Performance schedule.
Red Network Moment News April 25 (reporter Yuan Silei) Seeing that the "May Day" holiday is just around the corner, are everyone's holiday plans ready? The reporter learned today from the Hunan Puppet Shadow Art Protection and Inheritance Center that from April 29 to May 4, the center prepared 11 performances, inviting you to enter the theater to feel the charm of intangible cultural heritage and experience the beauty of traditional culture.
The repertoire of these 11 performances includes the domestic award-winning puppet drama "Shi San Lingzi", "Golden Fish Hook", shadow puppet play "Mermaid Girl", "Mulan Congjun", in addition, there are "Little Cow Herding", "Happy Little Monk", "You Lake", "Moonlight Fairy", "Fat Cat Brother", "Turtle and Crane" and other plays, which make people look forward to it.
In terms of performance schedule, except for the puppet show "Stone Three Gentlemen" which is only staged in the evening on April 29, there will be a repertoire from April 30 to May 4 at 10:00 and 14:30 every day. Interested viewers, please pay attention to the "Hunan Puppet Shadow Art Conservation and Inheritance Center" WeChat public account for details.
Introduction to some of the plays
Stills from the puppet drama "Stone Three Gentlemen".
1. Synopsis of the puppet drama "Stone Three Gentlemen"
At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, the remote Shaoshan in Hunan Province grew up with a sunny teenager named Shi Sanlingzi. The young man's father was bent on making the studious, astute and intelligent Shi Sanzi a standard farmer, but this optimistic, kind and sympathetic Shi San had other lofty ambitions. The criticism of the concept of teenagers and fathers, teenagers and partners interpret a funny story, bringing the audience into a strange and novel era.
For the first time, the play uses the form of puppet art to create a juvenile image of a great man of a generation, Mao Zedong. The story in the play is full of innocence and childlike fun, and objectively reflects the historical fragment of the wise and wise teenager Mao Zedong walking out of Shaoshan Chong. The strong local atmosphere makes the play reveal a rustic and vivid atmosphere.
2. Synopsis of the puppet drama "Golden Fish Hook"
Stills from the puppet show "The Golden Fish Hook".
The puppet drama "Golden Fish Hook" tells the story of a cooking squad leader who accepts and completes the task assigned by the party organization during the Long March - leading three small soldiers who have fallen out of the grass due to injury and sacrifice themselves; it shows the scene of the Red Army's Long March through the grassland and the Red Army soldiers persevering and fighting in unity to win victory. It praises the great revolutionary sentiments and optimism of the Red Army.
3. Synopsis of the shadow puppet play "Mermaid Girl"
Stills from the shadow puppet play "The Mermaid Girl".
The play is based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Daughter of the Sea. It mainly tells the beautiful mermaid Haini has been living happily in the depths of the ocean, after hearing the land story told by the old turtle, she was deeply attracted by the wonderful magic of the land, she strongly yearns for a new life, and she risks everything to come to the human world. Meeting Lu Sheng, who had saved his own life, two teenagers from different worlds formed an indissoluble relationship. When Haynie was faced with the choice of life and death, after a fierce ideological struggle, she defeated hatred and evil with love and kindness, felt the true nature of great love and supreme goodness, and lived out the wonderful life.
4. Synopsis of the shadow puppet play "Mulan Conscription"
Stills from the shadow puppet play "Mulan From the Army".
The shadow puppet play "Mulan From the Army" tells the story of the loyalty and filial piety of the ancient Andy Fangqi woman, the hero "Mulan" who served in the army for her father and went out for the country.