#Zhanjiang Headlines# Intangible Cultural Heritage into Wanjia | Zhanjiang City Representative Inheritors Dynamic Record Exhibition (Wuchuan Single Puppet)
Go to the southernmost tip of the mainland of the motherland, see the intersection of ancient Yue culture, indigenous culture, Han and Fujian culture and Central Plains culture, taste the longevity of history and the thickness of culture, and sigh the emotions and wisdom of the ancestors.
As the Spring Festival of 2022 is approaching, we use images to record non-hereditary inheritors, tell the magnificent genes of Zhanjiang's intangible cultural heritage, and accompany everyone to spend the New Year.
Wu Chuan single puppet
Wuchuan single puppet, also known as wood play, ghost boy play, is a form of puppet show, is a unique folk traditional theater art, because of its convenient performance, cheap remuneration, very suitable for single-family funding to invite plays, often in the countryside gods, annual performance, deeply loved by the masses.
The uniqueness of Wuchuan's single puppet is that one person can perform a play. The artist's acting skills are outstanding, and one person plays all the roles, that is, to sing and read in the mouth, manipulate the puppets in their hands to do and fight, and also use their feet to beat the drum and sound the gong. Acting in literary drama left and right hands at the same time play different roles, the character performance is vivid; acting in martial arts can be danced with both hands, swords and swords, fighting tumbling, making people dizzy, plus oral chanting, foot stepping gong and drum, a moment of drum horn in unison, killing sound, often make the audience applaud everywhere, admired, can be called a must. In 2011, Wuchuan single puppets were included in the third batch of Zhanjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative List.
