Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", is a kind of folk drama that uses animal skins or cardboard as adults to 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.
? Peking Opera, once called Pingju, is one of the five major dramas in China. Anhui Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the 55th year of Qing Qianlong (1790), Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai, and Chunchun, which were first performed in the south, have been performed. Four Huizhou classes went to Beijing one after another. They cooperated with artists in Hubei, accepted some plays, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera, and absorbed some local folk tunes. Through constant communication and integration, Peking Opera was finally formed.
The two types are different, and the forms of expression are also different. Shadow play mainly uses people behind the scenes to manipulate shadow play. He is mainly a combination of various folk art societies, characterized by local characteristics of various places, and is a performing art of the Han nationality. Most of them are folk performances, and shadow play itself is an animation form, while shadow play is a traditional animation form with local characteristics of various places, mainly oil shadow play. The popular area is relatively small and few people are familiar with it.
Beijing opera is different from shadow play. Beijing opera is the quintessence of our country. Beijing opera belongs to drama, which mainly shows different roles and personalities from people. At the same time, there are great differences in singing and performance skills in different regions, and many people are familiar with them.