Yin Guifang

Yin Guifang

Yin Guifang (December 1, 1919 - March 1, 2000), formerly known as Yin Xihua, was born in Xinchang, Zhejiang Province. She is an actress of Yue opera, Gong Xiaosheng, and the founder of Yin School of Yue opera. She is known as "emperor of Yue Opera" and "one of the ten sisters of Yue Opera".

At the age of 10, Sheng county, the hometown of Yue opera, studied art, and later joined the Xingshi Opera Club and Dahua stage attendant. After graduation, he performed in Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou and other places. Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe was founded in Shanghai in 1946 and moved to Fujian with it in 1959. He has successively served as the head of Shanghai and Fujian Fanghua Shaoxing opera troupes, the first vice chairman of Shanghai laozha District CPPCC, the first vice chairman of Huangpu District CPPCC, the fourth member of China Federation of literary and art circles, and the vice chairman of Fujian Branch of China Drama Association.

Yin Guifang has played hundreds of plays in her life, and has successfully created many classic artistic images in such plays as a dream of Red Mansions, romance of the west chamber, Prince of the desert, wife seeking, Qu Yuan, sister Jiang and prodigal son. On the basis of inheriting the tradition and drawing on the merits of others, she created a unique school of art, Yin school. Singing euphemism lingering, free and easy deep, mellow and fresh, loved by the majority of the audience. The first movement of the world-famous Violin Concerto "Liang Zhu" is based on the melody of "qidiao" in Yin school. Yin Guifang is full of innovative spirit. He was the first artist to join the ranks of "new Yueju Opera" after Yuan Xuefen in the 1940s, and he injected boxing into the reform of Yueju Opera.

Life of the characters

She came from a poor family on December 1, 1919. He lost his father at the age of seven.

In 1929, he went to the local Xingshi Opera Club to study art and Huadan. After entering Shenghua county science and Technology Research Institute twice, the class was dissolved.

In the winter of 1933, she left the section class to perform in Ningbo, Shaoxing and Hangzhou.

At the end of 1934, a troupe in Shenjiamen invited ye Caijin, who was born on Xinfeng stage, to sing Jiandan and Zhu shuizhao, who had just completed his career in Ruiyun stage, to sing erjiandan. But there was a lack of Xiaosheng. When the troupe leader heard that Yin Guifang was capable of both acting and acting, he asked someone to hire him. At the same time, he decided to name Yin Guifang "Yin Yunfeng" and put up a brand. When Yin Guifang arrived at the Shenjiamen, she couldn't laugh or cry. She changed her role from Huadan to Xiaosheng. Unexpectedly, she became famous by playing Xiaosheng under the name of "Yin Yunfeng".

In 1935, she officially appeared in Shenjiamen. Since then, Yin Guifang has been performing in Xinchang, Shengxian, Ningbo, Hangzhou and other places with a number of troupes.

In 1938, Yin Guifang formally entered Shanghai, joined Yongle theater beside laozha bridge in old Shanghai, and later performed in Tongle theater. That period was the transition period of Shanghai Yue Opera from Huadan to Xiaosheng.

In the autumn of 1940, Yin Guifang cooperated with Zhu shuizhao to get the first prize.

Lu Bu and Diao Chan, 1941.

In June 1942, Yin Guifang and Fu Quanxiang from the four seasons spring class performed new plays such as "gold and beauty" and "spring flowers weeping autumn wind" in laozha Grand Theater. In 1944, despite the opposition of the theater owner, Yin Guifang, with the support of Zhu shuizhao, invited the director, and used three-dimensional scenery, realistic props and effects, and novel lighting to perform "cloud breaking full moon" and "dying for love" in Longmen Grand Theater. The audience responded well.

In the spring of 1945, she hired Hong Jun, Xu Jin, Hong Ying and LAN ming to play Shi Dakai, a short love at night, Baoyu and Daiyu, a dreamer in chunguimeng, when to meet again, a tale of love and hatred on a desert island, Prince of desert and other new plays, which further expanded her influence. In particular, the aria of Baoyu wailing in Baoyu and Daiyu and the aria of fortune telling in desert Prince were broadcast and sung on the radio. The audience had a strong response, and the reform of Yue opera has achieved certain results. At this time, Yin Guifang's acting skills were becoming more and more mature, and gradually formed her own style and genre.

In 1946, she teamed up with Zhu shuizhao to set up Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe as its head. Long term performance in the territory of Guizhou Ludu Grand Theater, has performed a large number of new plays, such as "cloud broken full moon", "martyrdom", "Shi Dakai", "Ge nenniang", "Guangxu and Zhenfei", which have both ideological connotation and can attract the audience, especially "Baoyu and Daiyu", "Prince of sand desert" and fashion drama "looking back", "Begonia", "dandy", etc., followed by two series Three places caused a sensation. Because of her outstanding artistic virtue and noble character, the sisters of Yue Opera affectionately call her "sister Yin".

In 1947, she actively supported yuan Xuefen's "love between mountains and rivers" charity performance and gave up her original plan to shoot the film "Prince".

In 1948, with Fu Quanxiang and Wang Wenjuan, he starred in Lu Wenlong, Lang Taosha, Lu man and Peach Blossom Fan in Lanxin and Xinguang theaters. The audience of Yueju Opera voted for the "emperor of Yueju Opera", and Yin Guifang, who is excellent in both color and art, and good in both virtue and art, topped the list.

