The traditional band of Puxian Puppet Show is the same as that of Puxian Opera. It consists of three members: gongs, drums, and flutes. There are also only two members. Only recently did string instruments and other musical instruments be added. The chronicles record this in detail: "(The puppet show) backstage band originally had only three people, one person applauded, one person played the gong, and one person played the flute or suona, and the drummer also sang or gave prompts. Some groups only have two people in the backstage, and the drummer is the one After the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the reactionary Kuomintang government used Puxian Opera to perform, because the audience was large and it was easy to attract enemy planes to bomb. Puxian Opera was once banned, so puppet theater flourished instead. It was very popular. At that time, in order to meet the demands of the masses, in addition to "Mu Lian" and "Mang Opera", a large number of traditional Puxian Opera repertoires were performed, so the backstage band also expanded to include stringed and strummed instruments. ”