Global Times采访张云雷不负责任渣翻

When modern fandom meets traditional folk arts
当现代粉丝遇见传统民间艺术
Something you wouldn't ever expect to see occurred on the evening of October 21, 2018. More than 2,700 people, mostly young women, from the audience sang the traditional Chinese Ping Opera together with the performers on stage. The Beijing Exhibition Theater was lit up in an ocean of green glow sticks that surrounded Zhang Yunlei, a 27-year-old crosstalk artist.
2018年10月21日晚，发生了你们始料未及的事。观众席的2700多人，大多是年轻女性，与台上的表演者一起唱了中国传统平戏。点燃了北展的绿色荧光棒环绕着27岁的相声艺术家张云雷。 
"This has never happened before in the past, has it? After the song, I said to the audience, 'Who said nobody listens to traditional stuff anymore?'" Zhang told the Global Times in a recent interview.
张在最近的一次采访中告诉环球时报“这在以前从没发生过不是吗？唱完之后我跟观众们说‘谁说传统的东西没人听？’”
Xiangsheng, or crosstalk, which has been generally considered to have taken form in the mid-1800s as a street performance, is a traditional Chinese comedic performing art usually in the form of a duo dialogue full of puns and allusions, and sometimes with singing, rapping and musical accompaniment. As an apprentice of China's most famous crosstalk artist Guo Degang, Zhang has been learning the art since age nine.