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After the soldiers and Qizhi broke up, they contacted Hubei comic actor Zhao Weiguo.
Following his own fame with Qizhi, the soldiers also brought Zhao Weiguo to the nightclub for a cross talk performance.
Both of them were a little famous at the time, and they were a new group. At the beginning, the audience was looking forward to it, but after the enthusiasm passed, the audience who came in spent money to pick up.
The performance came back once, and the performance was particularly poor. They drove the car and no one wanted to say a word. The soldier didn’t even dare to recheck and discuss how to improve. He felt that each other’s strings were stretched to the extreme, and a little pressure would break them.
Zhao Weiguo and the soldiers said: Is it a little slow to go to the concert hall?
The soldier knew he couldn’t stand it and wanted to run.
The soldiers think Zhao Weiguo is a good cross talk actor, but the flowers that grew up in the greenhouse were talked on TV at the beginning, and the audience below always held the same, unlike himself and his former partner Qizhi, It was born in the “wild land”.
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In November 1968, the year the soldier was born, the economic structure of his family changed dramatically.
Because of his birth, the family has a mouth to eat. His mother suffered a severe heart attack after giving birth to soldiers. The financial burden of the whole family rested on the father who was a police officer.
The days of embarrassment are even worse after the birth of his sister. Many years later, the soldier clearly remembers: From the first day, the first thing he did every morning to get up was to wash all the clothes that the family changed yesterday, and hang them up. it is good.
At that time, there were blind people singing Changsha Tanci in the streets of Changsha, holding Yueqin to sing “Liu Xiu’s Back Boots” and “Wu Song Da Hu”. The six-year-old soldier went every time, sitting in the first row with his hand in his arms, holding five cents for a popsicle. When it comes to the critical moment, someone will collect the money with a big fan, and the soldier will pass out the penny so that he can listen to it. This was his most enviable job at the time. In front of so many people performing, he could still collect money: “I’m willing to be blind.”
At the age of seven or eight, soldiers saw a crosstalk documentary with many famous crosstalk actors, including Li Jindou, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, and Zhao Zhenduo. The soldiers at that time did not know each other, but they thought it was very interesting.
He feels that he also has the gift of amusing others by talking: all the children in the class are sitting next to him, and he edits it now. After editing, the child says that this is fake. listen. The next day after dinner, the child came to ask him again, where did he go yesterday?
The next day, at the age of 14, the soldier who was eager to learn crosstalk met his future teacher, Yang Qizhi, in the park.
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At that time, Yang Qizhi was experiencing his middle-aged crisis.
Yang Qizhi’s real name is Yang Qizhen. The first half of his life was the kind of child from someone ’s family,He is called “Three Swordsman” in the family, which means that he ranks the third child and sings, dances, and talks about crosstalk.
After arriving in the army, the strenuous Yang Qi simply changed his name: Qi Zhi, determined to make some achievements in the comic dialogue world. Reading and writing has become his number one important thing in his daily life, and his works are increasing. At the peak, more than half of the performances of a literary evening in Lianli came from his creations and performances.
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At this time, Yang Qizhi’s life turned around.
In 1976, at the military hospital near the army, a lesbian named Li Xiangjuan launched a high-profile pursuit of Yang Qizhi.
What makes this peach-colored news even more explosive is Li Xiangjuan’s identity. She joined the army earlier and has already become a cadre. At that time, Yang Qizhi was only a soldier.
The drama of “Passionate Female Officer Falling in Love with Me” dazzled Yang Qizhi’s mind to devote himself to art. When demobilized, he successively rejected invitations from several local cultural groups, including Beijing, and transferred to a cultural center in Changsha.
There is no need for a new job to perform on stage. The past about cross talk seems to have nothing to do with him. Yang Qizhi could not find his audience, and even his wife Li Xiangjuan could no longer serve as his fan girl. She was too busy, and after being transferred to the PLA Academy of Engineering, her rank had been promoted to colonel.
It was during these rampant years that the young, talented soldiers who were equally passionate about comic dialogues, broke into Yang Qizhi’s life as an apprentice.
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After the encounter in Martyrs Park, Yang Qizhi left the soldiers with an address of his own home. During that time, the soldiers went to Yang Qizhi’s house with a tape recorder every weekend.
After Yang Qizhi learned the basics of cross talk, the soldiers signed up for the whole school art performance of Changsha No.1 Middle School.
I don’t even know what Baobao is, and I didn’t write it. The soldiers were meditating in their hearts. What was to be said in the first paragraph, what was to be in the second paragraph, and then they came to power.
As soon as he walked up to the stage, the lights hit, and the soldier pestered on the stage. He could only see the light in his eyes. But he insisted on reading the words back out loud. It wasn’t until the first laugh he envisioned in his heart was finished, and there was someone in the audience, he was awake: I was performing, someone was laughing.
The show won the first prize. This incident gave the soldiers a lot of confidence: I can really make this thing amused on the stage.
The soldiers didn’t go to Yang Qizhi behind him. The two did not see that there might be another relationship between them. But the soldiers have promised the cross talk to the future.
