What is Puppetry?

Traditional Chinese puppetry can be divided into two different types of puppetry, puppet theater and shadow puppet theater, and the puppet theater belongs to one of the puppet theater. In recent times, the puppet theater in southern Fujian is most representative of Zhangzhou.

Budou Opera is a traditional local drama in China, originated in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, since the end of the Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty with the Fujian and Guangdong immigrants to Taiwan, over the past few hundred years has gradually become a folk art with a strong local color, highly popular among the Taiwanese people, so the development of the rapid development of the content is more enriched, and has become Taiwan's most popular puppet show. In particular, the generation that was particularly enamored of TV puppetry in the 1970s is now the middle class of society between the ages of 35+ and 60, and is particularly impressed.

Because the puppets used in the performance are sewn with cloth and shaped like a bag, they are called 布袋戏 by the people, due to the fact that the puppets are made of cloth except for their heads, hands and feet. In Taiwan, Bu Bu Dai Opera is also known as Palm Opera, because during the performance, one has to reach into the cloth bag on the body of the puppet to manipulate it, hence the name.

Bubu Baoju has been popular since the Qing Dynasty, especially in Fujian Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Chaozhou area of the development of the most, can be regarded as the earliest founding place of Bu Bu Bujuju. The origin is not easy to get a definite answer because of the long history, only from the related folklore to find out the more probable source, on all sides of the argument, most of them think that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a poor scholar, Liang Binglin (or Sun Qiaoren), who unfortunately failed in the Beijing exams, and because of the landing of the scholar, he was full of academic knowledge and could not get any ambition, and he also dreamed of the old man's palm with the title of "Fame Returns to the Palm", so he took the opportunity of manipulating the Bu Bu Bu Jiu Opera to make a drama to satirize the imperial court. The opera was a satirical play on the current affairs of the imperial court, but it was not expected that the Bu Bu Dai Opera would be widely loved and gradually spread and become famous all over the world.

The roles of Taiwanese 布袋戏 are categorized as Sheng, Dan, Jingsheng, Late, and Chou. In terms of story content, Taiwan's Bu Bu Dai Opera is mostly based on China's ancient, especially Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and other dynasties of historical stories and folklore, the famous repertoire of the Journey to the West, the Legend of Liao Tim Ting, and so on.

The organization of Bubu Opera troupes can be divided into front and back stages. The front stage consists of the main actor and the supporting actors, who are responsible for all the spoken words and play the main roles, while the supporting actors assist the main actor in playing some of the puppets, as well as "picking up the scene" and "praising the sound". The backstage consists of singers and musicians who play musical instruments.

When the show, the stage of skilled artists behind the scenes, one hand skillfully manipulate puppets, performing a variety of delicate movements, but also to imitate a variety of characters voice, colorful narration of the plot, which has a fascinating speech, but also elegant singing, and sometimes inserted into some humorous and interesting language, with the melodious music in the back of the scene, a beautifully carved puppets, and the show is very vivid, realistic and vivid. A beautifully carved puppet, vivid and realistic. Although the stage is small, it tells the story of the sadness and joy of the world, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.

Taiwan's traditional Bu Bu Dai Opera is mainly from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian Province and Chaozhou in Guangdong Province, so the music of Bu Dai Opera usually comes from the southern piping and Chaozhou tunes as the backstage music. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Beipipe opera was popular, and Budai Opera also utilized the music of Beipipe, so Nanpipe, Chiu-tong and Beipipe became the three main types of backstage music in traditional Budai Opera. The Nanpipe School was taught by the people of Quanzhou, and was called the "White Character", whose dao bai music was purely Quanzhou tunes, emphasizing literature and elegance; the backstage, singing and repertoire of Nanpipe Opera were similar to those of Liyuan Opera, using instruments such as the nan drum, xiao, ai zai, pipa, sanxian and so on. The North Pipe School is taught by Zhangzhou people, known as "messy bomb", Dao Bai is Zhangzhou tune, heavy martial arts, magical; North Pipe Pocket Opera uses a single drum, drums, suona to take the Logistics Transport? (14)? The drums and suona are transported and transported (14), and the drums and suona are used to transport the drums and suona. I (reeds) Shun? Tsuka? Lah table Zhi? Apologize for a certain barium sole? What is the best way to get a fruit? What are you doing? Be careful with your shoes! What is the most important thing that you can do when you have to go to the airport? What is the second most important thing you can do? What is the most important thing you can do? What are the reasons for your visit? What is the name of the organization?

In addition to the puppets, various props, weapons and animal puppets are needed for the performance of the Roppongi Opera. The general props are tables, chairs, literature, fans, gourds, cups, pots, plates and dusters. Weapons have big knife, row with knife, sword, money gun, crescent knife (monk with), hammer, blue dragon crescent knife (Guan Yu with), judge pen, male and female swords and so on. Animal puppets depend on the plot, with dragons, horses, tigers and other most common.

In addition to appreciating the beauty of opera and music, the traditional craftsmanship is also one of the key points of appreciation for the performing arts of the Bu Dai Opera, including the theater tent, puppet carving, face painting and costumes, all of which are artistic expressions. The production of Bu Dai Opera helmets is a combination of cutting, gluing, molding, and other folk crafts. As for the costumes, they have the beauty of embroidery and are basically a fusion of the styles of Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Although different choices are not required depending on the time period to which the play belongs, there are generally male and female, military and civilian, and noble and lowly.

During the Japanese colonial period, Bubu Opera was controlled and banned. It was only after the Restoration that this art form was restored and developed, and in the 1960s, the traditional Bu Bu Dang Opera was gradually transformed in Taiwan into the more lively and versatile Jin Guang Bu Dang Opera, which uses large puppets, replaces the backstage with recordings and cassette tapes, and places emphasis on special effects, free arrangement of the plot, and a fast-paced tempo. The Jinguang Bubu Opera is no longer confined to the repertoire of historical tales and chapter and verse novels, and the puppets have also been improved from the initial small palm-sized puppets to large, almost human-sized puppets, which have quickly risen to become a recreational pastime for young people as their contents are in line with the current fashion.

In the 70's, the Bu Bu Dai Opera was once again a boom. Since then, like opera, it has gradually declined and is no longer popular, being performed only in the countryside and on special festivals or occasions. Among all kinds of traditional operas, although Bu Bu Dai Opera has the largest audience and the strongest vitality, but the development so far, in addition to the lack of innovation in the script, Bu Dai Opera is concerned about the chanting and singing, as well as manipulation of puppetry skills, most of them have disappeared, and there are only a few groups that have a complete backstage backing band; the general wild stage troupes replace the backstage with a cassette tape, and the frontstage puppets have lost the beauty of the traditional performance of the Bu Dai Opera art. The beauty of the traditional Bu Dai Opera performance art has been completely lost. Therefore, saving the local theater has become a problem for the people of Taiwan.

In recent years, along with the growth of science and technology, TV 布袋戏, with its sound and light effects, has gained the favor of young viewers. "Perak" 布袋戏 through the special concept of space and time, footage shaping and the combination of the media, the continuation of the space for survival of 布袋戏, and has become a hot new favorite of the media and the Internet.