On February 13, at the West China Shadow Puppet Intangible Cultural Heritage Park in Haidian District, Beijing, Wang Xi, a non-hereditary heir of shadow puppetry, made a shadow puppet "Ice Pier".
On February 13, at the West China Shadow Puppet Park in Haidian District, Beijing, Wang Xi, a non-hereditary heir of shadow puppets, started to make a shadow puppet version of the mascot of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong", which was well received by tourists and netizens.
On February 13, at the West China Shadow Puppet Park in Beijing's Haidian District, tourists learned to make shadow puppet "ice piers" with Wang Xi, a non-hereditary heir of shadow puppetry.
Shadow puppetry for the Winter Olympics
It is understood that the China Jingxi Shadow Puppet Intangible Cultural Heritage Park has produced 15 ice and snow-themed shadow puppet plays according to the basic actions and character shapes of 15 sports such as ski jumping, jumping ice skating, figure skating and other 15 sports at the Winter Olympics, which skillfully integrates the millennium intangible cultural heritage with ice and snow sports, interpreting the theme spirit of the Beijing Winter Olympics of "going to the future together".
Wang Xi dances the shadow puppet "Ice Pier" and "Snow Melting" in the snow
Wang Zhao Exhibition Drawings
In 2011, Chinese shadow puppet art was included in the "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO, which has received widespread attention at home and abroad.
Wang Xi shows shadow puppet "ice pier" and "snow melting"
Guizhou Daily Tianyan news reporter Deng Gang
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