Zhao Yan's personal experience.

In March, 195 1, Zhao Guangsheng, who lives in Huamian Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, added another big fat man. The child is very handsome, with big eyes, double eyelids, high nose and round helix. Neighbors say children are "blessed". Zhao Guangsheng is an employee of the agency department of motorcycle factory. He likes calligraphy, practices it in his spare time and sometimes plays the harmonica. Dianxie's mother is a worker. She likes listening to Beijing opera. When she comes home from work, she always turns on the radio to watch the opera. When she is not satisfied, she will buy a ticket to the "theater" to see the opera, and she must also bring a little explanation. Supposedly, such a family did not give Xiao Dianxie a special literary influence, but he was clever and good at imitation. I learned a voice or two when I came back from the opera. It sounds a bit like Qiu He's listening to his mother.

When I entered the kindergarten, the handsome jumping hall became the "protagonist" of Cotton Hutong Kindergarten, and the tortoise and rabbit race, radish pulling and naval dance were all quite like that.

1958 In September, Xiaodian Xie took up his schoolbag and walked into Hutong Primary School. This primary school used to be the Temple of Prime Minister Wen, where Wen Tianxiang, a patriotic general of the Southern Song Dynasty, died in prison, and the well-known song of benevolence and righteousness was written here. It is said that Wen Tianxiang's determination to recover the mountains and rivers touched the trees, and every tree here was growing southward at that time.

Primary schools and small temples should make progress. Clothes are always neatly dressed, even if a button is missing, mother must sew it up before going to school. He was very playful and didn't do it until he received his homework, but he got 5 points in the exam. Learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds. He can't help grandma cross the street, nor can he help the families of martyrs buy food. Once, he found 100 kilograms of food stamps and gave them to the teacher. That's the food for the host's family of four for a whole month. The master was so moved that he didn't know what to say that he almost knelt down in the small temple. It was a difficult time for food, and food stamps were as expensive as life. To this end, Xiao Xie was praised by the school and Dongcheng District. Little Xie is also a "little reporter" of the school, writing manuscripts and drawing blackboard newspapers; It's the "two bars" (squadron leader) again, and it's very busy.

Even though he is very busy, Xiao Dianxie has not forgotten his hobby. He goes to Scissors Lane to sing Peking Opera with a Peking Opera actor every day. People saw that he was ugly and smart, so they mobilized the Zhao family to let him take the drama school. His mother didn't agree: "The child has good homework and wants to go to college, 5 points." She hopes that Zhao's family are college students.

The actor's dream has not come true, and the Canon Association dreams of becoming an athlete. He is lively and active by nature, and his mother says he is like spring. He jumped up when he pressed it. He loves playing football, and his mother gives him pocket money, so he is reluctant to buy popsicles. He saved enough money to buy a pair of kidnapper shoes. Football shoes are learned. I'm afraid my mother will find out. I hope I can't sleep under the covers. He has a wide range of interests, practicing skydiving, diving, gymnastics, horizontal bar, parallel bars and somersaults. He can't win the second prize of Dongcheng Gymnastics in every competition. "Bayi" junior gymnastics team and "Bayi" junior diving team took a fancy to him at the same time. Teacher Li from Shichahai Amateur Sports School also went home to mobilize him to join the professional team, saying that he had a bright future. His father couldn't be tempted, and his mother resolutely disagreed. It was still the same sentence: "This child has to go to college!" "The athletes' dreams have not come true. But the warden is still so active and naughty. When he went to middle school, his father bought him a bike, but he climbed the stairs by bike and enjoyed it. In addition to frequent bleeding, the result of practicing "turning skills" is that the front fork is folded, welded and folded.

In junior high school, the Canon Association was still the backbone of literature and art, and joined the recitation team. He was the leader. Join the choir, he is the lead singer, singing blossoming flowers, We Are * * * and so on. Those lofty and gorgeous revolutionary ideals have caused many colorful dreams in the explanation. ...

The torrent of the Cultural Revolution ruthlessly broke through all the naive dreams of the warden, and his mother's dream of sending her son to college was also shattered.

On July 20th, 1968, I put on a yellow cotton-padded jacket and trousers and set foot on the train to the north, heading for Heilongjiang, the northern border of Baishan and Heishui.

From tractor driver to comedian

Perhaps because his parents were in a motorcycle factory, Zhao Dianxie became interested in "Iron Bull". Soon, he became a tractor driver of Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, and then he became a Kang Baien driver. This is an enviable role: sitting on the high Kamben Bridge, galloping in the endless golden sea of wheat, just like a sailor sailing on the blue sea, how arrogant and poetic! The warden was almost intoxicated.

