What are the characteristics of Tangshan shadow play

What are the characteristics of Tangshan shadow play as follows:

The artistic characteristics of the shadow play: the characters of the head is big and small, the body is narrow and wide, the arm is over the knee. Facial image in addition to individual clowns, ghosts and monsters and so on for three-quarters of the half side, generally are positive side.

Shadow play focuses on the performance effect, because the shadow play character parts can be active, coupled with high-pitched, rising and falling singing, making it a strong local characteristics and folk local flavor. Longdong shadow theater repertoire, the figure Luo Tong sweeps the north for the Sui and Tang dynasties story, characters, props engraved detailed work, think the performance of the action, the plot will be fascinating.

Inheritance and development

The traditional shadow theater in many ways there are inevitable limitations. This is also the biggest obstacle to its adaptation to today's fast-paced society.

1, shadow carving, the ingenious color modeling has overwhelmed countless artists, but the production of its extremely high degree of difficulty. The production of a shadow person includes more than ten procedures, such as skin making, tracing, carving and coloring, and these complicated processes are enough to take a craftsman weeks of time, not including the possibility of any small mistake during this period that leads to the possibility of not being able to modify, and the previous work is discarded.

2. The preservation of the finished product is also a challenge, as long exposure to the sun will cause the pigments to fade, and hot and humid changes in temperature will cause the shadows to distort. These are all undoubtedly fatal weaknesses for an industrialized society that emphasizes mass production.

For a long time in the past, shadow puppets were basically performed for entertainment purposes. In today's age of diverse entertainment life, the glamorous aura of shadow theater is gradually dimming and can only be seen on these special occasions.

With the progress of society, people's material living standards continue to improve, the level of aesthetics is also gradually improved, and thus everyone will be the previous shadow of the role and characters, are more exquisite and more delicate carving process to show.