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Baokang Shadow Play
www.chinanews.cn 2005-08-26 16:00:36
Shadow play was originated in the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), formed in
the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and reached its peak in the Southern Song
Dynasty (1127-1279). Shadow play at Zhangjialing in Hubei's Baokang
County is the most representative. It is a folk art adopted by local
farmers to pray for blessings, give thanks to gods and celebrate a good
harvest. The leather silhouettes were made from large sheets of donkey
hulls. They are exquisitely painted and colored. A figure in a shadow
play consists of head, body, arms and legs. Folk artists use a piece of
cloth as the screen and a lamp to cast the shadows on the screen. In old
times, they used oil lamps, and nowadays they use an electric light. A
shadow play usually needs three persons, one to hold the figures and
control their movements, two to play the music. The figures are
classified in a similar way to those in Beijing Opera, and the singing of
those folk artists varies in different regions in China.
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