In September 2024, Guo Degang released a video announcing that he would reorganize "The History of Chinese Crosstalk", which aroused the curiosity of crosstalk enthusiasts. There is no other reason. The cross talk drama "The History of Chinese Cross Talk" is of great signifi

In September 2024, Guo Degang released a video announcing that he would rearrange "The History of Chinese Crosstalk", which aroused the curiosity of crosstalk enthusiasts.

There is no other reason. The cross talk drama "History of Chinese Cross Talk" is of great significance to Guo Degang and Deyun Society. It is not only a Waterloo, but also has a profound impact on the cross talk style of Deyun Society.

This article will talk about Guo Degang's rearrangement of "History of Chinese Crosstalk".

1. Why did Guo Degang fail?

Guo Degang was originally full of confidence in "The History of Chinese Crosstalk". This can be seen from the scale of the entire performance. Almost all members of the Deyun Society participated in the performance and rehearsed continuously for a long time.

However, "The History of Chinese Crosstalk" still failed. Not only was it booed everywhere, but it was even booed by the audience. In the end, it was a complete mess.

Afterwards, some self-media said that the reason for the failure of the "History of Chinese Crosstalk" was that colleagues caused trouble. This is obviously a respectful statement. In fact, there are many reasons for the failure of "History of Chinese Crosstalk".

On the one hand, it was a publicity error. At that time, the ticket sales were for the Guo Degang cross talk show. As a result, the audience spent a lot of money to buy tickets but saw a low-level cross talk show. Naturally, it was difficult to accept it. If "" "History of Chinese Crosstalk", the audience will not cause trouble on the spot if they are mentally prepared.

On the other hand, the level is still not good. Guo Degang said that "The History of Chinese Crosstalk" was created by Yu Qian for several nights. Although it sounds like a lot of hard work, such a short creation time is simply too long for a large-scale crosstalk drama. Jokes, coupled with the fact that the actors of Deyun Club at that time generally lacked experience in cross talk dramas, the level of "Chinese Cross Talk History" could not be improved.

In addition, another very important reason is that Guo Degang's so-called "History of Chinese Crosstalk" has a serious problem, that is, Guo Degang contains private goods.

There is an obvious loophole in the narrative timeline of "The History of Chinese Crosstalk". When history came to the reform and opening up, it was directly announced that the crosstalk industry was defeated by pop songs and entered a trough.

After a group of Deyun Club actors performed a plot about how a crosstalk actor was thrown off the stage in embarrassment by the audience, the plot directly entered 2005 when Guo Degang became famous.

In other words, if we follow the narrative logic of "The History of Chinese Crosstalk", the crosstalk industry has been in trouble since the reform and opening up, and it took more than 20 years for Guo Degang to save it.

Those who are familiar with the crosstalk industry and even older netizens who are not familiar with crosstalk know that "History of Chinese Crosstalk" obviously deliberately missed an important period, which was the peak period of crosstalk in the 1980s and 1990s.

The peak period of crosstalk in the 1980s and 1990s

According to media statistics in 2023, there were a total of 97 crosstalk sketch language programs in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala from 1983 to 1992, of which 53 were crosstalk works, accounting for more than half. The most popular one was the 1992 Spring Festival Gala, when a total of seven crosstalks appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage, becoming the most in history.

CCTV Spring Festival Gala has 79 language programs from 2013 to 2022, of which there are only 20 cross talk works, accounting for only one quarter. Among them, there are seven sketch programs on the 2020 Spring Festival Gala, and only one cross talk.

Just from the comparison of the number of language programs in the Spring Festival Gala, we can see that the 1980s and 1990s were the golden period of the crosstalk industry.

Since the late 1970s, crosstalk, a popular language program for the common people, has entered a rapid blowout period, which is specifically reflected in the following points:

Crosstalk has dominated the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, with crosstalk actors not only serving as hosts but also as Spring Festival Gala planners , cross talk actors also discovered well-known sketch actors such as Chen Peisi, Zhu Shimao and Zhao Benshan .

. Excellent crosstalk actors are blooming everywhere. The older generation of crosstalk actors represented by Ma Sanli Hou Baolin are getting stronger and stronger. Ma Ji, Chang Baoting, Tang Jiezhong, Li Wenhua and other famous crosstalk actors have frequently produced masterpieces. Jiang Kun, Feng Gong, New generation actors such as Niu Qun, Hou Yaowen, Shi Fukuan, Li Jindou, Shi Shengjie, Zhao Yan and others continue to emerge.

. Excellent cross talk works emerge in endlessly. Classic cross talk works such as "Photographed Like This", "Dreams in the Tiger's Mouth", "Wu Song Fights the Tiger", "Five Senses Strive for Merit", "Clever Names" and "Thieves Company" are constantly being introduced.

