After Ma Ji, there was no master. This statement has been mentioned and recognized by many people in the field of phonology, and it has also been affirmed by most people among cross talk lovers. But there are always some people who belittle Ma Ji's crosstalk career for various reasons. The author will talk about Ma Ji this time.

Ma Ji, in fact, is a seriously underestimated crosstalk master. Even if he was given the title of crosstalk master, his crosstalk achievements could not be summarized.

1, influenced by the teahouse, is a famous teacher and a talented crosstalk artist.

To some people, Ma Ji seems to have become a monk halfway, and suddenly changed from a bookstore employee to a crosstalk performer. In fact, Ma Ji was once smoked by crosstalk.

When I was a child, Ma Ji often met a relative. As a close relative, he often goes to the teahouse to listen to cross talk, which is very similar to his later teacher Hou. Even because of the hardships of life, both of them once sold ice cores along the street. Maybe, somehow, he will always go the same way as Hou.

On the eve of liberation, Ma Ji, a young man, went to Shanghai as an apprentice and learned Shanghainese and Cantonese in the process of receiving customers, which also proved that he really had a talent for languages. After work, he listened to cross talk with the chatterbox and went to the theater to watch children's Big Fist.

It can be said that although Ma Ji and Hou didn't start crosstalk from primary school, they both have extraordinary ambition. If Hou's initial intention in cross talk is to make more money, then Ma Ji's initial intention is to like and love.

Therefore, Ma Ji didn't change careers halfway. On the contrary, listening to crosstalk has always been his hobby, and at the same time, he has a high talent for crosstalk. From 65438 to 0955, he joined an amateur club and began to receive training from Liu Baorui and Guo Quanbao.

From 65438 to 0956, Ma Ji became an instant hit in amateur performances of workers' sports. At that time, he performed his own satirical cross talk "Finding an Object". First, he was invited to change to professional crosstalk, and later he was taken a fancy to. So he was transferred to the Central Radio and Rap Troupe, and his name was changed from Ma Shuhuai to Ma Ji.

It can be seen by Hou and two crosstalk masters at the same time, and it can also be recognized by the top management of the rap group. Ma Ji's talent and ability can be imagined.

2. Traditional crosstalk, modern crosstalk and crosstalk creation.

In the Central Radio Rap Troupe, Ma Ji has four teachers, Hou, Guo Qiru and. Although Ma Ji was embarrassed by some jealousy of Hou and Liu about Ma Ji, Ma Ji has the best learning conditions in the history of crosstalk, and both traditional crosstalk and new crosstalk have made progress.

Now some people talk about Ma Ji, as if they only know the new crosstalk but not the traditional crosstalk. Actually, it is not. Ma Ji's traditional cross talk has a good foundation, and the four teachers didn't give it for nothing.

Ma Ji's traditional cross talk includes prescription for opera fans, selling cloth ends, couplets, tooth extraction, finding a church meeting, needling needles, learning to comment on operas, learning Yue Opera and so on. In traditional cross talk, he can talk, sing and amuse, and his basic skills are quite profound. For example, his "Disciple" performed with Zhao Yan and Carlo in the Spring Festival Evening is a traditional cross talk.

Not only that, Ma Ji can also adapt the traditional cross talk. For example, he said that "three to zero" is a treasure map adapted from mathematical techniques, and the new geographical map is adapted from geographical maps. The five virtues include the elements of the prosperity of six animals. This adaptation has expanded the vitality and attraction of traditional cross talk. Decades later, another crosstalk performer became popular by adapting traditional crosstalk. Perhaps Ma Ji saw his own shadow from him, so he happily wrote an inscription for him.

Not only that, Ma Ji wrote more than 300 prime minister's songs in his life, such as Ode to Friendship, Multi-storey Hotel, Hundred Blows, Rainbow on the Plateau and so on. He has always advocated that crosstalk performers should walk on two legs and that creation and performance should go hand in hand.

3, praise crosstalk, satirical crosstalk, funny crosstalk.

A big misunderstanding of Ma Ji by some people is that it is totally wrong to simply define him as a crosstalk performer.

Ma Ji's object in an amateur competition is a satirical cross talk, and Ma Ji's cross talk career began with satirical cross talk.

Nowadays, many people disdain to think that cross talk is boring when they talk about it. In fact, the interest lies not in the subject matter, but in the level of creation. This is the case with Ma Ji's most classic Ode to Friendship, which not only completes the propaganda task but also makes the audience laugh. At the same time, the same is true of Wang Peiyuan's "Digging for Treasure", which not only praises but also does a lot of popular science.

And Ma Ji's "Black Spot Disease", which was created after living in the countryside for several months, even played the role of internal reference, and this cross talk also gave Gao * * * real information about the rural situation.

If we say who is the boldest and most direct satirist of China's cross talk, I believe Ma Ji is definitely in the top two, and the other is Yang Zhenhua. His "Multi-storey Hotel" satirizes bureaucracy, and they are all excellent satirical works. Even his "Clouds in Beijing" was banned for satire.

Compared with Ma Ji, who among the crosstalk performers in China besides Yang Zhenhua has so many satirical works and strength?

For pure crosstalk, Ma Ji's "New Geographic Map" is also a good work, which is not only funny, but also popular: "The whole family began to knock on Luo, and began to sing Bangkok and San Diego. Munich turned out to be Myanmar, so they lit Sumatra and saw a piece of Yangon. Come up with three plates of fruit, Congo, Paris, Nicaragua, and you have to go to the toilet if you eat too much. "

Those who say that Ma Ji can only praise crosstalk just don't know Ma Ji, so people will follow suit. If they had really heard Ma Ji's works, they wouldn't have said this.