After completing the college entrance examination, fill in the volunteer, the soldier wants to apply for a cross talk major, but he can’t find even the Qu Yi major. After pondering over the four characters “speak, learn, tease, sing”, I went to Hunan Normal University to report a music department.
The study of music in the university did not improve the soldier ’s basic skills much, but he was still very confident. In his sophomore year, he ran into the karaoke room and asked the boss if he wanted to recruit people to perform.
The boss laughed when he saw the soldier. It was not completely cold yet. The soldier was wearing a worn out and very outdated cotton jacket like a migrant worker who just entered the city. However, he still gave the soldiers a try, and the soldiers did not hesitate, and the program worked well. The boss clapped him for the next day, and again emphasized before leaving: remember to change clothes.
In 1991, the soldiers graduated from Hunan Normal University. They were catching up with the army and recruiting people at the school. The soldiers became a literary soldier. After changing jobs, the soldiers were relocated to the “Voice of Xingsha” radio station as the host.
The soldiers never forgot to talk about cross talk. While working on the radio, they also went to the night club to perform part-time.
At that time, there were no cross talk groups in Hunan, and no place was dedicated to cross talk. People who are willing to listen to cross talk are in the karaoke hall and night club. After a while, a singing hall will open and every family has its own unique entertainment show, which is the core of a singing hall. Cross talk performances are one of them.
In 1995, the soldier who had left the station found Yang Qizhi, a teacher he hadn’t contacted for a long time, and went to the sea club.
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The first performance was in a small singing hall in the Hong Chao Hotel. The two talked well before they got the chance to go on stage. The audience only sat in scattered audiences of five or six. It’s cold.
Yang Qizhi noticed that the artistic director on the side of the stage was lamely lame and gestured to them. Yang Qizhi understood, meaning: They continued to talk twice, this director can chop them both.
After leaving the stage, the artistic director recovered his smile and gave the two of them 30 yuan. He said: The performance is good. You go back first, leave a phone call, and I will contact you if necessary.
The soldier wrote a phone number, but he didn’t answer, he only responded that the rhetoric was for him to step down.
After going out, Qi Zhi and the soldiers walked along the side of the road and went to a place where no one had split thirty yuan, one for fifteen.
At that time, the hottest singing hall in Changsha was Qindao, and Yang Wuliu and Zhou Weixing were sitting there. The venue of Qindao is not big, but as long as there are two people performing, the aisle can be full. The soldiers squeezed into the last row once and were watched by the front audience on the wall. Watching the cheers and hilariousness caused by the two on the stage, he said with emotion: One day, if I can be like them, come to Qindao for a cross talk, that should be wonderful.
Yang Qizhi and the soldiers set a strict plan to work in the Literary Federation office where Qi Zhi is located at 2 pm every day, and take the newly edited paragraph to the concert hall to perform in the evening. Do n’t pay, you have to go on stage, use the stage to polish yourself Snippet.
Qizhi has an old Nanfang motorcycle, which is the only means of transportation for the two, and is responsible for carrying the two to the market. The motorcycle was not stable. Sometimes I stepped on more than 20 feet, and sweat came out, and the car didn’t start. The two people who were in a hurry often didn’t dare to remove their makeup. They wore long gowns, wore sky-high braids, and ranch on their faces. They rode motorcycles to the street. They could startle passers-by at night.
In 1995, the two ran at least three nights each night, and at most five nights. A normal Beijing comic actor can only play once a day and only 150 to 200 times a year, but Qi Zhi and the soldiers perform 1,500 times a year.
In the New Year’s Eve of 1996, when all the venues were finished that day, it was already dawn. The two hugged, tears on their faces, and went home after a happy New Year. At three o’clock the next day, the two came to the Literary Federation’s office on time and changed the paragraph for the performance that night.
Yang Qizhi said: “This period is the most fulfilling period of time. The audience ’s need for new paragraphs beats them like a whip. This sense of crisis keeps their works flowing.”
This year, the two received an invitation to perform in the Qindao Concert Hall.
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Since 1996, “Kiji Touching Soldiers” has become a golden signboard. The two have to run five games almost every night, all year round. Wherever they went, the audience was naturally full, but more were left. Some people are jealous of their popularity and feel that they have been cut off from their financial affairs.
The soldiers had received triad phone calls and threatened them to join the contest. The soldiers refused. The cautious Yang Qizhi had the soldier’s father dressed in police uniforms, but he was caught by chance.
A group of people surrounded them. Qi Zhi was kicked and kicked, and his thumb was kicked out of position, and he was sweating instantly. The soldier was beaten by his head. Yang Qizhi could not care about the pain in his body, and rushed over to protect the soldier’s head with his own body, asking everyone for forgiveness: Don’t hit it, kill it again. When they dispersed, the soldier’s head had swelled into a dustpan.
At that time, there was no rental. Yang Qizhi lifted up the soldier and asked him to sit on the southern motorcycle and lean on himself, driving the motorcycle to the Affiliated Hospital of the time.
In 1997, soldiers were arrested inexplicably during the performance.
