Origin of the name of comedy

English translation: crosstalk or comic cross-talk, TALK SHOW, or CHINESE COMIC DIALOGUE.

Comic opera has three major origins: Tianqiao in Beijing, Guanyechang in Tianjin, and Fuzimiao in Nanjing, and is generally considered to have been formed during the reigns of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It is a form of Chinese opera that uses jokes or comical questions and answers to make the audience laugh. It evolved from the Song Dynasty's "Xiangsheng". In the late Qing Dynasty, the comedy formed a modern character and style. It is mainly spoken in Beijing dialect, but there are also "dialect comedies" spoken in local dialects. In the process of the formation of comedy, it drew extensively on ventriloquism, storytelling and other artistic strengths, and put the Zhuang in harmony, using satirical jokes to express the truth, goodness and beauty, and making people laugh as the characteristics of the art, and using "talking, learning, teasing and singing" as the main artistic means. There are three forms of performance: monologue, counterpoint and group. Single-mouth comedy is performed by an actor, telling jokes; counterpart comedy is performed by two actors, one holding and one teasing, and there are usually "one head sinking" and "mother and son comics" in two categories; group-mouth comedy is also known as "group work", which consists of more than three actors. The group comedy is also called "group work" and is performed by more than three actors. The traditional repertoire is based on satirizing various ugly phenomena in the old society and reflecting various life phenomena through witty narratives. After the liberation of China, in addition to continuing to carry forward the satirical tradition, there are also works that glorify new people and new events. The traditional repertoire includes "Guan Gong and Qin Qiong", "Drama and Dialect", "Jia Xingjia", "Picking the Horse's Coat" and so on, totaling more than two hundred pieces. The works reflecting real life are more influential, such as Night Journey, Buying Monkey, Yesterday and Hat Factory.

Comic opera is a form of musical art that uses jokes, comical questions and answers, and rap to make the audience laugh. With jokes, comical questions and answers, rap, etc. to cause the audience to laugh. Mostly used for satire, now also used to sing the praises of new people and new things. According to the number of people divided into counterpart comedy, monologue, group comedy, comedy theater.

English translation crosstalk or comic cross-talk, TALKSHOW, or CHINESE COMIC DIALOUGE, one of the forms of Chinese opera, with witty speech, acerbic, sarcastic ridicule, in order to achieve the "belly laugh" and entertain people. It is a form of opera that uses witty speech, acerbic and sarcastic mockery to "make people laugh" and entertain them. Its earliest form is derived from the "haiku" this kind of miscellaneous theater, in these jokes, artists often put on the ruler of the ridicule and scorn.