He grew up watching xiangsheng, or cross talk, a traditional style of Chinese comedy where lines are typically traded between two performers.
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"For the full year and longer term, overcapacity will still be the dominant issue in the industry," CPCIF vice chairman Fu Xiangsheng said at a press briefing.
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Fu Xiangsheng, vice chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) said China will have 44 million tonnes of PX production capacity by 2025, versus 13.8 million tonnes in 2018.
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That play dealt with the death of culture, "cross talk" in particular, and unexpectedly was a huge commercial success, at the same time reviving the dying traditional comic performing art called cross talk (xiangsheng).
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But the inspections have already disrupted the flow of key chemical ingredients, and forced international suppliers to look elsewhere or even consider moving their businesses abroad, said Fu Xiangsheng, the vice chairman of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association.
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He also published three xiangsheng collections and critiques containing a total of 45 xiangsheng scripts. In 2000, his article introducing Singaporean xiangsheng was published in the column on xiangsheng history, published in the Chinese Xiangsheng Network. At the same time, Han is a noted playwright active in the Singaporean drama scene. He has written a total of nine full-length drama and many short plays.
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After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the popularity of Xiangsheng increased. Previously seen as relatively low-class street performing, Xiangsheng became regarded as a proletarian art form. Because it was performed in Mandarin Chinese, Xiangsheng became a useful tool for promoting the use of Mandarin Chinese throughout China. In the 1950s, Hou Baolin led a group of Xiangsheng performers to reform Xiangsheng, removing language and content that was considered "vulgar" and generally making it more "politically correct".
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In 1984, Han got to befriend Ma Ji, and in 1986, Han also befriended noted performers like Jiang Kun and Tang Jie Zhong. After making these acquaintances, Han began to absorb all the artistic knowledge he can from these noted xiangsheng performers so that he could bring the art of xiangsheng to Singapore, and promote the local xiangsheng culture. He worked hard with other xiangsheng enthusiasts, and produced many scripts for local performances. His works garnered many local awards and won many xiangsheng competitions.
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While enjoying tea and leisure here, people can also enjoy Laotianqiao folklore performances such as storytelling, opera, acrobatics and Xiangsheng. Every weekend, Deyunshe will perform Xiangsheng here.
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Li was born on 15 October 1947, in Beijing. He started to learn the arts of xiangsheng from master Zhao Zhenduo (赵振铎). At the age of 13, he became an eighth-generation xiangsheng performer. Li performed xiangsheng in many areas, such as America, Canada, Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan.
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Shen Chunhe (), better known by his stage name Shen Er (), was a Qing dynasty Chinese xiangsheng performer. Before performing xiangsheng, he was a storyteller. He studied under Zhang Sanlu and became a second-generation xiangsheng performer. His disciples include Wei Kunzhi (), Wang Youdao (), Li Changchun (), Gao Wenyuan (), Feng Kunzhi, and Yu Erfu ().
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Guo Donglin (; born 18 October 1966) is a Chinese actor and xiangsheng performer. He is notable for performing xiangsheng and sketch comedy in CCTV New Year's Gala from 1993 to present.
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Li Jing (;; born 1978) is a Chinese comedian and xiangsheng actor. He, along with Guo Degang and Zhang Wenshun, founded the popular xiangsheng group Deyunshe. He has also appeared in many films.
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Hou Baolin (; November 29, 1917 – February 4, 1993) was a Chinese xiangsheng performer.Hou Baolin, Crosstalk Performer He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performers and was mentor to many later xiangsheng performers. His apprentices include Ma Ji, Ding Guangquan, Shi Shengjie, and Wu Zhaonan. He was the father of Hou Yaohua and Hou Yaowen.
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The acts would sometimes include singing, Chinese rapping, and musical instruments. According to Canadian Xiangsheng comedian Dashan (Mark Rowswell), the closest English Xiangsheng-equivalent is "Who's on First?", a sketch by Abbott and Costello.
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Yang Shaohua (; born 1931) is a Chinese xiangsheng comedian and actor.
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Then he started to learn the arts of xiangsheng from the xiangsheng master Ma Ji. He also worked in a textiles machine factory. Feng was considered more talented than many other students of Ma Ji, and eventually emerged as a new star, performing progressively to bigger venues. Niu Qun () and Liu Wei () were his partners when performing xiangsheng. Feng appeared in the first CCTV New Year's Gala in 1986; he has appeared at almost every Chunwan performance for the next thirty years, variably in skits and xiangsheng.
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Many performers called for a return of performing Xiangsheng in teahouses and small theaters, which had traditionally been the main venues for Xiangsheng performances but were almost never used at the time. A new generation of Xiangsheng performers emerged from this movement, including Guo Degang. Guo has been credited with renewing interest among young millennial audiences, who found Xiangsheng to be boring and didactic. Guo's rise to fame, while representing a very traditionalist movement, pitted him against more mainstream, establishment performers, such as Jiang Kun.
