Are the common techniques of Taiping lyrics and crosstalk deified by Degang Guo so mysterious?

Writing this article is also very helpless, because there are too many ignorant and fearless people who deify Taiping lyrics, saying that you can't sing Taiping lyrics, you are not a crosstalk performer, and there are other crosstalk performers in the old society who can't sing Taiping lyrics and get all the money. , making Taiping lyrics too mysterious and sacred.

What's more, some people satirize some crosstalk predecessors by name, saying that they can't even sing Taiping lyrics, as if Taiping lyrics are more difficult to learn and more speechless than Beijing opera.

The fact that Taiping lyrics are so deified today is of course inseparable from the popularization of Mr. Degang Guo and Deyun Society. Most of the deified words come from the words of some actors in Degang Guo and Deyun Society during their performances, and then some fans learn to show off everywhere.

Practically speaking, it is certainly good for Degang Guo and Deyun Society to promote Taiping lyrics, and it is also good for the crosstalk industry to make crosstalk knowledge known to the general public.

However, paying too much attention to one thing is also Mr. Shi Fukuan's artistic aim. The popularity of Taiping lyrics is a good thing, but there is absolutely no need to deify it. Some boring fans use Taiping lyrics as a tool to attack and satirize other cross talk peers, and they are even more fearless.

So, what exactly are Taiping lyrics?

First, the so-called cross talk singing method is Taiping lyrics, which is a very controversial statement in itself.

To put it simply, Taiping lyrics, counting treasures, ten leisure, falling lotus, tea songs and current tunes, including the common skills of artists in the old society, can all be counted as cross talk singing.

Before Deyun Society became popular, there was basically no such thing as cross talk. In his crosstalk works, Master Hou listed twelve skills that crosstalk performers should master, one of which is Taiping Lyrics, which is the first written material to solidify Taiping Lyrics as a performance form into crosstalk career.

However, the twelve skills listed by Mr. Hou do not mean that crosstalk performers must master them all, such as "White Sand" and "Dark Spring", which many people have not mastered. As for singing, these twelve skills include three singing methods, one is to keep the door open for a long time, which is what we often listen to. The other is Taiping lyrics, and the other is Yulaibao. According to master Hou's arrangement, Taiping Lyrics, Ten Idles and Countless can all be regarded as crosstalk.

The cross talk industry itself is an industry that sets an example. Most of the early artists were illiterate, so no one summed up some rules of cross talk. As long as you can make a living, someone will sing haha.

What is the aria in the so-called "talking about learning and teasing"? There is no standard answer in the cross talk industry. Mr. Hou's summary of Open the Door, Taiping Lyrics and Counting Treasures can only be said to be the most authoritative statement at present.

Therefore, Degang Guo's Taiping lyrics are his own crosstalk, which is only his personal opinion, not the knowledge of the whole crosstalk industry. In the future, Deyun Society can standardize it as a local singer of Deyun Society's crosstalk, but it cannot be applied to the whole crosstalk industry.

It is completely nonsense to say that you are not a crosstalk performer if you can't sing Taiping lyrics. According to this logic, if one of the twelve subjects of cross talk is missing, it can't be regarded as a cross talk actor, so it is estimated that the cross talk industry will not exist.

As for why Degang Guo doesn't want to take the number of treasures as a cross talk, you are good at it, but you are good at it.

In addition, it should be emphasized that Taiping lyrics are not exclusive to the cross talk industry. This thing itself originated from Lotus Waterfall. In the old society, beggars could sing. Zhao Guaji and Lotus Flower Girl, who are famous for singing Taiping lyrics, are not from cross talk.

Second, in the old society, artists couldn't get the whole money if they didn't understand the lyrics. inexistent

Taiping's lyrics, ten leisure and countless treasures, are usually sung by crosstalk artists when they are glued or bonzi. The purpose is to attract and retain the audience. Generally speaking, this kind of work is done by a young apprentice when he falls to the ground.

The most important thing is to attract and retain the audience, which means that it is the audience who can get all the money, not whether the apprentice can sing the lyrics. In other words, even if the little apprentice sings Lotus Falls to attract the audience, he can get all the points, and even if he sings Taiping lyrics to attract the audience, he can't get the money.

In the old society, artists dug cakes on the ground and paid performance wages to young apprentices. Just like the sales staff in the company, they can get a high salary not because they can do PPT, but because they can negotiate business.

