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Gai Mingtian (1888~1971), formerly known as Zhang Yingjie, yannan, a native of Gaoyang, Hebei. Gai Mingtian inherited the artistic style of Li Chunlai, the founder of the Southern School of Wusheng, and extensively absorbed the performance art of the various schools of Wusheng in Beijing, Kunqu and local opera, forming another important genre of the Southern School of Short Fighting Wusheng, known as the "Gai School". He studied martial arts and used the skills of martial arts as the basis for martial arts skills, so the martial arts of the Gai school are unique.

Gai Called Tian learned art at the age of 8, first worked as a martial arts student, then learned an old student, and still played a martial arts student after falling his voice. At the age of 11, he came to the south with his class from Tianjin and sang opera in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. Taking the stage name "Gai Called Heaven", he aspired to surpass "Little Called Heaven" (Tan Xinpei).

Gai Mingtian is good at acting in the whole book "Wu Song", and successfully creates a vivid image of Wu Song's hero, showing Wu Song's bold, careful, rough, calm sympathetic to the weak, jealous and hateful character. In 1956, Marshal Chen Yi personally wrote an inscription: "Yanbei is really a good man, Jiangnan is alive and martial." "The performing arts of Gai Mingtian are highly praised.

The representative works of Gaipai art include "Evil Tiger Village", "Lion Building", "Cross Slope", "Three Forks", "One Arrow Vengeance" and so on. Martial arts performances do not one-sidedly pursue "hot", but focus on the portrayal of characters and the display of spiritual realms. He organically combined the martial arts action with the character's ideological personality, emphasizing that "there is heat in the cold" and "cold in the heat", and that "there is movement in the still" and "movement in the extremes and stillness". He pays great attention to the beauty of the characters, even if he plays a negative character, he does not make a scandal of appearance. When modeling the characters, they abide by the principle of "standing like a pine, sitting like a bell, lying like a bow, and walking like the wind", and the unique martial arts action on the stage is dry and clean, and the leg is raised, the hand is raised, the fight is parry, and the handle is extremely beautiful. After watching the performance, many foreign artists praised Gaipai art as a master of the beauty of the art form" and "the beauty of living statues".

In 1956, in recognition of Gai Mingtian's outstanding artistic achievements, the Ministry of Culture and the China Drama Association held the "60th Anniversary of Gai Mingtian Stage Life Commemoration Activity" in Shanghai to award the honorary certificate again. In 1959, in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Gai Yingtian wrote, directed and performed "The Battle of Xiaxia" as a gift. In his later years, he engaged in lecturing and writings, and received apprenticeships to pass on the arts. Books that record his experience in performing arts include "Spring and Autumn of Powder Ink", "Gai Mingtian Performing Arts", "Yannan Jilu Miscellaneous Talks" and so on.