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After the Cultural Revolution, he was transferred to Tianjin Opera Group. He began performing xiangsheng with Ma Zhiming (), a renowned xiangsheng comedian, in 1970s. In 2018, Yang had appeared in the CCTV New Year's Gala show.
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There are some variety shows for young Xiangsheng actors to promote themselves like "Xiangsheng Has New Talents" (Chinese: 相声有新人) and "Happy Comedian" (Chinese: 欢乐喜剧人), both hosted by Guo Degang.
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There are three major sources of Xiangsheng: Beijing Tianqiao, Tianjin Quanyechang, and the Nanjing Confucius Temple. The origins of certain modern-day Xiangsheng pieces can be traced back well over 100 years, though in many cases, the original author is unattributed. Many skits in "traditional Xiangsheng" have evolved through generations of performers successively revising material, retaining the general structure or "heart" of a piece while updating specific references with more modern material. One of the earliest Xiangsheng pioneers is a person known by name of Zhang Sanlu (), who performed during the mid-19th century.
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Wu began performing xiangsheng in 1951 and later exited the restaurant business as his popularity grew. Performing on radio and on stage, he became one of the most famous xiangsheng actors in Taiwan. He frequently partnered with , and their radio show became an iconic memory in Taiwan. Wu moved to the United States in 1973, where he continued to perform xiangsheng as well as Peking opera.
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In August 1969, Shi became a sent-down youth and worked at Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps. In 1975, he began performing xiangsheng with Jiang Kun, a renowned xiangsheng comedian. In 1984, he became the last disciple of Hou Baolin, one of the most popular and influential xiangsheng performers in the PRC era. Shi had appeared in the CCTV New Year's Gala show since 1989.
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Ma Sanli (1914–2003), an ethnic Hui and longtime resident of Tianjin, is renowned for his xiangsheng, a hugely popular form of Chinese entertainment akin to comedy. Ma Sanli delivered some of his xiangsheng in the Tianjin dialect. Tianjin, along with Beijing, is a center for the art of xiangsheng. Tianjin's style of stand-up also includes the use of rhythmic bamboo clappers, kuaiban.
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Today, the most consumed genres of Chinese comedy are Chinese skit and Xiangsheng.
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He held his first personal Xiangsheng Performance in big theatre with Zhou Jiuliang in 2018. From August to October 2018, Meng starred in Xiangsheng Has New Talents, a Xiangsheng talent show airing on national TV, and won first place with Zhou Jiuliang. In 2020, he participated in Happy Comedian Season 6 and won second place. Meng starred in Neng Nai Da Le, a Deyunshe-produced TV series in 2018.
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After the Chinese Civil War, a number of performers from South China traveled to Malaysia for development (before Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia). Feng Xiang (Chinese: 冯翔), Bai Yan, and Lu Ding performed Xiangsheng in this region. In the multi-language environment of Malaysia, "Malaysian Xiangsheng" became different from Xiangsheng in mainland China and Taiwan. Since Mandarin Chinese is not a mainstream language in Malaysia, there are few professional performers in Malaysia.
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Hou Yaowen (; July 17, 1948 – June 23, 2007), or Hou Yuewen (), was a Chinese xiangsheng actor.
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Ding's master was the famous Xiangsheng master, Hou Baolin, whom he studied under starting in 1973.
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Northern Xiangsheng has been popular in Hong Kong since the Zhongyuan period. As early as the Qing Dynasty, storytellers from China brought Xiangsheng to South Guangdong and Hong Kong. After Hong Kong was ceded as a British colony,Citation error. See inline comment how to fix.
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Bates was formally invited to begin the study of xiangsheng (a traditional form of "crosstalk" comedy) by famous Chinese comedian Ding Guangquan after his success in the Chinese Bridge contest. In February 2012, in a traditional ceremony at the Confucius Institute, University of Hawaii, he was formally accepted into the xiangsheng hierarchy when he took Ding Guangquan to be his Shifu. Today xiangsheng is still a large part of Bates' work, and he performs regularly on China Central Television.
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Su Wenmao (; January 24, 1929 — May 3, 2015) was a Chinese xiangsheng comedian. He was born on January 24, 1929 to a poor family.Circles farewell Su Wenmao Newsletter: applause, laughter forever In his youth, he greatly enjoyed xiangsheng. In the 1940s, he worked as a teacher in Tianjin.
