Luoshan, Henan: Shadow puppet play "shadow" exploded in Qiannan, Guizhou

The flag waved toward Qianxiang, and the year of the tiger was like a long rainbow. After the light rain, duyun city in Guizhou Province was cold, but it could not stop people from searching for the new year. In the city's tea expo garden, the flow of people is full of people, bustling and extraordinary, a popular, joyful and peaceful scene. The shadow puppet play from Luoshan, Henan Province, carries the rhyme of Jianghuai and sends a warm spring tune to the tea village of the southern country.

In front of the Luoshan shadow puppet stage, a play of "Fox Fake Tiger Wei" is being brilliantly staged, and tourists stop and look at the screen. Accompanied by intense music, the filmmakers flipped on the screen, which was very interesting. A series of fights, singing pieces of music, the sound of the sound into the ears, the curtain is frightening, causing tourists to applaud one after another. It is reported that the Luoshan Shadow Puppet Theater Rookie Troupe was invited to Duyun City, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, to carry out the Spring Festival Shadow Puppet Show in the City's Tea Expo Garden, performing from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month, 3 times a day.

"In order to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Tiger, we specially choreographed the repertoire related to the tiger, while maintaining the luoshan shadow puppet singing voice, using Mandarin to explain the confession, the audience can understand the plot in depth, so that more people can understand the excellent traditional culture of our hometown." Qi Ping, the inheritor of Luoshan shadow puppetry, told reporters.

Luoshan shadow puppetry has a long history, starting from the Northern Song Dynasty Jingyou period, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. From production to singing, Luoshan shadow puppetry has distinct local theatrical art characteristics, the original ecological set of folk music, dance, opera, music, handicrafts, painting in one, the integration of southern Henan, northern Hubei, western Anhui culture as one, in 2011, was listed by UNESCO as the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

Nowadays, the ancient Luoshan shadow puppet play is going out of the field, into the scenic spot, into the city, and resonates with modern society, and is more and more popular with all walks of life. The public looks at the big world from the small screen, and reviews the thick history from the small songwriting. Excellent traditional culture into the brain into the heart, plus tonic spiritual calcium, non-heritage in line with the current situation and living fluid, and constantly glow with new vitality.

(Contributed by Shi Xiaoyan and Wang Qingfeng, Propaganda Department of Luoshan County CPC Committee)