What are the basic skills of comedy?

The four basic skills of comedy are speaking, learning, teasing and singing. Speaking mainly refers to storytelling, as well as the way of speaking and padding. Learning mainly refers to imitating various characters, dialects and other voices, as well as learning to sing famous pieces of opera, and in modern times also learning to sing and dance. Amusing refers to making jokes, as well as making people laugh. Singing refers to singing peaceful lyrics. Many people think that singing refers to singing opera, singing, this idea is wrong. Peaceful lyrics is the original function of comic singing.

Origin of Comedy

Comedy originated in Beijing. It was formed during the years of Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. It is a form of performing arts with a long history, wide circulation and a deep mass base. At the very beginning, it was to imitate all kinds of sounds, such as human voices, bird voices, animal voices, wind voices, water voices, and all kinds of voices in the universe, etc. In the Warring States period, Meng Changjun's door was closed. In the Warring States period, the disciples of Lord Meng Chang learned to squawk like chickens in order to solve their danger, which was the forerunner of comic opera.

Subsequently, it has been passed down from generation to generation, with many capable people emerging, gradually forming an art. Than Mr. Pu Songling Liaozhai Zhiyi on the ventriloquism written in the article performers, has the prototype of the comedy. After that, most of the performers imitated human voices and mixed stories with them, so the art of comic opera was successful. Now the stage of the comic art, there is a single mouth, double mouth, the latter is easier, the former is more difficult.