Big and small news on February 8 (YMG all-media reporter Liu Jin photo report) This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala opera program "Endless Pear Garden Love" won a full house. In the excerpt of the Peking Opera "Mother-in-law's Thorn Characters", there is an actor named Li Jia, who is from Yantai.
Her grandmother was xie Xiaohua, a famous Peking opera artist in Yantai, her mother was Liu Dongli, a national first-class actor at yantai Peking Opera House, and her father was Li Dianqing, a national first-class actor at Yantai Peking Opera House.
The reporter today exclusively contacted Li Jia, who was born in 1992, to listen to her tell the story behind her first Spring Festival Gala trip.
The second rehearsal, she received a notice of the performance
"I received a performance notice for the second rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala." Recalling the notice in January this year, Li Jia still felt incredible. "Originally it was scheduled to be an old Dan, but later the director felt a little abrupt, so he temporarily decided to add two more." Li Jia, who was fortunate enough to be one of them, said, "When I received this notice, I was both happy and a little nervous. Because of the spring festival gala program, until the moment of officially taking the stage, everything is possible. But at that time, I felt that the opportunity was rare, so I immediately made nucleic acid and rushed to the rehearsal site. ”
Speaking of the feeling of the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning, Li Jia admitted frankly, "At the beginning of the rehearsal, I immediately let myself into the state. "Looking at the actors coming and going in the dressing room, she was not interested in chasing the stars." My dressing room is very close to Jia Nailiang, the previous show is Han Hong, and I prefer Jia Ling. Although I saw her many times backstage, I didn't have time to take a group photo for my own show. ”
The opening music sounded, and Li Jia finally stepped onto the stage of her dreams, honored and regretful. "Grandma passed away in 2020. Because of the pandemic, I didn't rush home to see her one last time. Standing on the stage at that time, I was thinking how happy my grandmother would be to see this scene if she was still alive. ”
After the Spring Festival Gala, it will treat the profession with a more rigorous attitude
Li Jia, who is less than thirty years old, has not reached the best age in the industry of Lao Dan. But she became famous at a young age and has long been the center of the stage. In May last year, Li Jiayin, an outstanding young actor of the Beijing Opera House, hosted by the Beijing Opera House and the Beijing Opera Development Foundation, performed "Li Yun Jiayin" at the Chang'an Grand Theater in Beijing.
The performance was not only guided by two 80-year-old artists, Li Mingyan and Wang Jinghua, but also specially invited the help of Meng Guanglu, a famous contemporary Peking Opera artist and famous Qiu Paihua face, and was promoted by Li Hongtu, the leading actor of the Beijing Opera House, the head of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Troupe, the famous Artist of Ye Pai Xiaosheng, the national first-class actor Huang Baixue of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Troupe, and ni Shengchun, the deputy head of the Mei Lanfang Peking Opera Troupe. The ancestors of the famous families jointly promoted the growth of the younger generations, so that the spirit of pear garden was passed on.
"But the experience of the Spring Festival Gala is still different from the special performance, after all, this is the highest stage of the national evening." Li Jia told reporters, "After the Spring Festival Gala, I also set a goal for myself: to treat the stage in a fuller and more rigorous state, treat every role, and present a better performance for the audience." ”
I look forward to more young people entering the theater to experience the beauty of Peking Opera
"There are actually a lot of Peking opera actors my age." Speaking of the inheritance of Peking Opera, Li Jia believes, "I still hope that more young people can enter the theater to feel the beauty of Peking Opera." ”
Li Jia has a high level of understanding since childhood, because her parents are busy performing, it is grandma who took the three-year-old Li Jia to the art school to give lessons to the students, what she did not expect was that the students did not learn her but learned. At the age of seven, she won the Fourth National Opera Little Plum Blossom Gold Award. In 2004, 12-year-old Li Jia was admitted to the Peking Opera performance major of the Affiliated Middle School of the China Academy of Drama, as a Peking Opera actor's father knows that learning opera is very hard, and does not want his daughter to do this line, Li Dianqing once said: "Since you are admitted, you must study hard, and you can't not want to learn because you are bitter because you are studying opera." Since you choose to do this line, you can't regret it! ”
Of course, Li Jia understood her father's good intentions, but she thought that since she had chosen, she must go on. Although it was very difficult to study opera, she persevered out of her love for peking opera art, and after graduating from the attached middle school in the sixth year, she was admitted to the China Academy of Performing Arts in 2010 with the first place in the Lao Dan major. In 2014, he entered the Beijing Opera House and became a professional actor.
At present, all localities are carrying out Peking Opera into the campus activities to spread traditional Chinese culture. There are also many people who promote Peking Opera on Douyin and Kuaishou. During the preparation of that special performance, someone also suggested to Li Jia to open a live broadcast on Station B or other short video websites. But she refused. "I really appreciate the communication power of new media. But I think I should still go into the theater and watch a full performance in a down-to-earth manner. After all, Peking Opera is a stage art, so I also hope that more young people can enter the theater, have more contact, and don't resist. In fact, Peking Opera is not as slow as some people think. ”
Editor-in-Charge: Albert