Li Wenhua

essential information

Acting experience

Born in Beijing in July 1927.

In 1946, he entered Xingping machinery factory as a painter.

In 1956, he was rated as the national advanced worker and deputy to the third and fourth Beijing Municipal People's Congress.

In 1962, he was transferred to the rap troupe of China broadcasting art troupe.

In 1983, he was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer. In 1985, he had a total laryngectomy. He was unable to speak and was forced to leave the stage he loved.

In 1985, he was rated as one of the top ten comedians of national crosstalk actors.

On July 13, 2008, he won the lifelong achievement award of the 5th China quyi peony award.

On November 11, 2008, Beijing held a ceremony to officially recognize Li Wenhua as the successor of the Malaysian art school. Li Wenhua realized his greatest wish to become a disciple of Ma Sanli. He became the sixth generation of crosstalk actors in the genealogy of Chinese crosstalk circles. In the early morning of May 9, 2009, he died at the age of 82 in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital. A few days before his death, he wrote a note that "I'll listen (watch) Li Wenhua's new crosstalk with you when I get better" on May 5, 2009.

Main works

Crosstalk works

Spring Festival Gala works

Li Wenhua

artistic characteristics

In the crosstalk of Jiang Kun and Li Wenhua's cooperation, most of them are Jiang Kun who preaches and preaches as a "teaser", while Li Wenhua passively accepts it and appears as an image of "disciplined old man". The old man shaped by Li Wenhua is actually a child full of wrinkles. He has no fixed prejudice, but passively responds to the words of young people. However, he is not a "good student". In fact, he doesn't fully understand each other's words, and he often distracts and interrupts. This is the source of the most important jokes in Jiang Li's cross talk.

Character evaluation

Ma Zhiming, the son of master Ma Sanli and a famous crosstalk actor, who is the successor of Ma Pai's crosstalk, said in his speech: "I came to the scene today to confirm that my father had admitted Mr. Li Wenhua as his apprentice as early as the 1980s." "My father and I are half teachers and half friends. Although my father is an old artist in the crosstalk industry, I think his reputation is worse than that of Mr. Li. So it's a great honor for our Ma family to accept Mr. Li. "

As Li Wenhua's old partner, Jiang Kun, Secretary of the branch Party group of the China Music Association, said: "when Mr. Ma Sanli was hospitalized in 1981, he acquiesced to Li Wenhua as a disciple. Shi Fukuan told Li Wenhua to recognize his master quickly. Li Wenhua then wrote four long letters to Ma Sanli, reporting a lot of information from his work as an amateur crosstalk actor to his study and development in the broadcasting art troupe promoted by Mr. Ma Ji. In 1982, Mr. Ma Sanli wrote back a long letter to Li Wenhua, formally expressing his wish to accept the apprentice. " Li Wenhua is a qualified descendant of the Ma school.

Chang Baohua, a famous crosstalk artist and a representative of the crosstalk disciples of the Ma school, said: "first, we must and should recognize Li Wenhua's respect for his teacher and love for Tao. Second, my teacher is also his teacher. Li Wenhua is right. The third is that crosstalk is a cultural heritage, and Li Wenhua's belly is a material heritage. He has studied crosstalk for 70 years, and he is still studying until he has become famous. Li Wenhua is too loyal to crosstalk. " He also said that master Ma Sanli once praised Li Wenhua: "Li Wenhua, you are so proud of him!" Finally, regardless of his physical pain, old man Li Wenhua said, "first of all, thank you for being here today. I want to work hard to learn from Mr. Ma and his spirit of being human and doing art. I want to work hard to learn. I'm not good enough in art. I need to keep learning to inherit and develop the art of crosstalk. " A few words express the old man's loyalty to the cause of crosstalk and his excitement about becoming a successor of the horse sect.

Commemoration of later generations

On May 15, 2009, CCTV broadcast the commemorative special of "art life - listening to Li Wenhua".

Chinese PinYin : Li Wen Hua