What kind of artistic characteristics does shadow theater have? Does it have any significance to us?

As we all know, shadow play is one of the earliest types of opera in China. His singing is very beautiful, and the performance is also wonderful and moving. So he has been passed down from the past to now almost all over the country, because each local language and voice are different, so also formed a lot of different shadow play. So what is the earliest shadow theater appeared in what shadow theater appeared in China's Western Han Dynasty in Shaanxi. By now it has a history of more than two thousand years.

The most important features of shadow play are two aspects, which are props and voice. The production and performance techniques of the attraction. Both are very challenging for the artists. They need to scrape the cowhide or donkey skin to process the hair and blood into a translucent shape before applying color. Its carving and painting process and knife work is very delicate, the shape must be realistic. Moreover, the shadow figure is usually divided into several parts, such as head, body and limbs. The production of shadow puppets is also very important, for example, the first step is to select the skin. The first step is to select the skin, then to make the skin, then to draw the draft, and then to the last step is to carve him. Of course the most important thing is to color him and iron him. Now the shadow play has been approved as a national intangible cultural heritage.

It is said that in the time of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, his beloved concubine Mrs. Li dyed and passed away. Han Wu Di's mind was very negative. He ignored the government all day long, so one day a minister came across a child playing with a rag doll in his hand. The shadow reflected on the ground, vivid, and then that minister used something to make the appearance of Mrs. Li, painted with colors. Then he invited Emperor Wu of Han to watch it. When Emperor Wu of Han saw it, he fell in love with it. He made the figure out of a piece of cardboard. Then one person behind the white curtain maneuvered to attract people, while using the local popular theater accent and cadence to tell some stories, and with some musical instruments. This is how shadow theater is performed.

Shadow puppetry has a very great significance, as we all know, people in the past did not have any entertainment, that shadow puppetry is a kind of culture for people to watch and have fun, it allows people to learn and love the shadow puppetry, so that people are willing to go to the heritage of this art, is also very rare. And there are a lot of shadow theater in a lot of areas, he is not the same in each area, he gives people a different feeling. For example, Shaanxi Ping retains all the traces of folk storytelling. He is the predecessor of many local operas in Shaanxi, and he represents the artistic characteristics of simplicity, simplicity, and richness of ornamentation and refinement. His characters are all very delicate, and the lines are very beautiful and vivid. Each figure is very durable and beautiful. It is a very meaningful art for us to pass on.