Take you to understand the Tangshan shadow culture

Shadow culture is also a historical culture with a certain history.

The shadow will look good, the performer is very good at hand.

This article will take you to understand the culture of Tangshan, understand the shadow culture. Let's take a look!

Tangshan shadow, also known as Luanzhou shadow, Leiting shadow, because of its shadow people, props are made of cow and donkey skin, so it is also known as donkey shadow. Listening to its singing and watching its shape, all of them are full of the essence of the old tie of Tangshan. The performance mode of leather opera is to set up a shadow screen, commonly known as shadow window, actors in the window to manipulate the shadow people to do a variety of realistic image performance, while the voice of the singing as well as lighting, scenery, music, etc. to support.

Shadow theater in Luanzhou, Leting. Legend has it that during the Ming Wanli period, there was an uninspired student in Luanzhou, surnamed Huang, the name of Suzhi (Riju unknown), is a multi-talented person, not only very good at writing, but also painting, carving pieces of proficiency. But bad luck, repeatedly failed to pass the test, no face to return to their hometown, is out of the customs study Fengtian (Shenyang), where to teach a few village children to live, in this leisurely years slowly achieved his contribution to the arts - the creation of shadow play.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the early years of the Republic of China, the Leiting Cui family Jude Hall shadow class, Zhang family Zhongxing Hall shadow class, Liu family Qinghe Hall shadow class, Shi family Cuiyintang shadow class to do the biggest and best, shadow famous artists, and training a large number of new talent, far-reaching influence, full of the name of the Beijing East. After the Leiting Zhang Rope Wu, Zhang Zhanke and other famous artists to join the Leiting shadow class, by the Leiting shadow reputation is growing. At that time, there are Baigezhuang Yang Rongjiu shadow class, Donghuangtuo Long Zhengang shadow class, West Xinzhuang Chen Wenli shadow class, etc. At that time, the folk small shadow classes abound, the development of shadow to a new stage.

In the 1930s, the Leiting shadow was performed in Shenyang, Changchun and other big cities, and was warmly welcomed by the audience and spread to Japan, Korea and other countries. Zhang Juanwu, Zhang Zhanke and other famous shadow world invited one after another at home and abroad to make a large number of recordings, so that the shadow theater basin is more extensive, and some of the chants have been preserved.

Tangshan shadow features

Tangshan shadow is a small, raw, beard, big, ugly world, the role is quite rich, carving up to be busy but not chaotic, dense but not mixed. Fine work must be fine knife, pulling the knife, pushing the knife, turning, staccato, bright knife, dark knife, knife is really accurate, fast and steady. The shadow of a well-done person child on three poles, not only to be flexible, but also to match every move of the people in life, a variety of sets of clean, its hands are really good at kung fu.

Tangshan shadow sound method is very peculiar. When singing, the actors use their fingers to pinch the throat to pronounce the sound, after squeezing the sound, with a special color, just with the image of the shadow people and action as one, forming a special style of Tangshan Shadow Theatre. Different from other shadow play features are: one is the shadow man with donkey skin carving, unique manipulation techniques; two is with Luanle countryside singing, easy to understand the language; three is the pinch voice singing; four is a unique singing, such as Zhang Rope Wu's Hao cavity, and so on.

Over the past few decades, Tangshan shadow has spread to all parts of the country and overseas, and wherever it goes, it is so popular that people in Europe, America, Japan and other countries have made Tangshan shadow synonymous with Chinese shadow.