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Also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", it is a 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. 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 Warring States, flourished in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and spread to West Asia and Europe in the Yuan Dynasty. It has a long history.

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Shadow Play Shadow Play, formerly known as "Shadow Play" or "Light Shadow Play". 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.