Do ancient musical puppet shows and shadow plays belong to children's dramas?

Shadow play: Shadow play is a kind of folk drama, which uses lights to illuminate the silhouette of people made of animal skin or cardboard to perform stories. During the performance, while manipulating the opera characters behind the white curtain, the artists sang and told stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. Puppet drama: a drama that uses puppets to express stories. During the performance, the actors manipulated the puppets behind the scenes and sang along with the music. According to the different shapes and manipulation methods of puppets, there are bag puppets, marionettes, stick puppets, marionettes and so on. Puppet show is a form of drama in which actors manipulate wooden dolls to perform behind the scenes. In ancient China, it was also called a puppet show.

In China, the contents of children's dramas are mostly telephone calls and fables, and some of them are displayed in the form of puppet shows. So, not necessarily.