I'd like to ask Mr. Tian Lihe the name of one of his stand-up comedy routines.

The Teacher Performer: Tian Liho The Counselor Performer: Tian Liho The Gua Sha Performer: Tian Liho The Hairdresser Performer: Tian Liho, Ren Mingqi The Friend Performer: Tian Liho, Wang Wenyu The Chef Performer: Tian Liho, Liu Xueren The Cheater Performer: Tian Liho, Liu Xueren The Disciplinarian Performer: Tian Liho, Wang Wenyu, Liu Xueren The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho The Family The Family Theory Performer: Tian Liho Buying Bridge Tickets Performer: Tian Lihe Eating Cake Performer: Tian Lihe The Hundred Surnames Performer: Tian Lihe Playing Chess Performer: Tian Lihe Theory of Superstition Performer: Tian Lihe Raising the Kung Fu Shop Performer: Tian Lihe Tongue Twister Performers: Tian Lihe, Wang Wenyu Mr. Tian Lihe and Mr. Zhao Jinsheng

Learning Dialect Performers: Tian Lihe, Wang Wenyu The Great Bodyguard Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "The Treasure Bowl" Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "The First Stitch" Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "Selling Five Ware" Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "Theory of Wo Tou" Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "Witty Words" Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu "Turning Over the Fourth Generation" Performers: Tian Lihe, Feng Baohua, and Tong Shouben "Throwing Donkeys and Eating Pills" Performers: Tian Lihe "The Art of Crying" Performers: Tian Lihe and Liu Xueren The Duke of Dou Training His Daughter Performers: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu The Wife and Son Performer: Tian Lihe and Wang Wenyu Apprentices: Geng Boyang, Zhao Guangshan, etc.

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The Teacher on the Movie Crew

Tian Lihe was a teacher on the tribute film Tiananmen Square, and he was the one who played this role - a lantern maker for the palace. In the movie, he kowtows when he goes to Tiananmen Square because he doesn't understand the current affairs; after helping to tie the lanterns, he salutes the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, but he "salutes the big red lanterns". At the end of the movie, amidst the celebrating crowds in Tiananmen Square, the teacher cleaned himself up and saluted a very substandard salute to Chairman Mao on the Citadel, which immediately made the audience smile from the bottom of their hearts and shed tears at the same time. Yu Huijiang and Mr. Tian Lihe pose for a group photo

Tian was full of ideas when he mentioned the movie: "In 1949, when the founding ceremony took place, the Tiananmen Square tower needed to be hung with big red lanterns. This is a job that no one else could do, so they found 'me'. I played a palace lantern maker in the movie, and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, I was stranded in the folklore." Speaking of this chance, Tian said, "This is still my little granddaughter had previously played a mass actor in the movie 'Don't Take Yourself for a Cadre', and got to know an assistant director. Later, when the cast of the movie Tiananmen Square was looking for people, they found me somehow. The first trial was a small role, and after the trial, Director Ye said, "I'll give you a big role. Then I played the role."　Although he was just an ordinary actor, in the filming of the movie, Tian had a lot of good ideas. "In the movie, there's a scene where the old man agrees to tie the lanterns, and the PLA invites him to dinner with freshly fried dishes. The director asked me: 'Mr. Tian, do you think there were these small river shrimps in Beijing at that time?' I said, 'Yes, there must have been. Before the founding of New China, there was a restaurant in the outskirts of Beijing called 'Shrimp Residence', which was very famous." There are many other small details like this, "The script has 'Yue Sheng Zhai' dim sum. I said, 'Wrong! Yue Sheng Zhai sells beef with soy sauce, and it's still there at the front gate. Zhengming Zhai' is the one that sells 'big eight pieces'! In the script, the old man called the People's Liberation Army 'soldiers', which is also wrong, before the founding of New China, only called 'general master' or 'old master'. In addition, there is also 'Erhe Mian', before the founding of New China, called 'Mixed Mian' or 'Mixed Mian '. Mixed noodle is mixed grain noodle, Erhe noodle, there is no such thing! Like that, I corrected them all one by one."　In the movie, for a little bit of detail, Tian Lao is very serious and strives for accuracy. "When the old lantern maker appeared on the scene, he made his living by selling grasshoppers. But how do you yell when you sell grasshoppers? This is a problem, so I consulted a 'yell king' in Beijing and asked him exactly how to yell, is there a tone? In addition, the props for selling caddisflies were not good either. The crew gave me a pick and two baskets. There is no such pick! The caddisfly seller should be like this, a pick with a tripod on one side and a caddisfly cage on the top. I didn't know how to pick up a stretcher, so I said to the director, I'll carry it, and then I made the props according to my request."

