Chinese sixth grade last semester Unit 8 Composition Shadow Play Art

"Shadow Play" is the general name of shadow play and shadow play characters (including scene props and scenery) products. Chinese shadow play art is a unique artistic variety which is skillfully combined with China folk crafts and China traditional operas, and it is indispensable in the national art hall of China.

A lost delicate pearl. Shadow play is a form of drama that allows the audience to watch the light and shadow of the plane puppet performance through the white curtain to achieve artistic effects; Plane dolls and scene props in shadow play are usually used by folk artists.

Leather goods painted by hand and knife carving are called shadow play.

2. The origin of shadow play:

According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty (179- 156 BC), after Liu Yuxin was born, Qi cried, which made the whole palace miserable. On one occasion, a maid-in-waiting happened to find the young prince staring at the shadow of leaves on the ground outside the window, forgetting to cry, and

Dance happily. Therefore, the ladies-in-waiting cut the leaves into various human figures and animal props and projected them on the white cloth with lights to amuse the prince. Because the leaves will soon dry up and the preservation time is too short, the ladies-in-waiting later found a road made of cowhide.

Good toughness, easy preservation, easy collection, shadow play came into being. Shadow play soon spread to the people, and industrious and intelligent people perfected the production and performance of shadow play props, and endowed them with euphemistic timbre and humorous singing, which formed a wide spread.

"Shadow Play" is widely circulated among the people. In the Song Dynasty, shadow play reached its peak. By the 1980s, shadow play had become popular among the people in Shaanxi, and rural people's weddings, funerals, temple fairs, parties and opening businesses were indispensable, as long as

Every time there is a shadow play, ordinary people come from ten miles and eight townships to watch it. Shadow play is a favorite form of entertainment for Shaanxi people. Shadow play, commonly known as light shadow play, is one of the oldest forms of drama in China, which originated from Chang 'an, the ancient capital of China, more than 500 years ago.

Walking in the Tang and Song Dynasties is still widely circulated among the people in China. The shadow play is made of high-quality cowhide and donkey skin, and is carved by hand with more than 3,000 knives through 24 processes, including cutting, grinding, washing, engraving and coloring. The artistic creativity of shadow play draws lessons from China's silk paintings and paintings in the Han Dynasty.

The techniques and styles of stone reliefs, brick reliefs and temple murals in the Tang and Song Dynasties are exquisite and unique in shape, exquisite in carving and exquisite in color, which fully shows the profoundness of China traditional culture and the stubbornness and simplicity of folk art.

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