There is no doubt that there are two schools of phonology at present, namely, the grassroots school represented by Degang Guo and the institutional school represented by Jiang Kun. However, the current development trend is to gradually break the boundary between system and non-system. Some crosstalk performers in the system gradually moved closer to Degang Guo, while some people in the non-system gradually moved closer to Jiang Kun and began to draw a clear line with others. The principle of division is "the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the friend of the enemy is an enemy". If you don't believe me, you can know a thing or two by looking at the trends of Dr. Miao Fu and Dr. Jiaotong University.
Degang Guo once said in Deyun Society more than once that "gateway" belongs to the basic skills of crosstalk performers, and crosstalk performers are inferior if they can't learn it.
Looking back at history, Jiang Kun, known as the "cross talk master", once performed cross talk in a small theater. As a result, he was annoyed by the old cross talk lovers in Tianjin and asked him to recite Eight Fan Screens and Registration on the spot. This makes Jiang Kun very anxious. Jiang Kun explained that he was not familiar with traditional crosstalk and mainly performed new crosstalk. Sweating at the same time, I moved out of my teachers and masters to support myself.
Looking back at the comic dialogue actors of Deyun Society, even Degang Guo's son Guo Qilin knows it by heart. As a mainstream crosstalk performer, Jiang Kun has lost the most traditional way of performing crosstalk. I don't know how Jiang Kun was rated as a "crosstalk master".
For the general audience, if you listen to Ma and Hou's crosstalk, including Ma Ji's crosstalk, you will find it very "watery". People in the industry commented that Jiang Kun never learned the most important point of cross talk, "Funny". He relies too much on the quality of comic books and knows nothing about how to improvise comic skills accumulated by hundreds of elderly predecessors, such as how to cushion and shake the burden, which is the essence of comic dialogue. I remember Hou said a word to the effect that the skill of "smashing" and "hanging" on the spot is a trump card in our phonograph circle, and we must not lose the guy who eats.
And Degang Guo just mastered this, so he was sought after by everyone, which was quite boring. When Degang Guo said that everyone was honored, while Jiang Kun, on the other hand, was very interesting, which led Jiang Kun to say that it was generally interesting.
Speaking of harmony, they have a long history of learning from each other, and they are both grandchildren. Our teacher is Ma Ji, while Ma Ji's teacher is Hou. Our teacher is Hou and Hou's father is Hou. That is to say, it is Hou's disciple, not Hou's son's apprentice, and both of them belong to Hou School.