Peninsula all-media reporter Huang Jingfei intern Zhou Run
"In the Year of the Tiger, tigers and tigers are mighty, I took shadow puppet works with tiger elements to markets and streets to promote intangible cultural heritage, and also brought a different Taste of the Year to everyone." During the Spring Festival, at the "Bazaar" of Qingdao Lida Shopping Plaza, Cui Peng, a well-known shadow puppet craftsman in the island city, brought her shadow puppet works to perform live. "This year is the Year of the Tiger, and I feel very excited and joyful." Many citizens were attracted by the unique shadow puppet performance, Cui Peng also taught the children to color the shadow puppet on the spot, "Some tigers are particularly powerful, some are particularly cartoonish, I really didn't expect that shadow puppets can still play like this!" ”
Cui Peng told reporters that among the shadow puppets she treasures, there has always been a set of "zodiac signs", "This set of shadow puppets is a very traditional and very precious work, the expression and action of the tiger, very charming of Chinese paintings, especially imposing." To welcome the Year of the Tiger, Cui Peng also made a lot of tiger element shadow puppets of different shapes and sizes, "There are kinetic and cartoon shadow puppets, there are tiger brothers and tiger sisters, children will like it very much!" There are also relatively simple small shadow puppets, which can be used as bookmarks..." Cui Peng also taught children to cut shadows and color shadows on the spot, "Interested children can use markers and watercolor pens to give different colors to the little tiger, and everyone can use their imagination to paint a unique tiger shadow by themselves." Of course, in our studio, children, with the help of teachers, can accept systematic shadow puppet learning. ”
Cui Peng, who came from a shadow puppet family, has been engaged in shadow puppet art for four generations, her grandmother is the first generation of folk paper-cutting and shadow puppet artist Zhong Jiying, and her mother Yang Yuehua was hired as a "folk art lecturer" by the Qingdao North District Folk Writers Association. Cui Peng, a former English teacher who studied in Europe for many years and obtained a master's degree, resolutely quit her job in 2015 and returned to "shadow puppetry". "There are not more than me among the English teachers, and there are not many less than me, but there are fewer and fewer craftsmen performing shadow puppets, and seeing that my parents are still studying and teaching shadow puppetry at such an old age, I feel that I also have a sense of mission." Cui Peng said. In the process of reviving Qingdao shadow puppetry, in addition to learning to inherit the traditional shadow puppet making technology, she is also committed to the international exchange of shadow puppet art, and many foreign friends have also become her "students". Now his son Lu Zhibo also "inherits his father's business" and follows his mother to perform shadow puppetry. "I look forward to more intangible cultural heritage being liked by everyone and better inherited and carried forward."