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Crosstalk takes the form of speaking, learning, teasing and singing, highlighting its characteristics. Oral performance is required, mainly in Beijing dialect. The main roads are folding fans, handkerchiefs and lifting wood. There are stand-up crosstalk, mouth-to-mouth crosstalk, group crosstalk, etc., which are rooted in the people and originated from life and are loved by the masses.

Crosstalk consists of two actors hugging each other and teasing each other. Usually, there are two categories: "one head is heavy" and "mother is dumbfounded". Crosstalk, also known as "group work", is performed by more than three actors. Traditional plays satirize all kinds of ugly phenomena in the old society and reflect all kinds of phenomena in life mainly through humorous narration. After liberation, in addition to continuing to carry forward the satirical tradition, there are also works praising new people and new things.

Extended data

Crosstalk is a folk art form that makes the audience laugh with jokes, funny questions and answers, and rap. Let the audience laugh with jokes, funny questions and answers, rap, etc. Often used for satire, it is now used to praise new people and new things.

In the late Qing Dynasty, crosstalk formed its own modern characteristics and style. Mainly in Beijing dialect, there are also "dialect crosstalk" in various places. The "plot" in cross talk is intermittent, with or without. So the content of cross talk makes people feel uncertain.

In cross talk performance, actors no longer enjoy the status of "storytellers" as storytellers, and actors and actors, actors and audiences all appear as equal interlocutors. They can express their different views on things. This kind of different opinions from many aspects not only constitutes the formal characteristics of cross talk, but also is the source of comic contradictions in cross talk.

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