The good times didn't last long. I don't know how the propaganda department of the regiment took a fancy to him and asked him to go to the literary propaganda team of the regiment to call Kang Baiyin and Mai Hai, but his master could not bear to part with this clever and capable young man. He made up his mind to the master: "I don't want to go to the propaganda team, I just want to make a big difference in the vast world." "

One day, when Zhao Dianxie was repairing the combine harvester, a cadre-like man came over. This man is the director of the Political Department of the Communist Youth League, and he has come to visit incognito. However, Zhao Dianxie did not know him.

"Is there a Zhao Dianxie in your group?"

When Zhao Dianxie heard that he was asking himself, he stopped what he was doing and said, "Yes."

"How does this person usually behave?"

"Well-I don't think so."

"Do you think it is appropriate to transfer him to the Youth League Propaganda Team?"

"I don't think it's appropriate."

The director of the political department left doubtfully.

When I went to work the next day, the director of the political department sent an instructor to call Zhao Dianxie for an interview. Zhao Dianxie stood in front of him, stunned: "Good boy, don't you dare bluff me, report to the regiment tomorrow!" "

In that particular era, the whole connotation and extension of "literature and art" seemed to be eight revolutionary model operas. At that time, the group propaganda team was looking for "No.1" for the row of red lanterns. Although the competition mechanism had not been introduced at that time, everyone who could come to power had to compete. "Is it a mule or a horse that comes out for a walk?" Zhao Dianxie learned Peking Opera in Scissors Lane when he was a child, and now it comes in handy. "Pick up cinders with a small basket ..." The voice is sonorous, authentic and clear-cut. Only for a short time, the director and other players will be in the hall. The director carefully studied Xiao Zhao's figure and appearance and said, "Li Yuhe belongs to him"! On the spot, Zhao Dianxie plays Li Yuhe in Angle A. ..

Hanging the Red Lantern High, Zhao Dianxie is a blockbuster. Not only the third division of the Corps, but also the audience from several surrounding counties, towns, factories and townships are not allowed to come from afar. "Li Yuhe" became famous, followed by Shajiabang, and Zhao Dianxie was the "No.1" Guo Jianguang. Li Yuhe is mainly a literary drama, and it is very difficult for Guo Jianguang to be both civil and military. With the "childlike innocence" of gymnastics, Guo Jianguang succeeded again.

Next is the scene of "asking for trouble in the mountains" in "Taking the Tiger Mountain to the Outside". Zhao Dianxie plays Li Yongqi. This is a bad face. It sounds really bad to him.

Zhao Dianxie has become a minor celebrity at this time. The propaganda team pays attention to "one specialty and many abilities". Besides Beijing Opera, there are solos, dances, performances and short plays. , he can put it down.

1972 Performed in the 3rd Teachers' Art Festival. The performance of Happy Postman starring Zhao Dianxie won the prize and was sung in the whole corps. Jiang Kun, as the literary backbone of another group, made a special trip to study this program. Zhao Dianxie became attached to crosstalk after spraining his ribs while carrying sacks in a "conference war". The sprain was hospitalized for two months and recovered for more than half a year. Since then, he has specialized in rap, such as Tianjin Allegro, Shandong Allegro, Henan Pendant, Hebei Bangzi and Northeast Errenzhuan, "all-round development". Although the crosstalk at that time had not been publicly rehabilitated, Zhao Dianxie was also a bold creation and performance. After Ma Ji's Ode to Friendship was broadcast, Zhao Dianxie was encouraged to focus on stand-up crosstalk and stories, which coincided with the opportunity provided by On the History of the Struggle between Confucianism and Legalism, and his stand-up crosstalk gradually became famous. At the end of 1975, he was transferred to participate in the folk art performance in Heilongjiang Province as a stand-up comic actor.

1976 Zhao Dian's fortunes change.

First, Wang Xingang and Tian Hua from Bayi Film Studio went to the team to choose actors, and Zhao Dianxie was selected as a candidate. Then CCTV, Heilongjiang Folk Art Troupe, Harbin Theatre, Heilongjiang TV Station and regional and county troupes all expressed their willingness to accept him as a versatile actor.

Zhao Yan found that "Xi Er" was played by Gao Hongyan, the deputy company commander of Silian Company. It is said that she is famous for carrying a car full of grain bags 160 kg. At that time, Zhao Yan had a "vague and clear inexplicable affection" for this energetic and capable "My Fair Lady".

Zhao Can's harm to her face was unrequited love, and it was a year after Gao Hongyan met Zhao Yan.

