"A mouth to say all the things of the past, hands waving a million soldiers" is said to be which traditional non-heritage items

"A mouthful of dry ancient things, hands waving a million soldiers" is said to be shadow theater.

Shadow Puppets (Shadow Puppets), also known as the "shadow play" or "lamp shadow play", is a kind of animal skin or cardboard made of silhouettes of the characters to perform the story of folk theater. During the performance, the artists manipulate the shadow figures behind a white curtain while telling the story with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, which has a strong local flavor.

The scope of its popularity is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different vocal cadences performed in different places. Shadow play is an ancient traditional Chinese folk art, and the old Beijingers called it "donkey shadow". 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 during the Yuan Dynasty, so it can be said to have a long history and a long history.

Performance Forms

Shadow Play, formerly known as "Shadow Play" or "Lamp Shadow Play", is a kind of light source such as candles or burning alcohol to irradiate the silhouettes of people made of animal skin or cardboard to perform stories. It is a kind of folk theater that uses light sources such as candles or burning alcohol to illuminate the silhouettes of figures made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories. During the performance, the artists manipulate the characters behind a white curtain while singing the story in local popular tunes (sometimes in dialect), accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, with a strong local flavor.

This bucolic Han folk art form is very popular in the rural areas of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Tianshui in Gansu.

"Shadow" is a generic term for shadow theater and shadow theater characters (including scenes and props). Shadow play is to let the audience through the white curtain, watching a plane puppet performance of light and shadow to achieve the artistic effect of the form of theater; and shadow play in the plane dolls and scenes, usually folk artists with hand, knife carving and painting made of leather products, so it is called shadow. In the past, there is no movie, television era, shadow play was very popular folk entertainment activities.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Shadow Theater