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In the 1940s and 50s, Hong Kong cinema began to develop rapidly, and Xiangsheng began to integrate into emerging media. In old Hong Kong movies, Xiangsheng-inspired comedy began to integrate into early Hong Kong cinema, mostly in the form of monologues and characters teasing each other. In 1957, the first Chinese- language TV media in the world was created; it was called Rediffusion Television Limited and was the predecessor of Asia Television. Xiangsheng became a fixed performance for variety shows.
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Chang Baohua (December 1930 – 7 September 2018) was a Chinese xiangsheng comedian of Manchu ethnicity. He was one of the sixth generation of well-known Chinese xiangsheng actors. He authored one hundred and seventy works. Chang was a member of the Communist Party of China and a first-level national actor.
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He started to learn the arts of traditional Chinese opera. In 1925, he studied under Liu Dezhi () and became a fifth-generation xiangsheng performer. In 1940, he performed xiangsheng with Hou Baolin and became widely known. In 1951, Guo and Hou Baolin gave a gratitude performance at the front of the Korean War.
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Meng Hetang (), born in Harbin, China, is a Chinese crosstalk (xiangsheng) comedian and actor. He partners with Zhou Jiuliang on stage and currently leads Performance Team 7 in Deyunshe. He won Xiangsheng Has New Talents (相声有新人) in 2018 and made his film debut with Da Ying Jia in 2020.
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Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaoning on October 20, 1957 to actor parents. After graduating from Shenyang Normal University he was assigned to Shenyang Troupe, he studied xiangsheng under Tang Jiezhong (). Gong started to perform xiangsheng and sketch comedy in 1986. He frequently performed on stage with the famous Zhao Lirong prior to her death.
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Yue Yunpeng (; born 15 April 1985) is a Chinese actor and xiangsheng performer, best known in film for portraying Zhu Tianpeng in Buddies in India (2017), Yue Yunpeng in Top Funny Comedian: The Movie and Li Shuaiting in Revenge for Love. Mainly performing xiangsheng as the lead actor (Dougen), his current fixed partner is Sun Yue (Chinese: 孙越).
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Although Han was born in Singapore, his forefathers were from Wen Chang province in Hainan, China. Han started composing xiangsheng plays since the 1970s, and he started studying the works of renowned xiangsheng artist Ma Ji . Han's debut play was entitled "The gift ticket". The play was performed in Singapore and major towns and cities all over peninsula Malaysia.
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Chang authored over 170 works in the genres of xiangsheng, short sketches and kuaiban (clappertalk). Fifty of these appeared in newspapers. Yesterday () was translated into English and published in foreign language newspapers. Hat Factory () and short sketch Language Doctor () were published in the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao in an article called Selected Xiangsheng of Chang's Family ().
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Xiangsheng (), also known as crosstalk, is a traditional Chinese comedic performance in different forms of dialogue. Xiangsheng is a language art combining four basic techniques: speaking, imitating, teasing, and singing. It can be conducted by one or two performers. It is one of the most popular forms of entertainment because its language is rich in puns and allusions.
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In China, xiangsheng (also known as crosstalk) is a traditional comedic performance usually in the form of a dialogue between two performers.
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Following Rowswell's first appearance as "Dashan", he began formal study of xiangsheng ( a traditional Chinese comedic performance) with his mentor, comedian Jiang Kun (). In December 1989, Dashan became the first foreigner to be formally accepted into the strict xiangsheng hierarchy as a member of the "9th generation," a move that caused considerable controversy in Chinese performing arts circles at the time. Xiangsheng is often called "the art of comedic language," and as such is regarded in China as a highly skilled form of performing art beyond the reach of most native speakers, much less a foreigner.
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Xiangsheng performers in a Tianjin theater. Xiangsheng (), also known as crosstalk, is a traditional performing art in Chinese comedy, and one of the most popular elements in Chinese culture. It is typically performed as a dialogue between two performers, or rarely as a monologue by a solo performer (similar to most forms of stand-up comedy in Western culture), or even less frequently, as a group act by multiple performers. The Xiangsheng language, rich in puns and allusions, is delivered in a rapid, bantering style, typically in the Beijing dialect (or in Mandarin Chinese with a strong northern accent).
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Zhu became part of the original "Eight Oddities of Tianqiao" (天桥八怪), alongside three other xiangsheng artistes, three martial arts practitioners, and a man who could produce melodies with his nose. Zhu popularised xiangsheng involving two people or more, as opposed to a one-man performance which was the norm then. He wrote many original scripts and those that have survived are still performed to this day. Zhu also used xiangsheng as a vehicle for criticising the corrupt ruling government, as seen in several works of his, including "Picture of Attaining Victory" (得胜图) and "Words" (字象).
