What do old Beijingers call shadow play?

Old Beijingers call shadow play "donkey shadow play".

Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", is a kind of folk drama that uses animal skins 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.

On 20 1 1 year, Chinese shadow play was selected into the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage. 20 18 12, the general office of the Ministry of Education announced that Shanghai Theatre Academy was the inheritance base of China excellent traditional culture shadow play.

Shadow play performance form:

Shadow play is a kind of folk drama, which uses light sources such as candles or burning alcohol to illuminate the silhouette of people made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories. During the performance, artists manipulated the opera characters behind the white curtain, sang stories with local popular tunes (sometimes in dialects), accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor.

In rural areas such as Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Tianshui, Gansu, this simple Han folk art form is deeply loved by people. "Shadow Play" is the general name of shadow play and shadow play characters (including scene props and scenery) products.

Shadow play is a form of drama, which allows the audience to watch the light and shadow of the plane doll performance through the white curtain to achieve artistic effect; The plane dolls and scenes in shadow play are usually leather products drawn by folk artists by hand and knife carving, so they are called shadow play. Shadow play used to be one of the most popular folk entertainment activities before film and television.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shadow Play