Just as we all know, the comic dialogue is a kind of special art form in China. As a result, there are many performers of the comic dialogue. If the foreigners pay attention to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala during the period when they attend to volunteer program in China, they would find many famous cross talk artists perform the cross talk each year. Among so many comic dialogue performing artists, Jiang Kun is a famous one that almost all Chinese people know.

Born in the year of 1950 in Beijing, Jiang Kun even joined the army in his early years. After that, he turned to learn comic dialogue from the cross talk master Ma Ji. During the period from 1985 to 1995, he served as the leader of Chinese Broadcast Group. When it came to 1999, he established the famous literature and art website in China named Kun Peng Website, making him the first one who made use of the internet to spread Chinese folk art forms culture. At present, he is the first class actors in Chinese Troupe of Broadcast Musicians and Artists.

Jiang Kun is a comic dialogue performance artist who is good at creating new styles. When comparing Jiang Kun with the older generations, the cross talk of Jiang is based on the tradition but exceeds the tradition, seeking novelty in the aspect of performing style. If those foreign students often regard listening to comic dialogue as a method to study Mandarin Chinese, they might have found that much attention is paid to the globality of the program contents with strong sense of the times, thus being favored by the general public, especially the young audiences.

The cross talk programs he performed are difficult to be classified into the ironical or the praising type because they more often express the joy, contradiction, desire and helpless in life under the abnormal situations. As a result, the cross talk of Jiang Kun is called the social psychological comic dialogue. For him, the presentation of the main contents is more important than the show of personal artistic talent.

Jiang Kun was famous for the cross talk program named Ru Ci Zhao Xiang, which reflects the unhealthy ways and customs in the period of the Great Cultural Revolution, consolidating his status in the comic dialogue field. In so many years’ time, he has created a series of excellent works favored by the general public.