The 2023 Spring Festival Gala has entered the rehearsal stage.
It can be seen from Reuters that young actors are still the main force.
The old faces in the Spring Festival Gala in my memory have not appeared.
I can’t see the ever-changing Cai Ming, nor can I hear Feng Gong’s words ‘I miss you so much’.
I think that Feng Gong was once a young star on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
After 33 Spring Festival Gala experiences, he became a people's artist.
But his talent was even higher than him back then.
His partner Liu Wei who accompanied him on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time disappeared.
Feng Gong is two years older than Liu Wei. They were both born in Tianjin, the hometown of folk music, and
were classmates in the same middle school.
Feng Gong has been fond of cross talk since he was a child, and he learned to play three-stringed early,
But Liu Wei likes music more and wants to sing with the guitar.
Their common literary and artistic hobbies led the two to join the school's art team.
The two often performed with the art team, and they got to know each other.
Originally Feng Gong had a cross talk partner,
Once he was unable to participate in the performance due to some reasons,
Feng Gong asked his friend Liu Wei for help.
Liu Wei was introverted when he was a child and did not like to express himself.
had no confidence in doing cross talk on stage.
Feng Gong asked him to give compliments. He didn’t have many words after a performance.
just had to be there to lend a helping hand at the right time.
He even helped copy out the compliments.
In this way, Liu Wei stepped onto the stage of cross talk, and he was out of control.
He soon gave up his original music and became Feng Ji's fixed partner.
At that time, the cross talk between Ma Ji and Tang Jiezhong was very well-known in China.
Feng Gong and Liu Wei often imitated these two teachers.
learned well and gained a little fame in Tianjin.
Unexpectedly, Ma Ji and Tang Jiezhong really noticed them one day and met them in a hotel in Tianjin.
Tang Jiezhong went to the door to greet the two middle school students in person,
took their hands and brought them to Ma Ji.
It was the first time for Liu Wei to enter such a high-end hotel.
His legs felt weak when he stepped on the thick carpet of the hotel.
Ma Ji admired these two young men very much and stared at them for a long time.
Feng Gong had a simple and honest appearance, tall and broad-brained.
Liu Wei was lean and had clever eyes.
He suggested that the two of them swap identities. Liu Wei would tease them, and Feng Gong would compliment them better.
The two teenagers were flattered by this meeting,
but they did not exchange places as Ma Ji said,
because Feng Gong was more skilled in terms of basic skills and experience.
Liu Wei did not take this matter seriously, and just regarded cross talk as a hobby.
Unexpectedly, a few months later he received a letter from Mr. Ma Ji,
specially sent to his home, inviting him to apply for the Central Broadcasting and Art Troupe.
This troupe can be said to be the most demanding art group in the country.
To join the troupe, you must go through political review and must be upright for three generations.
Ma Ji was originally very optimistic about these two teenagers and wanted to give young people some opportunities.
But Feng Gong's great-grandfather was the warlord leader Feng Guozhang.
The previous two generations had been criticized. His nickname was Feng Si Ye,
on the one hand because he was the fourth eldest son, and on the other hand because he was the fourth generation of the Feng family.
Such an identity and background would definitely not pass the political review.
Liu Wei's identity and background were innocent, and he just met the application requirements.
But he had never taken a literary exam, and he had never even said funny words.
He had to ask Feng Gong to copy a funny poem for him and spent three days studying it.
Liu Wei was uneasy on the day he went to Beijing for the exam.
He didn't sleep well the night before. He kept dreaming about going up the stairs.
The stairs in the dream were high and trembling, and he couldn't go up.
When he woke up, Liu Wei thought that this dream must be a sign of not passing the exam.
Sure enough, he made a mess during the interview.
was so nervous that he couldn't speak, so naturally he didn't pass the exam.
Liu Wei returned to Tianjin dejectedly and continued talking cross talk with Feng Gong.
Unexpectedly, during the second summer vacation, the Broadcasting and Art Troupe sent him a letter asking him to take the re-examination.
Liu Wei was well prepared this time and went to Beijing to take the exam again.
As a result, he still failed this time.
Immediately after Liu Wei and Feng Gong both graduated from high school,
entered the local machinery factory, one became a fitter and the other became a lathe.
Ma Ji did not forget these two talented young people.
He recommended them to Tieling as literary soldiers through his connections.
After training in the army, their experience and business increased a lot.
In 1980, 21-year-old Liu Wei and 23-year-old Feng Gong joined the Railway Art Troupe after retiring from the army.
had a formal unit and became professional actors.
During this period, Feng Gong was once returned to the machinery factory due to background issues.
Liu Wei was determined not to change partners and insisted on waiting for Feng Gong to come back and talk cross talk together.
When they first arrived in Beijing, Ma Ji and Tang Jiezhong still took care of them.
helped with everything from housing to furniture and electrical appliances.
