Crosstalk is a language art, this word has been accustomed to it, in fact, this sentence was born far less than the time of the crosstalk industry.
Cross-talk was originally a mixed rice eating craft, the old society called this thing, cross-talk line belongs to the relatively low social status of the profession, and even some artists' children go to school prefer to say that their father is a vendor who sells things. The main reason is that in addition to the relatively low status of practitioners, it is also related to the fact that most of the cross-talk content is relatively vulgar, except for some big horns, most of the cross-talk artists and what they call cross-talk are dog meat can not be on the feast, it is difficult to climb the elegant hall.
To really raise cross-talk to the level of language art, it is still a matter after liberation, the cross-talk improvement group at the time of liberation has made some artistic improvements, and after the reform and opening up, Master Hou Baolin has done a lot of work to enhance the social status and artistic status of cross-talk, and Ma Ji and Jiang Kun and other successors have pushed the cross-talk industry to a certain height.
In recent years, the relevant departments of China have also included the form of cross-talk as a form of music into the national intangible cultural heritage representative project, which is the recognition of this industry by authoritative institutions.
Generally speaking, intangible cultural heritage is hierarchical, and the highest level belongs to UNESCO intangible cultural heritage projects, such as Peking Opera, Cantonese Opera, Kunqu Opera and other dramas in China have been selected for this level of protection.
The next level of UNESCO is China's national intangible cultural heritage project list, which is evaluated by the departments under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the State Council, and the music and art of cross-talk, book appraisal, two-person transfer and Jingyun big drum are all selected for this level of protection in batches.
Specifically, xiangsheng was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage representative list in the second batch in 2008, and three of them became the protection units of intangible cultural heritage in the cross-talk industry, namely the China Broadcasting Art Troupe, the Beijing Quyi Troupe and the Tianjin Quyi Troupe.
It should be said that these three cross-talk teams basically represent the highest level and the longest history of China's cross-talk industry, and the cross-talk masters we are familiar with, such as Ma Sanli, Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, and Ma Ji, all belong to the members of these three music troupes.
In addition to the Qu Art Troupe, which represents the cross-talk industry and is selected on the representative list of national intangible cultural heritage, there is also a list of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects, and the people who can be selected for this list are basically top artists and celebrities in various industries.
For example, Zhao Benshan, who we are familiar with, became the representative inheritor of this representative project of intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
In 2009, the name of the cross-talk actor appeared for the first time in the list of representative inheritors of the national intangible cultural heritage representative projects announced in the third batch, and he was Chang Baoting.
Chang Baoting, stage name "Three Mushrooms", is one of the brothers of the Chang family who is recognized as the second only to the small mushroom Chang Baokun, he studied with Guo Rongqi, partnered with Bai Quanfu for half a lifetime, left a lot of well-known cross-talk passages, and also cultivated a famous cross-talk artist like Wang Peiyuan.
After the death of the little mushroom Chang Baokun, as the representative of the Chang family, Chang Baoting contributed to the maintenance of the level and progress of the Chang family's cross-talk, and he was also one of the few cross-talk artists whose cross-talk style could be described as "handsome".
Judging from Chang Baoting's personality and artistic aspects, he is well-deserved to be the inheritor of the representative project of national intangible cultural heritage with the representatives of Changjia Xiangsheng and Tianjin Xiangsheng. Unfortunately, in 2015, Mr. Chang Baoting died of illness at the age of 85.
In 2012, in the fourth batch of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects, Jiang Kun's name appeared, and he also became the second national non-hereditary inheritor in the cross-talk industry.
Jiang Kun studied under Ma Ji and was a re-disciple of Master Hou Baolin, a descendant of Hou Men Xiangsheng who was rooted in Miao Hong. Although he did not inherit the traditional Liu work of Houmen cross-talk, Jiang Kun's modern cross-talk is also unique, and in the 1980s and 1990s he became the most famous cross-talk actor in the country. At the same time, he inherited the legacy of Hou Baolin and Ma Ji, and has been working hard to promote cross-talk and enhance the status of cross-talk.
With Jiang Kun's own cross-talk standards, coupled with his contributions to the cross-talk industry, and as the apprentice of Master Hou Baolin and the apprentice of Master Ma Ji, it is also indisputable that he represents Houmen Xiangsheng and Ma Jiajun as the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project.
In 2018, in the fifth batch of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects, Mr. Ma Zhiming was successfully selected and became the third national non-hereditary inheritor in the cross-talk industry.
Ma Zhiming is a descendant of the Ma family, the son of Ma Sanli, and the disciple of Hou Baolin and Wang Fengshan. It can be said that in inheriting the Ma family cross-talk, Ma Zhiming is the best. And he also made full use of his innate and acquired advantages, added a lot of martial arts in the cross-talk performance, and at the same time, he was also quite accomplished in the White Pai Jingyun drum, although he did not dare to say that qing was better than blue, but when it came to Ma Zhiming, no one in the cross-talk industry dared to disagree.
Considering the identity of Shaoma, the status of the jianghu and the level of art, it is expected that he will become the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project.
Chang Baoting, Jiang Kun and Ma Zhiming have become the national non-hereditary inheritors of cross-talk art, which is also quite symbolic, because Chang Baoting represents Changjia Xiangsheng, Jiang Kun represents Houmen Xiangsheng, Ma Zhiming represents MaJia Xiangsheng, and Xiangsheng is undoubtedly the most famous and respected in the past half century or so.
Therefore, it is appropriate for each of these three representative figures to become the non-hereditary inheritors of the cross-talk industry, whether in terms of artistic standards, character and influence appeal, the three cross-talk non-hereditary inheritors are not controversial. In addition, among the more than 3,000 national intangible cultural heritage inheritors in the country, only these three people in the cross-talk industry have been selected, which also reflects the scarcity and authority of this list.
Below the representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage, there are also non-hereditary inheritors at the municipal level. For example, Ding Guangquan is from Beijing, Wei Wenliang, Li Boxiang and others are from Tianjin, and Sun Xiaolin is the inheritor of Jinan Crosstalk.
In addition, as a branch of the cross-talk industry, Taiping lyrics have not become a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage, but among the representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects in Beijing and Tianjin, Wang Shuangfu has become the non-hereditary inheritor of Beijing Taiping lyrics, and Wang Shuangfu's selection also represents the artistic contribution of his father Wang Benlin to a certain extent.
The non-hereditary inheritors of Taiping lyrics in Tianjin are Tong Shouben and Liu Wenbu, and Tong Shouben's main contribution is to collect 104 Taiping lyrics and compile them into the "Rare Book of Chinese Taiping Lyrics".
And Liu Wenbu is deeply impressed by his master Yang Shaokui's Taiping lyrics, you must know that without the inheritance of Yang Shaokui and Wang Benlin, Taiping lyrics may really become history. Liu Wenbu's Taiping lyrics are the most flavorful in China, but unfortunately he has also passed away.
In the end, crosstalk is a language art, and this sentence is not meant to be playful. The so-called art is ahead of the public's aesthetics and leads the public, if the cross-talk performance blindly caters to the low-level interests of some audiences, it cannot be called language art. Therefore, we must protect the artistic taste of cross-talk, enhance personal cultural literacy and consciously resist the three customs of performance.
After all, the one-sided pursuit of low-level fun also does more harm than good for personal growth.