What does Degang Guo do?

If "Super Girl" gave China people an after-dinner meal last summer, when winter came, the 33-year-old Tianjin actress Degang Guo brought her Deyun Society, which made many people laugh. People take the initiative to go to small theaters, but more people listen to almost forgotten crosstalk through the internet.

Some people say that he saved the cross talk, and some people say that Degang Guo fever is just a virtual fire;

Some people say that he is a grassroots hero in phonology, while others look on coldly or cynically;

Many people are happy that crosstalk is dead, and many people begin to predict when the Degang Guo phenomenon will "end".

Degang Guo said that he didn't expect his cross talk to suddenly become so popular, just as we have forgotten that cross talk can really make people laugh.

Save Degang Guo, cross talk died 50 years late?

Just when crosstalk almost disappeared from people's lives, Degang Guo appeared.

★ Our reporter/Cao ☆/He Yizhou

As if in the blink of an eye, in the topic of people at the end of 2005, a crosstalk performer named Degang Guo suddenly appeared. His story and his cross talk jokes are circulated everywhere on the Internet and newspapers.

During the Spring Festival this year. In Tianqiaole Tea Garden, which can accommodate 400 people in the south of Beijing, there is a big sign hanging at the door, which reads: Today is full, stop tickets 10 yuan! In fact, since last June 165438+ 10, Degang Guo and his Deyun Society have been hard to get a ticket for their performance in Tianqiao Music.

It is not only a small theater, but also a medium-sized theater above China Grand Theatre 1 1 in October, 2005. In June, 2006, Beijing People's Liberation Army Opera House and February, Beijing Tianqiao Theater held a special Degang Guo crosstalk show. It's full recently

In particular, a performance at the People's Liberation Army Opera House started at 7: 30, during which Guo returned 22 times, and it was already midnight 12: 00. All the lights in the theater were turned off, and all the audience were still standing in the dark clapping.

He just said a cross talk that made people laugh.

"Now crosstalk can make people laugh again!" Most people who have seen Degang Guo and his performances in Deyun Society will introduce his cross talk in this way.

For Degang Guo, the content of cross talk doesn't have to have a central idea. His cross talk may not be very logical, but the jokes are broken and he laughs a lot per unit time. "Crosstalk, making people laugh is the first feature, and it is also the place where it has vitality. The functions of propaganda, education, satire and praise are not impossible, but they cannot be put in the first place. " Degang Guo's current partner Yu Qian thinks.

The secret of Guo's comedy is nothing but a comprehensive return to tradition. First of all, in Degang Guo's own words, "The traditional cross talk left by the old man always has more than 1000 paragraphs. Through the continuous efforts of our actors over the years, up to now, there are more than 200 paragraphs left. "Degang Guo has restored many jokes that no one has said for decades. There is a "anti-seven-mouth". Before each performance, Deyun Society should remind the audience that the content of this section may be offensive. Why are you acting? Because this paragraph is irreplaceable for training the tacit understanding between teasing and teasing, it can make the audience happy 30 times in 10 minutes. " I used to throw dirty water on children (when practicing cross talk). Now that I have picked up the child, I may still have dirty water hanging on me. Never mind, please let us wipe it slowly. "An actor from Deyun Society told reporters.

It is said that Degang Guo's crosstalk, storytelling, drumming, crosstalk, Taiping lyrics and so on. Add up to more than 600 paragraphs, plus grinding on the stage all the year round, no need to recite words, so he is as skilled as chatting at home, so his cross talk sounds very authentic and comfortable. "If you don't understand the old things, don't say anything new." Degang Guo has been talking about what Mr. Zhang Boju said all day.

Degang Guo always tells the same joke off the cuff every time he appears. His jokes include Bird Flu, Super Girl and Shenzhou VI. There are intimate contents of martial arts fans, familiar accents of literary petty bourgeoisie, and jokes taken directly from Stephen Chow movies, internet and mobile phone messages. Degang Guo himself bought a private car in the 1990s, but it didn't affect the very basic contents of his jokes, such as "taking the No.300 bus" and "having a shuttle bus". "The key is to integrate the mentality into the people, not to say that you are not an ordinary person on a good day." Yu Qian said.

Returning to the theater is another way for Guo Xiangsheng to return to tradition. Degang Guo and Deyun Society talked in a small theater for 10 years, and held a cross talk (cross talk all afternoon or all night). If you talk eight paragraphs a day, you will lose 100 paragraphs in two weeks, but you can't turn your head (repeat).

"In fact, Degang Guo's work is not strong enough. In 1930s and 1940s, Degang Guo was an ordinary crosstalk performer. Now that the older generation of crosstalk performers have almost left, it means that he has come. " Sue, a 24-year-old tightrope walker engaged in the chemical industry, told this magazine. What Degang Guo did, at a higher level, was the revival of cross talk, and at a lower level, he did his duty of cross talk. "Now there is a saying that Degang Guo is unorthodox, I don't agree. What is orthodoxy? It's like walking on the road in Tianjin. You can't say that the street is due south and due north just because it is inclined, can you? " Sue said.

There can't be hundreds of Degang Guo.

Crosstalk has returned to its artistic law, and it may still be saved. Degang Guo is not the only one who saw this. There are others who have this strength in art, but there are too few people who have the courage and tenacity to do it now.