In 1982, Mr. Ma Ji officially accepted his disciples.
Liu Wei and Feng Gong, who had been teaching for many years, finally officially became their disciples.
Although Liu Wei was young, he became Feng Gong's senior brother.
He ranked third, Feng Gong ranked fourth,
and their senior brother was the already famous Jiang Kun.
Ma Ji loves his apprentices like sons. Not only does he give guidance on business,
personally helps them check their works, but he also often takes them to perform across the country.
More importantly, he promoted them to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
In 1983, the first CCTV Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on New Year's Eve.
Ma Ji and Jiang Kun were both hosts that year.
The early 1980s was the heyday of cross talk.
Cross talk masters were very enthusiastic about their creations. Language programs accounted for half of the Spring Festival Gala.
At that time, Guo Degang was still a young man who longed for the stage.
At that time, Zhao Benshan was still playing the blind man Zhang Zhi in the Northeast.
Ma Ji, who already had a certain influence in the industry,
had the foresight to recommend newcomers to the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Liu Wei and Feng Gong became the rookies on the 1986 Spring Festival Gala stage.
The two of them had already had a lot of performance experience back then.
had traveled all over the country, including Hong Kong and overseas. Although
had seen a lot of the world, this was his first time on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
htmlThe cross talk performed by the two in 186 was called "Speaking of Tiger in the Year of the Tiger".
Liu Wei was teasing and Feng Gong was praising.
The two of them had been keeping their hearts in mind since they took the stage.
It was not until the audience applauded and the audience burst into laughter that
they gradually relaxed.
The performance was very good, and Liu Wei and Feng Gong's fame gradually increased.
Especially when they returned to Tianjin to perform, the enthusiasm of the fellow villagers came to their faces.
The newcomers even overshadowed their teacher Ma Ji.
In the Spring Festival Gala of 1987, Liu Wei and Feng Gong participated in two works together,
they collaborated on "Qiao Dui Lian", and " Five Senses Strive for Merit " with their teacher Ma Ji.
also made a mistake during the Spring Festival Gala, and Liu Wei was speechless.
At that time, the Spring Festival Gala was longer than expected, and the order of "Five Senses Strive for Merit" was relatively late.
had to speed up the pace and regain the time,
Liu Weiyi anxiously said "three sixty-nine equal parts" instead of "three sixty-nine tripods".
The Spring Festival Gala at that time was not recorded in advance, and there was no way to correct this slip of the tongue.
You can still see the version of his slip of the tongue to this day.
But even for such a big mistake, Ma Ji did not blame Liu Wei too much.
still gave him opportunities and regarded him as his most beloved disciple.
But Liu Wei's mind was no longer on cross talk at that time.
After performing abroad several times, he discovered that the outside world was more exciting.
At the end of the 1980s, there was a trend of going abroad in China.
It is said that there is gold everywhere abroad, and you can become rich just by washing dishes.
Many people gave up their stable jobs at home and went abroad to seek opportunities.
There were also some celebrities among them. The popular actress Wang Ji was one of them.
Liu Wei happened to have relatives abroad, and his sister-in-law and her family were in Australia.
He imagined a beautiful life of drinking coffee and eating steak in the garden.
He was determined to give up his domestic career and immigrate to Australia with his wife.
Although his career in China was booming at that time and his performance schedule was full,
Feng Gong and Ma Ji finally respected his choice and let him leave.
However, life in Australia is not as beautiful as Liu Wei imagined.
He does not understand the language and has no local acquaintances, so he cannot go anywhere,
let alone start a business by talking cross talk in the local area.
Liu Wei, who was unfamiliar with the place he was born in, had to carry a sign with him every day when he went out.
It had his home address written on it in English. He couldn't even ask for directions after he got lost.
He was less than thirty years old at that time. He was like an old man with dementia in a foreign country.
He could not do anything, and even the most basic life was a problem.
After enduring this kind of life for 8 months, he returned to China.
At the end of 1988, Liu Wei returned to China to resume his career,
but at this time Feng Gong had found a new partner Niu Qun.
The two were old acquaintances and worked together very well.
Their new combination was quickly recognized by the audience.
In the end, Ma Ji felt sorry for his apprentice, so he decided to take Liu Wei to the Spring Festival Gala himself.
He originally collaborated with his apprentice Zhao Yan on the cross talk "Farewell" in the 1989 Spring Festival Gala.
He specially changed it into a version suitable for Liu Wei, and gave all the outstanding parts to his apprentice.
He personally acted as a praise for his apprentice.
However, this performance did not save Liu Wei's career.
Pop music and hot dance became popular in the country in the late 1980s.
Sketch also began to rise, and cross talk declined rapidly.
Feng Gong followed the trend and turned to film and television while talking about cross talk.
