What basic skills do crosstalk performers need?

Speaking, learning, teasing and singing are the four basic artistic means of cross talk tradition.

"Speaking" means telling jokes, riddles and tongue twisters.

"Learning" is to imitate the calls, hawking, singing, styles and languages of all kinds of birds and animals.

"Tease" is to catch each other and make you laugh;

"Singing" crosstalk refers to Taiping lyrics.

For some reason, the crosstalk performed on TV in the past attributed all singing categories to singing, which was wrong. Only sing Taiping lyrics, the rest are for learning. In cross talk, there are often programs that emphasize one or two of them, such as "Turning careers" and "Opera Dialect", which emphasize "learning" and "singing", while "Eight Fan Screen" and "Spring Lantern Mystery" emphasize "telling jokes". Actors often form different styles because they are good at using some means.

Common attributes of extended data

Wake up the wood: from storytelling, often used in long stand-up crosstalk.

Folding fan: During the performance, it can be virtualized into other objects: knives, guns, sticks (bodyguards), pens (Yang Naiwu's handwriting), drumsticks (spitting lotus flowers) and so on.

Handkerchiefs can be used as props when making up: learning from the four provinces, fighting tigers with Song Wu and catching Cao Fang.

Table, a commonly used prop in traditional cross talk. When performing cross talk, stand outside the table for fun and stand inside the table with a smile. When performing "leg work", the table is used to distinguish between the front and back stage and the upper and lower doors.

Yu Zi: An instrument that accompanies Taiping lyrics, usually two bamboo boards.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Crosstalk