In his "Essays on the Art of Comic Dialogue," the famous xiang sheng artist Ma Ji expresses the view that "xiang sheng is a powerful weapon to praise the new society, as well as to satirize old things and old thinking."
相聲名家馬季在《相聲藝術漫談》認為，相聲是「謳歌新社會，諷刺舊事物、舊思想的有力武器。」