File is not the level we understand now, but the meaning of partner, that is, these five groups of people were the hottest crosstalk artists in Tianjin at that time.

Strictly speaking, the highest ranking of these five crosstalk performers at that time was He Hou, but their popularity should rank behind Chang, and Dai Shaofu was a latecomer. But because he accidentally provoked Yuan, he died after being stabbed several times (of course, it was also related to his long-term smoking of heavy cigarettes, which ruined his health).

Hou's master Hou was not particularly famous in Beijing at that time, but Tianjin people praised him especially, because of the five crosstalk performers, only Hou could sing Peking Opera and was a sharp willow. All the other troupes sang this door with a limp, but Chang's hoarse voice was not bad, so the play could not be performed. So it's good for Master Hou to live in a spacious and natural audience.

It can be said that Chang, Hou and Dai Shaofu are competing at the same time, and each has its own advantages in popularity and skills. On the whole, Chang He is slightly better, and the other three gears are evenly matched.

When the horse is the hottest in these groups, he is lying, and there is no fixed cooperation, and his partner is always changing. At that time, green gang was rampant in Tianjin, and many artists were forced to join green gang to make a living. Ma Lao doesn't want anything to do with green gang, so he would rather not perform than join in. In order to make money, Liu Baorui learned slang and pretended to be a gangster, but he was caught and beaten. Zhang Shouchen paid to save him.

After hiding with Gao for a while, he had to return to Tianjin, and then he became Yuan's free labor force. Most of the time, he played cross-dressing. The first cross-dressing was to help Xin, but after this opening, the hooligans saw that the young man was quite stunned and the performance effect was very good, which verified the causal law of "cross-dressing is only zero times and countless times", and Ma Lao became the oppressed object.

In the past five years, Ma Lao has been borrowed by hooligans, and has been circulating in reverse. It was not until 1945 that the Japanese surrendered and the hooligans lost their backers that Ma Lao straightened up and quit the Brothers Troupe and got rid of the haze of cross-dressing drama.

After that, Ma Lao experienced a cross talk, and everything started from scratch. Then a troupe invited a teahouse and entered the theater from Guangming, and its popularity began to rise slowly.

1945, after Dai Shaofu died, Hou raised money for his charity performance, and he returned to Beijing. At this time, he became famous in Guinness, gradually catching up with Chang, and filled the gap in Dai Shaofu.

This is why Tian Lihe didn't realize that there were five cross talks in Tianjin. It's not the art he denied, but the popularity of harmony, which is often staggered with Hou, and it's difficult to put it together.