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"A mouthful sings a thousand years of events, and hands dance against a million soldiers."

Shadow but the world's earliest form of curtain culture and entertainment, is the theater than Shakespeare earlier than Lumiere earlier than the film, more rock and roll music than Elvis Presley.

Shadow play, also known as "light and shadow play", "monkey play", which has a long history, is an ancient and peculiar folk theater art. The creation of shadow is related to primitive witchcraft, religion and folklore. Ancient people had a mysterious sense of shadow, thinking that the shadow was their own souls, so they formed witchcraft beliefs and taboos about the shadow. After that, the Taoist priests' "shadow-returning technique", together with the form of speech, singing and music, gradually developed into shadow theater. During the Tang and Song dynasties, shadow plays became quite popular and flourished in the Qing Dynasty.

The theme of the shadow play is mainly based on historical and mythological stories, accompanied by musical instruments*** there are "5 pieces": xylophone, set of gongs, flute, drums and bells. During the performance, the performer stands under the white cloth screen, puts the shadow person to the screen, and relies on the strong light to project the shadow onto the white cloth for people to watch. The performer controls a main pole in front of the neck of the shadow figure and two playing poles in both hands to make the shadow figure make various movements. In addition to controlling the movements of three or four shadow figures, the performer usually has to work closely with the music on the stage and take care of the narration and singing. In the shadow play, the playing field is tightly packed, the shadow figures come and go with swords, up and down, very lively; while the music and singing of the literary field is dazzling, rich in sound and emotion, and moving to the heart. Famous traditional shadow plays include "Bao Gong Compensation", "Jigong Living Buddha", "Piggyback Daughter-in-Law", "Three Beatings of the White Bone Demon", "Sacrifice Tower" and so on.

The shadow theater circulates in an extremely wide area, as far north as Heilongjiang Province, as far south as Guangdong Province, and as far west as Qinghai Province, there are shadow plays. The shadow plays in different places have unique styles, and the size and shape of the shadow people are also characterized by their own features, thus giving rise to various genres. These include the cowhide doll shadow of Shaanxi in the central plains, the sheepskin shadow of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the paper window shadow of Shanxi. Shadow play absorbs the elements of local opera and music, so it has a variety of singing styles, among which the Taoist singing style of Gansu's Howl Collapsing Kiln and Shaanxi's Bowls and Bowls are the most famous.

Shadow figures and background pavilions are made of leather, with cowhide and donkey skin being the most respected, because these two types of leather make the shadow figures and backgrounds stronger and more transparent. Now, there are also new materials made of resin and fiberglass shadow. The production of shadow is very delicate, the first is the production of skin. The new peeled skin soaked in water for a few days, take out the bright side of the skin repeatedly scraped to the thin transparent, and then hitched on a wooden frame taut and dry. After the leather material is ready, the hardwood push plate is polished, and then use the steel needle to depict the pattern, depict the pattern of the leather material, to be padded on the wooden board or wax board for skeletonization, and then flatten the coloring. The coloring of the leather shadows is usually done in five solid colors: red, yellow, green, green and black, which gives the shadows their unique beauty. Then the figure's head, upper body, lower body, two legs, two arms, two hands of each part of the composition with a line connection, shadow people are completed.

"A piece of skin actually joy, anger, sadness and happiness, half of the human face to play all the virtuous, evil, loyal and treacherous." Because the shadow man behind the curtain can only do up and down, before and after the movement, so in addition to the image of the immortal Buddha is a full-face front, the other roles of life, Dan, net, end, ugly and other roles are half-face modeling. It is this side of the face on the screen to create a wonderful artistic effect, so there is a "one-eyed people moving two-eyed people," said.