Shandong University of the Arts officially announced on March 19 that the Ministry of Education announced the registration and approval results for undergraduate majors in general colleges and universities in 2023 in early March. The folk art major applied by the School of Drama of Shandong University of the Arts was successfully approved.
There is no doubt that this is another major benefit for the folk art industry, including the cross talk industry, after the Central Academy of Drama and Liaoning University of Science and Technology unified the undergraduate enrollment of folk arts. After all, judging from the current situation, the key courses and main courses of undergraduate folk arts The training direction is cross talk.
Why is this a major benefit for the cross talk industry? Because this is closely related to the current situation and future of cross talk.
1. There are four major problems in the cross talk industry
Although the cross talk industry seems to be very lively now, in fact there are some serious problems in this industry, and a lot of the excitement is just a bubble boom that cannot stand the test of time.
1. Lack of excellent actors
The cross talk industry is not lacking in stars or idols, but it is lacking in truly outstanding actors. Many people may not understand that so and so has so many fans and great fame. The problem is that in the impetuous entertainment industry, most Under the circumstances, celebrities with many fans cannot be called excellent actors, but can only be said to be artists who have successfully promoted their personalities.
Excellent cross talk actors are not just good at basic skills or being able to make people laugh. The key is to be able to educate and entertain both refined and popular people. Currently, there are some such excellent actors in the cross talk world, but they are still too few.
2. Lack of cultural background
Why do scumbag crosstalk have become rampant on the stage in recent years? In addition to catering to the vulgar taste of some audiences, the lack of cultural background among many practitioners in the crosstalk industry is also an important reason.
Without cultural background, it is difficult to create a cross talk with style and content. As a result, in the end, you can only crawl on the stage.
3. Lack of creative talents
There is a common problem in the cross talk industry. The actors have good basic skills, but they lack good books. It is like buying a mobile phone that only has the function of making calls. Without a book, no matter how good the cross talk actor is, it will be in vain.
The problem is that after the older generation of crosstalk authors gradually get older, a new generation of crosstalk authors has not emerged at all. It is also difficult for the current crosstalk industry to attract authors from other fields to create creations. Just rely on crosstalk actors to create their own creations. There are indeed certain difficulties.
4. Lack of research talents
Folk art also needs to be studied. An art must go through staged summary and summary before it can find the direction to go down. Master Hou Baolin’s main effort in his later years was to study language arts. At that time, there were many people in the folk art circle such as Xue Baokun. Such as folk art research experts, without research talents, it will be difficult for crosstalk to become a language art, let alone being able to enter the undergraduate course of folk art.
In recent years, folk art research talents have also begun to wither. The lack of research talents and creative talents will turn the cross talk industry into a rootless water.
2. The long-term value of the bachelor’s degree in folk arts
The bachelor’s degree in folk arts is a development direction that has been focused on in recent years under the leadership of the Chinese Music Association. Jiang Kun and Feng Gong, the presidents of the Chinese Music Association, have succeeded one after another, and only then have three university undergraduate programs in folk arts been approved.
The reason why the Chinese Quyi Association and crosstalk seniors attach so much importance to the construction of undergraduate courses in folk arts is because undergraduate courses in folk arts can solve many practical problems in the crosstalk industry.
1. Cultivate outstanding talents
The scope of outstanding talents includes not only outstanding actors, but also outstanding creative talents and research talents.
2. Improve the cultural heritage of the industry
The overall cultural level of the folk art industry is gradually improving. However, before the undergraduate degree in folk art, most of the folk arts academic education went to vocational art colleges or adult college entrance examinations. The quality of their students mainly focused on folk arts skills. This has resulted in the weakness of many actors who have excess skills and insufficient creative and performance standards.
An undergraduate degree in folk art not only requires skills, but also requires students to have a certain level of cultural knowledge. They also need to learn the history and laws of folk art and other related knowledge. This increase in all-round cultural heritage will help improve the cultural level of the entire industry.
3. The practical significance of the bachelor's degree in folk arts
For a long time, children who study folk arts have always given people an inherent impression. Only those who are not good at learning should learn that thing. Who should learn that thing if they are really good at it.
There are indeed many employees with low education and low cultural quality in the folk art industry, especially the cross talk circle, which further deepens the impression that folk art is equal to low education.
Even if there are some children who have loved folk arts since childhood and hope to take root in folk arts, it may be difficult for them to make up their mind to go on this road. After all, before the bachelor's degree in folk arts is approved, there is no decent folk arts degree. A vocational college degree is difficult to find a job in the society. There are indeed many obstacles.
The unified recruitment of undergraduates in folk arts solves this problem. Students who graduate from a bachelor's degree in folk arts can, on the one hand, engage in folk art-related careers. On the other hand, they can also use their academic qualifications to apply for civil servants or other literary and artistic units. They can also continue to pursue postgraduate studies.
In this way, parents can feel confident and bold to let their children continue on the path of folk art. If they can be admitted to Shandong University of the Arts, Liaoning University of Science and Technology or the Central Academy of Drama for a bachelor's degree in folk art, at least this academic qualification will dissuade many parents and Candidates’ concerns.
In a word, in modern society, whether you admit it or not, academic qualifications are a stepping stone. The practical significance of a bachelor's degree in folk art is to enable many children who learn folk art to have a more practical and stronger stepping stone.
4. Crosstalk requires culture
As early as when the Central Academy of Drama and Liaoning University of Science and Technology were approved for undergraduate programs in folk arts, there was a strange argument on the Internet that crosstalk did not require culture.
Some netizens also cited Guo Degang, Yue Yunpeng, Guo Qilin, Zhang Yunlei and others as examples. These four people have never seen a chemistry book, but they can become famous and make a lot of money.
This is a typical variation of the "study is useless" theory based on individual cases. It is true that there are some people in society who have extremely low educational levels but can make a lot of money, but if these cases are put at the level of the country's more than one billion people If measured, it will immediately become worthless.
For most people, culture is not just as simple as finding a job. On a small scale, it is of great help to personal growth. On a larger scale, it is absolutely indispensable for the prosperity of a country and nation.
The same is true for folk art and cross talk. Take Yue Yunpeng as an example. He crawls all over the stage to amuse the audience, and he can indeed make money. But when the audience gets tired of this shallow comedy, you ask him to say a paragraph. Well, he couldn't tell.
If Yue Yunpeng has a certain cultural foundation, he can be upwardly compatible with Shuowenxiangxiang, and downwardly compatible can continue to climb on the ground. At least his audience group can be increased, and his image will be improved a lot.
The key point is that our entire society has been moving forward, and the average social cultural level has been rising. People have real needs for real language arts. Looking forward, low-level or even vulgar entertainment methods will not be mainstream culture after all. Not the direction of development.
If folk art and cross talk are to keep up with the pace of the times and not be abandoned, it is necessary to improve the cultural level of the entire industry. Therefore, the long-term value of a bachelor's degree in folk art to the cross talk industry is immeasurable.
