108 years ago today, November 29, 1917 (October 15, 1917, the master of cross talk Hou Baolin was born. Hou Baolin (left) during a performance On November 29, 1917, Hou Baolin was born in Beijing. Hou Baolin began to learn art at the age of 12. I started learning Peking Opera and soon changed to cross talk. He successively became Chang Baochen and Zhu Kuoquan as his disciples. He became famous in Tianjin in 1940. After the founding of New China, it was determined to reform cross talk. In 1950, it participated in the Beijing Cross Talk Improvement Group and made remarkable achievements in inheriting and developing the art of cross talk. In 1955, he joined the Central Radio Rap Troupe and made great contributions to expanding the influence of cross talk and improving its artistic status. In 1979, Xie Ying Stage specialized in theoretical research on quyi. In 1980, he was invited to visit Japan and inspected the situation of Japanese folk comedy art. Representative songs include "Night Talks","Drama Miscellaneous Talks","Career Change","Guan Gong Battle Qin Qiong", etc., all of which are included in "Selected Crosstalk by Hou Baolin"; co-authored with others,"Introduction to Quyi","Essays on the Art of Crosstalk","Tracing the Source of Crosstalk", etc. He was successively elected as a representative of the Fourth and Fifth National People's Congresses, vice chairman of China Quyi Artists Association, and should be hired as an adjunct professor at Peking University and other universities.