Maji

essential information

Character experience

Ma Ji, formerly known as Ma Shuhuai, was born on August 2, 1934 in the home of an ordinary businessman in Beijing. When he was in primary school, he sold ice nuclei to supplement his family. Because Chang Lianan's relative is a classmate, when he was young, he often went to the Qiming tea house of Chang's family to enjoy free cross talk with an ice core basket under his arm. When he was 13 years old, he was forced to drop out of school because of his father's death. He was sent to Shanghai Hongde weaving factory as an apprentice, so he learned Shanghai dialect. He returned to Peide middle school in 1950. In 1951, he was admitted to North China Publishing House of Beijing Xinhua Bookstore and became a bookseller. In his spare time, he almost devoted himself to speaking cross talk and singing Beijing opera. In 1954, he thought that his level was already good. He wrote a "cross talk" called "great motherland" and took part in the artistic performance of Beijing light industry trade union. However, the content was too immature and shallow, and failed. In 1955, with a certain improvement in cross talk performance, he began to get involved in performing traditional cross talk. After his stage performance "Yellow Crane Tower" was criticized, he began to use his business time to visit his teachers and friends, and joined the amateur art troupe taught by Liu Baorui and Guo Quanbao. At the beginning of 1956, he took part in the Beijing Workers' business folk art show, and won the first prize for his performance of crosstalk "looking for a partner"; in June of the same year, as a representative of Beijing division, he took part in the national workers' amateur folk art show, and performed a section of crosstalk "don't blame me", which satirized the careless work of postal workers and made many mistakes, and won the National Award for his work Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui and Hou Baolin became the champion. He was transferred to the rap troupe of the central broadcasting and Arts Troupe and became a professional crosstalk actor. The rap troupe arranged Hou Baolin, Liu Baorui, Guo qiru and Guo Quanbao as its teachers and Hou Baolin as the responsible teacher. In less than a year, he has mastered six traditional crosstalk, created four new programs, and launched his official debut of crosstalk, playing basketball. In the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1957, Hou Baolin, a teacher, thought that the name of Ma Shuhuai was a bit tongue twister. As an actor, his name should be louder and his strokes should be less, so that people can easily remember him. At that time, the Hungarian comedy film "geese herding boy Maggie" was being shown in Beijing, so Ma Shuhuai took the stage name of Maggie. In April of the same year, he took part in the "Central People's Radio rap group tour" In cooperation with Yang Ziyang, he launched crosstalk "Wang Jinlong and Zhu Yingtai", "who to marry", "ask for a doctor", and performed traditional crosstalk "couplets for Spring Festival", "empty city plan" and "Chinese jacket". After returning from the tour, China Radio rap troupe was divided into two teams, one of which was led by Ma Ji. In October 1958, as a member of the consolation group, Ma Ji went to Fujian to perform at the front line. During the performance, he created the crosstalk "heroic eight roads", which is the first real singing crosstalk work he created. In the same year, he created and performed the crosstalk "praise of mountain climbing heroes", which is based on the real story of Chinese climbers climbing Mount Everest. In the same year, he was elected as the national young man of China Standing member of the Third Committee of the Federation. In 1959, he created the crosstalk "looking for uncle". In 1961, the folk art circles began to excavate the traditional heritage nationwide. They recalled and sorted out 80 sections of traditional cross talk, and published the complete collection of Chinese traditional cross talk, which is the so-called "four books" in the folk art circles. Ma Ji read the "four books" repeatedly and mastered a lot of traditional cross talk. In 1962, he was elected standing member of the Fourth Committee of the all China Youth Federation. In 1963, with the central rural cultural team, Ma Ji went to Wendeng, Shandong Province to experience life. In more than half a year, he performed 104 performances, and created crosstalk "portrait" and "dancing God". After the "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966, Ma Ji was designated as a "counter revolutionary revisionist" and was criticized. He had to sweep toilets and brush placards in Beijing. In the spring of 1971, Ma Ji, together with Tang Jiezhong and Zhao Lianjia, was called "anti party clique of Ma, Tang and Zhao". Ma Ji was sent to work in Zhangzhuang village, a subordinate of Huaiyang May 7th cadre school. In the autumn of the same year, Ma Ji returned to Beijing after finishing the task of jumping in line. In 1972, Ma Ji made a special trip back to Huaiyang "May 7th" cadre school to perform. In 1973, Ma Ji and Tang Jiezhong adapted and performed the cross talk Ode to friendship in praise of China Africa friendship, which played a positive role in promoting the recovery of cross talk. In 1976, Jiang Kun went to Beijing to participate in the national performance of Quyi. As a judge, Ma Ji fell in love with Jiang Kun. With Jiang Kun's consent, Ma Ji transferred him to the Central Radio rap troupe and accepted him as a disciple. In the