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Game of Shadows, playing shadow is a dramatic form in which the player takes the human elements are embossed in leather with colorful images, and reflected in the curtain, light, song and dance of the players controlled by floss , cymbals, drums and music, playing a series of stories. It is widely distributed in most parts of China except Tibet and Xinjiang, the various forms of shadow plays in different places. But points of the study and performance skills playing all very excellent, with subjects such as ancient Chinese magic, myths, religions, rulers, legal affairs, wars and talents and beautiful women, social life, etc.

The show of shadow puppets with written records dating from the Song Dynasty, and Bianliang, the capital of Northern Song Dynasty was the power of darkness. Currently playing in the shadows hand division shadow play, the performance of shadow puppets (including black paper), and the great shadow play. Many advantages of the performances were recorded by the people singing. During the Yuan Dynasty, the possession of the west were occupied by troops of Mongolia, the Chinese shadow plays in the Middle East, Arab, Turkey, Egypt and other countries, and then again some countries of eastern Europe established. In Ming and Qing dynasties, the contents and forms of shadow, some new elements that must work with different types of local color.

The principles and methods of power from the shadow shadow plays a pioneering role in the invention of modern cinema and the development of film and animation. Today, the shadow puppet collected in museums, in many countries around the world now that have sent the most precious gifts from the leaders of the Chinese government for foreign counterparts.


Shadow Play

Shadow Play
To stage a shadow play, a puppeteer needs to control the movements of three or four puppets.

  • Singing Tunes

    Singing Tunes
    As shadow plays are popular all over China and in the long-time evolving process in different areas…

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    In terms of the content, shadow plays feature historical novels, folk legends, legal cases involving swordsmen, love stories…


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