People often say that group comedy is performed by at least a few people

People often say that group comedy is performed by at least a few people:

Group comedy is a traditional Chinese art form, usually performed by two or more people*** together. It is most commonly performed by two people working together.

One of them plays the role of the host, known as the "top bowl", while the other plays multiple roles, known as the "face changers", and interacts with each other through dialogues, high-fives, and other forms of interaction in order to present various situations and characters in a humorous and amusing way. In addition to a two-person show, sometimes three or more people can participate in a lively group comedy show.

Introduction to Group Comedy:

Once upon a time there was this saying, "One person for saying, two people for teasing, three people for making up, four people for coaxing, five people will be chaotic." The names of the group comics in order from left to right are: the comic (to make a living), the mushy seamstress, and the comic (to measure the living).

Major works

There are "Picking the Horse's Coat", "Vajra Legs", "Finding the Five Sons", "Four Characters in Joint Phrases", "Training the Apprentice", "Turning Over Four Generations", "Four Pipes and Four Jurisdictions", "Wine Orders", "Selling Horses", and "Fahmen Temple". Mr. Ma Ji's "Five Officials Competing for Merit" and his son Ma Dong's "Five Officials with New Sayings" are representative of the satirical nature of the genre.

One of the basic skills of comedy:

Ventriloquism, ventriloquism is an excellent folk performing art, is a kind of acrobatics. Origins in ancient times, people used for hunting, imitating the sound of animals, to trick the prey to get food. According to historical records, during the Warring States period, "Meng Changjun night break into the Hangu Pass" in the story, "cock and dog" is the earliest ventriloquism used in the military.

By the Song Dynasty, ventriloquism had become a mature performing art, commonly known as "next door theater". From the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China period in Hangzhou for the popularity of performers with the mouth, teeth, lips, tongue, throat, nose and other vocal organs to imitate the nature of a variety of sounds, such as birds and beasts, wind, rain, thunder and lightning and so on. The performers use their mouth, teeth, lips, tongue, nose and other vocal organs to imitate the sounds of nature, such as birds and animals, wind, rain and thunder.

On May 23, 2011, ventriloquism was approved by the State Council to be included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

November 2019, the "national intangible cultural heritage representative project protection unit list" was announced, Beijing natural sound culture development company limited to obtain "ventriloquism" project protection unit qualification.