The inscription refers to shadow play, and dolls and animal dolls are caves manipulated by puppeteers.
The flames behind the puppets cast their shadows. According to Plato, they are regarded as a form of reality by the bound audience.
This story illustrates Plato's discussion of the illusory nature of all perception.
However, it also illustrates the early examples of using shadows and the importance of caves as sacred places for religious ceremonies, as well as the early examples of performing shadow play, Plato's cave fable, 1604.
Shadow play, or shadow play, is an ancient form of storytelling. It uses plane figures (shadow play) to create cut figures, and then fixes them between the light source and the translucent screen.
It has a long history in China, India, Nepal and Southeast Asia, as well as in Turkey and Greece, from war and famine to the Cultural Revolution.
Shadow play is accepted by many different cultures, and each culture seems to have its own history and the legend of the first performance of shadow play, so it is claimed that it, or at least its different versions, is manipulated by its own hands. (Transcript of 2.0 BC), a popular legend in China, began to conjure tricks from the 2nd century BC when his beloved wife, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (206- 220 BC).
The historical materials of this story are recorded by Ban Gu in Hanshu or Xianhanshu. After the death of Li Furen, Emperor Wu's favorite concubine, the sad emperor continued to miss the dead concubine and fell into depression.
One day, a priest happened to see children playing with dolls, and saw their vivid shadows on the floor.
This inspired him to make a cotton puppet of his concubine and draw it.
When night fell, the minister asked the emperor to sit behind the curtain and watched him move the puppet away from the curtain and the light.
From where he sat, the emperor could see the figure of a woman, like Li Furen behind the curtain, moving and sitting. In this short shadow play, Emperor Wu can see the illustrations of his lover Li Furen or Li Furen.
In the public sphere, the early ownership of Chinese shadow play was put forward by Gao Cheng, a scholar in the Song Dynasty.
Unprecedented, Gao Cheng retelled the story of Li Furen in his own language and added: "This is the origin of shadow play." However, Gao Cheng also claimed in the same article that "there will be no shadow play from now on", which means that this is just a chance for the emperor to say goodbye to his concubine.
This last sentence is mostly ignored in history, China's shadow play character.
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0), somewhat similar to the origin of China's story, its shadow play is a Middle East story with the same theme.
One night in the 8th century BC, in Coffefa, a actor named Batuni performed a "ghost play". He used shadows to create the appearance of King Gail, making him look like riding a horse around the courtyard of the * * * Hall.
Unfortunately, unlike the success of China's "first" shadow play, Bartroni's shadow play was condemned as witchcraft. He was sentenced to death and read more ... This is a free preview of an exclusive article.
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