It is also a performance, but this time Hongyan is watching Zhao Yan's play as an audience. I remember performing "Red Lantern, the Painful History of Revolutionaries" and "Fighting against Hatoyama" at a banquet in a conference room. Zhao Yan plays number one Li Yuhe. The Night Banquet at Hatoyama is the highlight of Li Yuhe, which combines singing, reading and playing. Zhao Yan's voice condition and performance ability have been fully demonstrated. "Li Yuhe" not only won the battle with Yukio Hatoyama, but also won the favor of Hongyan girl: "Li Yuhe's performance was great, just like Li Yuhe in the movie."

After the performance, Xiao Wei, who plays the dulcimer in the band, said to them, "This is the protagonist Zhao Dianxie. This is Gao Hongyan of the fourth company. " Hongyan couldn't help boasting, "Your Li Yuhe is really good!" Zhao Yan smiled: "In fact, I have known you for a long time. Aren't you a happy girl dancing with a red rope? "

Soon, Hongyan was transferred to the Youth League Propaganda Team. Zhao Yan was later promoted to the Youth League Propaganda Team and worked in the machine maintenance workshop when there was no performance task.

1977 On the eve of National Day, Zhao Yan and Hongyan got married. At this point, Zhao Yan has been transferred to the radio rap group. On the wedding day, Ma Ji, Tang Jiezhong, Guo Quanbao, Li Wenhua, Zhao Lianjia, Hao Aimin, Jiang Kun and others from the rap group came to congratulate us, and there were many comrades from the Corps. Guests improvise, Ma Ji said a stand-up comedy "Tooth Extraction", and Zhao Lianjia sang a Shandong fast book. Singing and laughing, accompanied by a new couple turned a new page in life.

Today, their daughter 10 is chubby and quite true to her father. Hongyan works in the trade union of Capital Institute of Children's Science and Technology, and studies management in TV University in her spare time.

Warm heart

The old gentleman said that Zhao Yan's five elements were short of fire, which was untrue. Zhao Yan has a passionate heart for work, career, colleagues and friends. In particular, he is passionate about his cool art.

Zhao Yan's "Taiwan Edge" is good: beautiful, chic and steady; "Tune" is also good; The voice is bright, round and sweet. But he is not satisfied with these. He believes that the joke in cross talk should not be shallow and funny, but pursue elegance and humor.

Zhao Yan realized that the phonology industry was in recession, and quite a few programs on the stage were "vulgar and rough", that is, the style was low, vulgar, the quality was poor and the performance was rough. In order to blow a fresh air to the cross talk stage, he helped Ma Ji to hold a Ma Ji cross talk party on 1987 and released a batch of new works. After three or four months of intense planning, creation and rehearsal, the performance team with Ma Ji as the artistic director and Zhao Yan as the team leader set out, with a young cast: Ma Ji, Zhao Yan, Wei Liu, Feng Gong, Wang Qianxiang, Li Zengrui, Wang Jinbao, Dai Zhicheng and Jian Jian. From April, he went to 20 cities and counties in Shandong, Guangdong, Hubei, Yunnan, Henan and Jiangsu provinces, and performed 120 performances in three months, one third of which were charity performances or condolence performances. Headquarters reply: Fire fighting is the first priority, so it is more appropriate not to come for the time being. They held a charity performance for disaster relief in Shenzhen, and all the proceeds from the charity performance were donated to the disaster-stricken areas in Daxinganling.

Zhao Yan regards the audience platform as his own god. Wherever he goes, he plays, even on the train. Once on the train to Yantai, the equipment in the studio broke down, and he and Ma Ji were sent to the theater next door. Zhao Yan said that the enthusiasm of the audience was really touching. Once after a performance in Wuhan, the audience stopped at the entrance of the theater, waiting to see the comedian. Until the actors got on the van, the audience still watched through the window. The van was crushed as a result. If the police hadn't come out to save the driver, the bread would have been squeezed into a pie.

Zhao Yan is also full of enthusiasm for cross talk lovers who come to ask for advice, and has made many friends, big and small. Xu Shiliang, a young worker in a light bulb factory in Nanjing, is one of them. Every time Xiao Xu comes to Beijing, he comes to Zhao Yan for enthusiastic counseling and careful teaching. Every time he comes to Beijing to perform, he must go to see Xiao Xu. When we don't meet, we will contact by letter, answer Xiao Xu's questions by letter, or send him our newly recorded tapes. They became friends who forgot the past year. Xiao Xu has made rapid progress and is already a crosstalk performer in the performance team of Nanjing Workers' Cultural Palace. In addition to cross talk on the stage, Zhao Yan is also keen to shoot TV cross talk sketches. He collaborated with Ma Ji and Jinbao to create more than 30 comic sketches, and recorded and broadcast more than a dozen of them. They also plan to set up a "smile every week" program on TV. His wish is to bring more and more comfortable smiles to the audience.