Hou Baolin

Hou Baolin

Hou Baolin (November 29, 1917 - February 4, 1993), male, Manchu, born in Tianjin on November 29, 1917, is a crosstalk actor in mainland China. Member of China Democratic League.

In 1928, Hou Baolin began to study art, first Peking Opera, and later changed to crosstalk due to his love of crosstalk. In 1929, he was an apprentice in a small workshop for making leg bands. Later, he learned Peking Opera from Yan Zefu. In 1935, he abandoned the land for performing arts in drum tower market, and later returned to Xidan shopping mall to sing funny Erhuang. In 1939, he began to give praise to Master Zhu kuoquan and performed cross talk for the first time in Tianqiao Xinmin tea house. On July 2, 1949, he attended the first National Congress of Chinese literature and art circles. In the same year, he performed cross talk for Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other leaders for the first time. In January 1955, nocturnal travel won the award of "excellent quyi works" awarded by China quyi Research Association. In August 1974, Chairman Mao was personally nominated as a deputy to the Fourth National People's Congress. In July 1979, he officially announced that he would withdraw from the stage and specialize in cross talk art research. In April 1982, he performed in Hong Kong. At 14:42 on February 4, 1993, Hou Baolin died of illness in Beijing at the age of 76.

In addition to creating and performing a large number of famous cross talk passages, Hou Baolin also made a theoretical study on the origin, principles, laws and artistic skills of cross talk and quyi. He wrote and cooperated with others to write such monographs as crosstalk performing art, introduction to quyi, tracing the source of crosstalk, drama talks, drunkenness, etc.

Character experience

Hou Baolin was born in Tianjin on November 29, 1917. In the spring of 1922, Zhang Quanbin took him to Peiping and sent his brother-in-law Hou Lianda and his wife as their adopted son, named Hou Baolin (formerly Hou Shirong). The Hou clan is a Manchu (inlaid with blue flag).

In 1925, he studied in the 27th Primary School of Peking City for three months.

From 1926 to 1926, because his adoptive father lost his job, Hou Baolin was forced to help his family to make a living by collecting coal, selling newspapers, pulling water trucks, and begging for porridge.

In 1928, Hou Baolin began to study art, first Peking Opera, and later changed to crosstalk due to his love of crosstalk. Chang Baochen and Zhu kuoquan served as teachers. They once performed in the area of Tianqiao and Gulou in Beijing.

In 1929, he was an apprentice in a small workshop for making leg bands. Later, he learned Peking Opera from Yan Zefu. Three months later, she began to perform on the street. In the meantime, Shifu took a class with the famous artist "yunlifei" in the Tianqiao Triangle market and "abandoned the ground" to perform. During the day, Hou Baolin went to the overpass with his master to perform Peking Opera and funny Erhuang between his master and "yunlifei". At night, he carried his disabled elder martial brother and his master to the brothel to sing.

In 1930, he ran away because he couldn't bear the abuse of his master and elder martial brother. Later, he was sent back to his father by his adoptive father and continued to perform on the overpass.

In 1932, Zhang's foster mother died. The family moved to 21 fushouli. Master's family left Beijing to perform in Taiyuan. Hou Baolin left his teacher and went home. He was driven out of fushouli No. 21 hospital because he was in arrears with the rent. Hou Baolin had to stay with Li Sijia, the leader of the class.

In 1933, Hou Baolin sang Beijing Opera in Ma Shaozhen's troupe in Xidan shopping mall. Adjacent to the famous crosstalk artists Gao Deming, Zhu kuoquan, Tang Jincheng and so on, a chance, began to perform crosstalk alone, and worship crosstalk artist Zhu kuoquan as a teacher.

In 1934, because of singing Beijing Opera and talking about cross talk, the leader of the class was not allowed to do so, so he was forced to leave Xidan shopping mall and return to Tianqiao to sing Beijing Opera with yunlifei.

In 1935, he abandoned the land for performing arts in drum tower market, and later returned to Xidan shopping mall to sing funny Erhuang.

In 1936, he joined Zhou Yukui and Liu Xingmin in Xidan shopping mall to sing funny Erhuang. When you have time, go to the crosstalk venue and listen to the crosstalk talks of Gao Deming, Zhu kuoquan, Zhang jieyao, Tang Jincheng and Hua Ziyuan.

On July 7, 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out. Hou Baolin cooperated with Guo qiru to perform in Beijing and Tianjin. During the Anti Japanese War, the Japanese army invaded Beijing, causing social unrest and the depression of entertainment industry. After the introduction of friends in Beijing Dongcheng fushouzhai paper shop to do short-term work, binding calendar, calendar.

In 1938, he went to Tianqiao again to talk with yunlifei. Every night, he talked with Bai Quanfu, his son, Guo Quanbao and Wang Baotong. At the end of the year, he sang funny Erhuang in the daytime. At night, he talked with yunlifei, Wang Baotong and Li Baoqi in jiangjiapengzi, Huashi Street. Later, he and Li Baoqi paid homage to Mr. Zhu kuoquan.

In 1939, he began to give praise to Master Zhu kuoquan and performed cross talk for the first time in Tianqiao Xinmin tea house. Later, Mr. Zhu and his younger martial brother Li Baoqi went to the North Hall of Xidan shopping mall to perform with Gao Deguang, Gao Deliang, Zhang Shaotang and Dai Shaofu.

