Hou Yaowen

Hou Yaowen

Hou Yaowen (18:30, July 17, 1948 - June 23, 2007), male, Manchu, born in Beijing on July 17, 1948, is a crosstalk actor in mainland China, a national first-class actor and the third son of the late famous crosstalk master Hou Baolin.

He once served as vice chairman of China quyi Artists Association, member of the Party committee of China Railway arts and crafts troupe, deputy head of the general assembly and head of the rap troupe. Influenced by his father Hou Baolin since childhood, he appeared on the stage in 1960 and has 47 years of artistic experience. His performance is vivid, humorous, distinctive and unique. His crosstalk works have a wide influence at home and abroad. His representative works include drama ramble, Mouth Spitting lotus, and the romance of Beijing and Kowloon. He once attended the 11th CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In 1985, he became one of the "top ten laughing stars in China". In 1993, he was awarded the "international art achievement certificate" by the American Huamei art society. In 1996, he was awarded the title of "virtuous and artistic" artist of the former Ministry of culture. The TV series "live up to our duty" was released in 2009, playing the role of a clamp.

At 18:30 on June 23, 2007, Hou Yaowen, vice chairman of China quyi Artists Association, deputy chief of China Railway Arts Troupe, head of rap troupe and famous crosstalk artist, died of sudden cardiac death due to sudden myocardial infarction. After 40 minutes of rescue, the rescue failed. He died at his home in Rose Garden Villa, Changping District, Beijing at the age of 59.

Early experience

Hou Yaowen, male, Manchu, was born in Beijing on July 17, 1948. He is the third son of the late famous crosstalk master Hou Baolin. In 1960, 12-year-old Hou Yaowen made his debut on the stage, performing "drunk" as his father once said. Since then, because his father Hou Baolin opposed his cross talk career, Hou spent the first few years on the cross talk stage with his nickname "little ADI" as his stage name. In 1965, Hou Yaowen, who just graduated from junior high school, was admitted to the China Railway Art Troupe, where he partnered with Shi Fukuan and cooperated with him all the time.

From 1970 to 1973, the troupe went to the 38th army in Baoding, Hebei Province for training. After working, they also rehearsed with the soldiers, creating and performing more than a dozen comic dialogues, such as "wisdom and bravery", "small ball pushing big ball".

Acting experience

After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", many works such as "the father-in-law of the financial fan", "brave for a just cause" and "random talk on traditional Chinese opera" were launched one after another. The names of Hou Yaowen and Shi Fukuan began to be well known to the audience.

From October 30 to November 16, 1979, he was elected as a representative to attend the Fourth Congress of Chinese literary and artistic workers. Mr. Hou Baolin was also a representative of the conference. His father and son attended the conference at the same time. "Only the old man recognized his son's position in art.". In the same year, he was elected member of the all China Youth Federation.

In the Spring Festival of 1983, he participated in the first Spring Festival Gala, and then successively participated in the 10th Spring Festival Gala. On February 13, at the "Spring Festival Gala", crosstalk actors, who have stopped performing for 32 years, will perform in the form of Beijing opera for the first time. They will play Xiao He in the first half of the Beijing Opera "Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon" and his father Hou Baolin in the second half.

From June 26 to July 10, 1984, he participated in the national cross talk competition held in Qingdao. Participating in this conference is an unprecedented gathering of laughing stars. In addition to Hou Baolin, a 67 year old crosstalk master, Ma Sanli, a 70 year old crosstalk master, as well as Chang Baohua, Chang Baofeng, Gao yingpei, fan Zhenyu, Hou Yaowen, Shi Fuguan, Jiang Kun, Zhao Yan, Xiaolin, Li Guosheng, Chang Guitian, Jia Jiguang, Ma Zhicun, Shi Shengjie and other crosstalk masters. In this competition, Shen Yongnian and Hou Yaowen created and Hou Yaowen and Shi Fukuan's crosstalk "sweet and sour live fish" were awarded two first prizes for creation and performance. In September, the award ceremony was held in Shenyang Liaoning gymnasium, and Hou Baolin, Ma Sanli and others attended.

From December 11 to 29, 1984, he followed the Chinese Quyi rap troupe led by Mr. Hou Baolin on a visit to the United States, where he made the first formal performance of Quyi abroad in history. It was held in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, which was unprecedented. On the 29th, he flew to Hong Kong and gave eight performances in Hong Kong. On January 7, he returned from Hong Kong to Beijing. The visiting lineup is made up of 15 best quyi actors from six quyi groups in China. They are: Hou Baolin, Guo Quanbao, sun Shuyun, Chang Baohua, Chang Guitian, Hou Yaowen, Shi Fukuan, Shi Shengjie, Feng Yongzhi, Jiwei, Han Baoli, Xing Yanzhi, Xing Yanchun, Chen Shaowu and Zhao Lianjia.

