Cross Talk Newcomer

Speaking, learning, teasing and singing are the four basic artistic methods of cross talk tradition. "Shuo" means telling jokes, playing lantern riddles, tongue twisters, etc.; "Xue" means imitating the sounds of various birds and animals, cries, singing tunes, various characters, styles, languages, etc.; "Tiao" means catching each other and making them laugh; "Singing" refers to Taiping lyrics in cross talk. Due to some reasons, cross talk shows on TV in the past classified all singing into singing, which is wrong. Only the Taiping lyrics are for singing, the rest are for learning. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.