Xinhua
15 May 2025, 19:21 GMT+10
TIANJIN, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Spanish teacher Raydis Franco from Venezuela works at the School of Foreign Studies in Nankai University in north China's Tianjin Municipality. He came to China on a cultural exchange program and started his seven-year study at Tianjin University in 2015. The past decade has turned this 36-year-old man into a fluent speaker of Chinese.
Tianjin is dubbed a cradle for Xiangsheng, a traditional Chinese cross-talk show. Franco fell in love with this art and started to learn from professional performers and to practice what he has acquired via live performances at teahouses.
In 2023, Franco, already a faculty member at Nankai University, joined a promotion program for Xiangsheng culture targeting the Spanish-speaking world. Together with his colleagues and students, Franco has endeavored to create some excellent Xiangsheng works in colloquial Spanish that integrate humor elements of both languages, and to share them around the world through the Internet.
Franco hopes to study Xiangsheng in a more profound way for what he loves is not merely the cross-talk performance, but the rich history and culture of China. "By learning cross-talk, I feel closely linked to the Chinese culture," said Franco.
Coordinators: Wang Qingqin, Meng Chenguang, Hu Zhixuan, Chu Jiayin
Reporters: Yang Zichun, Li Ran, Hao Jie
Designers: Zhou Dixiao, Mu Wenchun
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