The story of Guo Degang and Cao Yunjin has been updated again.
Not long ago, Guo Degang broadcast live on a short video platform, and hundreds of thousands of viewers flooded into the live broadcast room instantly.
Lao Guo is just chatting, talking about the outside world saying that he doesn’t eat beef, clarifying the father-son relationship between him and Guo Qilin, the parents’ filial piety, and so on.
Careful netizens discovered that in the gift ranking list in the live broadcast room, there was a netizen named Cao xx whose avatar was Cao Yunjin.
Cao Yunjin rewarded Guo Degang. This is so new.
As we all know, the master and apprentice have turned against each other for a long time. Is Cao Yunjin "a mouse giving New Year greetings to a cat"?
Some people disagree with this.
They said that this was a netizen wearing a vest and pretending to be Cao Yunjin, and everything was the effect of the show.
Unexpectedly, Cao Yunjin later admitted this matter in his live broadcast room. He said:
"Teacher Guo started broadcasting the day before, and I want to support it. No matter what, today the folk art track is ushering in excitement and prosperity. With more people paying attention, cross talk will usher in prosperity and glory on a larger stage. "
This is a beautiful statement, but netizens feel that Cao Yunjin is just trying to gain popularity.
He sent congratulatory gifts like crazy, but Guo Degang didn't accept it or didn't accept it. He could only choose to ignore it.
If there is some friction between the two in the future, everyone will think that Cao Yunjin has already shown his kindness, and it is you, Guo Degang, who has been holding the air.
Even netizens believe that this is a conspiracy designed by Cao Yunjin.
Brother Pi feels that these people have underestimated the relationship between Guo and Cao.
There is another mystery behind this matter.
1,
Guo Degang and Cao Yunjin do have grudges, and the grudges are not small.
Let’s briefly sort out the timeline.
Cao Yunjin became a disciple of Guo Degang in 2002 and joined Deyun Society.
Deyunshe became popular on the Internet after 2004. At that time, Cao Yunjin was still a young man.
In 2006, Cao Yunjin and He Yunwei became the most famous twins among Guo Degang's apprentices.
But the core are Guo Degang, Yu Qian, Zhang Wenshun, Xu Deliang, Li Jing, and behind them there are some old gentlemen such as Wang Wenlin, Liu Wenbu, and Xing Wenzhao. The
controversy began in 2008.
Xu Deliang and Wang Wenlin withdrew one after another. Their reason was that Lao Guo was too stingy and gave too little money.
Guo Degang asked He Yunwei, Cao Yunjin, Liu Yuntian and others to express their loyalty during the performance, and cursed those who quit. Yu Qian put it very tactfully, saying that "no amount of money they earn is enough."
In early 2010, the "Weiyang Palace" incident occurred, which was described in a miraculous way on the Internet.
Cao Yunjin took the lead in the "rebellion" at his master's birthday party. His wife stepped forward to stop him, and he loudly said: "I can't eat enough."
His wife knelt down in front of all the disciples and cried, saying that master and disciple are having a good time together. Well, suddenly everyone burst into tears.
This statement comes from "Deyun Society in My Eyes" written by Guo Degang's brother-in-law, and the plot is extremely dramatic.
The problem is that this brother-in-law was not working at Deyun Club at the time. How did he know so many details? After the
kneeling incident, Cao Yunjin did not withdraw from Deyun Club, and he also shared the stage with Lao Guo many times. The relationship between master and disciple has not been broken.
In August of that year, the incident of Li Hebiao beating a reporter broke out, and Deyun News Agency was labeled as "three vulgarities".
Li Jing and He Yunwei immediately quit Deyun Club and appeared on the 2011 Spring Festival Gala, completely distancing themselves from Guo Degang.
In the precarious moment, Cao Yunjin still stayed at Deyun Club.
lasted until the end of the year. Cao Yunjincai and Liu Yuntian officially withdrew from Deyun Club, leaving behind the words "Guo Degang will always be my master."
The common comment at the time was that He Yunwei stabbed Guo Degang in the back, and that Guo Degang, Cao Yunjin, and his master and apprentice reunited and parted.