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As with many forms of performance art, Xiangsheng was banned during the Cultural Revolution. It experienced a huge resurgence in the mid-1970s, with many skits satirizing the Gang of Four and excesses of this period. With the popularization of television in the 1980s, Xiangsheng became a standard feature of the annual New Year's Gala of China Central Television (CCTV), as well as other popular performing arts shows in China. Xiangsheng entered a period of decline in the 1990s, caused largely by increased official sensitivity towards political and social satire following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, as well as the lack of performance venues outside of sanitized state-run television programming.
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Hou later became widely regarded as a master of Xiangsheng. He is often regarded as "China's Charlie Chaplin".Citation error. See inline comment how to fix.
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On November 25, 2016, Xu Geyang performed in a show in a traditional Chinese comedic style known as xiangsheng or "cross talk" with actor Sheng Lang.
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Ma Ji (; 2 August 1934 – 20 December 2006), born Ma Shuhuai (), was a Chinese xiangsheng comedian. He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performers and was mentor to many younger performers. His disciples include Jiang Kun, Zhao Yan, Liu Wei, Feng Gong, Xiaolin, Wang Qianxiang, Li Zengrui, Han Lancheng, Liu Xiyao, Peng Ziyi, Yin Zhuolin, Yao Xinguang, Zhao Longjun, Xing Yingying, Liu Lixin, and Hou Guannan.
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Fan Kuang-yao (born 3 May 1975) is a Taiwanese actor and xiangsheng performer. He has been nominated for three Golden Bell Awards and won once in 2005.
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Hou Baolin was born in Tianjin, China on November 29, 1917. He joined the Peking Opera Troupe at the age of 12, before switching his profession to being a xiangsheng performer, in which he studied under Zhu Kuoquan. After the founding of new China, the social status of folk performers rose considerably. Hou joined the Quyi Art Troupe of the Chinese Broadcasting Recitation and Ballad Troupe and made major contributions to China's xiangsheng art.
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Gong Hanlin (; born 20 October 1957) is a Chinese actor and xiangsheng performer and sketch comedy performer. Gong is notable for performing sketch comedy in CCTV New Year's Gala since 1990.
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Ni Min-jan (; 30 April 1946 – April 2005) was a famous well-rounded Taiwanese celebrity and entertainer. TV and movie star. Comedian and recording artist. Cross-talk(Xiangsheng) and play writer.
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Shi was born in Heping District of Tianjin, China, on 3 April 1953, to Shi Shiyuan () and Gao Xiuqin (), both were well-known xiangsheng performers in Tianjin and Beijing. At the age of 6, Shi moved to Harbin, Heilongjiang to live with his father. He then studied xiangsheng under Zhu Xiangchen (). In late 1965, Shi's father committed suicide because of persecution at the early stage of the Cultural Revolution, and his elder brother was denounced as a "counterrevolutionary".
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Originally a performer of Ba Jiao Gu (drum-song) (), Zhang eventually switched to doing imitations and telling humorous stories. Later artists considered Zhang to have been one of the first Xiangsheng performers.
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Through the 1990s, Dashan appeared frequently on national and regional television programs across China to perform xiangsheng and comedic skits, including several appearances on CCTV's annual television program celebrating the Chinese New Year, CCTV New Year's Gala (), in 1998 and 1999. This program is China's most watched annual television event, with an estimated audience of 900 million to 1 billion viewers. Appearances on this and other programs gained Dashan wide recognition throughout China. Dashan's public xiangsheng performances decreased in the early 21st century.
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He pursued his art in Tianjin. He became a widower in 1984. In December 2001, Ma retired from the Xiangsheng trade. On 11 February 2003, he died in Tianjin after a long battle with cancer.
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Zhu Shaowen (; 1829–1903), better known by his stage name Fear No Poverty (穷不怕), was a Chinese storyteller and xiangsheng performer, widely regarded as one of the earliest performers of the art. Born in Beijing, China, Zhu was the protégé of late Qing dynasty entertainer Zhang Sanlu, and specialised in puns. Zhu was amongst the "Eight Oddities of Tianqiao" (天桥八怪) and mentored later xiangsheng artistes. He died in 1903, and to this day, many of his works are still performed.
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In 1701, in the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), magistrate Peng Xiangsheng () appropriated a large sum of money for constructing the temple. Under the leadership of Xinru (), the reconstruction was completed in 1706.
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Guo Degang () is a Chinese crosstalk (xiangsheng) comedian and actor. Guo's film appearances include The 601st Phone Call, Just Another Pandora's Box, and Mystery. Guo has also directed the films Our Happiness and The Faces of My Gene.
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In 1967, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) was created, and the variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight was launched. Xiangsheng began to appear in several variants in the variety show, such as the host's speech and the show to show lines.
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Feng Gong (; born 6 December 1957) is a Chinese actor, xiangsheng performer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his performances in the annual CCTV New Year's Gala, having made more appearances on the show than every other major performer.
