Who is the originator of cross talk?

However, crosstalk performers in Beijing think that the originator of crosstalk is Zhang Sanlu, while crosstalk performers in Tianjin think that it is Zhu Shaowen. In the cross talk pedigree of Ma, he is considered as the first generation cross talk actor. According to Ma, Zhu Shaowen studied fine arts in his early years.

Zhang Sanlu crosstalk artist. Beijingers. He is the earliest recorded crosstalk artist in Beijing.

He is the ancestor of Tianqiao artist Guan. According to artists, he is the leader of artists in the east, west and north cities of Beijing. He used to be an octagonal drum artist, and he was also familiar with techniques such as ventriloquism and acrobatics. Later, he switched to cross talk. The lowest age of his artistic activities was in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, and the highest age was in Xianfeng or Daoguang period. The singing art of octagonal drum is divided into eight parts: blowing, beating, beating, pulling, speaking, learning, teasing and singing, which has many roles such as life, Dan, purity, ugliness and so on. Its clown appeared mainly to catch the joke. According to cloud tourists' Jianghu talk (1936 Jinghua Times), "The famous clown of octagonal drum is Zhang Sanlu, whose superb art is better than others and is deeply loved by people from all walks of life. Later, because of his eccentric temper, he was not very easy to take care of the class, so he was excluded and dumped in a rage. When you are in the open field, you will take the four skills of speaking, learning, teasing and singing as an art, and people who wander around are willing to listen. Zhang Sanlu doesn't want to talk about octagonal drums, claiming that his art is cross talk. " He is also very good at "dark spring" (using curtains to surround the actors who cross talk and ventriloquism, so that the audience can hear their voices and can't see them), and was once known as the "master of dark spring". According to Xue's Crosstalk of China (1985 People's Publishing House edition), Yu Zeng, a modern Manchu artist, recalled: "Stand-up crosstalk is the most famous, and his' works' are excellent and clean, which can also attract female audiences. At that time, twelve pence could buy a catty of noodles, and he could earn twenty-five yuan a day. It can be seen how much the masses supported him at that time. The usual work includes "Thieves and Ghosts Seize the Knife" and "Nine Cases". " "Thieves and Ghosts Seize the Knife" is still a famous traditional cross talk. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a phrase in a hundred-copy banknote, Suiyuanle, that "learning crosstalk is like reviving Zhang Sanlu", which also showed that the crosstalk art in Zhang Sanlu had a great influence in the early stage of crosstalk development.