4. Pay attention to inheritance, cherish talents and dare to blame yourself.

Everyone knows that Ma Ji has many apprentices. Many people think that Ma Ji's apprentice just wants to wrangle with Ma Ji, but after careful study, we will find that Ma Ji's favorite apprentice is not worship, but Ma Ji is looking for it, or even robbing it.

For example, in Jiang Kun, it was Ma Ji who personally gave a series of performances in the Great Northern Wilderness and moved the leaders of the Corps before agreeing to transfer Jiang Kun. Zhao Yan was transferred from the Great Northern Wilderness to Tongzhou at the beginning, and Ma Ji sent people to stare at the leaders of other units every day and transferred him away. Feng Gong and Liu Wei were personally excavated by Ma Ji from a middle school in Tianjin.

Ma Ji recommended Li Wenhua to join the Central Radio Rap Group. That year, Tang Jiezhong went to Beijing to study, but his unit, the Guangzhou Military Region, resolutely refused to let him go. Ma Ji dared to write two letters to Luo Ruiqing, then chief of staff, to rob Tang Jiezhong.

Lian Chunming of Degang Guo Yuqian and Fang Qingping is not a crosstalk performer, but a crosstalk creator. His Bole is also Ma Ji. With Ma Ji's insight and talent, Lian Chunming became a famous crosstalk writer.

Other famous teachers are sitting at home waiting for people to worship, but Ma Ji has taken the initiative to recruit talents for only one reason, love talents. People who see good cross talk are reluctant to give up, and they should try their best to find out. Unlike Hou, Ma Ji dug the original stone and had to bring it back by himself.

Ma Ji's apprentice became famous. After some people become famous, they are farther and farther away from life and the masses. More than once, Ma Ji asked them to continue their life, even if it was to move a Mazar and sit on the side of the road to observe passers-by. Some apprentices can, others can't, but they stay at home behind closed doors. Ma Ji was saddened by this, but he didn't think there was something wrong with his apprentice, but he didn't teach it well.

5. Be brave in pioneering, aggressive and long-term.

Now, when it comes to the pioneers of sketch, people will first think of Wang Jingyu and Zhu Shimao in Peisi Chen. In fact, as early as 1982, Ma Ji realized that the sketch era might come, and he thought that with the popularity of television, visual arts might have a more promising future. So together with Zhao Yan and others, he re-created crosstalk according to the sketches in the performance examination. They wrote 13 sketches, one of which was a cosmic cigarette.

Looking back at Cosmic Cigarette now, you will find that it can be regarded as a stand-up comedy, but it can also be regarded as a sketch of one person. Unlike stand-up crosstalk, which focuses on storytelling, Cosmic Cigarette has added costumes, props and intermediate performances, and the identity of the performer has never jumped out, so you can treat it as a makeup crosstalk, and it is not impossible to treat it as a sketch.

Huang Hong, Ma Ji's apprentice, also used crosstalk when he wrote poker in the future, so when we look back at poker, you will feel that it can also be regarded as makeup crosstalk.

Ma Ji not only took the first step in sketches, but also made an attempt in cross talk movies. "Laughing through Love" can be said to be the most successful film in the phonology field so far, and its plot, conception and funny degree are all benchmarks. What is commendable is that Ma Ji gave all the main scenes to his apprentice in the film, and turned himself into a villain with few scenes.

Some people may say that Ma Ji's diversified attempt at cross talk is inappropriate, but please pay attention to what was the keynote of the whole society in the 1980s. Reform! Ma Ji's cross talk reform made cross talk the most popular folk art form in 1980s and early 1990s, which was also the most brilliant and prosperous era in the history of cross talk. Who is the hottest actor in the history of cross talk? That's Ma Ji and Jiang Kun. In the 1980s, their performances anywhere will cause a sensation in the whole city, and their popularity can be imagined.

6, craftsman spirit, be prepared for danger in times of peace, angry.

After Ma Ji's death, what impressed his colleague Zhao Lianjia and his disciples most was Ma Ji's seriousness and persistence in cross talk. In order to create crosstalk, he can go to the countryside for several months. In order to investigate the details of a small baggage, he did not hesitate to go to a special institution to do research. This meticulous creative attitude is the style he has always adhered to in his cross talk career.

His craftsman spirit is the same as that of another crosstalk master, Ma.

Ma Ji began to think about the future development direction of crosstalk when it was still flourishing. For example, he always thinks that the teaching mode of crosstalk in large classes is not a good practice, and the traditional one-on-one dictation also has disadvantages. How to pass on the baton of cross talk is what he has been trying to do. Some time before his death, he began to record his experiences and works at home as materials. Unfortunately, every day is a holiday.

In his later years, Ma Ji expressed his concern that crosstalk relied too much on TV and big stage. Although he was once a member here, he also felt the decline of cross talk expression and the trend of being divorced from the masses. Therefore, he strongly supported Li Jindou Weekend Crosstalk Society and Degang Guo Deyun Society, and wrote an inscription for Deyun Society.

Even after more than ten years have passed, we find that Ma Ji's worries still exist and even get worse. His words are worth remembering by crosstalk practitioners.

Six months before his death, Ma Ji participated in the TV series for the first time, and made a guest appearance as a wonton store owner in the TV series "Cheongsam" directed by Wu Ma. At the shooting scene, Ma Ji's thinking and pursuit of performance details even touched other professional TV actors.

Ma Ji's meticulous creation and performance improvement are in his bones, which he has been pursuing all his life, and are worthy of learning and reflection by younger generations.