Detailed information about shadow play, shadow play painting and shadow play instruments.

Chinese shadow play has a long history. According to legend, shadow play originated in the Han Dynasty (200 BC). After the death of Emperor Li Furen, he became ill. There was a man named Shao Weng in the palace who cut the paper into the shape of Li with ordinary paper and projected it on the curtain in front of the lamp. After reading it, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seemed to know something about it, and his illness gradually improved. This is the embryonic form of shadow play, which later developed into a leather system, coupled with music and singing, and gradually formed a shadow play. It flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty in the tenth century A.D. There were many shadow play performances in the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. As a folk art, Chinese shadow play has been widely spread since the Yuan Dynasty in the13rd century, and has spread overseas, becoming a world-wide art ... With military expeditions and land-sea exchanges, it has been introduced to Persia (Iran), Arabia, Turkey, Siam (Thailand), Myanmar, Malay Archipelago, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and other Asian and European countries.

Shadow play is commonly known as "lantern shadow play" and also known as "the ancestor of movies". Shadow play is a performance prop of shadow play which is widely circulated among the people in China, while shadow play is an ancient and exquisite puppet show in China. It uses lights to show various figures and scenes carved from animal skins on the curtain, hence its name. Georges sadoul, a French historian, called it "the ancestor of world movies". Shadow play is associated with folk paper-cutting art, which absorbs the artistic method of paper-cutting, with beautiful shape, smooth lines, rich rhythm and decorative patterns. It is said that shadow play originated in Han Dynasty (200 BC) and flourished in Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. Qin, Jin and Yu originated in Shaanxi, China, matured in Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in Hebei in Qing Dynasty.

As early as 2000 years ago, the book Mozi had made a scientific study on the phenomenon of light and shadow. The masses had already cut it into human figures with paper or leather pieces and projected its shadow on the wall with light for fun. There is a myth in the novels of the Tang Dynasty that the warlock cut the paper into the shape of the moon and pasted it on the wall, which led Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty to visit the Moon Palace. This is a reflection of folk movies. It can be proved that shadow play was originally developed from paper shadow, but the paper shadow was actually a colorful lantern. "Guangde Miraculous Records" said: "In the first month of the Tang Dynasty, Ming Di looked at the night, went to the palace with a big Chen shadow lamp, set up a court to burn it, and looked at the palace door with a wax torch, as bright as day." It can be seen that shadow play is the product of the development of ancient Lantern Festival to citizens' literature and art. In order to make the shadow play move, add joints, carve flowers to make the image beautiful, and use translucent cowhide and donkey skin to add color to make the image ethereal, which has developed into the present shadow play.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Ned Weng wrote "Jingshi Jisheng": "Every play is carved with plain paper at first, and then covered with colored leather." Song Zhou Mi's Old Wulin Story: "The cinema is three beauties and three volts". It can be seen that the shadow play in Song Dynasty is not only very developed, but also famous artists who specialize in shadow play. "Tea Room" Note: "Yuan Wu Zimu's" Liang Lumeng "said that there are more shadow plays. At the beginning of Bianjing, they carved clusters with plain paper, and later generations used sheepskin as colorful ornaments, which would not be damaged. Those who are loyal to the public are carved with positive images, while those who are evil are carved with ugly shapes. "

China is the hometown of shadow play, and collectors at home and abroad are proud to get a set or a piece of Chinese shadow play art. However, with the popularity of movies, television and the Internet, shadow play, a folk art that once spread all over China, has gradually declined, resulting in the almost lost shadow play art. At present, there are only five shadow play troupes in Beijing, Tangshan, Harbin, hua county and Changsha. At the same time, through shadow play in different historical periods, people can understand the development of folk art at that time, which has important historical and artistic value, so the collection of shadow play has been paid more and more attention. 1955, the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued ***4 special stamps of Chinese shadow play (face value 160) (Shaanxi East Road, Luanxian County, Hebei Province, Xiaoyi, Shanxi Province and Dayi, Sichuan Province), which were widely welcomed by collectors. Shadow play not only has use value and appreciation value, but also has high artistic value and collection value. Nowadays, those old-fashioned large-scale shadow plays with storylines and those with scenes such as scenery, people and trees on the screen are becoming hot treasures of collectors. Secondly, the complete shadow play that can be performed is also favored by collectors.