same year, he created "scar crosstalk", "the appearance of Baigujing", "wind and thunder on the stage", and satirical crosstalk "multi story Hotel" and "the best in Beijing", among which "the best in Beijing" is due to the following reasons Slander was so sharp that it was soon banned. From the end of 1976 to March 1977, Ma Ji and his disciple Jiang Kun went to Taoyuan County, Hunan Province to collect wind, during which he created the crosstalk New Peach Blossom Land. In 1978, he was elected a member of the fifth CPPCC National Committee. In 1979, Ma Ji visited Japan with the delegation; in the same year, he was elected as the standing member of the Fifth Committee of the all China Youth Federation and the standing director of the Second Council of the China Music Association. In August 1980, he published the book "selected crosstalk of horse season"; in November, he published the book "random talk on crosstalk art", which elaborates the origin, content, form, artistic technique, types of burden and a series of problems in crosstalk performance. In 1982, with the rapid popularization of television, Ma Ji began to think about the transformation of crosstalk from auditory art to visual art. He organized a team, together with Zhao Yan and Yao Shusen, to try to arrange 13 sketches in a row, which were assembled into a volume called "window of laughter". In the same year, he went to Hong Kong with the group to exchange ideas. On February 12, 1983, Ma Ji was the host of the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, where he also performed the crosstalk "mountain village scenery", "little Leifeng" and "saying no two"; in the same year, he was elected a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative conference. On February 1, 1984, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala was broadcasted. At the gala, Ma Ji performed the cross talk "universe brand cigarettes" and "Spring Festival couplets"; in the same year, he created the satirical cross talk "hundred blows"; in the same year, he went to Hong Kong with the group to exchange ideas. On February 19, 1985, the 1985 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, as the host, was broadcast; in the same year, it was rated as "the top ten laughing stars in China". In 1986, Ma Ji gave a charity performance in Changde, Hunan Province, and then donated all his 5000 yuan income to Taohuayuan. On January 28, 1987, the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV was broadcast. At the gala, Ma Ji cooperated with Liu Wei, Feng Gong, Zhao Yan and others to perform the group talk crosstalk "five senses fight for merit". In 1988, he was elected a member of the seventh CPPCC National Committee. On February 5, 1989, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala was broadcast. Ma Ji and Liu Wei performed a cross talk farewell at the gala. On October 12, she attended the first China Gold Record Award and won the gold record award. In the late 1980s, Ma Ji created the satirical crosstalk special diseases. On February 14, 1991, the 1991 CCTV Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, in which Ma Ji performed the crosstalk "traitor". In 1992, Ma Ji went to Huizhou, Guangdong Province to participate in the national celebrity fishing competition. Heyuan government leaders invited him to join a local culture and Industry Corporation. In 1993, Ma Ji transferred his party organization relationship to Heyuan culture bureau. In recognition of his contribution to Heyuan culture, he was awarded the title of honorary citizen by Heyuan government. In the same year, he was elected a member of the eighth CPPCC National Committee. On February 18, 1996, the 1996 CCTV Spring Festival Gala was broadcast. Ma Ji and Liu Wei performed the crosstalk "old and young music". In 1998, he was elected a member of the Ninth CPPCC National Committee. In 2003, he was elected a member of the 10th CPPCC National Committee. On November 6, 2004, Maggie gave a farewell performance at Zhongshan Memorial Hall in Guangzhou. On April 15, 2006, Ma Ji and Liu Wei, who visited Japan, performed cross talk for overseas Chinese in Japan in Tokyo; in July, Ma Ji and his son Ma Dong went to Guangdong to participate in the performance of "charity and love for Heyuan" to raise money for the construction of the new Heyuan people's Hospital; on September 23, Ma Ji won the lifelong achievement award of the fourth China quyi peony Award; in October, he participated in the third CCTV cross talk competition; 1 At 10:25 a.m. on February 20, Maggie died of a heart attack. He was 72 years old. On February 11, 2007, Ma Ji's final autobiography "waiting for life" was published; in May, Ma Ji's Republic of China emotional drama "Qipao" was broadcast, in which he played the warm-hearted "boss Tang".

Personal life

family

On July 18, 1967, introduced by Jiao Naiji, head of the art troupe of the railway corps, Ma Ji met Yu Bo, a singer of the art troupe, and soon got married. On December 25, 1968, his son Ma Dong was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.

health

in 1987, Ma Ji got acute myocardial infarction in Changsha. He was hospitalized for three months before he was discharged. But because the heart surgery was not mature at that time, the treatment effect was limited. Moreover, he also suffered from diabetes, high cholesterol levels, so has not been cured.

disciple

Ma Ji's main disciples are Jiang Kun, Zhao Yan, Liu Wei, Feng Gong, Xiaolin, Wang Qianxiang, Li zengrei and Han Lancheng

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