One Hou said

Author: Hou Xin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Some say that Hou Baolin's humorous remark "One Family of Hou" is used in opposition to Li Bai's "I do not wish to be a feudal lord with ten thousand households, but only wish to meet Han Jingzhong once." Hou Baolin, however, explained that "It's not that profound; it refers to the fact that the family named Hou lives in this courtyard." Hou Baolin's contributions to the art of crosstalk mainly include two points: first, he brought crosstalk, which had never been recognized as high art, into the of art, making it enjoyable for both the refined and the common; now he is working hard to elevate crosstalk to a theoretical level, or to say, to let it enter the realm of academia.