Who was Yang Shaohua's master?

Yang Shaohua's master was Mr. Guo Rongqi, a fifth-generation Shouzhi generation comedian. Although Yang Shaohua's lineage is not recognized by the mainstream comedy community, in the comedy family tree compiled by comedian Ma Sanli, the master is clearly written under the tutelage of Mr. Guo Rongqi.

Yang Shaohua was born in 1932, and was apprenticed to the Beijing Qiming Tea House in 1944. In fact, Yang Shaohua's mentor was Mr. Chang Bao-ting, who was only three years older than him, and many of Yang Shaohua's comedic skills were taught by Mr. Chang Bao-ting, who became famous at a young age.

The Qiming Tea House was opened by Mr. Chang Bao-ting's father, Mr. Chang Lian-an, and Mr. Chang told Yang Shao-hua to call Mr. Guo Rongqi, the famous Beijing-Tianjin comedian at the time, his master. Mr. Guo Rongqi did not object, but there was no formal ceremony. This also laid the groundwork for Yang Shaohua's unclear mastership.

Guo Rongqi

Mr. Guo Rongqi is a famous Chinese comedian and performer, under the tutelage of one of the "eight virtues of comedy," Ma Delu (father of Ma Sanli), whose performances are mainly jokes, with a wide range of activities, and who is proficient in all aspects of speaking, learning, joking and singing. The performance is based on jokes, with a wide range of activities, and he is good at talking, learning, joking and singing. Mr. Guo is good at depicting the environment to emphasize the characters. Mr. Guo's representative works are: "Playing Cards", "pulling the foreign piece", "learning to assess the opera", "pay rent", "tongue-twister", "tofu room", monologue "kong knife", "timid follower", "antique king" to the group of mouth comedy "picking the horse's coat" and so on.