On June 10, 1940, at the invitation of Tianjin yanle theater, Hou Baolin signed a contract with his martial uncle Guo qiru to perform in Tianjin. Hou Baolin became famous for his role in Peking Opera. In the same year, he met Wang Yalan, a Peking Opera actor.

In 1941, although her career was booming, in China under the iron feet of Japan, the war continued year after year, and the prices soared; her wife Lian Xiuzhen had bad hobbies; the management refused to raise her wages under the pretext of "contract". It's hard to make ends meet.

In 1943, in addition to making programs on the radio, he was also on the show in yanle, Daguanyuan, Tianbao, yumingchun and other opera gardens. Gradually become one of Tianjin's famous five crosstalk.

On March 20, 1944, the radio station once conducted a series broadcast in Tianjin and Beijing (that is, two actors broadcast simultaneously in Tianjin and Beijing respectively through radio), and said "witty talk" with Zhang Shouchen and Zhang Shouchen. Later, he and a college student named Zhao Ming (Guangyu) organized the Beijing Art drama club to perform the drama "love heaven, blood and tears", "Shanghai prosperous dream", "modern lady", "Liang Shangjun", etc.

In 1945, he performed in Qunying theater in Tianjin. In May, he was invited back to Peking Shanghai Entertainment Club to perform as the "grand axis". In August, he returned to Tianjin Grand View Garden for another month. At the end of September, I returned to Beiping Shanghai recreation club. At the same time, he also made commercial advertisements on radio Watson, Radio China and radio Guohua.

In the spring of 1946, when he returned to Tianjin Grand View Garden and performed in Yanyue, he met Wang Yalan again and got emotional and married. In autumn, we will go to the world recreation club and Shengping recreation club for two seasons. At the same time, he also performed and advertised on several commercial radio stations. At the end of the year, Beijing art advertising agency was established. At the end of the year, Wang Yalan gave birth to Hou Yaohua on the 21st of dazhiying in Xicheng. In the same year, Mr. Zhu, an English typist, was employed to learn English conversation and incorporated English into the crosstalk section.

In 1947, he performed in Beiping Shanghai Entertainment Club and commercial radio station, and later in Xidan entertainment club.

In 1948, he continued to perform in Xidan entertainment club and commercial radio station, occasionally taking part in a hall meeting and advertising himself. In the same year, he gave birth to Hou Yaowen with Wang Yalan.

On July 2, 1949, he attended the first National Congress of the Chinese literary and art circles and listened to Premier Zhou Enlai's report on the domestic situation. Since August, he has participated in two workshops for Peking opera artists. On the first, third and fifth day of class, I listened to lectures on history of social development, Chinese revolution and the Communist Party of China, the way of artists and the future of traditional opera. In the autumn of the same year, he performed cross talk for Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other leaders for the first time.

On January 19, 1950, in order to adapt to the new situation after liberation and follow the tenet of "literature and art serve the workers, peasants and soldiers" put forward by Chairman Mao Zedong, with the support of Lao She and others, the "Beijing crosstalk improvement group" was established together with sun Yukui, Luo rongshou and Gao Fengshan. New crosstalk performances include marriage and superstition, Yiguandao (cooperation), second landlord (sun Yukui), etc. In the same year, he recruited Jia Zhenliang and Huang Tieliang.

In March 1951, he went to North Korea with the Chinese people's Liberation Army's delegation to North Korea and served as the squadron leader of Quyi service brigade. Later, he was reorganized into a literary troupe and served as the deputy head of the troupe. He once made up two cross talks on the Korean battlefield -- the portrait of Truman and Li CHENGWAN, the dog leg. He wrote a verse and libretto "feihushan", which can be performed with Taiping lyrics, Dagu, Zhuizi, Allegro and other different tunes. He also made a record of "so America". In May, after returning to China, he went to the five provinces of Northwest China with the Northwest Branch of the consolation group to publicize the heroic deeds and performances of the volunteer army, and served as the leader of the quyi troupe. On October 23, he was a non voting member of the National Political Consultative Conference, attended the third session of the first CPPCC National Committee, and was also a deputy to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress and the Beijing Municipal People's Congress. At the end of the year, I went to Shanghai Da Guang Ming film studio to shoot Mr. Lao She's film "Fang Zhu Zhu" and act as Bai Erli.

In June 1952, he went to Shanghai with Guo qiru to temporarily participate in the work of Shanghai northern quyi troupe. The Beijing quyi troupe was organized and established by the Beijing Municipal literature and art department as the general head of the troupe. In the same year, he took part in the shooting of Fang Zhu, playing Bai Erli, a crosstalk actor. In the same year, she gave birth to Hou Zhenzhen with Wang Yalan.

In the first half of 1953, he toured in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. In autumn, I returned to Beijing to cooperate with Beijing quyi troupe and perform in the cross talk conference. From the end of autumn to the end of autumn, the students of Liaoxi military region are taught in the morning. At the invitation of the children's Department of the Central People's broadcasting station, he created and performed the only children's crosstalk in his life, Dazhong has made progress.

In the spring of 1954, he took part in the quyi acrobatic troupe organized by the central government and went to the southwest to express his sympathy to the Chinese people's Liberation Army who built the Sichuan Tibet highway. On December 13, he recorded the crosstalk "thief talk" for the Central People's broadcasting station, which is the current record of the station

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