What does shadow theater mean?

Also known as "Shadow Play" or "Lamp Shadow Play", it is a kind of folk theater with animal skin or cardboard made of silhouettes of characters to perform stories.

Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light and shadow play", is a kind of folk theater with animal skin or cardboard characters made of silhouettes to perform stories. When performing, artists behind a white curtain, while manipulating the shadow people, while using the local popular tunes to tell the story, accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, with a strong local flavor. The popularity of the theater is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different voices performed in different parts of the world.

Performance Forms

"Shadow" is a common term for shadow theater and shadow theater characters (including scene props and scenery) products. Shadow theater is to let the audience through the white curtain, watching a plane puppet performance of light and shadow to achieve the artistic effect of the form of theater; and shadow theater in the plane dolls and scenes, usually folk artists with hand, knife carving and painting made of leather products, so it is called shadow. In the past, there is no movie, television era, shadow play was very popular folk entertainment activities.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Shadow Play