Chapter 676: Doll Legs
What is baby legs? The seniors and even generations in the family have been in this industry. They have been following in teahouses or theaters since they were young, watching their elders perform so long.
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"Of course you are older than me, and you did this job early. I should have said that I haven't entered the industry until today. After all, I'm more than this one for my career..."
"No, don't be polite about this. You are a 'baby leg'. Your prenatal education is a folk art. It grew up in a kindergarten. Your ancestors have been doing this industry for generations. You will never use this profession in your life, but you are also a person in this industry. If you say I really envy you."
"No, I'm not talking about this, but I don't teach my apprentice after all, so I just talk about it casually based on my own experience of learning. You should be more inclusive." In fact, Wang Xiaomao mainly wanted to say this, but because of the "main", he was polite and strived to make the persuasion effect. And what he said was the truth. He couldn't look at this issue from the perspective of a master...
Due to various reasons, Guo Xiaotie was too lenient with his later apprentices and even had no time to care about them. Many apprentices were not very good at basic skills, and some became popular without hard work. If they were not popular, they were enough to make a living with the golden signs he had built.
He is now very worried about these disciples, thinking that solid skills are the prerequisite for walking in the folk art industry. He is also worried that one day these disciples will not be able to survive because of this and will hold a grudge against him.
This feeling touched Wang Xiaomao. In the folk art industry, he paid special attention to the saying "master and apprentice are like father and son". Guo Xiaotie's worries are truly "parental heart". This "parental heart" is of course right, but it may also be redundant and a good intention to do bad things.
How do you say this?
Guo Xiaotie thought about his apprentice for the long term, but is this just a kind of sincere intention? It may also be mixed with a complex and a fixed-language thinking.
He really likes crosstalk. He learns crosstalk by himself. As long as he can still go to the stage, his strength is enough to support his performance. He will not retire even when he is 80 years old. So he thinks that his apprentices are the same, and they should do it. Is this the question that people think?
According to Wang Xiaomao's opinion, some of Guo Xiaotie's apprentices probably don't like crosstalk, but like Guo Xiaotie, or think that they can live a good life with Guo Xiaotie, so they come to learn crosstalk.
For such a person, if you really can't learn it, you won't learn it anymore, and you won't practice it with all your strength. What's more, as Guo Xiaotie said just now, many apprentices become famous after they haven't learned it, or if they don't become famous, at least they live better than ordinary people. Why do they want to be eighty like him?
Maybe he was content when he made enough money when he was young, but maybe he didn't make much money, but he also understood that he didn't give up because he didn't have the material. So is Guo Xiaotie's "parental heart" unnecessary? But those who obviously don't have enough materials and are unwilling to practice hard, but he wished to practice and do this business, which delayed the achievements these children may achieve in other industries. Isn't this a good intention to do a bad thing?
Although Wang Xiaomao has never been a master, he has experienced his disciple's mentality personally and empathized with it. He has never wanted to do this since he was a child, but his parents forced him to take care of him and he couldn't learn it.
But the key point is that although Wang Xiaomao can understand the mentality of some of Guo Xiaotie's apprentices and have similar feelings, his specific situation is different from those children - it can even be said to be very different.
Subjectively speaking, he actually didn't like crosstalk, nor did he learn crosstalk because of someone or something other than crosstalk. Not to mention the influence of the folk art family for more than a hundred years, just say that he is the hometown of folk art and the Tianjin Wei doll who grew up in a crosstalk nest, he likes crosstalk from the bottom of his heart. Moreover, his childhood culture and entertainment life across the country were relatively poor. What more forms of entertainment can he like if he doesn't like crosstalk?
The so-called "forced to learn art" is because he is unwilling to do this business, and he is unwilling to do this business is because of his contempt for the identity of an artist. After all, he wants to be a literati, and it has nothing to do with whether he likes crosstalk itself.
Objectively speaking, it is just like what Guo Xiaotie said - he is "baby legs", what is baby legs?
The family members, or even generations, have been in this industry. They have been following in teahouses or theaters since they were young, watching elders perform so much. When they return home, the guests are basically from this industry. They are talking about these things, or if they don’t talk about these things, they may occasionally use crosstalk skills. So Wang Xiaomao will listen if he doesn’t listen. If he wants to listen and learn, there are people who teach him, but those are mostly experts from the Bao, Wen, and even Shou generation.
With such a family background and such a growing environment, not to mention the issue of genes, this objective and passive influence is enough for others to be unable to catch up with in their lifetime of hard training. Why does Guo Xiaotie envy Wang Xiaomao? That's all.
So, regardless of Wang Xiaomao's subjective conditions or objective influence, even Guo Xiaotie envied. He was too much better than Guo Xiaotie's apprentices? In addition, it was not mentioned about genes, but this matter was somewhat reasonable. Wang Xiaomao learned folk art since childhood and learned opera, so he did show extraordinary talent, so he could only learn such strong skills by "being forced to learn art".
But because of this, Wang Xiaomao felt that if Guo Xiaotie's apprentices didn't really like crosstalk, they didn't have baby legs like him, but because of Guo Xiaotie's fame and the golden signboard that the performance team might indeed be famous. Will Guo Xiaotie's worries appear even more redundant? It makes people very painful, and Guo Xiaotie is also very worried. The key is that they have no good results in the end, so why bother?
"Of course, you can't change your heart, okay, this is a kind heart! I advise you that you don't want you to change it for so long. After recording the program, I will say that it's their business. I hope you can do what you should do. What the result is, if someone really doesn't listen or isn't this material, don't worry too much about this matter."
"To be honest, it's worthy of being a 'baby leg'. People in this industry have figured out everything in this industry. I really can't change it, but there is no need to worry too much about these things."
"That's good, okay, let's continue recording the show..."
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When it comes to "baby legs", Wang Xiaomao must be, but Lu Yuchi is the same? It's just that Lu Yuchi is the "baby legs" of a commercial family.
Yang Xiaoying, who was still in Macau, was chatting with Lu Yuchi and complimenting. She knew very well that Lu Yuchi didn't like others to cater to flattery. She had always done this before, but when she thought of Lu Yuchi's state of talking to those people that day, she sincerely wanted to praise...
Chapter completed!