In the six years since then, Cao Yunjin has never said a bad word about Guo Degang, and has always been grateful when he mentioned Deyun Club.
Guo Degang complained to reporters that one of his apprentices did not even send greetings during the New Year and holidays after leaving. Cao Yunjin immediately posted a New Year greeting text message to reporters.
The two masters and apprentices also met by chance at the backstage of the party. Cao Yunjin took the initiative to say hello, but Guo Degang left in a hurry with a dark face.
It was not until 2016 that Guo Degang revised the Deyunshe family tree and expelled Cao Yunjin from his master's door. This angered Cao Yunjin, and a master-disciple war was imminent.
Guo Degang wrote more than 7,000 words with great literary talent.
Cao Yunjin immediately responded with more than 6,000 words.
posted invoices, pointed out that the academic certificate issued by Guo Degang was fake, and even hinted that he had an affair with a female reporter. A set of combination punches all hit Guo Degang's seven inches.
Guo Degang had never lost a verbal battle before, but this time when he faced the apprentice who looked most like him, he gave up.
Cao Yunjin also gave his master face and did not continue to pursue him. The master and his disciples have now entered a long cold war period.
2,
Looking at the whole process, Cao Yunjin did not have much problem.
When Deyun Club used the modern enterprise system to "restrict" the disciples, it was he who represented all the brothers to negotiate with the master's wife.
He didn't expect that the master's wife would come and kneel down.
When Deyun Club was on the verge of collapse, he accompanied his master through the most difficult days.
He left only after Deyun Club reopened, and the breakup was decent enough.
When Deyunshe wanted to kill him, he was forced to fight back, but he stopped and saved some face for Guo Degang.
On the other hand, Guo Degang came up from the grassroots. He has a strong personality and never forgives others.
After Cao Yunjin left, he often eliminated his apprentices.
He once criticized Sang and Huai: "Not all bugs can turn into butterflies, because some are fucking maggots."
On the other side, he shouted to Cao Yunjin: "If you can't survive, come back, I will take care of you."
Finally, he poked Cao Yunjin in the spine and scolded him for "deceiving his teachers and destroying his ancestors, and being morally corrupt".
Of course, looking back now, Lao Guo’s words were harsh, but he did not really persecute his disciples.
The bond between master and disciple has not been lost.
The bustling world is all for profit, and the bustling world is all for profit.
The fundamental contradiction between the master and the disciple lies in their interests.
10 years have passed, both the master and the apprentice have become wealthy and free, and this contradiction no longer exists.
Both parties should have reconciled in their hearts, but they still need an opportunity to turn hostility into friendship.
Guo Degang is already a Buddha in the cross talk world, and it is impossible for him to bow his head.
Cao Yunjin was just a ship, so it was easy to turn around. He seized an opportunity this time.
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What was this opportunity that Cao Yunjin seized?
is the general trend of cross talk development.
If Western rap is rap and rap, then the earliest rap in China is cross talk.
It originated during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. It was first popular in Beijing and later spread to all parts of the country.
Crosstalk is a grassroots culture, so naturally there are some dirty things, such as pornographic jokes and obscene words.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the new era put forward certain requirements for the new look of cross talk.
Under Lao She’s suggestion and with the efforts of masters such as Hou Baolin and Ma Sanli, cross talk also began to be “purified”.
Its new theme can describe the times or describe daily life.
Compared with traditional cross talk, the pace of new era cross talk is faster and more suitable for public life.
After the 1980s, with the popularization of television, cross talk quickly entered thousands of households.
Most Chinese people learned about cross talk through the Spring Festival Gala. People such as Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Niu Qun and Feng Gong promoted the cross talk at the party. "Universe Brand Cigarettes", "Reverage in the Tiger's Mouth" and "Thieves Company" are excellent works of cross talk at the party.
Among them, the popular satirical cross talk has elevated cross talk from a language art to an elegant art.
html In the 1990s, with the tightening of standards, the Spring Festival Gala had more and more restrictions on cross talk, and cross talk at the gala gradually declined.
