1928, Zhu Baoxia led a class to Shanghai for the first time, which broke the situation that there was no Pingju on the Jiangnan stage and expanded the position of Pingju performance. The performance that lasted for half a year caused a sensation in Shanghai. Zhu Baoxia is famous for singing loudly. Her vocal characteristics are true articulation, solid head, strong oral skills, good nozzle and skillful cavity operation. Because she is full of confidence and makes good use of the spirit of abdomen, she makes a voice of abdomen, so her singing skills tend to be multi-board. Zhu Baoxia's singing is very infectious. She absorbed the melody of folk songs in "Li Sanniang", which was beautiful and beautiful, and pioneered the singing method of thirteen coughs, which was euphemistic and tactful, and gradually formed a rough and unconstrained, simple and generous vocal art, which was widely spread by many scholars.

Zhu Baoxia is beautiful, has a good figure and looks beautiful. 14 years old when performing in Jinan, Shandong Governor Zhang Zongchang took a fancy to her, gave her adoptive father a jewelry box, plus 10,000 pieces of details, and accepted Zhu Baoxia as his concubine. After Zhang Zongchang was killed, Zhu Baoxia was kicked out of the house by her grandmother, cheated away by the white-striped party in Shanghai, and returned to her adoptive father Zhu Jingxian's home to perform acting again. Once I went to Shanghai to perform, because the curtains were not hung tightly in the theater, the patrolling soldiers smashed the garden and took away the 18 actor. In order to save people, Zhu Baoxia ran around at all costs. As a result, the lawsuit was lost and the play could not be performed. The whole regiment was trapped in Shanghai. Later, as the peers performed Peking Opera in Shanghai, she raised money for their benefit performance.

Although Zhu Baoxia is generous and loyal to others, she has a big temper and is anxious. Turn against her, both on and off the stage. Once in a performance at Taohua Temple, the drummer didn't give her a small gong, and she threw up on the spot. The cast members who worked with her were afraid of her losing her temper. Representative plays include Peach Blossom Temple, Taking Flowers as Media, Pearl Shirt, Li Xianglian Selling Paintings, Du Shiniang, Yang Sanjie's Complaints, Sai Jinhua and so on.

After liberation, Zhu Baoxia never returned to work in Tianjin, and died in Yuncheng, Shanxi on 195 1. At the age of 47.

Zhu Baoxia (1914-1954)

Also known as Jewel Man. Tianjin people. Pingju actress, Gong Danxing. Since childhood, he studied Ju Ping with his adoptive father Zhu Jingxian, and later worshipped Zhang Futang as his teacher. /kloc-took the stage at the age of 0/2, 1935 went to Shanghai to perform with Zhu. 1943 Guan yannong, a martial arts student in Beijing, was invited to perform the martial arts drama "The Legend of Emei Swordsman" in Tianjin in the form of comments and "two pots". It is quite influential in eastern Hebei and Shandong. His representative works include Jingtaihui, Cuiping Mountain and Leprosy Girl. In the mid-1930s, Shengli Company recorded records for it (including 4 records of 3 plays). Later generations were Zhu, Zhu and Bao Xia.

Zhu has a loud voice, sweet timbre and strong strength. Set a key. The singing of the first generation has the style of Liu Cuixia School. Later, because of the change of voice, the tone was lowered and the cavity changed. Multi-purpose mid-way bass zone. The singing (adagio) is clear and soft; The rhythm of singing (overlapping board) is changeable, and methods such as expansion and contraction and sentence repetition are often used.