Where did crosstalk originate?

The word crosstalk was formed by the further evolution and development of folk rap in North China, imitating ventriloquism and other folk art forms. It is generally believed that it was formed during Xianfeng and Tongzhi years in Qing Dynasty. A folk art form that makes the audience laugh by telling jokes or interesting questions and answers.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the image pronunciation gradually developed from a person imitating ventriloquism to stand-up crosstalk, and its name was changed to crosstalk. Later, it gradually developed into stand-up crosstalk, counterpart crosstalk and group crosstalk, and became a veritable crosstalk. After years of development, cross talk has finally become the most popular form of cross talk for the audience. 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.

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The art of cross talk is different. The "plot" in cross talk is intermittent, with or without. So the content of cross talk makes people feel uncertain. The burden of cross talk often gives the audience an illusion and hides the truth. In this way, the audience is encouraged to think positively, thus strengthening the exchange of ideas between the two sides.

In contrast, storytelling (and other folk arts) actors should not only explain the causal relationship of things clearly, but also define the theme and ending of the story in advance by winning the first time, and the audience only needs to passively accept it. 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. Here, all the words of an actor have to be strictly tested by another actor and audience, and all his mysterious, contradictory, absurd and exaggerated words can't escape the audience's ears.

He often laughs because of "making a fool of himself" and is in an embarrassing situation of "making a fool of himself". The audience felt their psychological advantages through laughter and received a subtle education through laughter. The appreciation process of cross talk can better achieve the purpose of "entertaining through education", so the art of cross talk is very popular among the masses.

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