Helping the director to revise the play

In addition, Tian also helped the director with the script. Perhaps because the author of the script for "Tiananmen" was a southerner, the old lamplighter's lines in the play were all in southern dialect. In this regard, Mr. Tian objected: "The lantern maker's ancestors moved from the south to the north and settled there for several generations, so he should have spoken the Beijing dialect. I changed the script to straighten out the impassable parts. Later, Director Ye said, "The lines should be according to me."　Acting in movies is a challenge, a test for me, because it crosses my own artistic discipline. After all, I'm a layman in movie acting, and I was a bit uncomfortable. When I started shooting, I didn't know where the camera was and what the steps should be. The most troublesome thing is that sometimes the lines are almost remembered and then changed before the performance, which is a great test for me as an old man." There is such a scene in the movie, after the lantern is finished, the old lantern maker kneeling on the ground with a large monologue: "Learned half a lifetime, coincidentally encountered a bad year, lost the craft. Lanterns live, I can spell this old face to the ancestors ...... "" The first night, I memorized the lines, performed to my partner to see, moved her to tears. I said OK, the play is OK. But later, and gave a change, do not lines, changed to silent tears." Shooting also has a very hard time, "there is a scene is shot in the bathhouse, I entered the studio at 7:00 in the morning, until noon to finish. Because the bathhouse is temporary, the design is not reasonable. After one scene, I was almost deflated."

Old companion is a wise assistant

People familiar with Tian Lao know that his old companion, Zhang Wenxia, is also a comedian. "My old partner is a great help to me, she not only takes care of me in life, but also helps out artistically."　"I get up every morning to memorize the slam, twice a week with my old partner on the job, high and low tones, expression, rhythm, the comic has to practice, otherwise it's not strict to perform on stage." Usually practice, the old partner is a rare good partner, the official performance, the old partner is also responsible for their "field". "That time Guo Degang performed in the stadium, he performed a few jobs, inverted three is him, save the bottom is also him. I pour two, just pick up Guo Degang. My partner gave me 'the field', to see the atmosphere of the front stage, the actors have made the work, the audience's mood. Guo Degang was a hot commodity at that time, and it was not easy for him to take over the stage. As a result, on the first day of the show, it didn't achieve the effect I wanted. I feel very uncomfortable, this is not in vain? You're getting paid to perform, and now you're doing this, do you have any peace of mind? Can you sleep well? Older partner told me, 'every up the audience is chaotic, more than 4,000 people in the venue, the venue is too large, the audience is too mixed. To say a good paragraph, the head must be well laid out.'　How do you lay out this 'outline'? So the two of us worked on it together, got it right and then smoothed it out again, and as a result, it worked very well the next day when it was performed. The said segment was 'Family Disputes' that Wang Wenyu and I collaborated on , and our padding connected quite well with the back."　Tian Lihe praised his partner for still being a very qualified grandmother. Tian's young granddaughter took the gold medal in the Tianjin Children's Opera Competition when she participated in the show at the age of six. "This is inseparable from my partner's guidance. Performances are not the same as appearing in movies and TV dramas, it's something that is once and for all, not to say that this time you didn't perform well, then come back the next time. Every time the little granddaughter to participate in the performance, are given by her grandmother to rehearsal, on-site guidance. The little granddaughter went to Shandong, Beijing, Xiamen and other places to perform, the field conductor is also her, she understands these, and the child is also well taken care of."　After Tian Lihe's retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Tian Lihe live with their children, and their grandchildren and grandchildren are a happy family. Speaking of his life now, Tian said, "I'm not idle, I will recall some things on the curricula and make some records, and I've also been composing some new comedy segments. I listen to the news and read newspapers every day, and watch some good TV dramas, such as The Golden Wedding, Sino-Japanese War, and Warm Spring, etc. The actors are good and the scripts are good. Sometimes I write Chinese calligraphy, and then I cook." Cooking is a big hobby of Mr. Tian Lihe, general characteristics of fried dishes he is good at, "in the words of one of my relatives, I fried dishes 'are enough to the palace level'. In addition, I smoked meat is also very good at, I will also hair sea cucumber, hair fish maw, these I can do well." Speaking of cooking craft, the old man is very proud.

Leave more comic material down

Mr. Tian's father was a famous TCM doctor in Tianjin, but he did not follow in his father's footsteps. "Doctors face sad faces every day. It's good to be a comedian, facing smiling faces." For this reason, Tian Lihe studied comedy under the tutelage of old Mr. Zhang Shoushen.

