Ma Zhiming.

Ma Zhiming was born in Tianjin in 1945. He is the eldest son of Mr. Ma Sanli, the master of cross talk. The audience who loves him respects him as "Young Master". In the 1980s, Mr. Hou Baolin took over Zhu Kuoquan as his disciple. He is one of the most senior actors in the cross talk industry today.

Ma Zhiming's representative works include traditional cross talk "The Bodyguard", "Geographical Map", "On Boxing", "Reporting the Name of the Dish", "Article Meeting", "Opening a Porridge Factory" and "Selling Tickets", as well as original works " "Disputes", "Five Flavors", "The Sound of Mahjong at Night", etc. These cross talk creations of his came from life and were artistically processed. They have become classic works of "Ma's cross talk".

The audience first got to know Ma Zhiming from "Five Flavors". In 1986, Ma Zhiming and Xie Tianshun participated in the first CCTV Professional Crosstalk Actor Competition in Beijing and performed "Five Flavors". This cross talk was the idea of ??Zhu Xueying from the Tianjin Folk Art Troupe's choreography team. It was written by Shi Shichang and processed by Ma Zhiming, incorporating Ma's cross talk artistic techniques. Ma and Xie spent 20 days practicing and revising their scripts. The results were quite good when they participated in the semi-finals in Beijing. Unfortunately, they only received the Excellence Award in the finals.