1, puppet show
Puppet show is a drama that uses puppets to perform stories. One of the traditional arts of Han nationality was also called "puppet show" in ancient China. Chinese puppet shows have a long history. Generally speaking, they originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. In the Three Kingdoms period, puppets could perform acrobatics, and in the Sui Dynasty, puppets were used to perform stories.
During the performance, the actors manipulated the puppets behind the scenes and sang along with the music. According to the different shapes and manipulation methods of puppets, there are bag puppets, marionettes, stick puppets, marionettes and so on. Puppet show is a form of drama in which actors manipulate wooden dolls to perform behind the scenes.
2. Shadow play
Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", is a kind of folk drama that uses animal skin or cardboard to make people perform stories. During the performance, the artists manipulated the shadow puppeteers behind the white curtain, telling stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. Its popularity is extremely extensive, and various shadow plays are formed due to different voices played in different places.
Shadow play is an ancient traditional folk art in China, and old Beijingers call it "donkey shadow play". According to historical records, shadow play began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and spread to West Asia and Europe in the Yuan Dynasty. It has a long history.
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On traditional festivals, such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, people will invite theatrical troupes to play. Or there are important events at home, such as having children, entering the house, having a birthday, letting children go to college and so on. Those who are willing to pay for their illness or other things should also be congratulated by the troupe, and the troupe should also be invited to thank the guests at the funeral. The whole village, men, women and children, and people from other villages can go to see it.
Generally, the troupe makes the mesa into a small terrace stage, which is more than two meters high and three meters wide. It can be built in the open space and threshing floor at the head of the village, or among the green trees in the rural market. When the performance is about to begin, the "host family", that is, the inviter, will set off "the voice of heaven and earth" and "the whip" to inform the villagers that the performance of the troupe is about to begin.
Some people also planted colorful flags at the entrance of the village until the performance venue and led the guests to the stage. When the troupe officially begins, people often ask for "jumping the official" and "jumping the god of wealth" and so on. Later, the "host family" staged a play, most of which were martial arts dramas in traditional dramas.
Such as Mu's sky-breaking gate array, Huang Zhong's cutting summer, water crossing Jinshan, and Zhu Bajie's bridge. Sometimes, the audience's interest is high, and the troupe can perform one performance after another, from evening to late at night.