Production method of shadow play for primary school students

The production method of shadow play for primary school students includes the following steps: skin selection, skin making, draft drawing, draft transmission, lettering, painting, sweat ironing and knotting.

1, skin selection: the material of shadow play is sheepskin or cowhide. Hair is removed, oil is scraped off, and then nailed to a board to dry tightly.

2. Leather making: There are many ways to make leather. Taking Shaanxi shadow play as an example, there are usually two ways to make raw cowhide: clean leather and gray leather.

3. Sketch: The design of figures in shadow play often shows personality on the face and emphasizes * * * in clothing. Therefore, a shadow play class often has one or two thousand shadow play characters, while shadow play has only a few hundred. There is a special painting method when making shadow play, which is called "sample spectrum".

4. Overdraft: The sculptor breaks the scraped leather into pieces, moistens them with a wet cloth, then uses a special push plate, slightly greases them one by one, and then uses a steel needle to copy and describe the outlines and design patterns of each part on the surface of the leather, which is called "over-draft", and then puts the leather on a jujube or pear board for carving.

5. Carving: Carving the required pattern.

6. Color application: Color application is a step to reflect the production skill of shadow play. Paint different colors according to different characters and costumes, and a character is a meticulous painting.

7. Sweating and ironing: After painting, it is a key process to dehydrate and sweat the shadow play. Its purpose is to make the painted color be eaten into cowhide at a proper high temperature, and to volatilize the water left in cowhide.

8. Completion of knotting: As the production of shadow puppets is dismembered, it is necessary to sew up all parts of the body with thread, and insert a quill pen in the back and put it into a bamboo stick.

Shadow play (light shadow play) is a kind of folk drama which is made of animal skin or cardboard and performed with bright cloth under the illumination of light. Shadow play is an ancient traditional folk art in China, and old Beijingers call it "donkey shadow play".

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.