Degang Guo's struggle experience since childhood is more exciting than Dae Jang Geum. It is said that he took Deyun Society to see the play for ten years and finally it was full. Deyun Society has grown from 3 people to 30 people, which is exactly the same as the saying in the early cross talk: pick cakes on the ground and take thieves opposite.

Degang Guo was born in Tianjin, 1973. He grew up in a purely traditional folk art environment. At the age of 8, he studied art, first worshiped Gao Xiangkai to learn storytelling, and in the same year he studied cross talk with Chang Baofeng. In the late 1980s, Degang Guo presented a gift to Tao Dawei in Tianjin Quyi Troupe. Ma Zhiming, a famous crosstalk artist, was also in the Quyi Troupe. He recalled Guo's time to this magazine. "The little fat man is quite awkward. He is fourteen or fifteen years old and he is very confident standing on the stage." After less than a year, Degang Guo, who wanted to stay in the group, failed to stay. When he left, he said to Guo half jokingly, "You will be a hero in 20 years."

1995, Degang Guo made up his mind to be a drifter. At first, he went out to work as an artist in a small corner and lived in fear for a year. Later, I hooked up with a CCTV person, found some relationships in the film and television circle to follow suit, and solved the basic life problems. Later, I registered a cultural company, wrote scripts, books, appeared on TV, made film and television programs, published audio-visual products, and did everything. In this way, Degang Guo made a cross talk with a cultural company in the theater at the same time. In the past ten years, all the money earned by this hand has been spent on cross talk.

On February 10, 2006, in the lobby of Sheraton Tianjin Hotel, Degang Guo, who had just been energetic in online chat rooms, TV program recording and steel wire containment, spread out on the sofa like a pile of mud and told this reporter with blurred eyes: "If you don't talk to me for five minutes, I will fall asleep." Degang Guo has been running at full capacity for ten years. "Let's share the energy. The company is also very important, and cross talk depends on it. " Deyun Society was founded in 1996. Before 2004, it has been losing money, losing eight or nine thousand a month, and sometimes losing tens of thousands.

At that time, no one wanted to invest money or play, so Guo took his apprentice. The 33-year-old monitor of Deyun Society brought nine apprentices. The great apprentice He He and his partner won the first prize in the National Crosstalk Competition last year. Cao Yunjin is an apprentice, who usually eats and lives in his master's house. He told reporters that for Degang Guo, money and people are not the most uncomfortable, but the stimulation of the audience is the most tormenting. The first time he entered the theater to talk about cross talk, Degang Guo found that there was a tradition of listening to cross talk in Cheng Nan, but because of the demolition, people were scattered in Yanqing and Tongxian, and there were often only seven or eight people in the theater. "But the host is very strong and often cheers himself up." Cao Yunjin said that for a long time, Degang Guo said this as soon as he stood on the stage. "It is difficult to do every year, and everything is difficult." Every day, every paragraph.

At that time, Degang Guo stipulated that a person should perform under the stage, but it really caught up. "One day in 2002, in Guangde Building, it was freezing, and there was no audience at the beginning of the program. All the actors stood at the door and called people in. After shouting for a long time, a tall man with glasses was really called. I guess he is a foreigner. It may be too cold. This guy wants to come in and keep warm. It's time to start. This is the only one under the stage. Xing first took the stage to speak. One person on the stage and one person off the stage looked at each other. Halfway through, the audience's cell phone rang. Embarrassed, he said to Mr. Xing,' Sorry, I'll take this call.' Mr. Xing stopped there and waited for him on Baba platform. He turned to the phone and said,' Sorry, I'm listening to cross talk. Then I went on stage, and when I went up, I said to him,' You should listen carefully! Be sure to say hello when you go to the bathroom! There are far more people backstage than you, and you can't run away if you close the door and fight! "

"I never thought about when I could get through it. If the car doesn't fall, push it. No matter how difficult it is, I will do it as long as I still want to do it. " Degang Guo said. In the past ten years, Deyun Society has struggled among the big teahouse, Zhonghe, Guangde Building, Huasheng Tianqiao and Tianqiao Music. The audience grew from seven or eight to thirty or forty. Once there was a special performance in Degang Guo. There were 99 people in the audience, and the backstage was crazy.

"It seemed terrible at first, but now everything seems to be a good thing." Degang Guo told the magazine that now he is very grateful to that one-man audience, and he wants to find this audience. "I want to give him a ticket that is valid for life, so that he can watch my performance at any time. I will speak crosstalk for him all his life."

Although he is now a faithful wife, so far he has not found a second person who is willing to follow his example. "It's like watching a winter swim. There are many people watching, and there are many people who like it, but there are no people who really take off their arms and jump in. "

Dapeng, the host of "Happy Teahouse" of Beijing Art Station FM87.6, was the first person to introduce Degang Guo to Beijing media. He said, "Degang Guo is out now. Some people doubt whether there are thousands of Degang Guo hidden among people, but we just haven't found it. I can tell him responsibly, give up, there is only one in Degang Guo. "

A while ago, it was suggested to build a museum for crosstalk, and the TV station also made a large documentary, wearing clothes everywhere, which made all people in the crosstalk industry feel gloomy. Today, Degang Guo has given people hope for a new life. "A Degang Guo can't save crosstalk, of course, but his significance is that he bought time. Keeping a Degang Guo can at least make crosstalk die out in fifty years. With these fifty years, there are more things that may change. " Dapeng said. ★