Fortunately, there are programs such as "Quyuan Zatan", "Variety Show Grand View" and "Weekend Happy Encounter". The evening cross talk is not desperate, but it has slowly reached a dead end.
After 2000, Guo Degang used traditional cross talk to invite the audience back to the small theater, and the half-dead cross talk art was forcibly renewed.
Guo Degang is popular, but the dregs of traditional cross talk are also exposed.
Firstly, the model is too old, and the actors only follow the script without innovation;
Secondly, it is too down-to-earth and contains too much ethical baggage.
From a certain perspective, cross talk has returned to the old ways.
As a result, the mainstream cross talk circle represented by Jiang Kun denounced Guo Degang, and CCTV launched a slogan against the three customs.
Of course, no one is right or wrong about this matter, they just have different positions.
The result of conflict and confrontation is not that one person destroys the other, but that the two sides reach a reconciliation through constant friction.
In fact, when Deyun Club went out of business for rectification, Jiang Kun silently helped behind the scenes.
CCTV later opened the door and allowed Guo Degang to attend the Spring Festival Gala.
The crosstalk circle has truly entered the era of Deyunshe.
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In the later development process of Deyunshe, it encountered a strong opponent-talk show.
In 2016, the program hosted by crosstalk actor Wang Zijian - "Tonight's Post-80s Talk Show" was broadcast. Many people were not aware of this trend.
Because talk shows have not formed a climate in the mainland before.
Zhou Libo’s Shanghai-style Qingkou, Li Boqing’s Sichuan storytelling, Huang Xi’s talk show, and Jin Xing’s “Venus Show” are all just small-circle culture.
It was not until the appearance of "Tonight's Post-80s Talk Show" that the behind-the-scenes writers represented by Li Dan began to step into the elegant hall. After
, they moved to the Internet and held "Tucao Conference" and "Talk Show Conference" successively. In just a few years, they formed a new force that could compete with cross talk.
The slogan "Everyone can speak in five minutes of talk show" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Crosstalk actors including Cao Yunjin and Yan Hexiang have all gone to the "Tucao Conference" as guests.
Faced with the impact of talk shows, Guo Degang showed disdain.
He said that talk show is the prelude part of stand-up comedy that existed 100 years ago. We can't start talking about Jigong and the Three Kingdoms with you. This prelude is the talk show.
If a cross talk artist is willing, everyone is a talk show actor. On the other hand, can a talk show actor speak cross talk?
Guo Degang’s tone was a bit crazy, but what he said made sense.
Crosstalk actors have all practiced speaking and singing, which takes decades. Crosstalk itself pays more attention to performance. A joke can be repeated repeatedly and the audience will never tire of it.
However, most of the talk show actors became monks halfway and have no acting skills. Among the stand-up comedians in the head of
, Hu Lan talks breathlessly, while Yang Li keeps saying "you know".
Although their performance is fresh, it relies too much on text. The audience will not be happy to hear a joke the second time.
As expected, the "Talk Show Conference" only ran for five times, and the creativity of the leading actors was quickly drained.
The witty Li Xueqin quickly left the talk show and went to the variety show circle, while others continued to be involved.
A joke in House last year that insulted soldiers directly brought down the industry.
Deyunshe passed through a crisis "safely" in this way.
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Deyunshe has also encountered the impact of some newcomers in content creation.
A few years ago, there was a controversial scene in "Crosstalk: Newcomers".
A couple who graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with Ph.D.s came to the competition with the so-called "formula cross talk".
As it turned out, their jokes were all lame homophonic jokes and school jokes. Their basic skills were very poor. The rhythm and tone of their performance were completely wrong, and there were very few laughs on the spot.
During the post-match communication session, the male doctor made rude remarks and gave Guo Degang a copy of "The Finite Element of Crosstalk". He also mocked Guo for not being able to understand. He claimed that traditional crosstalk was outdated and he wrote 560 jokes using formula crosstalk.
Guo Degang responded that existence is reasonable, and formula cross talk has its own reasons, but there is only one criterion for measuring the success of cross talk - commercial performance.