. Crosstalk commercial performances are extremely popular. Famous crosstalk masters represented by Ma Ji, Yang Zhenhua, and Jiang Kun are hard to get tickets for crosstalk commercial performances across the country. It has become a routine practice to hold crosstalk commercial performances in stadiums with tens of thousands of people.

. The art of cross talk has gone abroad. Hou Baolin led the team to tour the United States. Ma Ji and Jiang Kun led the team to tour Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and other places many times. Foreign friends represented by Dashan and Carol also started to learn cross talk. upsurge.

. There is a "crosstalk craze" in the whole society. As long as there is a party, there must be a crosstalk program. From "Journey to the West Qi Tianle Party" and "Dream of Red Mansions Party" to universities across the country, from industrial and mining enterprises to street communities, crosstalk has become the most popular program of that era. forms of entertainment.

. A group of children who were interested in cross talk, represented by Guo Degang, Yu Qian, Li Weijian and others, joined the cross talk industry in the 1980s and started their cross talk careers one after another. Cheng Zhi, Shu Shen and Cao Duo represented There are countless amateur crosstalk actors in various industries across the country.

, the status of crosstalk actors and the crosstalk industry has been greatly improved, and the art of crosstalk has grown from a light cavalry on the literary and artistic front to the top of the folk arts.

It can be said that without the peak period of the crosstalk industry in the 1980s and 1990s, crosstalk would not have rapidly expanded its popularity across the country and cultivated a large number of crosstalk audiences.

Starting from the mid-to-late 1990s, with the development of entertainment diversification, the crosstalk industry began to decline due to various reasons. It was not until Guo Degang became popular in 2005 that the crosstalk industry set off another boom.

However, whether it is considered from multiple dimensions such as the overall level of crosstalk actors, the overall quality of crosstalk works, the artistic status of crosstalk, or the overall influence of the crosstalk industry, the crosstalk craze that started after 2005 can only be called a boom at best, and cannot be compared with the previous century. It is comparable to the peak period of cross talk in the 1980s and 1990s.

Strictly speaking, if compared to the peak period of cross talk in the 1980s and 1990s, the current cross talk industry is still in a relatively low period, although there are many topics and a large flow of traffic.

For example, the cross talk industry in the 1980s and 1990s was on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the late 1990s and early 21st century, it gradually declined to the Sichuan Basin. Although it climbed up Wushan Mountain after 2005, it seemed to be higher again. But it is still a lot shorter than the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

3. Why does "History of Chinese Crosstalk" contain private goods?

According to public information, Guo Degang was born in 1973 and started learning crosstalk in the 1980s. He certainly knows the history of crosstalk, but why did he deliberately delete the 1980s and 1990s in the "History of Chinese Crosstalk" What about the peak period of cross talk?

The reason is not difficult to understand. The representative figures of cross talk in the 1980s and 1990s were Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Niu Qun, Feng Gong, etc. The representative groups were also China Broadcasting Art Troupe, Beijing Folk Art Troupe, Railway Art Troupe, and Tianjin Folk Art Troupe. Groups within the system represented by the Youth League, the Coal Mine Art Troupe, and the ACFTU Art Troupe. In the concept that Guo Degang instilled in fans, these are all "mainstream cross talk."

If Guo Degang rehearses "The History of Chinese Crosstalk" realistically and according to real history, he will inevitably "praise" the so-called "mainstream crosstalk", which will have a slap in the face effect. The "mainstream cross talk" in newspapers was so brilliant back then.

What’s more terrible is that if Guo Degang’s fans understand the true history of the cross talk industry, it is likely to destroy the logical system that has been established in the fan group, and the fans will be confused. If some people really understand the history of cross talk, they will not be able to understand the history of cross talk. If it is good, the phenomenon of powder removal will occur.

Under such circumstances, Guo Degang had to consider whether to include real history in the "History of Chinese Crosstalk". In 2011, he chose to include private information and delete the peak period of crosstalk in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2024, Guo Degang announced the rearrangement of "The History of Chinese Crosstalk". If he continues to bring in private goods and does not truly reflect the history of crosstalk, then this crosstalk drama will still only be regarded as a fandom work and cannot be regarded as elegant. If he breaks through the pattern and chooses to seek truth from facts, Even if there are problems with fans, it is still a worthy approach.

After the performance of "The History of Chinese Crosstalk" in 2011, Guo Degang said an impassioned speech to the audience, including this sentence: History is passed step by step, and no stage is perfect. It is so difficult to wait for these five minutes. ?

would like to say something to Mr. Guo Degang: The history of cross talk is made step by step. No stage is perfect. Is it so difficult to seek truth from facts and truly reproduce history?