Chapter 8 Tianqiao has a paradise

I was not like I am today.Today, we are more convenient in terms of financial resources, material resources, and human resources. At that time, when we were unable to protect ourselves, the only thing we could do was to find a place to talk about cross talk.The teahouse later moved, and we also moved there to perform for a while, and then the teahouse closed, and we lost a piece of ground. The experience of more than a year at that time made me feel that cross talk can survive in the theater, so it is our idea to bring cross talk back to the theater.But later some people argued with us, but that was someone else's business. We have persisted in this way since 1996.Someone may have said that in 2004, or even in 1902, but that's someone else's business, and that's what we've been doing.

After that, we chose the Beijing Small Theater, which was actually quite difficult.Until today, our Chinese theaters have problems. Why? After the planned economy during that period, many theaters did not participate in market competition, but were at a standstill. All theaters in the country are like this. They are just waiting for someone to contract the theater. He doesn't care how much money you make from performing, you enter this theater for meetings, you enter this theater for performances, and how much money is shared with him for a show, he has become a unit that collects bills on the ground, unlike in the past, the theater will help you with any show. Let's run it together, invite any actors, and the theater will also participate, and then we will share the accounts together.It's all gone now, that's all.So when we went to the theater, one show cost 2,000 yuan, which was an astronomical figure for us at the time.You can't sell a ticket for 2,000 yuan.So it's difficult.

In the past ten years, we have performed in many theaters, such as Guangde Building, Beijing Zhonghe Theater, Beijing Huasheng Tianqiao, Tianqiao Le Tea Garden... We have performed in a number of large and small theaters, and we have performed one after another.At that time, there was such a difficulty. For example, when we performed in the Zhonghe Theater, we couldn't do it at first.There is a saying in our industry called "relying on the ground", which means "relying" on the ground to gain a firm foothold on the ground.After performing here for three months, the audience is getting more and more. There are such a group of people who know it, and there can be more than 200 people on a regular basis.But all of a sudden, the theater told me that it can no longer be performed, and he has to do other things in this place.Then I can only change places.In the process of changing places, there are many losses.The audience has just been accumulated, and as soon as we leave, the audience that has been cultivated through hard work will disperse again.At that time, it was impossible for me to advertise or publicize.Not advertising may also be a major feature of Beijing Deyun Club in the past ten years. Now we know that we need to let more people know about us through the media. The theater troupe cannot do without the support of the media, but we also wanted to do so at the time, but we couldn’t do it. Let's face it, we simply don't have this ability.

After persisting for ten years, a large number of media flooded in during the Spring Festival in 2006, and it was indeed not what we invited.Of course, we have also mastered this now, and are willing to interact with the media, promote cross talk, and promote traditional culture.But at that time, we had enough energy to spare, so the reason why we performed intermittently during the past ten years, lies in the difficulty.Including many theaters. When I first contacted him, no one went to his place. He was just idle, and he was idle. You can just play, five audiences, ten audiences, twenty audiences, thirty audiences. An audience, people slowly come up, and the theater will start to share the bill with you, 37, the front desk gets 7, and the backstage gets 3; during the performance, he sees you have more people, so he comes again, hey, you can’t get 37 Well, it's four or six points, so let's make four or six.Four-six-four-six-one pushed it to five-five in a while, and then it gradually fell to four-six, and he wanted to get six. There is such a theater, and he even went to the bottom-to-nine, and he got 90%, which is nothing at all. The law is done.So, I haven't met any good people in the past ten years.We have all experienced difficulties.Wait until the time of Tianqiao music.

It was a coincidence that we came to Tianqiao Music. We came out of a certain theater and had nowhere to go, so we wanted to find a next home.At that time, in the southern city of Beijing, there was a small theater near the third ring road. The decoration was also very good, and the conversation was very good, so we went to plan to perform, including the program list for our performance on the first day.But after the news was leaked, it was also sabotaged by some powerful people in our folk arts circle, which messed up the matter, and brought another team of old, weak and disabled soldiers, and their close friends to perform there. up.But no one from them has ever seen it, but they just messed up my affairs abruptly.

After that, I was also very depressed.One day, by accident, I walked to Tianqiaole Tea Garden.At that time there was an amateur drum music performance by the masses. I saw it and felt that the garden was okay. I found the theater manager, and the conversation was very harmonious, so it was settled.So after two weeks of our suspension, the Beijing Crosstalk Conference reopened at Kaiqiaole.The internal facilities of Tianqiao Music are also very simple, but at that time it would be nice to have a place that could pick us up. This place was originally used for tourism, but it didn’t do very well later, so we joined forces to do it with us.Looking back, the slightly old interior decoration here is quite in line with our traditional cross talk feeling.The audience gathered little by little.

The Tianqiao area has a long and rich atmosphere of market culture. The Tianqiao culture is the Xuannan culture mentioned by the government. What is Xuannan?It is to the south of Xuanwu Gate. In the past, it is said that there is such a bridge. Going over the overpass to the other side is the Temple of Heaven. The emperor is going to the Temple of Heaven to worship the heaven. The overpass is the bridge for the emperor to cross. After crossing this bridge, there is an open space.At that time, a certain warlord took this land, flattened it, filled it with soil, and rented it out to small traders. This overpass is the world of the poor, where they can eat, drink and have fun.Selling all kinds of food, clothes, toys, and performing arts, it is a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, and the artists who can get along in Tianqiao are all with real skills and truth-telling, and many major events come from Flyover grew up.Including Mr. Hou Baolin and Liu Baorui have worked here. The Tianqiao culture is our market culture. Talking about learning, singing, cheating, eating, drinking, playing and gambling is a broad and profound picture of the market.Later, times changed, houses were built in the Tianqiao area, and the market disappeared. The characters in Tianqiao were scattered, some were absorbed by professional groups, and the actors fled in all directions. The culture of Tianqiao gradually faded away. Now it is nothing more than a kind of traditional culture. Reappearance, and being able to talk about cross talk in Tianqiao Le Tea Garden, we can feel the old atmosphere of Tianqiao culture, and for us, it is like a paradise.