What are the channels for "learning" in crosstalk?

Imitate all kinds of birds and animals, peddle, sing, all kinds of characters and languages.

Speaking, learning, teasing and singing are the four basic artistic means of cross talk tradition. "Speaking" means telling jokes, riddles and tongue twisters. "Tease" is to catch each other and make you laugh; "Singing" crosstalk refers to Taiping lyrics. For some reason, the crosstalk performed on TV in the past attributed all singing categories to singing, which was wrong. Only sing Taiping lyrics, the rest are for learning.

In cross talk, there are often programs that emphasize one or two of them, such as Turning careers, Opera and Dialect, which emphasize learning and singing, while Eight Fan Screens and Spring Lantern riddles emphasize telling and teasing. Actors often form different styles because they are good at using some means.

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Imitate the sounds of various words and dialects, learn to sing famous passages of China traditional operas, and even learn modern songs and dances. All kinds of ventriloquism, double reed, imitating dialects, city sounds, voices, smiles, customs of men, women and children. The repertoires mainly include Learning Four Provinces, Learning Four Phases and Rules.

Imitation of dialects, also called "inverted mouth", used to be called "timid mouth" to show the ignorance and simplicity of characters. At first, it imitated the dialects of Shen (Ze), Wu (Qiang), Rao (Yang) and An (Ping) in Hebei Province. At that time, some Beijingers ridiculed the people who came to work in Beijing from these places as "timid" and falsely called them "timid spoons, grasshopper seeds with two legs of loess mud", which was obviously contemptuous.

Later, it developed to imitate Shanxi dialect, Jiaodong dialect, Tianjin dialect, Baodi dialect and Tangshan dialect. In the early 1930s, it expanded to Shanghai dialect, Suzhou dialect and Cantonese. Since the mid-1940s, the number of people learning English has been increasing.