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A theater that uses puppets to act out a story. During the performance, the actors manipulate the puppets behind the curtain while singing with music. Depending on the shape of the puppet and the manipulation technique, there are cloth bag puppets, string puppets, staff puppets, wire puppets and so on.

Puppetry is a form of theater in which actors manipulate wooden dolls behind the scenes. In ancient China, it was also called puppet theater. China's puppetry has a long history, the Three Kingdoms had puppeteers for acrobatic performances, and the Sui Dynasty began to use puppets to perform stories.

Based on the differences in the structure of the puppets and the way the actors manipulate them, they can be divided into different categories.

[Stick Puppet]

Stick Puppet

The string puppets in the puppet's important joints such as the head, back, abdomen, arms, palms, toes, etc., each embellished with silk thread, the actor pulls the silk thread in order to manipulate the puppet's movements, also known as the line of the puppet or line play, also known as the suspension of the silk puppet.

The stick puppet, also known as the staff puppet, in the puppet head and hands parts of the installation of the joystick, the head for the main rod, hands for the side rod, the actor manipulation of the left hand to hold the main rod, the right hand to hold the side rod, lifting the puppet to manipulate its movements. Glove puppets, also known as palm puppets, ragdoll theater, etc., the puppeteer height of 0.27 meters or 0.40 meters, head hollow, sewn under the neck cloth bag connecting the limbs, outside the clothing, the actor's palm into the cloth bag as a puppeteer torso, five fingers respectively, to support the head and the left and right arm, coordinated with each other to manipulate the puppeteer for a variety of actions, the puppeteer feet can be used with the other hand toggle, or to let the natural pendulum swing.