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In September 2020, China News Service reported that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism stated that it will focus on strengthening the content censorship and on-site supervision of talk shows, Xiangsheng, Pioneer drama, experimental drama and other language shows.
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Han Lao Da () is a Singaporean playwright, as well as founder and principal of Han Language Centre. Han received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions in the Singaporean drama scene, and is also recognised for his xiangsheng contributions in Singapore.
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Xiangsheng is a style of traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a monologue or dialogue. Chinese performers usually clap with the audience at the end of a performance; the return applause is a sign of appreciation to the audience.
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Chang was taught by his father, Chang Lianan, and his brother, Chang Baofang. Chang debuted at nine years of age and later appeared at a xiangsheng convention at the Qi Ming Tea House, in the Xi Dan shopping mall, Beijing.
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In early 2009 Dashan made a return to the CCTV New Year's Gala to perform a xiangsheng skit in which he appeared together with Ma Dong (), son of the famous xiangsheng master Ma Ji (). The skit received 2nd Prize in the audience choice awards announced at the end of the Chinese New Year holiday. With this performance, Dashan became (at the time) the only foreign national to have appeared on the CCTV New Year's Gala a total of three times."春晚“英伦组合”得三等奖" China Daily, Beijing, February 9, 2009.
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Xiangsheng is generally thought to have originated in the late Qing Dynasty, particularly during the rules of the Xianfeng Emperor and the Tongzhi Emperor in the mid-1800s, although its roots may extend as far back as the Ming Dynasty. It began as a form of street performance, incorporating joke-telling, comedic banter, imitations, or borrowing from other performance arts, such as Peking opera, all with the express purpose of making audiences laugh. By the early days of the Republic of China, Xiangsheng had evolved into a more modern format. It was performed in teahouses, theaters, and, eventually, on radio and television.
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Jiang Kun (; born November 19, 1950) is a Chinese comedian, specializing in the xiangsheng trade. A native of Beijing, he was a of another renowned comedian, Ma Ji. Jiang Kun currently acts as deputy chairman of the Association of Chinese Folk Art.
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The pressure of Deyun Society was formed under their struggles, and some media began to ban the exhibition of Deyunshe. In addition, the defects of the internal management of Deyun have also surfaced, because of the withdraw of four capable Xiangsheng actors.
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The performance form of Deyunshe is xiangsheng (cross-talk) which is originally meant to stimulate others, but it has been standardised by the form of rhyming techniques such as the vocalisation of the mouth during the Qing Xianfeng and Tongzhi eras in North China.
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In a 2005 interview with the Chongqing Evening News, Dashan stated that he seldom performs xiangsheng due to the increased requirements that performers stick to a stipulated topic as well as exceeding audience expectations since his televised debut."Dashan signs books, trashes crosstalk in Chongqing", Danwei, July 12, 2005. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
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Feng is usually one of the first acts of the show; it is said he appears earlier in the program so that he can drive home to Tianjin to spend midnight on new year with his mother. In 1988, he won the championship at the competition of xiangsheng performances in Dalian held by China Central Television.
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Ma was born in Beijing; he was of the Hui ethnic group, and the son and grandson of practitioners of Xiangsheng. He was apprenticed to Zhou Deshan in 1929. Ma was a Chinese Muslim, his faith being Islam. He came to be noted for avoiding complication in a way that kept his performances accessible to a mass audience.
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Li Jindou () is a Chinese comedian, sketch actor, xiangsheng performer, and professor of Chinese at Peking University. His disciples include Liu Ying, Ren Jun, Mao Wei, Han Bing, Liu Chang, Fu Qiang, Fang Qingping, Wang Zheng, Xu Qiang, Xu Mingzhe, Zhou Weixing, Xu Ming, Xue Xiaodong, Zhang Wei, Wang Qun, Shi Bufan, Yu Xuejun and Ma Qingjun.
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He also developed a brand of beef jerky. In 1983, the xiangsheng master Hou Baolin took him as a disciple, inducting him into the formal lineage of the art. Wu trained many students of his own, notably , Lang Tzu-yun, , , and Fan Kuang-yao. Lang Tzu-yun founded the performing arts troupe Spring Sun, for which Wu has written.
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Chinese skit is a form of performance about small things in people's daily lives. Chinese skit is generally regarded as originating in 1980s. It has inherited qualities, and developed from other forms of comedy, such as stage play, xiangsheng, errenzhuan and comic drama. A skit revolves around just one topic, but with a lot of action and lively language.
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Hou Yaowen was born in 1948, as the third son of Hou Baolin. He became a xiangsheng actor in 1960. He was selected as one of the Chinese Top Ten Comedian Stars in 1994.“中国十大笑星”侯耀文心肌梗塞逝世 相声大师享年59岁, Lianhe Zaobao June 29, 2007.