The above is the scene of dumping on the ground, but in a teahouse like Deyun Society, it has nothing to do with whether the crosstalk artist can get the whole money or sing Taiping lyrics. First of all, there is no need to sing Taiping lyrics in the teahouse to attract the audience. Secondly, the tea club judges whether to give the artist a whole sum of money.

Take Mr. Yu Baolin as an example. When he first came to power in Lianxing Teahouse, he took 70 cents. Once other actors went to lunch, Yu Baolin was in charge of stand-up comedy to keep the guests eating. After Yin Shoushan came back, Yu Baolin not only kept the guests, but also attracted several. He immediately announced that Yu Baolin could get all the shares.

Therefore, in the history of cross talk, whether artists can get the full amount is not the peace of lyrics, but the performance. As for the importance of Taiping lyrics, Ma He said long ago, "That thing is worthless."

Third, are Taiping lyrics difficult to learn? Why was it once on the verge of extinction?

There were many people who sang Taiping lyrics before liberation, but almost no one sang them after liberation for two reasons.

One is not necessary. After liberation, crosstalk artists performed in theaters, so there was no need to stick to it, and naturally there was no need to sing Taiping lyrics to attract customers.

Second, Ma He said that Taiping lyrics are "worthless". The so-called worthless, on the one hand, crosstalk performers sing Taiping lyrics for free in the performance, which is a gift. On the other hand, the lyrics of "Taiping" are too simple, and two sentences are drummed back and forth, with no technical content and naturally worthless.

Speaking of it, the difficulty of singing Taiping lyrics is indeed far less than that of Ji Laibao, and even simpler than the wailing sounds in some rural areas. Just remember the lyrics and sing them back and forth. People who can basically sing "Only Mom is Good in the World" can learn Taiping lyrics by memorizing the words a little. As for the accompaniment of the jade plate, two remote controllers can also be used instead.

Taiping lyrics were almost lost in the 1960s and 1970s because of their simplicity, cheapness and unnecessary reasons.

As for the lyrics of Taiping, you might as well learn to sing a few words yourself. You will find that seaweed dancing is much more difficult than seaweed dancing.

Fourth, who handed down the Taiping lyrics? Who sings the most authentic lyrics of Taiping?

Although the value of Taiping's lyrics is not high, some classic songs, such as Qin Qiong Watching the Array and Bobo Array, still have great inheritance value. Therefore, some crosstalk artists have preserved and passed on Taiping's lyrics in various ways. Among them, five people are worth mentioning, namely Wang Benlin and his son, Wang, Yang Shaokui and his apprentice, and his apprentice Tong Shouben.

In 1960s and 1970s, Wang Benlin and Yang Shaokui passed on many classic aria of Taiping lyrics to the younger generation. In the late 1990s, Tianjin Zhong You Crosstalk Troupe returned the vocal cords to the small theater, and Liu Wenbu and Tong Shouben also brought back Taiping lyrics.

Tong Shouben collected and compiled a rare China Taiping Lyrics Book with more than 100 tracks, and Liu Wenbu was recognized as the best crosstalk artist who sang Taiping Lyrics before his death.

The focus of singing Taiping lyrics is to hang the flavor, sometimes not like singing, but like singing and chanting, singing the meaning and charm between the lines of the lyrics. Liu Wenbu is unique in this respect. After his death, Tong Shouben and Wang were the most authentic singers of Taiping lyrics. The three of them are also the inheritors of Taiping lyrics, an intangible cultural heritage in Beijing and Tianjin respectively.

As for the Taiping lyrics of Deyun Society, in fact, they have gradually divorced from the original charm of Taiping lyrics. Except for some individuals such as Zhang Yunlei, most of the actors in Deyun Society sing lyrics by learning to sing, but they can't say that they can't sing, and the traditional flavor is basically gone. Therefore, strictly speaking, the Taiping lyrics of Deyun Society belong to the Taiping lyrics singing method of Deyun Society. To listen to authentic lyrics, we can only listen to Tong Shouben and Wang at present.

To sum up, Degang Guo and Deyun Society have made great contributions to the promotion of Taiping lyrics, but their deification of Taiping lyrics is only a marketing tool, just like Li Deyang's "heartthrob" and Zhang Shouchen's "cross talk king", which is understandable in itself. The audience should treat this with a normal heart, keep independent thinking and respect the tradition of cross talk, which is what a qualified cross talk lover should do.