with cloth for the body, and wood for the head
Opening and closing, in the square inch stage
The view "refers to" the intangible cultural heritage, and the product "palm" is in the world
This is the puppet show in the palm of your hand
The puppet show in the palm of your hand was originally called "puppet show"
It is a rare type of puppet show in the mainland
Because the puppets it performs are in addition to the puppet head and puppet feet
The rest of the torso and limbs are made of cloth
The performer is named after the puppeteer's hand in the puppet's costume
Puppet heads and puppet costumes
According to the characteristics of music, words and plays
The puppet show in the palm of your hand is divided into the southern school and the northern school
The southern school prevailed in the Quanzhou area
It is developed from "telling stories and telling the ancients".
Its origins can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Southern Song Dynasty
It has a long history
Historical records:
The South of the South
There is the country of Fulou
His people are clever and changeable......
or in the palm of your hand for the pleasure of a hundred beasts
It is like turning and bending between the fingers
Humanoid or a few minutes long, or multiple inches
The gods and monsters are sudden, and the mystery is beautiful
——Jin Wang Jia, "Collecting Records"
Watch the puppet's fake without doubting yourself
——Five Dynasties Tan Qiao's "Book of Transformation"
南派掌中木偶戏
Singing opera in Quanzhou dialect
The backstage soundtrack of the head of the Southern Drum Leader
The music not only retains the characteristics of the music of Song, Yuan, and Southern operas
It is also integrated into local music such as Gaojia and Liyuan
It also absorbs religious music, local slang songs, etc
Form an existing traditional charm
There is also an artistic style with southern Fujian characteristics
It is the southern Fujian region
One of the most representative local traditional theatres
Stills from "Magic Chest".
See here
Everyone must be curious
How is the puppet show performed in the palm of your hand?
Then follow Ji Dudu to take a look~
The puppet show in the palm of the southern school is highly skilled
The artist puts his index finger into the puppet's head cavity
Thumb and three other fingers
Slip on the left and right sleeves
Use your fingers to manipulate puppets to imitate people to perform
With different standing, head, hand, and gait postures of the puppets
Give it expressions, bones
Generalized, exaggerated, and yet true
Perform some actions that are difficult for real people to achieve
It can also convey people's emotions with joy, anger and sorrow
It makes people wonder when they look at it
Handheld puppet show
"What a capable person can do, what a capable person cannot"
Sing, read, do, play
Mime, acrobatics
Puppet show in the palm of your hand "can do anything"
In realism and freehand
Switch between virtual and virtual at will
Silky and affectionate
Vivid and lifelike
Ji Dudu also wants to ask everyone:
Can you draw a circle with your left hand and a square with your right hand?
Isn't it hard to do two things or even use them more?
Handheld puppet shows are generally controlled with one hand
Hence the traditional puppeteer
Usually two puppets can be manipulated by one person
Perform a literary drama that does dialogue or action
A highly skilled puppeteer
You can make a puppet with both hands
Running, jumping, throwing, martial arts and other martial arts performances
Martial arts performances
In the puppet, there are different births, dan, net, and end
Ugly, beast, duo and other characters
The roles are different
The puppeteer should be even more visible during the performance
Gestures, steps, and movements of different characters
The most powerful thing is
In the palm of your hand puppet show
There will be a one-man performance
An entertainer is responsible for puppet manipulation, narration, singing, etc
Perform an entire play on your own
This is unique among other Chinese theatrical performances
Multi-tasking, echoing freely
Between the five fingers of both hands
With a quaint singing voice, babbling
Playing gongs and drums and folk music, Ding Ling is the leader
The Tao is full of joys and sorrows, good and evil, beautiful and ugly
One person has two horns
Close to the stage, interpret the world
From the layered, colorful wood carved archway style
To rely on the "horse board"
Set up large curtains, side curtains, horizontal eyebrows, etc
Until the "horse board" is replaced by a puzzle
The stage design of the puppet show in the palm of your hand is becoming more and more optimized
Make the performance more experiential
More visual impact and artistic expression
Wood-carved archway-style stage
Puzzle-style stage
After all the vicissitudes of life, it has gone through ups and downs
The puppet show in the palm of your hand comes from the waves of time
Dust off your body
The legacy is blanching, shining in the present
Stills from "Huang Jiguang".
Generations of puppeteers who have alternated between the old and the new
It's more like an entertainer
They inherit and develop through perseverance
Make the puppet show in the palm of your hand gradually adapt to the modern soil
Seen and accepted by the times
Loved, spread
Puppet show inheritor in the palm of your hand
Following the 2007 Hui'an puppet show
After being included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list
Hui'an has hosted many Quanzhou International Puppet Exhibitions
"The Legend of Luoyang Bridge" has been launched successively
"Chance Encounters from All Over the World" and other high-quality plays
He also created "Asking the Hairpin"
"A Box of Stones" and other incorruptible dramas
Stills from "A Box of Stones".
Honest in the play, incorruptible in the heart
In the sonorous and melodious music
Passionate singing and vivid performances
Vividly display the historical stories of local Qing officials and honest officials
Carry forward the excellent traditional family style
Promote the culture of integrity and intangible cultural heritage
Penetrate each other and complement each other
With the strings of opera rooted in the masses
Play a new song of honesty in the new era
Contributed by丨Hui'an County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Quangang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision
Picture丨Hui'an County Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Hui'an County Palm Puppet Art Protection and Inheritance Center
Editor丨Wang Zexiang, Zheng Ying