An opening poem from Guo Degang’s cross talk. The original text is as follows:

The sky is a blanket, the ground is a blanket, the sun, moon and stars accompany me to sleep;

Who casts the net of fame and fortune, wealth and poverty are extraordinary;

There are also people riding horses and sedan chairs, and there are also carts with handles for carrying burdens;

It is a blessing to ride on horses and ride in sedan chairs, and it is natural for people to carry burdens on carts;

A handsome horse carries a foolish man, and a beautiful woman often Sleeping with a clumsy husband;

The eighty-year-old man stands in front of the door, and the three-year-old naughty boy is in trouble;

It's not that God doesn't open his eyes, good and evil will end in a cycle of retribution.

It means: I treat the sky as a quilt, the earth as a bed, and the sun, moon and stars accompany me to sleep. Who cast this big net of fame and fortune? Rich and poor are different. Some people rode horses and sat in sedan chairs, while others pushed carts and carried burdens. Those who ride horses and sit in sedans are blessings gained from previous lives, and those who push carts and carry burdens are destined.

The rich man immediately is a moron, and the beautiful woman is married to a bad man. The eighty-year-old man stood in front of the door, but the three-year-old child was dead. It’s not that God is unfair, good and evil will naturally have their retribution when the time comes.

Extended information:

Introduction poems, folk art language, cross talk, storytelling and other folk arts actors often recite four or eight lines of poetry before performing a program, and the verses are often humorous. Humorous, short, concise and impressive, the purpose is to quickly gather the ear of the audience so that the actor can immediately enter the performance. In this way, the actor freezes the scene first, so it is called a setting poem.

There are fewer and fewer contemporary artists who are good at performing stand-up comedy. Due to the decrease in stand-up comedy works, the use of setting poems is also becoming less and less. Among the well-known cross-talk actors, only stand-up kings Mr. Liu Baorui and Guo Degang use it. More.

In the early years, stand-up comedians such as Zhang Shouchen and Guo Quanbao used it on stage. In addition, Shan Tianfang, a famous storytelling performer, has also widely used it in his works, which has had a profound impact on the spread of setting poems.

There are many final poems in Guo Degang’s stand-up comedy, as shown below:

The saddest thing is late at night,

A haggard person Unbearable to pity.

Invite wine to destroy your intestines and get drunk after three glasses of wine.

Looking for fragrance and startling dreams at dawn.

The hairpin-headed phoenix Xieqing has tears,

I have no chance to spend the flowers.

The lonely heart and the moon in the small building are as hard as a hook and hard to round.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Setting Poem