Chapter 15 In the third section, ten years of work in the audience, learn the art and work first

One minute on stage, ten years off the stage. This is an old saying. The truth is simple and easy to understand. If you want to be a good cross talk actor, you have to study hard and practice hard. There is no shortcut. Learn the real skills. When I first became a teacher, I got up at five o'clock in the morning to practice regardless of season.I really didn't want to get up, but I persisted. Day after day, I practiced for three years.The way the old gentlemen in the cross talk world teach students is: three years of apprenticeship and then learning art, this is the most basic.So at that time, I had to get up early not only to practice exercises, but also to clean the house, sweep the floor, buy vegetables, buy newspapers, make tea, cook, walk the dog, wipe dog poop, and cook for the dog. To learn art, you have to work first. Don’t think about learning art when you come here. I’m here to work. If I want to do this job, I must first understand what tradition is.

Audiences who often listen to cross talk know that there is a traditional cross talk piece called "Shave Your Head". This piece mentions such a content: After the apprentice comes, he first learns to shave the winter melon, and he gets up every morning to shave the winter melon. The job is to wash clothes, cook, take care of the children, and serve the master and wife. After three years, the master saw that the apprentice was working neatly, with quick legs and feet, and had a good character, so he started teaching. At this time, the master gave the razor to the apprentice , formally taught the art of shaving.As the saying goes, before learning art, learn to be a man first, don't underestimate the situation of these three years, these three years are the process of testing a person, do you want to learn art?Feel free to ask, would you like to learn about this craft?First of all, you have to be obedient, and do what you are asked to do.In the past three years, it is said that you don’t need to think, you can just work every day, but in reality, you need to use your brain, you have to do your work very well, and you have to serve Master and Mistress very comfortably, so that Master will think you are good.In this process, Master is testing your endurance. From the perspective of learning, I think endurance is really important.

This kind of teaching method is old and outdated, but I think it is very good. Traditional things are taught in traditional ways, and the deeper feeling can be understood more profoundly.For example, if ten students all work, there must be one who is lazy and slippery. He is lazy and slippery at work, and he is the same when he is really studying. In the future, he will also be lazy and slippery when it comes to art. This is a fundamental problem. Difficult to change.I followed Master every day. Apart from practicing at home, I just worked and had no other entertainment. After I brushed my teeth and washed my face in the morning, I went out to shout my throat and stretch my legs to do my homework. From now on, I put away the newspaper and make the tea, all this is my job.My daily job is to combine work with exercise, the two are combined.

Maybe I have Guankou behind my back, and Master said "gold, go shopping for vegetables", so I just went shopping for vegetables without saying a word.You must have good eyesight to follow the master. If you don’t have good eyesight and the height of your eyebrows in life, your cross talk work will not be much easier.This is living according to human nature.To use a simple analogy, it’s not necessarily absolute. You can see the result by cleaning the house. If the things in the house are neatly arranged, the work will be neat, and the jokes will be neat. If the house is cleaned up, it’s a mess. If it is chaotic, then this person's mind is very chaotic, and he will not be able to think clearly on stage.Speaking of a joke, one sentence may be omitted here, and one more sentence is wanted to be filled in there, the overall structure will be messed up, the feeling of the joke will be much worse, and the effect will be unsatisfactory.

I repeatedly said that the hardships during the period of learning art were really hard, and it was my grandson who said that it was not hard.All children want to play happily, use a computer, play games for a while, and when they are tired from sitting, go out to play for a while, play football or basketball with their buddies, as long as it is an activity that can be called entertainment , I gave up all that time.No one will wake up at five o'clock every morning in four seasons of the year and repeat the same thing every day, but I did it. In summer in Beijing, it is extremely hot. At night, the air conditioner is turned on in the room, which is quite comfortable, but the alarm clock rang mercilessly at five o'clock. I couldn't remember it. I was struggling, and the master kicked the door and came in. Heimian stood at the door like a ghost, without saying a word, I sat up in a fright, very reluctantly, and worried that Master would be unhappy.When I got outside, the weather was so stuffy that I couldn't breathe. I had to sing and sing, run and practice Qi. After a set of routines, I was sweating like I was washed in water, and I was so tired that I lost my shape.Spring and autumn are not good either. The climate in Beijing is dry and there are often strong winds. When I go out, my mouth is full of sand. When the sandstorm is the most exaggerated, I have not stopped. After I go out and shout my throat, I look in the mirror when I come back. Yes, a layer of soil on top.But the most terrifying thing is winter, the bone-chilling cold. Looking back now, I still have a cold war. That feeling will never be forgotten in my life.Imagine that it was past five o'clock in the morning, and it was still dark outside, and only the cleaners could be seen on the street. Really, except for the urban sanitation, no one could be seen.I had to get out of the warm blanket, and it was freezing cold when I went out.In less than two minutes, my face became stiff and stiff from the cold, and I stood there facing the northwest wind with my back to my mouth, my cheeks were numb, and my mouth was so stiff that it was difficult to move it, so I had to bite my words hard and bite my back loudly. If you don't practice this kind of kung fu with strong lips, you won't be able to practice it. To put it bluntly, you will be cruel to yourself.

Who wants such a life, I think no one wants to.There are still holidays, winter and summer vacations when I go to school, but for me, let alone holidays, taking a break is very precious. It’s okay to be lazy, but then I look down on myself in my heart.The happiest thing is that the master took him to the garden, it was so beautiful.I practice at home every day, and Master has a performance today, so he took me with me, and I carried a bag in the back, took my things, and went hopping, just like going on a trip. At that time, I really had the idea of ​​retreating countless times, but I wanted to think about it, and complained and complained. I should practice and work, and I should work and work. One thing: Fortunately, I am not alone in learning from Master.At the same time, my master had several apprentices, including He Yunwei. I knew him when I first arrived in Beijing in 2002. Our apprentices have been competing with each other since then. When it comes to others, everyone hopes that they are better than other apprentices. As for how to strive for strength, it’s not about playing tricks, stepping on the low and climbing high, or taking crooked ways. At that time, everyone’s thinking was very simple. It is to put in more effort and work harder than others, especially since I entered the industry later than them, so I have to work harder and harder.

Now I lead students in the Deyun Society. I am very strict and tell them that they must practice.Of course, you don’t have to practice. Practice is all up to you, no one forces you, but the result is that you can’t succeed, you must not, this is an essential problem.From the beginning of studying with Mr. Tian, ​​I knew that talking about cross talk and listening to cross talk are two different things, and you have to pay many times more hard work than others.