What is shadow puppetry?
The simple and crude understanding is that animal skins are processed and carved into adults or patterns.
What is shadow puppetry?
While singing, behind the white curtain illuminated by light, people pick up the pole and swing the shadow pattern, and the content of the singing is formed into a dynamic picture through the shadow puppet; also known as sheepskin play, commonly known as head play, shadow play, cowhide lamp shadow.
Liu Heng, a concubine of the Western Han Dynasty, one day near dusk, holding the prince to play in front of the window, the concubine was clever and skillful, and cut some patterns of grass, flowers and animals with pieces of paper, and the prince liked it very much, and played with it in his hand. In the sunset, the shadow of the pattern in the hand was reflected on the window, vivid and flexible, and the concubine had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly made several more patterns, asking several palace women to hold it in their hands and reflect it on the window, and everyone was very happy.
After the death of Emperor Liu Che's beloved wife Li Shi, the emperor was so anxious that the government was abandoned. Often staring at her portrait, a minister cut out Li's silver moon appearance, through the reflection of the light, as if Li shi was alive, to ease the emperor's thoughts.
The above two stories are all about shadow puppetry, and the emergence of shadow puppetry laid the foundation for animation and is the originator of modern film art.
Sing all the things of the ages in one mouth, and wave millions of soldiers with both hands. This is a performance by Wei Zongfu, the leader of the shadow puppet class in Qingyang Huan County, and the couplets on both sides of the stage; an average of three or four hours for a play, and the longest is five hours. The ancient events in the shadow puppet play focus on people, that is, a person, a life, a play; in this way, a person's life is a play.
Why is Huanxian Daoqing shadow puppet famous?
From the Loess Plateau to the world.
The cross-provincial and transnational recognition is enough to prove the pattern and vision of the humanistic connotation of huanxian shadow puppetry.
The Douban score of 8.1 in the movie "Big River Singing", in which Su Yang's song "Shouting Song" has the same singing voice as a paragraph in Wei Zongfu's shadow puppet play. The land under the feet of the people of Huanxian county is the foundation of their survival and determines the survival of people for generations. Farming, singing, and watching plays have not changed to this day, and the stubbornness of craftsmen and people's love for the land remain.
Loyalty and filial piety, mythological stories, life situations and other content, through high-pitched, depressing tunes with people's exquisitely carved shadow pictures, pick and wave the pole to sing the freedom and heroism of people in the yellow land. Shadow puppetry nourishes their spiritual souls, and it may be for this purpose that they sing and persist. This love and persistence deserves our attention and understanding, maybe at the beginning you will be shocked by the loud voice, do not read the subtitles can not understand what is being sung, but I hope you have read this article, the ring county shadow puppet has the idea of wanting to see, secondly, do not be scared away by the high-pitched tune at the beginning, patience to stay a little longer, maybe you will see each other and hate late?
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