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Deyunshe (), formally Beijing Deyunshe Culture Communication Company Ltd., is a Chinese xiangsheng organization and folk art performance group based in Beijing, established by comedians Zhang Wenshun, Guo Degang and Li Jing in 1995. Originally known as the Beijing Conversation Conference, in 2003 it changed its name to Deyunshe. It is the key to "let the cross talk back to the theatre".
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Yang was born in Beijing, China in 1931. His father died before he was born and his mother died when he was very young. In 1944, he became a disciple of Guo Qirong (), and began performing xiangsheng at Beijing Qiming Tea Club. After the establishment of the Communist State in 1951, he moved to Tianjin and worked at Daming Iron and Steel Factory.
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Chang was born to an impoverished family in Tianjin in 1930. His brother's and father's xiangsheng performances supported the family. Initially, Chang could not attend school but the education of a wealthy neighbour's child engendered in him a desire to learn. When the family's fortunes changed for the better, Chang attended a private elementary school in Tianjin where he was a good student.
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In 1953, Chang enlisted in the working group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army department of the navy. He received the second military award twice and the third military award once. In the Cultural Revolution, Chang was attacked and this experience became a source of his artistic material. In 1976, Chang and his nephew, Chang Guitian, collaborated to produce the xiangsheng Hats Factory.
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Between his return to China in the spring of 1930 until 1937, he taught at several universities, including Cheeloo University and Shandong University (Qingdao). Lao She was a major popularizer of humor writing in China, especially through his novels, his short stories and essays for journals like Lin Yutang's The Analects Fortnightly (Lunyu banyuekan, est. 1932), and his stage plays and other performing arts, notably xiangsheng.
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The city was awarded Habitat Scroll of Honour in 2006. Yangzhou is also very famous for its toy industry (especially stuffed animals). Many tourists from neighboring cities travel to the city for its good-quality and low-priced toys. It is worth mentioning that the city is also famous for an ancient folk art called Yangzhou storytelling (), which is like Xiangsheng—the traditional Chinese comedic performance.
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Wu Zhaonan (; 14 January 1926 – 14 October 2018) was a Taiwanese xiangsheng comedian officially recognized by the government of Taiwan as a "national treasure". He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lincoln Center and the Golden Melody Award for Lifetime Contributions. Before becoming a comedian, he ran a food stall in Taipei where he created and popularized the dish Mongolian barbecue.
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Zhu was born in Lanzhou, Gansu in 1964, with his ancestral home in Luoyang, Henan, with his father an artist in Lanzhou Military Region. At the age of 11, Zhu studied Xiangsheng, Sketch comedy, Kuaiban under his father. In October 1981, Zhu joined the People's Liberation Army and served four years. From September 1985 to September 1988, Zhu worked in Gansu Song and Dance Troupe.
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It is also the only kind of old local opera in Nanjing, known as a native art which includes singing and telling in the Nanjing dialect, and is particularly rich in rhyme. Baiju is often performed in the form of a solo monologue or a dialogue, like xiangsheng (a traditional Chinese oral art). When acted, it needs from two to five performers.Wu Ge, & Wan Xiu-mei. (2006).
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Gao was then defeated in a series of battles against Lu Xiangsheng but escaped. Lu was unable to follow up on his victories and he was called back to the northern frontier to deal with the Qing dynasty's invasion. Sun Chuanting was made Grand Coordinator of Shaanxi. Sun captured Gao Yingxiang when he invaded Shaanxi and sent him to Beijing where he was dismembered.
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Yue began his career as a xiangsheng proformer in 2004, after becoming a disciple of Guo Degang. Yue's first screen acting credit was The Magistrate Ye Guangming (2010). And his first major film role was as Cai Baoqiang in Just For Fun (2012). In 2015, Yue made a guest appearance as himself on Jian Bing Man, a superhero parody film starring Mabel Yuan, Ada Liu and Da Peng.
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New developments have been applied to this traditional art in order to keep pace with the times. Xiangsheng is a very contemporary performance. Comedians place emphasis on creating new works and injecting new elements into traditional works making them more relevant to current affairs. It is performed in the form of a dialogue between two performers, or, much less often, a solo monologue or, even less frequently, a multi-person dialogue.
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In the Song dynasty, there were many popular plays involving acrobatics and music. These developed in the Yuan dynasty into a more sophisticated form known as zaju, with a four- or five-act structure. Yuan drama spread across China and diversified into numerous regional forms, one of the best known of which is Peking Opera which is still popular today. Xiangsheng is a certain traditional Chinese comedic performance in the forms of monologue or dialogue.
