"Carving knife turn carving wood embryo into
Powder tailoring, fine-knit charm seems to be true
It has passed autumn and spring
Five fingers of luck, one mouth, floating life in the play."
——The song "Cloth Bag Drama Drama Dream Life"
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Cloth bag drama is also called cloth bag puppet show, and also has the nicknames of "scenery play", "finger flower play" and "palm play", which belongs to one of the puppet dramas. It originated in Quanzhou, Fujian, China in the 17th century, and is a kind of local drama performed mainly in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaoshan and Taiwan. It is also spread in Ningde and Fuding, Fujian, and is called thumb play by locals, and also called paper shadow in the Chaoshan region.
About the making of muppets. The head of the muppet is a hollow human head carved from wood, and the torso and limbs outside the puppet head are made of cloth, and the gloves are performed in costumes such as puppets.
The name of the cloth bag play is precisely because the puppet body is "a bag made of cloth", and it has been used as a common name since then.
The puppet is vivid through the hands of the puppeteer, as if it is full of life, and can realize the movements such as singing and playing that humans have, and can also show the charm of emotions such as joy and sorrow through the movements. The puppeteer and the puppet are one and the same, and it is precisely because of such superb technology that they can perform a wonderful and vivid plot and a flexible action that makes people shoot the case.
This unique style of drama and ancient skills is rarely understood, especially in today's popular culture, many young people can not accept this kind of style culture, so they will not understand.
Nowadays, budai opera has the widest audience in the Chinese area, with Taiwan, and its development is more vigorous.
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The cloth bag opera has a history of more than 1,000 years and is a precious and excellent art.
The popular bag play today is very different from before, except for the expression and the preservation of wood carved puppet heads, other things have been relatively improved.
First of all, there is a big difference in the "painting style". In the past, the puppets were painted with brush eyes, and now they use glass eyes, which are more beautiful and add a lot of charm; in the past, plastic wigs were used, and now they are improved into real hair transplantation; the size of the puppets has also increased, and the shape design has changed to be complex and luxurious, both beautiful and elegant, and compared with the previous, it is very handsome and very realistic.
There have also been big changes in the physical aspects of the puppets. In the past, the trunk and limbs were made of cloth, and the hands were wooden hands that could not be moved, but now they have evolved into plastic hands that can be grasped by all five fingers; the legs are also, from the inability to bend, to the present, the joints on the limbs are installed to make them more flexible. In terms of puppetry, in order to complete more and more difficult martial arts, the technology of hanging wire is also quoted, so that the picture presented is more comprehensive and more impactful.
It is worth mentioning that in recent years, "bjd", that is, spherical joint humanoid, has been quite popular, and companies related to the production of cloth bag drama sets have also tended to learn from this technology.
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Nowadays, the popular cloth bag plays that are not relatively familiar to the public include thunderbolt bag plays, golden light bag plays, new century bag plays, magic bag plays, holy chapter bag plays, tianyu bag plays, etc. Among them, the more widely circulated, there are relatively large audiences and attention is the Thunderbolt Bag Play and the Golden Light Cloth Bag Play. In order to allow everyone to understand the cloth bag drama in a little deeper, the following will introduce thunderbolts and golden light.
The Perak Bag Drama, named because the title of the play has the word "Thunderbolt", was written by the "Ten Cars Book" Huang Fengfeng Function, and co-ordinated by the "Eight-Tone Talent" Huang Wenxuan, starting with "Perak City" in 1984. But the well-known Thunderbolt Bag Drama refers to "Thunderbolt Golden Light", which began to be broadcast in 1988. The Thunderbolt series also started from the three dramas of "Thunderbolt Golden Light", "Thunderbolt Eye" and "Thunderbolt Supreme".
From 1988 to the present, it is still being updated, and as of 2018, the "Thunderbolt Magic Seal" has aired more than 2,400 episodes, and this year and 2020, the new drama "Thunderbolt Peak" will continue to be broadcast.
During this period, Perak has always achieved great results, and now it has gone deep into the mainland market, broadcast on iQiyi, Youku, bilibili and other platforms, and has been on the inheritance program of CCTV, which has truly brought the cloth bag drama into the public's vision, and has also truly inherited and circulated the traditional Chinese culture.
