Bai (1907-1942), female, actress. Pingju performance artist, formerly known as Li Guizhen, also known as Li Huimin. People from Luanxian County, Hebei Province. Daughter of Lotus Waterfall artist Li Jingchun. Known as the "Queen of Pingju", she is the founder of the white school art. In 1930s, He, Ai Lianjun and Cai Lian were also called "the four famous poets" in Pingju.

Bai, a native of Luanxian County, Hebei Province, the daughter of a lotus artist, 1907. Bai sang with his father since childhood. 1 1 year-old learned jingyun drum,1year-old changed to pingju, and performed in Qingdao and Dalian. After studying Pingju, he became the protagonist of Sun Troupe. The name given by master is, so the early drama newspaper used this name, and it became white after it became famous. After Bai and Bai sang red, her mother set up a Yushun drama troupe in Laban, and the one who picked the big axis was Bai. 1928, Bai used the old troupe to form the North China Drama Club, which was active in Beijing and Tianjin for several years. Bai's drama became popular, people became famous, and troubles followed. 1934, the mayor of Beiping invited Bai to have dinner, but Bai politely declined. The mayor felt insulted, so he deported Bai on the pretext that the content of her play was unhealthy and unsightly. Bai came to Shanghai, and her artistic talent was fully exerted during this period. 1934, in Shanghai, Bai co-starred with Yu Lingzhi and Ailianjun in Flowers as Media, Empty Valley and Orchid, Peach Blossom Temple, Mourning the History of Ma Zhenhua and Pearl Shirt, and co-starred with Peking Opera actors in the Peking Opera Pan Jinlian and the movie Begonia Red, which was highly praised by Shanghai cultural circles and made Bai famous. Bai's singing art not only touched the audience in Shanghai, but also touched the literary and art circles. Famous dramatists, Hong Shen and Tian Han published articles on current affairs news, praising Bai as the queen of Pingju, and some newspapers called her a master of Pingju. 1936, the star company released the movie "Begonia Red" starring Bai, which caused a sensation in the north and south of the country, not only improving Bai's popularity, but also expanding the influence of Pingju. After 1937, he performed in Beiping for a long time, which made the young Pingju mature. Bai's artistic characteristics, low and euphemistic singing and lyricism have formed the "Bai School" performing art of Pingju. Bai's adopted daughter inherited and developed this performing art style. Because of the persecution of the Gang of Four, Xiaobai Yu Shuang died at the age of 45. Bai's personal ability Bai is a very representative actress in the history of Pingju. She gives full play to her own characteristics, with a low voice, good nasal resonance, generous and round bass and pure timbre. In order to give full play to his strengths, Bai boldly innovated and created a singing method with low strings and low singing. She didn't cater to the audience with a high voice, but moved the audience with a performance. Bai's performance is hot, delicate, vivid and vivid. In order to express the characters' thoughts and feelings delicately, she developed the past oral singing into singing and lyric music with her generous and sweet voice, strengthened the melody of singing, and formed a white art with generous and resonant voice, mellow charm and vivid sincerity. Her fluent singing voice contains passion and strength, giving people a deep sense of sadness. Adding erhu to accompaniment instrumental music has also made many innovations in makeup and clothing. The representative plays edited by Bai mainly include Qin Xianglian, Mourning for the Peach Blossom Temple, Empty Valley Orchid, Pearl Shirt, Li Xianglian Selling Paintings, Being a Good Woman, Widow Ma Opening a Shop, Two Butterflies, Jade Palace Spring, Raining at Night in Xiaoxiang and Mom Opening a Jin. Entry label: artist, person