Shaanxi shadow play

According to textual research, Shaanxi Guanzhong (xi 'an) area is the birthplace of shadow play, which is still circulating among the people. Due to the vast territory of our country, the art of shadow play has developed into many different schools and styles in different regions. As far as the modeling of shadow figures is concerned, the regional characteristics are also very distinct. On a large scale, the northwest and northeast regions of China have each formed a mature, independent, complete and systematic aesthetic model, which is the representative of the image of Chinese shadow play. Due to the different geographical environment, shadow play has also formed its own different local characteristics. For example, Sichuan shadow play has the ancient charm of Han and Wei stone carvings; Shaanxi shadow play has a graceful Tang and Song mural heritage; The shadow play in Luanxian County, Hebei Province, can find the handsome appearance of ladies' paintings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which can be described as Chunlan Qiuju, each showing its beauty.

The traditional shadow play in northwest China, represented by Shaanxi, has fine and beautiful figures. For students and Dan, the face is carved on the front. Slim figure, slender fingers. Its face is high forehead, straight nose, small red mouth, thin eyebrows and thin eyes. The outline of the face is not drawn. Characters' beards and long hair are often pasted with real hair. The sole of men's horn boots is flat front foot and upturned back foot, which is full of movement. The traditional shadow play in Northeast China, represented by Hebei, is simple, rough and elegant. The body is vigorous and powerful, and if the fingers are stretched out, they are abstract and concise. The empty face carved by Shenghe has a 6-shaped face with red lips and white eyebrows. The outline of the face is black, which is very clear and bright in front of the curtain. Characters' beards and long hair are also made of leather. Except for black lines, they generally don't need real hair. The male horn and the sole of the foot are on the same level, so that the static and dynamic movements can be clearly divided during the performance. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of shadow play, which flourished until the Republic of China and the early days of the founding of New China. Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hebei and Gansu are all active areas of shadow play performance.

The performance of shadow play:

Because cars, boats, horses, carriages and grotesque monsters in shadow play can all be performed, such as flying into the ground, stealth deformation, smoking and fire, falling into the sea, etc., and can also be accompanied by various shadow play stunts and acousto-optic effects, the fantasy scene of performing large-scale dramas is unique in shadow play.

The performances of shadow play include historical romance, folklore, martial arts case-solving drama, love story drama, pantomime, fashionable modern drama and so on. There are countless dramas, including single dramas and even dramas. Common traditional repertoires include The Legend of the White Snake, Picking up the Jade Bracelet, The West Chamber, Qin Xianglian, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Yang Jiajiang, The Legend of Yue Fei, The Water Margin, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, The List of Gods and so on.

Types and vocals of shadow play;

Due to the wide spread of shadow play in China, in the long-term evolution of different regions, the style and rhythm of its music vocals absorbed the essence of their local operas, folk songs and music systems, thus forming many colorful schools. There are more than ten kinds of shadow play schools in Qin, Jin and Henan, such as Silban tune, Agong tune, Qiang tune, old tune, Qin tune, North-South tune, Ankang Yuetune, Shang-Dao tune and Blowing tune. Harmony, chime and nasal rhyme are also commonly used when singing, which is very nice.

The vocals of shadow play in Hebei, Beijing, Northeast China, Shandong and other places all originated from Laoting in Luanzhou, eastern Hebei, but their respective vocals were nourished by Peking Opera, gongs and drums, bangzi and folk songs, forming different schools. Smooth flat tones, gorgeous and gorgeous tones, and sad and sad tones are all available. Among them, the choking singing method in Luanhe River area in Tang Dynasty is very unique. In other places, such as Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, shadow play music and singing also have local characteristics.

On the white screen of the shadow play, although all the characters are dancing, their music and songs can make people feel ups and downs. Happiness can make people comfortable, and sadness can make people cry, which is very touching; It really shows all the joys and sorrows in the world and sings all the happy songs in the world. As the hometown of shadow play, we are committed to upgrading the art of shadow play to a world-wide art, promoting the art of folk shadow play, and making the ancient shadow play "serve the present".

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