From Cao Yunjin's departure and Shenyang's kneeling, we can see how Degang Guo and Zhao Benshan managed their disciples.

Zhao Benshan, like Degang Guo, walked all the way from the people, sweating at every step, gritting his teeth.

Zhao Benshan lost his mother at the age of six, and his father left him, and there was no news. The neighbors in the street looked at the children piteously, and everyone took a bite of rice.

In the 1970s and 1980s, poor families had no books to read, and Zhao Benshan, which did not have enough to eat, could not grow land.

In order to support himself in the future, Zhao Benshan studied with his second uncle who played Sanxian at an early age.

Later, Zhao Benshan, aged 17, joined the commune propaganda team and formally studied various musical instruments and traditional folk repertoires with the troupe.

Degang Guo was born more than ten years later than Zhao Benshan. Degang Guo was born in 1973, the year before Zhao Benshan 16 entered the commune troupe.

Tianjin crosstalk art is developed. If you buy two steamed buns in the street, the shopkeeper can talk to you for two periods. In such a strong atmosphere, Degang Guo fell in love with cross talk at an early age. Seeing that his son always goes to Tianjin Hongqiao Club to listen to cross talk, Guo Fu sent him to learn storytelling when he was 7 years old.

Crosstalk is a basic skill, so Degang Guo got up at four or five every morning and went to Ziya River for ten years.

But at that time, both Zhao Benshan, a walk-on in the troupe, and Degang Guo, who practiced every day, were trying to break through with a passion.

They didn't think too much about the future.

Facts have proved that nothing in the world is impossible as long as you make up your mind to work hard.

Finally, at 1982, Zhao Benshan ushered in his first chance in life.

At that time, it was family planning, and the director of Tieling People's Art Museum went to the countryside to interview and wanted to find a suitable script to publicize family planning. Inquired from people around me, I learned that there is a book called Wrestling Three Strings in Tieling, which is liked by ordinary people and conforms to the purpose of publicity.

In this way, 25-year-old Zhao Benshan was recommended to the curator.

The story is about a superstitious aunt named Liu in a mountain village in northern Liaoning. Because she wants to have grandchildren, her daughter-in-law is not allowed to have an abortion. So my aunt's daughter used her mother's superstitious fortune teller to educate her mother. Finally, Aunt Liu agreed to her daughter-in-law's abortion and responded to the call of family planning.

Zhao Benshan plays a blind fortune teller in it. Because he studied with his second uncle since childhood, Zhao Benshan knows the daily state of the blind like the back of his hand.

Sanxian, the most important prop in the play, is also Zhao Benshan's specialty.

As soon as the play was staged, it quickly became popular in the northeast with humorous language. Over the past six months, Zhao Benshan has performed almost every three days, with more than 100 performances in the northeast.

At that time, a newspaper commented: "Speaking, reading, singing and doing all show superb skills, and they are lifelike, which almost reaches the level of confusing the fake with the real."

Wrestling Three Strings is widely loved in Northeast China. 1987, Jiang Kun took his performance team to the countryside in Tieling, watched Zhao Benshan's Wrestling Three Strings, and immediately decided to recommend him for the Spring Festival Gala.

In this way, through the darkest days, 1990 boarded the Spring Festival Evening, and with the sketch "Blind Date", Zhao Benshan took the lead in making a nationwide hit.

In the same year, 17-year-old Degang Guo was still struggling. In the Beijing Art Troupe, Degang Guo served tea and did odd jobs all day. He did the most work and got the least salary. He was not even qualified to touch the stage.

Can't afford to pay the rent, the landlord banged on the door outside, and Degang Guo was inside, cat waist, afraid to go out.

After living like this for many years, Degang Guo had no choice but to pull Jing Li and Zhang Wenshun, who were equally frustrated, to set up the "Beijing School Crosstalk Conference".

In the cold winter, Degang Guo stood on the roadside and shouted at passers-by, hoping that the theater would be warmer than outside. Many times, there are not as many people listening to cross talk as backstage.

Later, recalling those days, Degang Guo, who has always been fearless, had to sigh with emotion: "Hey, step by step."

It was not until the famous crosstalk artist Hou saw the crosstalk that he urged everyone to accept it as an apprentice. The mainstream comic dialogue circle finally accepted him as a teenager from other places.

Degang Guo was finally slowly seen by the public.

In 2004, Kang Dapeng and Degang Guo hit it off, and planned to produce an endangered crosstalk program to promote traditional culture.

Degang Guo injected new vitality into the traditional cross talk, incorporated the current livelihood issues into the jokes, and expressed the voice of the common people by laughing and cursing, which had a stronger resonance with the audience.

Sure enough, the broadcast effect of the program was very good, and countless people entered the theater because of Degang Guo's cross talk, so it was hard to get a ticket for the performance.

2. Open branches and loose leaves

In the six years after 2004, Degang Guo and Zhao Benshan gained a firm foothold in their respective fields.

On the one hand, Zhao Benshan has long been famous for its Spring Festival Evening stage. On the one hand, Degang Guo Crosstalk Theater is full, and the talk show host is right.

Get a foothold in comedy and want to be an ivy league in comedy, and then it's time to spread the branches and expand the momentum.

That is to say, at this step, Zhao and Guo's original overlapping fate trajectory slowly began to spread out.

