Ma Sanli

(October 1, 1914 - February 11, 2003), born in Tianjin, native of Yongchang County, Jinchang City, Gansu Province, is a crosstalk performing artist. The late Chinese cross talk master and one of the eight virtues of cross talk is the son of Ma Delu. Hui people. He once served as consultant to the Chinese Quyi Artists Association and honorary chairman of the Tianjin Quyi Artists Association. He was a member of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th Tianjin CPPCC. He is also a people's artist with both virtue and art, who is good at "guankou" and literary jokes.

Ma Sanli devoted himself to exploration in long-term artistic practice and created the unique "Ma's Crosstalk". He was the oldest, most senior, senior and most accomplished "crosstalk" in the crosstalk circle at that time. "Teacher" is deeply loved and respected by all walks of life and the audience. Ma's cross talk is highly appreciated by both refined and popular people, and in Tianjin it has become a saying that "there is no sect but no sect of Ma".

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Ma Sanli once studied at Tianjin Huiwen Middle School. After graduating from junior high school, due to poor family circumstances, he dropped out of school to do cross talk. Born in a family of traditional Chinese folk arts, his grandfather Ma Chengfang was a famous storytelling artist who was good at telling "Water Margin" and became famous for a while; his father Ma Delu was one of the "Eight Virtues of Crosstalk" and was the favorite disciple and son-in-law of Enxu, a senior crosstalk artist; His mother, En Cuiqing, once learned to sing Beijing-style drums; his brother, Ma Guiyuan, learned from Li Dechen, one of the Eight Virtues of Crosstalk, and was famous for being good at performing "Wengui" jokes.

The family environment has influenced Ma Sanli since he was a child, and he is very familiar with the art of cross talk. Under the influence of his father and brother, he developed a profound foundation in "speaking", "learning", "playing" and "singing".

He began to perform on stage in 1930. His academic skills improved rapidly and his horizons broadened day by day. Ma Sanli learned art from his father Ma Delu when he was 12 years old, and later became a disciple of the famous cross talk actor Zhou Deshan (nicknamed "Zhou Toad", who is the same disciple as Ma Sanli's father Ma Delu), one of the eight virtues of cross talk. Before liberation, he partnered with Geng Baolin, Liu Kuizhen, Hou Yichen, and Zhang Qingsen.

In 1947, Ma Sanli appeared on the Tianjin Grand View Garden Theater, which was regarded as the grand platform by rap artists across the country, and partnered with Hou Yichen, which was very popular among the audience. The following year, Ma Sanli came to Beijing for the third time, Performed on Huasheng Radio and Tea House Theater, Ma Sanli's unique style of cross talk caused a sensation among folk art fans "like an atomic bomb explosion". Ma Sanli was usually taciturn and rarely showed his emotions, but after becoming a rightist, Ma Sanli actually cried in public several times, and each time it was because of cross talk.

The first time was on the evening of March 16, 1961, at the military grain farm in the eastern suburbs of Tianjin, where Ma Sanli had been working for two years. That night there was a meeting on the farm, and the leader suddenly announced that Ma Sanli was no longer a rightist and could return to his original unit and resume his old career. Ma Sanli cried on the spot.

The second time was on March 24, 1961. After two years of absence from the audience, Ma Sanli gave his first performance at the Tianle Music Hall upstairs in Quanyechang. The audience's stormy applause lasted for several minutes. , unable to calm down for a long time. Facing an audience that welcomed and loved him so much after an absence of more than two years, Ma Sanli bowed to everyone in the audience in his usual way, and people finally fell silent.

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