You don’t need to talk about the hype, just go to the Shanghai Stadium for a commercial performance. If the audience is willing to buy tickets, it is a success. If they are not, it is a failure.
Several years have passed, and the farce of formula cross talk has ended.
Deyunshe continues to move forward despite stumbling.
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If we talk about the problems we encountered before, they are still a little drizzle.
So what Guo Degang and Cao Yunjin are facing now is a major change that has never happened in the century-old history of cross talk.
On Guo Degang's side, Deyun Club is already the dominant one.
Guo Degang has survived the rough period, and he has the feeling of a great master, with the cross talk empire he has built behind him.
But the problem also lies here. Because it monopolizes the entire industry, Deyunshe lacks internal driving force.
Take the first brother Xiao Yueyue as an example.
How long has he been famous? He is still amusing the audience by acting cute and mean. He has been on the Spring Festival Gala for several years, and his masterpiece is "Song of the Five Rings".
Others regurgitated old jokes and said that Deyunshe even transformed into an MCN organization, cultivated several traffic stars, and harvested a large number of Deyunshe girls. The fandom culture has become parallel to the art of cross talk.
Guo Degang is also very busy now.
serves as a mentor, a judge, and records variety shows.
He said that cross talk is also a retelling of a few old jokes, which are all about the Yu Qian family.
Guo Degang himself is aware of the crisis. He has made it clear before that Deyun Club will not broadcast crosstalk live online.
But recently he started broadcasting on the short video platform, which was interpreted as asking for advice. Deyunshe is likely to enter the live broadcast industry.
And Cao Yunjin has already tasted the sweetness of live broadcast. After
left Deyunshe, he founded Tingyunxuan. After a few years of operation, news spread online that it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Later, there were rumors about his marriage, and his reputation among passers-by had dropped to freezing point.
But in the middle of last year, he suddenly turned around by doing cross talk live broadcasts. In the
live broadcast room, Cao Yunjin has a humble attitude and friendly interactions with the audience.
cooperated with his old partner Liu Yuntian and interacted with the new force Miao Fu to carry forward the traditional cross talk and become unique in the wave of live broadcasts where the devils are dancing.
The number of people online at the same time in his live broadcast room exceeded 400,000, and the cumulative number of viewers in one session exceeded 10 million.
Cao Yunjin also took advantage of the opportunity to build his live broadcast room into an online crosstalk teahouse, where he can talk crosstalk for free, and his reputation among passers-by has quickly picked up.
But Cao Yunjin’s problem is that the popularity in the live broadcast room cannot be transferred offline.
Most of the people who go to his live broadcast room are passers-by, mainly watching the excitement.
I am not optimistic whether these people will buy tickets offline to support him.
Even if there are people who really love cross talk, they can listen to it for free in your live broadcast room. Who would still want to buy a ticket to watch it?
So Cao Yunjin’s offline special performance is not ideal.
His special performance was held in a theater with 1,200 people. The show started in 2 hours, and there were still a lot of 100 yuan tickets left.
On the other hand, at Deyun Club, Guo Degang’s disciples and grandsons just held a special show, and the tickets were sold out quickly.
Guo Degang and Cao Yunjin, the grudge master and apprentice, met again at the crossroads of fate after going around in circles for more than 10 years.
's basic market is stable enough, but there are many problems that are difficult to recover;
has accumulated traffic in a short period of time, but it has been unable to realize it.
Only Cao Yunjin can imitate the essence of Guo Degang's performance, and Guo Degang knows this better than anyone else.
's apprentice has already taken the initiative to show his kindness. If he can put down his arrogance and the master and apprentice can put aside their old feud and compete in the live broadcast circle together, the next spring of cross talk may really come.
Every era is a form of artistic performance that belongs to this era. Let go of your prejudices and accept a new platform. It was already destined that the two of them would end with this ending. The turmoil in the live broadcast room between the master and apprentice
has made a good start, but everything has just begun. A good thing is also happening in the domestic cross talk circle.
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