The Golden Light Bag Drama, originally the Golden Light Series of Huang Junxiong's Cloth Bag Drama, was the mainstream of the Cloth Bag Drama from 1950 to 1970. The performance form that attracts the audience with sound props and other strange scenes is called Jinguang Opera, that is, it began to abandon the traditional palm puppets and instead perform with larger puppets, the changes in this period gave the Cloth Bag Opera a chance to change, and later Master Huang Junxiong put the performance style of Jinguang Opera on the TV stage, that is, in 1970, the story of Yunzhou Daruxia Shi Yanwen, and later in 1994, when Master Huang Junxiong re-filmed the Yunzhou Daruxia series of stories, because he was grateful for the "Golden Light Opera Revolution" in 1970, Therefore, he called his own cloth bag drama business as the golden light cloth bag play.
Now it operates Huang Ligang's Golden Light Multimedia, and the main series of episodes is the new Golden Light Cloth Bag Drama Series that began from "The Legend of the Black and White Dragon Wolf" and "The Decisive Moment of the Heaven and Earth Wind and Cloud".
Compared with Thunderbolt, the episodes of the new golden light are shorter, and in the words of Daoyou, it is "faster to make up".
Thunderbolt and Golden Light also have a relationship. Some people say that because the plot of Golden Light and Thunderbolt is separated from the title of the episode named Thunderbolt, it is Golden Light that is more independent than Thunderbolt. However, according to the time, the origin of the golden light is early, so it is the thunderbolt that is separated from the golden light.
Only after that did the narration of the story line begin with Su Huanzhen, a one-page book, and Ye Xiaochao as the main characters.
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Why do you like bag play?
Others have asked the author, and the author has asked himself. If it was the beginning, perhaps the author's answer would be: because the idol is very beautiful!
And now, under the more and more in-depth viewing and understanding, the author will answer: because of its charm.
And the charm of the bag play is not only because of the current beauty of the doll, but also many aspects. It is the literary background of its poetry, its huge and amazing world view setting, its intricate and interlocking plot, the delicacy of its literary drama that makes people addicted, and its martial arts that is so wonderful that people clap their hands... These are the places that make the author and the majority of fans who like cloth bag drama love it very much.
In fact, not only these, but also the company's elaborate production of character songs, situational songs, martial arts songs, these music is well-made, the rhythm has its own characteristics, the use of many national instruments as an arrangement, how can people not be applauded?
One of the characteristics of the cloth bag play is that it is white. In layman's terms, one person accompanies all the roles, whether men, women, young or old, including narration, all of which are arranged by the same person. Isn't that great?
As far as opera is concerned, the division of labor of the roles is clear, and it is clear who is good and who is bad, and the same is true of the cloth bag play, which was originally one of the dramas. But the current bag drama has blurred the role positioning, and it is no longer possible to use simple appearance and plot to judge whether this person is the right way or the villain. Maybe he was personable, handsome and elegant, but in the end he was the big boss. The ups and downs of the plot can always surprise people, although sometimes it is also frightening.
Regarding the goodness of the cloth bag play, in fact, one or two sentences cannot be clearly explained, nor can it be exhausted, because the love for him is from the inside out, and it is sincerely hidden. Once you like it, you can find its shining point all the time. It is a bit similar to a crush, the heart is excited, but the language spoken is pale and weak.
Budai Opera is the intangible cultural heritage of our country, and it is fortunate and glad that it can now be paid attention to by so many young people, and there will be people who will continue to carry it forward and pass it on.
Millennia of history, decades of modern broadcast years. We no longer have to carry a small bench to sit under the stands and stare at the stage, now we can sit at home, through the Network has electronic products, feel the beauty of the art created by our ancestors thousands of years ago.
In fact, the inheritance and development of cloth bag opera is the epitome of many traditional Chinese cultures. No matter which traditional culture, it is worthy of our new generation of young people to understand, to accept, and even to shoulder the responsibility of inheritance.
I remember that there was a documentary earlier, the director poured out all the filming of the music culture that was about to disappear, and when he went again, because there was no one to inherit, with the departure of the elderly, this culture also disappeared in the long river of history, which is really regrettable.
Human beings should make good progress, but while human beings are progressing, they cannot forget history and the beauty left by their ancestors.
We will all disappear, but hopefully our traditional culture will not.
I hope that readers will be able to try to understand the cloth bag opera culture briefly described by the author after reading it. If its style is always unacceptable, then at least you must know that the cloth bag play is a traditional Chinese culture, which we should know and guard.
The cloth bag drama can tell the story in the play, but the story that belongs to the cloth bag play should never end.
Author: Lin Wanrong
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