93-year-old Jia Zuoguang artist born for dance The legend of Chinese dance history revealed the secret of high life

On June 6, 2016, Jia Zuoguang, a famous dance performance artist, choreographer, the founder of Modern Chinese Folk Dance, is known as the "Oriental Dance God", and his style of dancing briskly in his old age is even more admirable. In recent years, Jia Zuoguang has rarely appeared in public due to physical reasons, and at the beginning of this year, the 93-year-old Jia Zuoguang was hospitalized for treatment, and he lived for half a year. However, a few days ago, Feng Shuangbai, chairman of the Chinese Dancers Association, who came to the hospital to visit Jia Lao, pounced, and it turned out that Jia Zuoguang's condition tended to be stable and he had been discharged home.

Elder Jia was preparing to sleep, and he was particularly happy to see Feng Shuangbai come to visit him, lying down and talking unhappily

So the reporter followed Feng Shuangbai to Jia Zuoguang's home. Jia Lao was preparing to sleep, seeing Feng Shuangbai come to visit him was particularly happy, lying down and talking unhappily, the family pushed him to the living room with a wheelchair, and then helped him sit on the sofa, Jia Lao also specially changed into a big red dress he liked. Although the pain of the illness tormented him very tired, in the background of the big red clothes and the concerned greetings of the younger generations, Jia Zuoguang's mental state improved a lot.

"Among the 32 works listed in the Chinese classics of the 20th century, Jia Zuoguang's works "Wrangler", "Ordos" and "Ocean Waves" account for 3, he is the sun of our dance world", Feng Shuangbai is full of admiration for Jia Zuoguang. Jia Zuoguang is indeed a legendary figure in the history of Chinese dance, he was admitted to the "Manchurian Film association" (the predecessor of the Changchun Film Studio) at the age of 15, the "Manchurian Film Association" (the predecessor of the Changchun Film Studio) of the juvenile dance class, received the Japanese modern dance master Ishii Mo personally taught, in addition to receiving strict ballet, modern dance physical training, but also studied Western classical music, painting, literature. In the late 1940s, under the guidance of dance pioneer Wu Xiaobang, Jia Zuoguang arrived in the newly liberated areas of Inner Mongolia, carefully excavated and collected dances rooted in the grasslands and rooted in the people, and created a large number of works reflecting the life of the grasslands, with a strong atmosphere of life, brilliant national colors and profound dance skills.

Although he has bid farewell to the stage for more than 20 years, Jia Zuoguang's heart has never left the art of dance, he not only trained generations of dance artists such as Schenta Riha and Huang Doudou with the "Jia Pai" dance art style, but also lectured in various places to spread his dance ideas and artistic insights, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Dance in 2009. In the past two years, Jia Zuoguang still cares about the dance career, and there are dance works worth seeing, so he lets his family push him in a wheelchair to see it.

"I didn't do anything in my life, I danced", Jia Zuoguang said of his life, seemingly understated, but in fact as heavy as Taishan, only the closest people know the bitterness of it, "My father's love for dance is not only on the surface, he also learned anatomy in order to learn dance, he bought books on human anatomy, understand how human limb structure works, he is really born for dance", Jia Zuoguang's daughter Sania said. The name Sania sounds special because Jia Zuoguang's wife is Mongolian, and their daughters follow their mother by Mongolian name, which means "Sauvignon Blanc".

He studied modern dance and later studied ballet, but he has created brilliant achievements in national dance, and there are very few artists like Jia Zuoguang who can integrate various dance forms. Jia Zuoguang said that in his case, dance has no boundaries, let alone high and low, and they have one thing in common, that is, they must learn from the people, "we must go deep into the people's lives, the people are the teachers of literary and art workers", Jia Zuoguang has been repeating this sentence.

When asked about the secret of high life, Jia Zuoguang replied without hesitation, "Happy, not sad, not considering small things", but what if he was really wronged? "I look at that and I'm aggrieved," Jia Zuoguang hesitated, pointing to an old man's toilet chair not far away. Once in such good health, when it comes to dancing on the rise, he is now unable to walk independently, and Jia Zuoguang's heart is very lost. However, this emotion flashed by, and soon Jia Zuoguang began to talk about his favorite dance art, "love is in dance, dance is in love, both form and spirit, love and dance blending" is Jia Lao's famous saying, a lifetime of dancing with heart and affection, he wrote his heart for the readers of the Beijing Evening News with a trembling hand, "Go deep into life, work hard, and strive to learn from the people." "I sincerely hope that this childlike innocent old man will be happy and healthy."

Source: Beijing Evening News, Beiwan New Vision Network reporter Luo Ying wen and picture