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heartthrob Li Deyang, joke king Zhang Shouchen, crosstalk master Hou Baolin, crosstalk master Ma Sanli, stand-up king Liu Baorui, etc.

Ma Ji, Su Wenmao, Hou Yaowen, Shi Fukuan, Niu Niu, Feng Gong, Degang Guo, etc. are well-known cross talk actors in the contemporary era.

Crosstalk was introduced to Shandong around 192. Tianjin Li Dexi ("heartthrob") premiered in Baotu Spring Wangheting Tea House. Later, Beijing Golden Hall, Huang Jingli and Zhou Deshan ("Zhou Toad") came to Jinan to give a special crosstalk performance in Guangyu Tea Garden in the new market. In 1924, Tianjin crosstalk masters Lai Ruru, Lai Zhenhua and Lai Pingyue ("little monsters") performed in the Grand View Garden. Later, Chang Lianan, ("Little Mushroom"), Li Shouzeng, Wang Fengshan and Sun Shaolin also came to give performances, but most of them just left. Until 1942, Sun Shaolin and his master Li Shouzeng set up the "Chenguang Tea Club" in Daguan Garden, and crosstalk had a fixed performance place in Jinan. Since then, Zhang Shouchen, Liu Baorui, Liu Guangwen, Liu Kuizhen, Gao Guiqing, Liu Guitian, Liu Deliang, Han Zikang, Ma Sanli, Lian Xiuquan, Lian Xiaokun, Yuan Peilou, Sun Xinghai, Zhang Chunkui, Guo Baoshan, etc., as well as young actors Li Boxiang ("little prodigy"), Zhao Zhenduo, Sun Shaochen, Zhao Wenqi, etc.

At the same time, a group of crosstalk performers in Jinan dialect appeared. Cui Jinlin, Wu Jingchun, Wu Huanwen, Liu Jianqiu ("Funny King"), Tian Maotang, etc. have great influence, and the audience is equally enthusiastic in the new market, Baotu Spring and Beichengtou. From the perspective of the whole province, there are crosstalk performances in Qingdao, Yantai, Dezhou and other cities.

during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, there were new cross talks in Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area, such as "Exposing the peep show" (written by Jimmy) and "Joining the Army for Revenge" (written by Zuo Pingzuo), which gave cross talks special fighting vitality. After the founding of New China, the Shandong crosstalk performance maintained its former grand occasion, and three troupes in Shandong, Jinan and Qingdao all hired old artists and trained a number of new actors. At the same time, amateur crosstalk performances in industrial, mining, military and rural areas are also very active, and excellent works such as stand-up crosstalk, car chasing, counterpart crosstalk, careful calculation, Mount Tai, such a meeting and Xiangma have appeared successively.

Xia Yutian, Xia Yutian, is the first artist with a college degree or above, who has rich theoretical knowledge and profound cultural accomplishment. He is also one of the advocates and practitioners of eulogizing cross talk, and more than half of his works are eulogizing new life and praising new characters. Among them, "Female Captain" was well-received by Xia Yutian Xue Yongnian, a famous horse crosstalk performer, and was also selected as a teaching material by the University of Paris VII. His book "The Turn of Farmers in Laojiu" won the Shuang Yi Prize for creation and performance in the 1982 national excellent quyi program (Southern Film). From "Captain Woman" to "Returning to China", it is mainly a eulogy, but it is not just a general eulogy, but a combination of truth, goodness and ugliness, which makes his works have a modern consciousness, which is more in line with modern consciousness and modern aesthetic characteristics. It also makes the work more real, natural and full of human touch. There seems to be two meanings here: one is to praise the true and good things in the world among the absurdity and absurdity of cross talk; The other is that there are some outstanding figures worthy of our respect in real life, but it is not necessarily that he has no shortcomings and weaknesses. Even in ordinary people, there is nothing worth praising. Xia Yutian combined these. There is a saying in "Returning to China" that "what is not beautiful is the most beautiful", which may represent Xia Yutian's understanding of life. Through some special means of cross talk, these "ugly" things are processed into very beautiful things, which shows that truth and goodness are not necessarily inseparable from ugliness. This may be Xia Yutian's unique creation.