In 1951, he performed "Xinghua village" in the public theater, contributing to the donation of the "Yueju" aircraft to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

In 1952, he rehearsed the classic drama "the romance of the West Chamber" and the new historical drama "xinlingjun", "Chen Shengwu Guang", "Liang Zhu Ai Shi" and so on.

In 1954, the East China Opera performance, she starred in "Qu Yuan" won the script, performance, music first prize.

He was elected as the people's representative of Shanghai in 1955.

In 1958, he played an advanced waiter in the modern drama "Honghua village", which had a great social repercussion.

He has been the people's representative of Fuzhou since 1959.

On January 25, 1959, Yin Guifang led all the staff of "Fanghua Yueju Troupe" to board the 53rd train from Shanghai to Fuzhou. With a passion, she resolutely moved the group to Fujian, where she continued to sow the seeds of Yue opera. Yin Guifang has successfully portrayed Jia Baoyu, Zhang Sheng, Liang Yushu, Liang Shanbo, Qu Yuan and other characters in the plays of a dream of Red Mansions, romance of the west chamber, Prince of the desert, wife seeking, Qu Yuan, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, leaving an unforgettable impression. Under the leadership of Yin Guifang, Fanghua Yueju Opera Troupe has cultivated a number of "Yin's post show" and won awards in previous provincial drama performances.

He joined the Communist Party of China in 1960.

Since 1963, he has been a member of the CPPCC Fujian Provincial Committee.

During the cultural revolution, Yin Guifang fell down, suffered from central nervous system injury and paralysis due to the extremely harsh living environment all year round and the physical damage caused by some inhuman treatment. He is still actively contributing to the revitalization of the cause of Yue Opera and the cultivation of new people of Yue opera. After smashing the gang of four, Yin Guifang recovered from his illness.

In 1978, he was elected member of the all China Federation of literary and art circles and vice chairman of Fujian Branch of the Chinese Dramatist Association. He is now a member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and honorary head of the Fanghua Yueju Opera Troupe.

In 1979, Yin Guifang, who was half paralyzed, with the help of Shanghai Art Research Institute and Shanghai Yueju theater, held an unprecedented "Yin Guifang Yueju school concert". On this day, she came back to the stage and sang the "letter sending" excerpt of "love between mountains and rivers" with Yuan Xuefen. The cultural square, which holds more than 10000 people, is full. She put more energy into the work of training Yin Guifang's successors, which is the continuation of Yin Guifang's artistic life. In her own words, if Yin Guifang is disabled, there will be successors. In 1986, Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe held a large-scale 40th anniversary meeting and Yin school art concert in Fuzhou.

From December 10 to 17, 1990, Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe visited Hong Kong on invitation for the first time and performed such excellent plays as dream of Red Mansions, jade dragonfly and he Wenxiu. Hong Kong compatriots enjoyed Fanghua's artistic style for the first time.

At 08:15 a.m. on March 1, 2000, Yin Guifang left, but she left a shining artistic heritage of Yue opera.

social activities

February 6, 1939, December 18, Wuyin: Yin Guifang performs in Shanghai for the first time

Yin Guifang came to Shanghai for the first time and performed in Yongle theater starring Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Guilian.

January 3, 1941, December 6, the year of Gengchen in the lunar calendar: Shanghai's "women's Shaoxing Opera Festival" was held

The fund-raising campaign of China Relief women and children's Federation held a series of "women's Shaoxing Opera Festival in Shanghai" at Shanghai Xinxin radio station. 38 actors, including Shi Yinhua, Tu Xinghua, Yao shuijuan, Zhu su'e, Xiao Dangui, Ma Zhanghua, Yuan Xuefen, Yin Guifang, Zhu shuizhao, Xu Yulan, Shang Fangchen, Li Yanfang and Xing zhuqin, participated in the broadcast and singing.

On January 21, 1941, December 24, the year of Gengchen in the lunar calendar, the "ten classes of red stars of Shanghai and Vietnam" was held

"Shanghai Yueguo red star class 10" was held in Shanghai Zhedong Grand Theater. Day and night performances. The repertoire includes:

Borrow the red light (Yin Guifang, Zhu shuizhao)

Lou Tai Hui (Yao shuijuan, Li Yanfang)

Study Club (MA Zhanghua, Fu Quanxiang)

Hall meeting (Shang Fangchen, Lin Daiying)

Pan Fu Suo Fu (Zhu su'e, Xing zhuqin)

Zeng GUI's whoring sister in law (Wang Shuihua, Wang Mingzhu)

The fate of marriage (Yin Shuchun, Chen su'e)

Ni Feng fan tea (Xiao Dangui, Zhang Xiangqing)

Fang Yuniang crying tower (Shi Yinhua, Qian Xiuling)

January 22, 1941, December 25, Gengchen year of the lunar calendar: the ninth class of Yue opera was held

From January 22 to 23, Shengxin women's Shaoxing opera troupe held an entertainment meeting to raise money for disaster in her hometown. Nine classes of Shaoxing opera troupes performed in Dalai, Tianxiang, Kade, Minyue, Yongle, Nanyang, Tongle, Zhedong, Wanguo and other theaters were held in Shanghai

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