According to the generational arrangement of "Yunhe flies all over the world", Deyun Society has many disciples, but every year, there are news reports that XXX left Deyun Society, not to mention who left Degang Guo the most.

Behind Zhao Benshan, there are more Zhao Jiaban than Deyun Society, but there is little news of his disciples leaving, which has caused a lot of fuss.

One of the reasons is that Degang Guo's personality is too rigid, which does not mean that he is not good to his disciples. When he accepted Yun-peng Yue, he said, "As long as I have a bite to eat, I won't make you hungry."

This "gang" refers to dealing with people. He once said, "You must hate the evil along the way." Degang Guo, who was rejected by the traditional crosstalk club, has always maintained a strong fighting spirit.

This ferocity is not only for traitors, but also for disciples. Tradition is emphasized in the phonological world, especially in Degang Guo.

Since 2004, Degang Guo has just become famous in the cross talk circle. According to the unwritten rules of the cross talk circle, he set up a memorial tablet for grandpa Dong Fangshuo in the backstage of Deyun Society, and burned incense on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Tributes and incense in front of memorial tablets must be replaced in strict accordance with the rotation table. Rumor has it that once it was Guo Qilin's turn. Due to negligence, he forgot to change the tribute. After being discovered by Degang Guo, he was severely criticized in public and even deducted the performance fee on the spot.

My own son is like this, let alone my disciple. When you go out to perform and eat, you should be seated according to your seniority, and you should know manners when you speak and do things. If you don't pay attention to crossing the line, you may be driven away.

It is reasonable to clean up the roots, but in such an atmosphere, the disciples of Deyun Society are inevitably afraid all day long.

On the other hand, the rules of Zhao Jiaban are much simpler. The only requirement is to be a good person. Before accepting an apprentice, Zhao Benshan would say, "Let me tell you the truth first. To be my apprentice, the first thing is to be a good person. If some of you have problems in life, I can roughly clean up the door. "

Except for a few early and close apprentices of Deyun Society, few people can see Degang Guo. Zhao Benshan, on the other hand, is easygoing and loves these disciples like his own children. When an apprentice quarrels with his daughter-in-law, Zhao Benshan will intervene.

Zhao Benshan also paid more than 200,000 gambling debts for his apprentice Liu, helping him turn over a new leaf and turn over a new leaf.

Secondly, compared with Zhao Jiaban, Deyun Society has few opportunities to get ahead.

Students from Deyun Society rarely have the opportunity to go on stage. Even if you have the opportunity to go on stage occasionally, you are experienced and are not eligible for performance fees.

Because Deyun Society stipulates that you must perform more than 30 cross talks to get the performance fee. It usually takes two or three years for newcomers to reach this standard.

Apprentices can't go out to take private jobs without declaration, and the declaration process is quite troublesome, so many mature actors still keep their performances at 150 yuan.

There is a news report on the Internet. It is said that Guo Heming, a former disciple of Deyun Society, calculated that the average monthly salary of 20 12-20 13 was 2,800 yuan.

"After working in a unit for about seven or eight years, I still get the minimum wage. Do you like it? And you are facing marriage, and you are facing buying a house and buying a car. "

Finally, in 20 14, he chose to leave Deyun Society, found a job as a sacrificial performance in Tiantan Park, and bought a house in Beijing by selling storytelling recordings.

Even Meng, a rising star of Deyun Society, said: "The master said that he won one every year, and I ranked above 60."

Zhao Jiaban has Liu Laogen's big stage, "Country Love" and various variety shows, and there are relatively many opportunities to get ahead.

Finally, it is in management.

Deyun society often recruits new people who are just young, and few people bring art into the society. Different from Zhao Benshan, the members of Zhao Jiaban were either selected from the top of Benshan Art College and folk art troupe, or the winners were selected by participating in the "Zhao Benshan Cup" duet competition.

Newcomers need a long training, and many people naturally can't bear to leave. But when they joined Zhao Jiaban with skills, they were seeking opportunities, and naturally they were willing to follow Zhao Benshan to seek opportunities.

In addition to following the traditional family law, Deyun Society attached great importance to etiquette, and Degang Guo rarely asked his disciples personally. In Zhaojiaban, it's different. Zhao Benshan relies on the strategy of weakening pressure to maintain team balance.

It is said that after the small Shenyang fire, Zhao Benshan left him out for some time because of "Gone with the Wind". Later, Xiao Shenyang knelt down and apologized to Zhao Benshan, hoping that the master would forgive himself.

On another occasion, at a party, Xiao Shenyang was scolded by Zhao Benshan on the spot for refusing other people's photo requests. Not only that, but after the scolding, Zhao Benshan ordered him to apologize to the other party with wine.

For the lesser-known apprentice, Zhao Benshan even revised some plots in TV series such as Master Ma and Country Love to increase the exposure of the apprentice. I will also take my disciples to various programs.

3. Who is superior and who is inferior?

To put it bluntly, there is no difference between Zhao Jiaban and Deyun Society, but the emphasis is different. Degang Guo wants to complete the second revival of cross talk with the help of Deyun Society, while Zhao Benshan's idea is simpler, that is, everyone has work and everyone has food.

Fortunately, both of them have completed their own ideas. Because of Degang Guo, crosstalk came alive, and because of Zhao Benshan, they moved out of the Northeast.

Degang Guo and Zhao Benshan stood on the yellow land, revived the tradition, erected two flags of folk art, and brought countless laughter to hundreds of millions of people in China.