What is legwork?

Sticking, in order to learn to sing or perform a plot in cross talk, two people put on a little makeup, subcontract roles, enter the role to perform, and then exit to narrate. This kind of cross talk joke is called in the industry "Leg work".

Ping'an's jokes generally focus on narrating something or talking about something. They are usually described in a head-heavy way, with praise playing a supporting role. There are no long passages in the middle, and there are no fierce conflicts such as teasing children and mothers. It mainly relies on smooth and stable narratives to advance the plot and unfold the burdens.

Wen Kui is a performance style of cross talk. In cross talk acting, it is customary to call jokes that are mainly narrative, with character actions and comedy plots called "literary jokes". The actor who mainly focuses on talking about his merits is praised as "good at writing." Most stand-up comics are also collectively referred to as "wengui".

Zi Mu Ke, a cross talk term, is one of the expressions of cross talk. It refers to the fact that during a crosstalk performance, the two actors (doucai and pingcai) have basically the same tasks, such as organizing baggage by arguing with each other.

Liu Huo'er, a cross talk work with learning and singing as the main content, belongs to the category of "learning" in cross talk talking, learning, teasing and singing, that is, learning to sing, and the "singing" of cross talk Lyrics for Taiping.

Guankou, a common form of expression in cross talk, is also called "back mouth". The word "Guan" in "Guankou" means to complete it in one go and to the end.

Pouting, simulating dialect in cross talk. Traditional jokes such as "Tongue Twister", "Looking for a Hall", "Foreign Movies", etc. are all "talking" almost from beginning to end.

Extended information

In the process of the formation of cross talk, it extensively absorbed the advantages of ventriloquism, storytelling and other arts, blended solemnity with humor, expressed truth, goodness and beauty with satirical jokes, and made people laugh as its artistic characteristics. Taking "speaking, learning, teasing and singing" as the main artistic means. There are three types of performance: stand-up, dialogue and group speaking.

Stand-up comedy is performed by one actor and tells jokes; stand-up comedy is performed by two actors who laugh and laugh, and there are usually two types: "one head deep" and "zimu 叏"; group comedy is also called " Group activity", performed by more than three actors.

Traditional repertoire mainly satirizes various ugly phenomena in the old society and reflects various life phenomena through humorous narratives. After liberation, in addition to continuing to carry forward the satirical tradition, there are also works that praise new people and new things. Traditional cross talk lingo (terminology) Leg work belongs to the category of Liu work (learning to sing).

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