He won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor with the comedy movie " Stand Up Straight, Don't Get Down ".
His audience popularity and attention have always been high.
On the other hand, Liu Wei has never returned to the peak of his career.
He still has many performance opportunities and often stays with his master.
But his popularity is getting lower and lower.
One afternoon in March 2006, Liu Wei drove a car and rear-ended a bus.
At that time, the bus driver got out of the car to negotiate, but he did not dare to show up.
He just rolled down the window and said, "I will pay for it no matter how much!"
The bus driver saw the other party's arrogant tone and called the police.
Liu Wei had to get off the bus at the request of the police.
At this time, there were many onlookers around.
Everyone recognized the perpetrator at a glance as the crosstalk actor Liu Wei.
What's even worse is that after Liu Wei passed the alcohol test,
the alcohol content in his body was as high as 207, far exceeding the standard for drunk driving.
Liu Wei was detained for driving license, fined and detained for 15 days.
This incident quickly made the headlines of major newspapers.
Many onlookers witnessed Liu Wei's bad attitude.
All the audience popularity he had accumulated through his works over the years was lost.
His performances were also seriously affected.
But Ma Dong and his brothers did not dislike him.
still found ways to help him take on performances and often invited him to their home for dinner.
However, in December of the same year, Ma Ji suddenly had a heart attack and passed away.
Just the day before his death, Liu Wei was having dinner at his master's house.
The two of them were still talking and laughing, but the next day they were separated from each other.
Master's death was a great blow to Liu Wei. For a long time, he could not accept the reality.
He would burst into tears every time he mentioned Master.
Without the protection of his master, Liu Wei's career was even more hopeless.
It was not until 2009 that he finally had the opportunity to appear on the Spring Festival Gala again.
This time he collaborated with his master's son Ma Dong in the cross talk "The Five Senses New Talk ",
adapted the "Five Senses Strive for Merit" from the 1987 Spring Festival Gala.
Coincidentally, there was also a slip of the tongue this year,
Dong Qing said Ma Dong was Ma Ji,
but this time there was a recorded version, and the slip of the tongue was quickly replaced.
The theme of this year's "New Theory of the Five Senses" is that the host's facial features blame the host after a drunk driving incident.
It is ironic that Liu Wei, who was once imprisoned for drunk driving, performed it.
This performance did not revive Liu Wei's career.
Soon he got into new trouble.
In 2010, Liu Wei was criticized by the China Federation of Merchants for shooting a false advertisement for a certain brand.
The advertisement he shot was excessively exaggerated and suspected of being illegal.
Liu Wei was also punished accordingly.
After this incident, his popularity with the public completely collapsed.
In the following years, Liu Wei was almost invisible on any platform.
His fellow senior brother is still a frequent guest at the Spring Festival Gala.
His former partner Feng Gong has blossomed in many aspects and his reputation has not diminished.
Even Feng Gong’s apprentice Jia Ling has become a comedy star.
Liu Wei who left Feng Gong is like Bai Kainan who left Jia Ling.
His position is getting more and more embarrassing, with no works and no reputation.
Liu Wei is also trying to transform and gradually move closer to the film and television industry.
In 2016, he appeared in the hit drama "In the Name of the People",
played a villain Du Zhongbo who had a limited role.
In this year's popular costume drama "梦华鹿",
he plays Mr. Zhuo Shi, who is also a supporting role with few roles.
Today's Liu Wei is visibly aging.
He no longer has the wit and energy he once had on the cross talk stage.
He plays too few roles to be considered a surprise guest appearance,
because many viewers simply cannot recognize him.
In the past few years, Liu Wei has participated in several film and television dramas.
's roles are very different. In terms of acting skills, he is remarkable.
can be regarded as the face of the drama, and there is no shadow of a comedian at all.
But these works still can't bring him any popularity.
There are too many old actors like him, but few of them have made it out of the industry.
Liu Wei occasionally appears in some satellite TV shows,
resumes his old profession and continues to talk about cross talk,
However, in the past few years, the cross talk market has been almost completely occupied by Deyunshe,
Coupled with the impact of various comedy shows, no one remembers this old senior.
htmlWhat 163-year-old Liu Wei regrets most is the eight months he spent abroad in 1988.
His career, which was at its peak, fell to the bottom, and he never had a chance to turn around.
There is a cross talk master Ma Ji who loves him so much as his master,
Such an outstanding classmate Feng Gong is his partner,
Liu Wei is ruined by the dream of going abroad that rushes to his head.
He should also regret not cherishing his feathers during the low period of his career.
turned from a cross talk prodigy into a prisoner.
suffered continuous reputation setbacks, completely ruining his chance to turn around.
Spring Festival Gala year after year, talented people emerge from generation to generation,
Liu Wei, who was once a talented rookie, is completely forgotten.
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