How to make a simple string puppet

The method of making string puppets is as follows:

Tools/materials: a piece of paper, a piece of cardboard, a pencil, several colored pencils, a needle, a spool of thread, a glue stick, a pair of scissors, five nail fasteners, and a chopstick.

1, with a pencil on the paper to draw a standing rabbit, to complete the limbs, easy to cut the back.

2, with colored pencils to put the rabbit painted in their favorite colors.

3, in order to lift the line more strong, use a glue stick to glue the painted paper rabbit on the cardboard.

4. Cut the rabbit out of the cardboard with scissors.

5: Use scissors to cut out the head, torso and limbs of the rabbit.

6: Thread a needle through the wire and stick it through the top of the head.

7: After leaving a section of double thread, tie a knot at the end of the thread.

8, then use the needle and thread to tie it through the thumb of the hand.

9. Leave a piece of double thread as well and tie a knot at the end of the thread.

10, the head and limbs are passed through with needle and thread, after leaving a section of double thread, tied in a knot, a **** is five threads.

11, connect the head and torso with a nail button.

12, and then use the nail buckle to connect the limbs and torso together.

13, finally, the head and limbs of the five strings are tied to the chopsticks, lift up, adjust the length of the strings, the rabbit's state adjusted, rabbit string puppet is made.

Five kinds. Can be summarized as five kinds of string puppets, staff puppets, cloth bag puppets, iron branch puppets, medicine hair puppets.

1, string puppets is an ancient traditional puppet theater, the performance, the artist with a line pulling the puppet to perform the action. Rooted in the historical and cultural city of Quanzhou, the puppet theater is known as "hanging silk puppet", also known as "silk play", local folk commonly known as Jia Li.

It is an ancient and rare traditional drama genre popular in the dialect area of southern Fujian, which has formed a stable and complete set of performance rules and more than 700 traditional repertoires over the centuries.

2, staff puppet is a local traditional theater. In ancient times, it was called "staff puppet", which is a wooden staff to manipulate the action to complete, it is hollow inside, the eyes and mouth can be active, the neck is connected to a section of wooden rods or bamboo poles under the neck, and the performer grasps the two rods with one hand to perform, and thus it is called "lifting the puppet". In terms of rod puppet even type, there are three kinds of large, medium and small, distributed in different regions, each with its own characteristics.

3, bag puppet, also known as palm puppetry. Is a local traditional theater in Fujian Province. According to "Zhangzhou Province", Longxi area in the Song Dynasty has been puppet theater. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the puppet flourished, and before the Anti-Japanese War, Longxi, Zhangpu, Haicheng, Changtai and other counties, townships and villages have professional or amateur theater. For a long time, it has been linked to the people of southern Fujian, and has become an indispensable part of their spiritual life.

4, Iron Branch Puppet, also known as wire puppets or Yang window paper shadow play, is an ancient local traditional art, mainly popular in the eastern part of Guangdong Province (Chaoshan, Jieyang, RaoPing area) of the folk puppet theater, the performance of the puppet with the body of the wire to complete the manipulation of the action, which is the most important feature of the Iron Branch Puppet. Since it originated in the Chaozhou area, some people also call it the Chaozhou Puppet Theater.

5, medicine hair puppet originated in the Song Dynasty, a fireworks acrobatics, gunpowder to drive the puppet performance of traditional handicrafts. Once thought to be long lost in the country, researchers believe, after examination, has long existed in the folk of Zhejiang Taishun "flower puppet" that is the drug hair puppet. Since the middle of the Qing Dynasty from Fujian Province.

To date, the complete retention of the production, performance techniques. In a length of 13 to 15 meters on a bamboo pole, the interlayer device special fireworks wheel and dressed in light wax paper costume puppets, when the lowest level of the fireworks wheel fuse ignited, it will be released layer by layer colorful sparks, driving the puppet show.