
In the late 1990s, Oriental Television was preparing to create a sitcom that could compete with the Northern I Love My Home series of sitcoms, and launched an indoor sitcom directly named after "Old Lady Uncle". With Shanghainese as the main language, it was a great success as soon as it was launched.
The "old lady uncle" (played by Li Jiusong) in the play is upright and kind, enthusiastic about community affairs activities, but likes to be nosy and makes a lot of jokes. All the episodes from "Uncle Old Lady" to "Old Lady and His Neighbors" revolve around the various things that old lady experiences. Starting from "Old Lady Uncle and His Children and Grandchildren", the frequency of "Old Lady Uncle" in the series has gradually decreased, and the focus of the overall situation has shifted to the life of Ah Qing, Du Luguan and Ade in the happy community.
Among them, the one that everyone remembers the most is Ah Qing, the role of "Ah Que Xi".
"Bitter, bitter wow" "Bubble tea is really delicious" "Supermarket is your home, take things casually"
Looking at these few lines, can't help but shout two voices in your heart?
These Haipai sitcoms have sprung up like mushrooms, with a small story per episode as the narrative rhythm, focusing on the daily life of ordinary people in Shanghai, expressing them in a humorous and witty way, which has been widely praised and hailed as the classic of "Haipai" indoor sitcoms. On the other hand, the "puppet drama" that appears on the TV screen like an assembly line operation can really afford well-made praise.
Zhou Libo, "Haipai Qingkou", laughed at Shanghai for 30 years
Leaving aside the negative news of the flowers and greens, putting aside the script of the Mary Sue heroine, we return to Zhou Libo's work itself, and take a look at the "30 Years of Laughing Kan", "Laughing Kan Great Shanghai" and "Zhou Libo Show" that have been popular in the streets and alleys of Shanghai in those years.
Zhou Libo's popularity is based on his so-called original "Haipai Qingkou", which was hilarious at the time, and it is not outdated now.
For example, the most classic malt milk extract:
I did the thing that I ate for malt milk essence was also beaten by my mother, she put malt milk essence like chicken essence, just sprinkled five or six grains, this is also counted, she also took a chopstick to help Wu Gang: adjust a tune, adjust a tune.
Technological breakthroughs in women's singles:
Later, my mother innovated her technology, and she hit me with two slippers, one specializing in fake movements. Fight me like a zebra. Imitating female classmates: Yo, Zhou Libo, your mother bought new slippers again?! How do you know? Your pattern today is different from yesterday's, your today's pattern is straight, yesterday's is S-shaped.
Speaking of piling molds:
At this time, a new industry appeared in Shanghai, which until now, is called piling mold. The piling molds in Shanghai are like a teacher's teaching, dressed the same uh, probably or drinking Pujiang water?
Spitting out the stock market is also a hot hand:
If before October of 2006 to 2007, our Chinese stock market was a science fiction film, called omnipotent, then 2007 to 2008 will become a thriller.
Don't securities companies have big screens at their doors? It has not been turned red, it has always been turquoise. The sparrows could not understand it, they thought that the Gongqing Forest Park had arrived, they thought that the Yanzhong green space had arrived, one by one rushed up, rushed one dead and one dead one. Our stock market not only plays with people, but also plays with birds, and even birds play dead for you, so let's play with birds!
Now the Chinese stock market basically belongs, the boss goes in and the three come out; the talent goes in the coffin and comes out; the doctor goes in and the idiot comes out; Yang Million goes in, Yang Bai comes out; when he wants to get rich, he wants to go crazy; he goes in with two guns and comes out with both hands, all of them don't kill; they want to learn Buffett to go in and be pickpocketed; the well-off family goes in, and the five guarantees are trapped; they go in and slap their chests; the man goes in, and the eunuch comes out; Zhou Libo rushes in, and Zhou Pickpocket skin escapes; The size is not unbanned to go in. Urinary incontinence comes out.
Although there are many similar talk show forms on TV programs now, they are separated from the carrier of "Shanghainese", and they always feel that they are not close to the life of Ala Shanghainese.
Even the Position of the Shanghai dialect may face loss
Not exaggerated at all, leaving aside the burlesque to go downhill, there is no Shanghai-style talk show, and the production level is not high... Now even the Shanghainese dialect is in danger of being "lost.".
Losing the Position of the Shanghai dialect, in addition to the exit is pidgin, what is even more terrible is that it will not speak.
Every time the fungus is found to bring a hint of content about "promoting Shanghainese, civilizing you and me", the comments will always appear with countless helpless faces:
Our family can no longer speak Shanghainese, and a single Mandarin language cannot be broken down at all
Oh, only a long sigh in return. If even the most basic Shanghai dialect cannot be preserved, what can we do to inherit the culture and art that is worth passing on?
Finally, rong ben fungus nagged two more sentences. For those who want to relive the works of Zhou Baichun and Yao Mushuang, the resources on each video website are still quite complete, that is, the picture quality and sound quality are more or less compromised, and the bacteria are not posted separately here, and everyone can manually search for the name.
At present, there are many older generations of burlesque actors in Shanghai who are still polishing and producing works, you can log on to various ticketing websites to query information, in order to avoid advertising suspicions, found that the bacteria are not here to do real-name recommendations.
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