<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jia Guilin, the representative of Shanxi Opera North Road</h1>
Jia Guilin is a well-known performance artist of The North Road Zizi, she has raised the performance and singing of the North Road Zi Danjiao to a fairly high artistic situation, and her life has made indelible contributions to the revival and prosperity of the North Road Zizi.
In 1917, Jia Guilin was born in a poor family in Datongkouquan, Shanxi, and in order to earn a living, she studied art at the age of 8 and entered the pear garden. Her first master was Cheng Tai, who studied for a year. The next year, he also worshiped under the famous Yang Sanwa and learned from Qingyi and Xiaodan on North Road. The first thing to learn is to shout, and then to practice waist and leg skills. Under the strict and harsh teaching of the master, Jia Guilin made rapid progress. At the age of ten, he was able to perform qingyi plays such as "Weeping Hall", "Broken Bridge", and "Double Hanging Filial Piety". Three years later, the master took her out to take a class and performed in Xinzhou, Daizhou, Wutai and Dingxiang, and her reputation has been greatly enhanced ever since. When performing "Little Cow Herding", as soon as he appeared, his eyes were divine, burning and shining, with his body and rhythm, Gu Pan flowed, like two small electric lamps, immediately won the hall of color, so the stage name of "Small Electric Lamp" came from this.
Jia Guilin is famous for her studiousness, and she worships whoever she plays well. She worshiped "Eight Eight Dan" as a teacher, and once specialized in Xiao Dan, learning Xiao Dan plays such as "You Gui Shan", "Fengyi Pavilion", and "Butterfly Cup". She also learned extensively from famous artists such as "Jin Lan Hong", "Sixteen Red", and "Lin Lin Ugly" to improve her skills. She was especially influenced by the singing style of "Two Winds" and "Sixteen Reds", which laid a solid foundation for her future singing voice. Soon, she was in daixian group to lead the play, the name of the earthquake plug, the reputation of the party, is already quite mature North Road Zizi famous Danjiao actor. Just as she was singing more and more popular, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out. She did not give performances to the Japanese pseudo, fled to Zhangjiakou, lived in simplicity, and began an 18-year-long life of seclusion.
In 1954, during the first opera observation meeting in Shanxi Province, Jia Guilin, a "small electric lamp" who had been away from the stage for 18 years, returned to the stage again, and a "Crying Hall" shocked four seats, and the style of that year was still undiminished. After that, Jia Guilin began to run around for the recovery and development of the North Road Zizi, contacting the actors. Finally, in 1955, the Xinxian Special District North Road Zizi Troupe was established, with Jia Guilin as the deputy head of the troupe, which restored the vitality and vitality of the North Road Zizi and saved this endangered drama species. Since then, Jia Guilin led the whole troupe to study the business and rehearse hard, so that the quality of the performance of beilu Zizi was quickly improved, and under her leadership, he went to Beijing to make a report performance, which was greatly praised, and all the media in Beijing wrote articles and comments, and the party and state leaders received all the members. In 1957, Jia Guilin participated in the second opera performance of Shanxi Province, won the first prize for her representative play "Blood Handprint", and then rehearsed new plays such as modern dramas "Red Seed", "Sister Jiang", "Mountain And Countryside Wind and Cloud", etc., making the North Road Zizi present an unprecedented prosperity. Entering the year of Hua Jia, she still insisted on rehearsing performances, playing She Taijun in "Yangmen Female General" for the first time as "Lao Dan"; and once again processing plays such as "Wang Baojun" and "JinshuiQiao", so that these plays had new breakthroughs in singing and performance, and became more mature in art and became high-quality plays. In 1980, the 64-year-old Jia Guilin overcame various difficulties to shoot the famous drama "Jinshui Bridge" on the North Road into an opera film, and she successfully created the screen image of the silver screen princess and showed the timeless charm of Jia Guilin's performing arts. In 1986, the film won the first prize of the Shanxi Provincial Film and Television "Tianlong Award" Opera Art Film. She also cultivated young actors with enthusiasm, played young actors, was willing to be a ladder, promoted future generations, and cultivated a group of opera talents, especially With Jia Fantao.
Jia Guilin's performance artistic achievements are reflected in her singing voice, and her singing voice maintains the inherent excitement and heroic wind of the North Road Zizi, which is strong and powerful, and the sound is suppressed. Inheriting and developing the unique drag cavity "bending tone" of the North Road Zizi, tactful and depressed, circling and twisting, and having a sense of "lingering sound around the beam, three days without end", she can sing a large section of singing due to different character images, singing different mood atmospheres. She is also good at drawing nutrition from life and enriching her singing voice, and her singing of "rolling white" is to absorb the crying voice of rural women in funeral rites and develop it, creating a kind of crying art. Her representative plays include "Wang Baojun", "Jinshui Bridge", "Blood Handprint", "Li Sanniang", "Split Temple" and modern dramas such as "Mountain And Countryside", "Sister Jiang", "Red Lantern" and so on.
Jia Guilin was awarded the title of National March 8th Red Banner Bearer in 1960, was a member of the Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the second, third and fourth directors of the Chinese Dramatists Association, the second, third vice chairman and fourth honorary chairman of the Shanxi Branch, the second, third and fourth members of the Shanxi Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and successively served as the head of the Xinxian District North Road Zizi Theater Troupe, the principal of the Xinxian Regional Opera School, and the honorary president of the Xinzhou North Road Zizi Theater.