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Ding Guangquan (14 October 1944 – 18 January 2018) was a Chinese comedian. He mainly performed Xiangsheng (crosstalk), a form of traditional Chinese comedy. He was a senior actor in the China Coal-Mine Art Troupe and had accepted over 40 students in his years teaching. Many of Ding's foreign students are now stars of comic dialogue on the Chinese stage today, such as Mark Rowswell (Dashan), Julien Guadfroy, and Liam Bates (Li Mu).
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Prior to performing xiangsheng, Zhu dabbled in storytelling and singing. Under the stage name of Fear No Poverty, he often performed at Tianqiao, where he would entertain the masses with his solo monologues that were full of puns. His word plays were well received and his fame gradually grew. Before performing, Zhu was known for practising Chinese calligraphy; he would write two separate words on large pieces of paper and display them in public afterwards.
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Li Zicheng continued his rebel activity throughout 1635 and 1636 with modest success; however, his lieutenant defected to the Ming and took Li's girlfriend along with him. Li lost Xianyang to the Ming after that. To the north, a 43,000 strong Ming army arrived in Henan under the command of Hong Chengchou but he failed to rout the rebels and even suffered a defeat. Lu Xiangsheng was put in charge of rebel pacification in Huguang.
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In one of the test flights the future commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force Air Force (PLAGAF), Song Xiangsheng (), was on board the prototype. A third stage of intensive test flights followed, taking place during both day and night. By January 2006 weaponry and sensor tests, including firing of live ammunition, had taken place. The helicopter was introduced to the general public in December 2010 and subsequently entered service with the People's Liberation Army.
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Volume 4: Interviews. Vol. 4. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2001. In 1955, Kuo joined Rediffusion's Mandarin radio play section at 14 years of age, (Lo) and worked as a broadcaster, in addition to performing and writing radio dramas and Chinese xiangsheng. His early years in Hebei and Beijing had led to his acquiring of his trademark Beijing-accented Mandarin, which he once described as "like having a BBC accent in English", and which advantaged him as a broadcaster.
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Feng Gong was born Feng Mingguang () in Tianjin, China, on December 6, 1957, the son of Feng Haigang (; 1920-1993), a local government official, and Liu Yisu (; born 1921), a daughter of an eminent family. He has an elderly sister, Feng Xingyun (； born 1947) and two elderly brother, Feng Xin () and Feng Chuanshu (). Feng graduated from Central China Normal University with a master's degree in Chinese Literature. In 1973, he performed a famous xiangsheng named Zunshi ai tudi () in Tianjin.
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Zhang Guoli (born 17 January 1955) is a Chinese actor and film director who was a xiangsheng actor before he started working on films and television series. He is mostly known for his roles playing the Emperor in various dramas involving Qing Dynasty imperial China. He has also hosted the CCTV New Year's Gala in 2014. He is married to actress Deng Jie and he has a son named Zhang Mo from a previous marriage, who is also an actor.
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By 2004 3 more prototypes were built, for a total of 6, and a second stage of test flights were concluded on December 15, 2004. In one of the test flights the future commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force Air Force (PLAGAF), Song Xiangsheng (宋湘生), was on board the prototype. A third stage of intensive test flights followed, taking place during both day and night. By January 2006 weaponry and sensor tests, including firing of live ammunition, were taking place.
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Quyi (Simplified: 曲艺; Traditional: 曲藝; pinyin: qǔyì) or Shuochang () refers to such traditional art forms such as ballad singing (唱曲), Pingshu (评书), comic dialogues (小品), clapper talks (快板) and xiangsheng (相声) .Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China This group of art forms has gained in popularity since the New Culture Movement. With the exception of the Cultural Revolution period, a great number of stories written for these arts have been preserved. Quyi is a Chinese performance art consisted of narrative storytelling using staged monologues and dialogues.
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In the early 1980s, Huang proposed the idea of hosting a televised party to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and the first CCTV New Year's Gala aired in 1983. Operating on a very low budget, Huang was given a studio of , which could accommodate only 60 staff members and 200 guests. With no money for recording and editing, the show was improvised and broadcast live, and the studio had four telephones accepting live requests from callers nationwide. The popular singer Li Guyi ended the night with nine performances, and the comedian Jiang Kun, who co- hosted the show, performed three pieces of xiangsheng.
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In the second decade of the 21st century, the growth of Deyunshe has entered a steady track. It has developed from a commercial performance team to a service company, not only for Xiangsheng performances but also for various business projects. On the evening of September 12, Deyunshe who had stopped performing self- examination, reopened the door to welcome the audience, Guo Degang led all members of Deyunshe to appear at the Beijing Deyunshe Theater. Up to now, Deyunshe has been in operation for 20 years, and Deyunshe's development has also provided useful experience for commercial crosstalk performance groups.
