How is the shadow play decorated with patterns?

The main prop of performing shadow play is shadow play; Shadow play is mostly made of animal skin or cardboard. Making shadow puppets requires superb skills. Nowadays, many foreign arts and crafts lovers appreciate shadow play as a window decoration for wall decoration. The donkey shadow in Luanxian county, Hebei province and the cowhide shadow in the northwest are more famous. The content of shadow play is mostly traditional historical drama and divine drama. Although the styles of making shadow play vary from place to place, the carving style of seiko carving is generalized and refined, and the decorative patterns are exaggerated and artistic, but they are all the same.

With regard to the traditional carving techniques and crafts of shadow play, the artists summed it up as a jingle saying: "First, the head cap is carved, then the face is carved, and then the eyebrows, eyes and nose are carved. The hair of the costume is integrated. Finally, the whole assembly was fixed, and the whole production was completed after the engraving. "

Shadow play not only has use value and appreciation value, but also has high artistic value and collection value.