Chapter 18: The Eight Sticks
"On the thirty-third and twenty-third days of the first month, the two of them closed the door when they ate. The fly took away a grain of rice, and the old man chased it to Sichuan in a rage. The wife's family made a fortune and angered...... Syllable...... Odds are entangled. ”
The set poem is also one of the twelve lessons of cross talk, which is generally used when talking about stand-up comedy, this poem is different from the seven words and five quatrains of the Eight Classics, it is more life-like and interesting, and there is often a burden in it.
And I will smash the waking wood at the end of the poem, which means to suppress the words, and I am going to start telling the story here. The way of falling inside and outside the gate is different, and the gate will leave a few words in the set poem, and after falling the waking wood, say those words.
Outside Shanhaiguan, in the northeast area, it is said that the set poem is to finish the whole poem first, and then fall a waking tree, which is different.
Fang Wenqi sat at the table and talked about stand-up comedy: "Today I said this stand-up comedy, this is called officialdom fighting, this matter is not a current matter, it is in the Qing Dynasty, who is it talking about, the Liu Yong of the Qing Dynasty is the Liu Luoguo who sang Qianlong in the past and went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and said ......"
is talking about the traditional stand-up comedy "Officialdom Fight", also called "Manchu Han Fight" and "Junchen Fight", which tells the complex story of Liu Yong of Hanzhongtang and Manzhongtang and Shen, as well as Emperor Qianlong, who fell in love and killed each other.
In 1996, there was a TV series called "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", starring Li Baotian, Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang, which is about this, and many things in this TV series came out of the stand-up comedy "Officialdom Fight".
"Officialdom Fight" is one of the eight stand-up sticks of cross talk, and the eight sticks, as the name suggests, are eight long-form stand-up comedy, referring to "Junchen Fight", "Ma Shou was born", "Song Jingang Bet", "Bachelor Xie", "Kangxi's Private Visit to Yueming Building", "Shuo Erye Sports Car", "Zhang Guangtai Goes Home", "Big and Small Nine-Head Case" eight paragraphs. Later, it became a general term for stand-up comedy.
Speaking of these eight sticks, there is really a background, in fact, these eight long-form stand-up comedy are all storytelling types, which are passed on from storytellers to cross talk artists.
According to rumors, it is rumored that at the beginning, the cross talk artists wanted to talk about long stand-up comedy, but they couldn't say it, and then they went to the bookstore to listen to the storytellers talk about the story, secretly learn the arts, and steal other people's work.
After learning, I adapted the stand-up comedy into a long story, and I made money by selling my own art, the biggest advantage of cross talk artists is that they can be amused, people have added a lot of amusing elements to the storytelling, and there are more people who go to listen to stand-up comedy than to listen to books in the bookstore.
This storyteller is gone, you are stealing other people's work, you are choking. In the old years, there were rules for the line and rules for the door, and after negotiations between the elders of the two sides, the storyteller decided to pass on eight commentaries to the cross talk artist, but the cross talk artist said that stand-up comedy must only be limited to these eight paragraphs, and nothing else can be said.
And the eight paragraphs that have been passed down are not complete commentaries, they are all pinched and tailed, just like a smooth stick, which is called the Eight Great Sticks.
Of course, with the progress of industry exchanges in the future, cross talk artists and storytelling artists also have the behavior of worshipping each other's masters and apprentices, learning each other's skills, just like the cross talk master Zhang Shouchen, the old-timer of the Shouzi generation, and the fourth-generation head of the cross talk door, he worshipped the storytelling predecessor Zhang Chengkuo as a teacher, and the master gave Zhang Yuhua to be the ninth generation of the storytelling door.
Mr. Lu Bosan was originally the eighth generation of Pingshumen, a generation of people, and later changed his career to cross talk, and was taken as a junior brother by Mr. Jiao Dehai, one of the eight virtues of cross talk, with the stage name Lu Dejun, and is the third generation of cross talk.
In fact, most of the cross talk artists worship the storytelling artists as teachers, and the storytelling artists worship the cross talk artists very rarely, unless they want to change their careers to cross talk. This is because in the old society, the social status of cross talk artists was very low, and the nature of performing arts was also half-begging and half-art. Storytellers are different, they have a higher social status, they are called storytellers, they are gentlemen.
"Didn't you say that I was a Luo pot? Hey, I have a little ability, it's all in this Luo pot!
Wen Tao accompanied the monarch to set the national policy,
Wu Luo defended the border to protect the country.
Although the minister does not know the grace,
Sincerely be rewarded by Long Live Loyalty.
Don't look at the Luo pot There are not many words,
Get 20,000 taels of silver every year!
When Qianlong heard this, he made me angry!'
If you want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition, today's officialdom fight is here, you have praised it a lot, and you have bothered a lot. ”
After finishing the first paragraph of "Officialdom Fight", He Xiangdong got up again to make money, and he still used business to tie people, the audience here is quite enthusiastic, and the second pestle door that opened this one earned more than two yuan, and it was okay.
Fang Wenqi took a break, he was in his sixties, his physical strength was not good, and it was very laborious to say that cross talk, especially on the street, the audience is one step away from you, you have to take care of the audience's perception, and you have to take your own work.
Next, Huang Hua came to the stage and sang an allegro book, a piece of "Nezha and the Sea", which was quite flavorful, and after singing, it was still He Xiangdong, the child, who went to open the third pestle door and played more than a dollar.
The performance is basically coming to an end, and according to their own arrangement, Fang Wenqi and Huang Hua will have another lip-sync talk, play the last money, and then they can pack up their things and go home.
But that's when the accident happened.
A man who looked like a boss with a leather bag, a black suit, and a shiny head spoke: "I said you cross talkers, why don't you children go up and talk about cross talk?"
He Xiangdong was counting the money in the basket, and he was stunned when he heard this. Fang Wenqi and Huang Hua, who were about to come to power, were also stunned, and someone actually ordered He Xiangdong, a child.
Fang Wenqi came up to explain, and arched his hand: "This gentleman is invited, this kid is my apprentice, and he is still learning art, so if he is not at a good level, he can't perform on stage, otherwise it will not hurt your mood." ”
The boss said: "The level is not good, I can't see it, I listened to the song he sang before, what is it called." ”
Fang Wenqi reminded him: "Taiping lyrics, Han Xin divination." ”
The boss said: "Yes, that's it, I think it's very good, this kid is very good, we want to listen to this kid say cross talk, the big guy says it's right." ”
"Yes. The onlookers also followed suit, and it was not a big deal to see the excitement.
Fang Wenqi smiled and said, "Since you praise my apprentice so much, let my apprentice sing another one to the big guy, come, Dongzi come." ”
"Wait. The boss interrupted Fang Wenqi's words again, and said: "If we don't listen to the singing, let this kid tell us a cross talk, I love to see this kid's awakening, in this way, I won't be in vain, I'll give ten yuan, and you can tell me a success?"
Saying that, the boss took out ten yuan from his purse, walked directly to He Xiangdong's side, and put it in the basket, He Xiangdong didn't know whether it was better to refuse or accept, and he was stunned on the spot for a while.