Raydis Franco (L) and Santiago Aragón rehearse cross-talk performance in a classroom at the College of Foreign Languages in Nankai University, north China's Tianjin,
Dec. 6, 2023. Raydis Franco from Venezuela and Santiago Aragón from Spain are both Spanish teachers working at the College of Foreign Languages in Nankai University, north China's Tianjin. Attracted by Chinese culture, they started to learn and perform China's cross-talk in Spanish. Franco serves as the dougen, a lead speaker who delivers punch lines and jokes, while Aragón takes the role of penggen, a supportive actor who reacts to the lead speaker's words. (Xinhua/Li Ran)
