The Structure of Tangshan Shadow Play The Legend of the White Snake

The structure of the shadow play Legend of the White Snake is the plane characters and scenes in the play, which are usually leather products carved by folk artists with hand knives. When carving, it is usually front carving and sometimes back carving.

The representative shadow play "Bao Gong Chops Beauty in Heilongjiang" and "The Legend of Tangshan White Snake" are introduced in the textbook with examples. The task of shadow play is divided into seven parts. Character modeling, like drama characters, is full of ugly characters. Paintings and carvings are exquisite, with flowers, clouds and phoenix as patterns in women's hair accessories and costumes, and dragons, tigers, water and clouds as patterns in men.

The art of shadow play, which combines traditional painting, sculpture and opera, has a strong national flavor and is a wonderful flower in China's art garden. This course aims to let students know about the traditional folk shadow play art in China, feel the beauty of shadow play art in the learning activities of appreciating and making shadow play dolls, and let students love and actively participate in the activities of inheriting the excellent folk art of the motherland.

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The activity is to let students appreciate the art of shadow play, and make paper-cuts of shadow play characters with Xuan paper or Korean paper by folding, cutting and dyeing. Due to the wide spread of shadow play in China, many colorful schools have been formed in the long-term evolution of different regions, such as Beijing Shadow Play, Tangshan Shadow Play, Shaanxi Shadow Play and other local shadow plays with their own characteristics.