From April 5 to 11, 1990, he participated in the "Shanghai International crosstalk exchange show" and performed a new work "lotus at the mouth". After it was broadcast on radio and TV stations, it was known as the culmination of innovative tradition. It can be called the culmination of Hou Yaowen and Shi Fukuan.

In 1996, he created the cross talk "Romance of Beijing and Kowloon" for the construction of Beijing Kowloon Railway. After the performance, the program was warmly welcomed by railway workers, and then performed at the Spring Festival Gala. Once the performance was performed, it was immediately regarded as a new classic of singing cross talk.

In 1999, he went to Tianjin to participate in the "celebration of the 50th anniversary of Liu Wenheng's stage life" and performed the crosstalk "Japanese drama" (Hou Yaowen, Shi Shengjie).

On November 1, 2001, he went to Tianjin to participate in the "celebration of Mr. Wei Wenliang's 55th anniversary as an artist" evening party, and finally performed the crosstalk "Yellow Crane Tower" (Hou Yaowen and Wei Wenliang).

In 2002, he served as the deputy head of China Railway Arts Troupe, head of art director and rap troupe, and vice chairman of China Folk Artists Association in December.

In 2002, 2003 and 2006, he was the judge of three CCTV national TV crosstalk competitions.

On November 5, 2002, he went to Tianjin to participate in the "academic seminar commemorating the 104th anniversary of Zhang Shouchen's birth". On that night, more than 20 famous cross talk artists in Beijing and Tianjin presented a wonderful evening party. Perform crosstalk "eight fan screen" (Hou Yaowen, Shi Fukuan).

On September 21, 2003, a crosstalk conference was held in Beijing National Culture Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mr. Su Wenmao's art career.

From October 28 to November 18, 2003, he led the China Railway Cultural Troupe to Sanxiang Sishui, hongmianhuacheng and Yedao Hainan for a wonderful tour performance. There were 12 performances in 22 days, with more than 21000 cadres, workers and audiences.

On July 8, 2005, he went to Hangzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the Fifth China Folk Art Festival; on July 16 and 17, he attended the opening ceremony of Yinchuan branch of the Fifth China Folk Art Festival; on July 20, he attended the opening ceremony of Tieling branch of the Fifth China Folk Art Festival. On October 6 and 7, he took part in the second and third performances of the cross talk show "eight screen" to commemorate the 105th anniversary of Guo qiru's birth.

From March 27 to July 19, 2006, he led the "passionate leap" condolence performance group of China Railway arts and crafts troupe on a tour for the grassroots. In 115 days, the performers traveled hundreds of thousands of kilometers, covering 121 prefecture level cities in 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions of China. They gave 343 high-level performances for nearly one million railway workers. This performance is not only the first time in the 56 year history of the China Railway Cultural and Arts Troupe, but also the first time for Chinese literary and art troupes to visit the grassroots in such a large scale in a short time . On September 8, the Political Department of the Ministry of Railways convened a summary meeting of the "passionate leap" performance held by 18 Railway Bureau leaders in Beijing, which fully affirmed the tour work.

On the evening of September 23, 2006, the fourth China quyi peony award presentation party was held in Nanjing Wutaishan gymnasium as the awarding guest; on October 29, the first performance of Deyun society's 10th anniversary special performance was held in the Grand Theater of national culture palace, where the counterpart crosstalk "Henan Opera" (Hou Yaowen and Yu Qian) was performed; on December 13, he led China Railway rap troupe to participate in the 2006 Jinan International humor art week, and held the same performance Hold a special cross talk party.

On May 21, 2007, he took part in the "special cross talk show to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Gao yingpei's birth" at Fenghua Grand Theater in Shekou, Shenzhen. On June 12, he went to Tianjin to attend the Party of "commemorating the 80th birthday of Guo Zhenqing, a film performing artist".

On the afternoon of June 21, 2007, Hou Yaowen took part in the recording of the final of Xiaoao Jianghu in Tianjin. The program scheduled to be broadcast in early July became his last performance on the TV screen.

At 18:30 on June 23, 2007, Hou Yaowen died of sudden cardiac death caused by sudden myocardial infarction. After 40 minutes of rescue, the rescue failed. He died at his home in Rose Garden Villa, Shahe, Changping District, Beijing. He was 59 years old.

The death of a character

On the evening of June 23, 2007, China Railway Art Troupe announced that Hou Yaowen, vice chairman of China quyi Artists Association, deputy chief of China Railway Art Troupe, head of rap troupe and famous crosstalk artist, died of myocardial infarction at 18:30 on June 23, 2007. He was 59 years old.

At 9:35 that night, Guo Suqing, vice president of 999 emergency center, introduced the rescue process of Mr. Hou in detail: "at 6:32 last night, the emergency center received an alarm call from Mr. Hou's relatives, so 999 quickly dispatched an ambulance and ambulance personnel to Mr. Hou's home in Xiaotangshan rose garden. "When we arrived at Mr. Hou's home, his pulse, heart rate, blood pressure and breathing stopped," Guo said. After 40 minutes of rescue, it's a pity that it can't be saved

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