Chapter 20 My name is Guo Degang

Cross talk has different missions in different periods, which is understandable, but now from my perspective, from the perspective of our Beijing Deyun Society, a private organization, we may place more emphasis on its entertainment.Because in our past ten years, no relevant department has supported us for a penny, and no relevant department has taken care of me. All on my own. In my mind, what is called good cross talk is that I put up a sign and the audience buys tickets to watch it. This is good cross talk.Maybe this idea is very simple and pale, but for me, it is very practical.No one was watching, and it was useless for me to say anything.Let me talk about the strong ideological nature of this cross talk, how high its artistic attainments are, what it is from an aesthetic point of view, and its value.What I pay attention to is the audience rather than experts and scholars. A few scholars come to discuss, and they don't buy tickets.Who will pay for my rent tomorrow?It was the audience who gave it to me.The audience is as important as Mount Tai in my heart, and they are my parents.In fact, the parents of our actors were the audience, there is no doubt about it.

People also admit that performing on the street, in a theater, in a tea house, no matter where the performance is performed, the audience gave money to perform.Later, when we became a professional group, the parents of our actors have changed relatively. Some have been changed to certain departments, and some have been changed to bosses. As long as he takes good care of these departments, he will be OK. , because it is not the audience who buy tickets to watch him, but the relevant department allocates funds to him.People allocate money to you, why don't you do a good job?If someone asks you to write a eulogy or something, you have to write one too.This is very helpless, he is not in the same position as our current Beijing Deyun Club.So I also sympathize with other actors, they can't do like me.

Looking back and thinking about it, maybe what we are doing is the original ecology, the most basic restoration of the old one, no one to manage and no one to support you, all on your own, we have not spent a penny of the country in the past ten years.I excavated the repertoire, sorted out the works, cultivated actors, developed the audience, and prospered the market. These points are not for our rhetoric, but for all to see.Everything we do is groping along the way, and some of it is quite normal. For me, I still think we are on the right path.Sooner or later, actors will have to return to my path. You have to go to the front line and face your audience. It is impossible to become popular and popular so easily.You become famous with just one show, what a famous actor, this is a speculative behavior.I think the first thing to do now is to have a clear understanding of your current situation.There are no artists, no masters. It is already a remarkable thing for an industry to produce one artist and one master in a hundred years.What is an artist?What is a master?In your industry, you have to connect the past and the future, inherit the experience of your predecessors, develop them, and form your own unique artistic charm and genre, and someone will follow you.No one can do this easily.In Chinese Peking Opera, in the early days of liberation, the so-called art masters of Mei Lanfang and Zhou Xinfang were conferred by the state. Besides, there are so many other actors, Mr. Ma Lianliang is just a famous actor. How can there be so many masters now?Some of our actors now think that they are masters after fifty. This is simply nonsense and an irresponsible statement.The chamber pots of the Tang Dynasty were also used to hold urine.

So the situation of cross talk is very embarrassing now. The Beijing Deyun Society has become popular and has a large number of followers. Many people are jealous, which is a good thing.But I very much hope that they can persevere, and I very much hope that they can continue to do it. It cannot be said on a whim. This is a long way to go.It may be three years, it may be seven years, or it may be twenty years before he sees the eyebrows, it is all possible.So what we have to do now is to be down-to-earth and worthy of Guo Degang.