The Development of Traditional Cultural Crosstalk in China

The word cross talk is an ancient image sound, which originally meant to imitate others, also called cross talk next door. It is formed by the further evolution and development of folk rap art in North China, and it is integrated with folk art forms such as imitating ventriloquism. It is generally believed that it was formed during the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. A folk art form that makes the audience laugh by telling jokes or interesting questions and answers. Until the early years of the Republic of China, the image pronunciation gradually developed from a person imitating ventriloquism to stand-up crosstalk, and the name was changed to crosstalk. Later, it gradually developed into various types of stand-up, cross talk and group cross talk, and became a veritable cross talk. After years of development, cross talk has finally become the most popular form of cross talk for the audience.

In the late Qing Dynasty, crosstalk formed its own modern characteristics and style. Mainly in Beijing dialect, there are also local "dialect crosstalk" in various places.

In the process of the formation of cross talk, the advantages of art such as ventriloquism and storytelling were widely absorbed, and the truth, goodness and beauty were expressed by satirical jokes, which made people laugh. Take "speaking, learning, teasing and singing" as the main artistic means.