The Learning Experience

Taking up this learning experience, Tian recalled, "The master was open to teaching, he let me listen to Tianjin's comedy, and also listen to Beijing Hou Baolin's comedy team's segments. When I arrived at the garden, Master said to others, 'This is my disciple, listening to the work.' I brought my own dry food, listened to the matinee and the evening show, all for nothing, no need to spend money. My teacher had always wanted to be so religious, but at that time I was the only one who had this condition, because my family didn't depend on me for food, and they could still take care of my food. Go to listen to the work, the old man also showed the way, bad moves have good moves, let me first do not comment more, to listen to more, have artistic discernment before commenting. Now it seems that the actual is the strengths of all, eclectic. After two years of listening in this way, I know all the ins and outs of the basic segments. Old Mr. Teaching, really selfless teaching, he every time to talk about the paragraph, have to tell me the ins and outs of this paragraph, which actor said good, and is absorbed in the art of who. The old gentleman was honest, he told me, 'This "Tongue Twister" is from 'Ten Thousand People's Fans', Master Wan, it's good to know that I can reach seventy percent of what he did.' Teacher left so many things for posterity, some of which can't be performed, like some of which I can't perform if I put it on my shoulders, not with my skills, and not with the theater either."　Speaking of that experience, Tian has a lot of feelings. "I graduated from elementary school, no culture, and was ignorant at that time, many things were lost without recording. Now I understand that they were all rare materials. In comedy, there is part of the material that has been lost, part of it is missing. If many old people sit together and talk about the missing things, they may be able to recall some of them and record them properly, which is also historical information. Now are not talking about the protection of intangible cultural heritage, I think this needs to be properly implemented, after all, now know the old man is not much."　The year before last, Tianjin People's Broadcasting Station recorded a comic talk column "Tian Lihe Kan comic", mainly to introduce the knowledge of comic, tell anecdotes of famous artists, explain the industry terminology, analyze and comment on the famous segment of the comic, is to understand the art of comic, especially the traditional comic is very useful and valuable information. "365 days a year, a **** 365 lectures, I finished all the manuscripts of this program in six months." Tian Lao said. The work was hard, and Tian Lao's hand calluses were written down from writing the manuscripts at that time.

Status quo

Currently Tian Lao is organizing some comic segments, "some old segments, if there is a newborn opportunity to let it newborn. For example, "Wu Xun Tu" is an old paragraph, I changed it. I just finalized the lyrics and drafts in the past two days. I've already rehearsed it with my students, and basically there's no problem. I want to find a small teahouse in a few days to perform it first and try to see how it works."

Edited Chronology of Activities

May 22, 2005, the 15th day of the 4th month of the year Yiyou in the lunar calendar, evening: the exhibition of fine comedies from Tianjin and Beijing was held ?　Tian Lihe April 9, 2006, the 12th day of the 3rd month in the year of Cixu on the lunar calendar, evening: Beijing Chongwen District Comedy Assembly was established ?　June 25, 2006, May 30, Lunar New Year, Evening: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Yin Shoushan's Birth and the 60th Anniversary of Yin Xiaosheng's Career in the Comic Strip Gala ?　September 21, 2006, the 29th day of the leap seventh month of the year of Bixu on the lunar calendar, evening: the third performance of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the opening of the China Grand Theater ?　November 1, 2006, September 11, the year of the Bixu in the lunar calendar: the fourth performance of the 10th anniversary of Deyunsha.　December 20, 2006, the first day of the eleventh month of the year of the Bixu according to the lunar calendar: Guo Degang, Yu Qian, Li Jing and Gao Feng pay homage to Jin Wensheng as their teacher ?　February 20, 2007, the third day of the first month of the year of Dinghai on the lunar calendar: De Yun She 2007 Spring Festival performance in Tianjin ?　June 10, 2007, the 25th day of the 4th month in the year of the Dinhai in the Chinese lunar calendar: Gong Lanxin accepts Yu Lei as his disciple ?　August 18, 2007, the sixth day of the seventh month in the year of the Dinhai in the lunar calendar: Yu Hao's ceremony to pay homage to his master was held ?　September 6, 2007, the 25th day of the 7th month of the Dinhai year of the lunar calendar, noon: Fan Zhenyu 80th birthday banquet and Zhang Deqi accept Zhang Hong, Shang Zhizhang, Gu Zonghan, Yan Rongming as a disciple ceremony was held ?　December 2, 2007, the 23rd day of the 10th lunar month in the year of Dinhai, 19:30: "Fifty Years of Traveling in the Sea of Arts - Ma Zhiming's 50th Anniversary of Classical Comedy Month", the first session?　December 9, 2007, 30th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of the Dinhai calendar, 19:30: "Fifty Years of Traveling in the Sea of Arts - Ma Zhiming's 50th Anniversary of Classical Comedy Month", Session II.　December 16, 2007, the seventh day of the eleventh month of the Dinhai year of the Chinese lunar calendar, 19:30: "Fifty Years of Traveling in the Sea of Arts - Ma Zhiming's 50th Anniversary of Classical Comedy Month", the third session.　December 23, 2007, the 14th day of the 11th month in the year of Dinghai on the lunar calendar, 19:30: "Fifty Years of Traveling in the Sea of Arts - Ma Zhiming's 50th Anniversary of Classic Comedy Month", Session 4?　December 30, 2007, the 21st day of the 11th month in the year of Dinghai on the lunar calendar, 19:30: "Fifty Years of Traveling in the Sea of Arts--Ma Zhiming's 50th Anniversary of Classical Comedy", the fifth session.　January 25, 2008, the 18th day of the 12th month in the year of Dinghai on the lunar calendar: Zhao Jinsheng's 30th year of performing in the field of comedy was held.　March 29, 2008, the second month of the year of the Wuzi lunar calendar 22nd, 15:00: the northern network comedy channel opening ceremony was held .

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