At that time, the two were going to the Qindao singing hall to perform. A police officer came to the door to take the soldiers away for a conversation.Qi Qi came out and said whether he could wait until the Qindao performance was over.
The two were escorted to the Qindao Concert Hall by police cars, and their faces were completely shameless. After the end, the soldiers were taken away, Qi Zhi looked for the acquaintance of the boss, and called to appease the soldiers’ families. At 4 o’clock that night, the soldiers were received at the Women’s Education Center. The two hugged and cried again.
The frustrated soldiers are a little discouraged, and the elder Qizhi told him: as long as you have an audience, no one can squeeze us!
However, it is easy to please audiences of all ages and genders with different aesthetic tastes.
After a show, the audience will always grab them and ask for another. Or maybe the cross talk says half shouting, I’ve heard this, change it. The two already famous laughs had to bow, wipe sweat, and arch their hands. I missed my time and had to apologize to the next audience.
But they soon learned what treasures the most discerning audience in the world has left for them.
In 1996, Long Danni, who just joined Hunan Economic TV for a year, was the producer of the show “Lucky 3721”. According to introductions, I know that there are a couple of fires in the concert hall that are outrageous. I want to contact them to try on the show.
Long Dani invited Qi Zhi soldiers to do a rehearsal first, but found that the audience was laughed and the bottom of the heart.
The soldier was hesitant at this time. He was calculating. At that time, the night club performed an appearance fee of 1600, and it was only 800 for a TV show. And after a show on TV, it can’t be used anymore.
But soon, he never mentioned this topic again. After the first program was over, the telephone number of the TV station was exploded, and the soldiers of Qizhi went all over the province.
The program decided to open a series for them, and immediately renewed the performance contracts of “Lucky 97”, “Lucky 98”, and “Lucky 99”. The comic dialogue of Qizhi Soldiers became a fixed part of “Lucky 3721”, and the ratings of the program increased greatly. Compared with the current program ’s ratings of 2%, it can securely rank first in the rankings. At that time, the rating of Lucky 3721 rushed to 50%. Other television stations called “Lucky 3721” the day it was broadcast, called “Black Saturday.”
The soldiers said, “Our paragraphs are made in the concert hall, in the hands of the hardest audience in the world. We can get those live audiences, what are the TV viewers?”
In 1999, Qi Zhi soldiers boarded the Spring Festival Gala. In the comic dialogue world, “There are cattle in the north, Feng Gong, and soldiers in the south with ambitions” .
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Compared with Yang Qizhi, young humorous soldiers have higher commercial value. In the hottest years, the television station asked him to be the host, the newspaper invited him to be the spokesperson, and advertisers chased him after him to get ads.
There have also been some subtle changes in the relationship between the two. A friend who is familiar with the two said, “In the past, the two were discussing creative work in Qizhi’s office, but in the last period of their cooperation, Qizhi always carried mineral water to the army.”
In daily performances, Yang Qizhi voluntarily asked the host to report, and changed from the original “Magic Zhi, Soldier” to “Big Soldier, Qi Zhi”.
In 1998, soldiers called on Li Jindou. After the two broke up for many years, Qi Zhi’s apprentice posted a message on WeChat saying that the soldiers were ungrateful, and then Qi Zhi was ordered to delete the article.
The biggest friction between the two occurred in 2002. CCTV is going to host the first CCTV Crosstalk Contest, and Qi Zhi proposed to write a paragraph, “Controlling a Cold.” The soldiers weren’t interested in Qi Zhi’s self-control “Cold Cold”, and the two blushed for the first time.
According to the original plan, Qizhi and soldiers should go to several singing halls in Changsha that night to perform, but only Qizhi appeared to the audience that night, and they had to talk with the host of the singing hall for a few moments. end.
Finally this cross talk advocated by Yang QizhiIn the family, after dinner, he turned on a TV series of fifty or sixty episodes and went to sleep on the sofa.
As time goes by, those stories about the past are doomed to no longer be reproduced, leaving only the best pictures that have been settled in memory:
One old and one young, two people in long gowns, riding a tattered small motorcycle, shuttled between the lights and the green.
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As time passed, the soldier’s new partner Zhao Weiguo gradually disappeared from the public view, but the nearly 70-year-old Qizhi is still paying attention to his performance.
In 2018, the soldiers appeared on the Spring Festival Gala to perform sketches. There were no strange ambitions or Zhao Weiguo beside him, only Zheng Kai and a group of African compatriots.
During the summer vacation at the age of 14, the soldiers played alone at the south gate of the Martyrs’ Park, where they were usually quiet, and only couples had a tryst. But there were no couples that day, only two people were practicing cross talk there, and the soldiers squatted and listened to them for a day.
The next day, the soldiers went again, and continued to listen to them when the sun was about to go down. The soldiers couldn’t help but ran over and said that he wanted to worship. One of them answered his stubble and introduced that my name was Yang Qizhi.
Some references:
[1] “The Story Behind: Those Storms, Those Life”, Hunan Satellite TV;
[2] Xu Xianglin, “People’s Laughs: The Flowers of the Colonel’s Wife Makes Me Smile”, Contemporary Elderly;
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