[Explanation] Wearing a small top hat, black suit, big fat pants, white shirt, black bow tie underneath, a pinch of "moustache" on the top of the mouth, walking stick in hand and big-toed shoes. Wang Hua, a 60-year-old man from Shandong The image of the comedy master Chaplin is vividly reproduced in front of the camera. With such outfits and makeup, he has been dressed for most of his life.

  [Explanation] Wang Hua, who lives on the bank of the Yellow River in Jinan, appeared on the street as a "Chaplin" every three to five, performing classic moves such as duck steps, humorously interpreting self-written and self-directed pantomimes, and brought a lot of people to the public. Happiness. One by one seemingly simple funny actions, behind him is his 38 consecutive years of hard work in imitating.

  [Concurrent] Pantomime performer Wang Hua

  In the earliest days, I was a magician. At that time, I was performing magic tricks. Later, I saw a movie where the pantomime belonged to Chaplin. I was very interested. Then I put on a suit and wore it. They said you look good. Like Chaplin, I have imitated since then. What is difficult to imitate is the whole body language duck step. In fact, it can be mastered in half a year. After two years of practice, I think I am not good at walking. After a few years of practice, I feel just starting. I think the real practice is 10 Years later.

  [Commentary] From the beginning, Wang Hua shuttled between the villages, chasing film projectionists while watching and learning pantomime, and then to the perfect pantomime performance for 10 years, he has been silently paying for the performance he loves. . In 2002, Wang Hua participated in the TV program "Happy Story". With his accumulated years of performance experience and humorous performance style, he won bursts of applause from the audience and won the 2002 annual championship of the program.

  [Concurrent] Pantomime performer Wang Hua

  In the early days from a hobby to becoming a profession, I was silently contributing. After performing performances all over the country, Dragon TV, Beijing, Hangzhou, and all over the country invited to perform. I am also very good in terms of income, but I think it has accumulated a lot of culture, which is the biggest benefit in my life. .

  [Explanation] Unlike common performances that imitate Chaplin, Wang Hua has absorbed the art of harlequins in Chinese Peking opera, including facial makeup and facial movements such as lifting eyes and shaking voices. In his words, it is to draw the essence from Chinese opera performance and integrate it into Western art.

  [Concurrent] Pantomime performer Wang Hua

  Our Chinese harlequins have a single-shaking tune on one side, and a double-shaking tune on both sides. Look at the clown horns such as Wu Dalang and draw some facial makeup. They also draw facial makeup. The principle is the same. They can be integrated.

  [Explanation] For Wang Hua, learning magic and imitating Chaplin in the early days may have been out of hobby, to make money and support his family, but he was not reconciled to just staying on such a material level. In the subsequent acting career, he pays more attention to the spiritual enrichment and the improvement of artistic quality. What makes Wang Hua quite emotional is that young people nowadays are relatively unfamiliar with pantomime, and the image of Chaplin has gradually faded out of people's vision and has been forgotten by many people.

  [Concurrent] Pantomime performer Wang Hua

  Some people asked me if Chaplin is not so popular now, is it psychologically downright? I said no, because it is art after all, I still stick to it, because I will develop new culture on the basis of it, and continue to inherit our Chinese culture.

  (Reported by Yang Fei in Jinan)

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]