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With the move away from xiangsheng, throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s Dashan increasingly worked in a non-comedic role as a freelance host or presenter of many varied television programs and live events, especially those with an international focus and requiring a bilingual (English/Chinese) emcee. Dashan also hosted numerous educational programs. Most notable of these include the ESL series 'Dashan and Friends' () and 'Dashan's Adventures' ()THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM AND ADVERTISING ACTIVITIES Kroll Lindquist Avey Report, page 168. and programs teaching Chinese as a foreign language for CCTV International, including "Travel In Chinese" ().
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Shi Kefa took the imperial examination and obtained a jinshi () degree in 1628. He was appointed as an official in Xi'an, before subsequently serving as a yuanwailang () and langzhong () in the Ministry of Revenue. In 1635 he followed the general Lu Xiangsheng () to suppress peasant revolts throughout the land. Two years later, he was promoted to yushi () on the recommendation of the minister Zhang Guowei (), and was also appointed as xunfu (巡撫; a type of regional governor) of Anqing, Luzhou (present-day Hefei), Taiping (near present-day Wuhu City), Chizhou (), and various counties in Henan, Jiangxi and Huguang provinces.
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His comedic style is based upon the Shanghainese style of comic dram, which is delivered in a linguistic mixture of Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese and some English words and phrases. Zhou frequently discusses topics such as urban life, economic and political issues. Traditional comic dramas are included in his performances in which a pair of performers are engaged in conversation and only on occasion break the fourth wall. Shanghainese-style comedic performances tend to have only one performer speaking to the audience, a feature that is also found in modern Western stand up comedies, in contrast to the Chinese xiangsheng, which most of the time consists of a comic duo.
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In the mid-1990s, Chinese cross-talk art went into a trough, and many comic actors went to the film industry to pan for gold. Performing Xiangsheng does not make money, and it is a laborious and unrewarding profession. An important reason for the decline in crosstalk is that the crosstalk performance on TV, the main media for broadcast crosstalk performance at the time, due to the restriction of the program and the lack of reasonable skills and keen observation of real life for many performers, the cross talk is monotonous. Guo Degang, then in his twenties, believes that cross-talk art needs to return to the theater to survive and develop.
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He originally wanted to call the dish "Beijing barbecue", but because of political sensitivity with the city, which had just recently been designated as the capital of Communist China, he settled with "Mongolian barbecue" instead, even though it had no direct connection with Mongolia. Wu's food stall became very popular, and even attracted foreign diplomats and wealthy businesspeople as customers despite being a cheap eatery. However, it was later destroyed by flooding during a typhoon, in which Wu nearly drowned. When he exited the restaurant business to develop his xiangsheng career, numerous imitators emerged to capitalize on the popularity of the dish he created, which was later also introduced to the West.
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Zhao was born in Lianhua Village, Kaiyuan, Liaoning province, to a peasant family. He was orphaned at the age of 6. Apprenticed to his uncle, he learned many local traditional performance arts, including erhu, a traditional Chinese musical instrument, and Errenzhuan, a traditional style of stand-up comedy that involves two people talking to each other on the stage which is popular in northeastern China. Jiang Kun, a nationally renowned xiangsheng artist, recommend Zhao to appear at the 1990 CCTV New Year's Gala, a TV program broadcast all over China to celebrate Chinese New Year. After his first appearance, he had appeared in each Gala show every year from 1995 to 2011.
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Chinese comedy has a long history that dates back to the Zhou Dynasty (1100 BC to 221 BC) when the aristocracy kept jesters in their homes. At that time people in higher society were profoundly influenced by the teachings of Confucius, and as a result comic shows were usually looked down upon in feudal China. During the late Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) and Republic of China period, different styles of comedy flourished in big cities and the genre of xiangsheng comic drama began to emerge. Since the 1980s, the rapid development of media throughout the country has led to the formation of new forms of comedy, which have become popular among the general population.
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In the fifteen years, from the Workers' Club to the Zhonghe Theatre; from Guangde Building to Tianqiao Le Tea Garden. Guo Degang and Zhang Wenshun, Li Jing, Wang Wenlin, Yu Qian and other actors from the Deyunshe not only created the brand of “Beijing Conversation Conference” with painstaking efforts and sweat, but also cultivated outstanding young actors such as He Yunwei, Cao Yunjin, Liu Yuntian (Liu Yi), Qi Yunping, Kong Yunlong, Yue Yunpeng, Zhang Yunlei, Li Yunjie. Guo Degang's persistence and wisdom in the art of cross talk has also added new hope to the revitalization of comic art. In addition to Xiangsheng shows, Deyunshe has invested in a number of comic TV series and movies, the role of which is principally played by the actors of Deyunshe, in order to sustain and augment the hard-won reputation.
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