Brief introduction to the content of Chinese shadow play

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Shadow play is a kind of folk drama, which uses lights to illuminate the silhouette of people made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories. When performing, usually three to five artists are behind the white curtain, manipulating opera characters, and singing stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and strings.

Chinese shadow play has a long history. More than two thousand years ago, Li Furen, the beloved princess of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, died of illness. Emperor Wu missed him so much that he was in a trance all day and ignored the state affairs. Li Shaoweng, a warlock, went out one day. The children in Lu Yu You Yue are playing with dolls in their hands, and their shadows are vivid on the ground. Li Shaoweng's heart moved. He carved the image of Li Furen with cotton and silk, colored it, and put wooden poles on his hands and feet. In the evening, change the curtain above, light candles, and respectfully invite Emperor Wu to sit in his tent and watch. Emperor Wu was very happy when he saw it. This love story in Hanshu is regarded as the earliest origin of shadow play.

To perform shadow play, we must first do it well. The production process is as follows: firstly, the hair and blood of sheepskin, donkey skin or other animal skins are cleaned, and the leather is thinned and translucent after drug treatment, and then tung oil is applied, and then the leather is carved into the required characters. Head, limbs, trunk, etc. The leather man's is independent, but it is connected into a whole with lines, and the actor manipulates it with bars to move it.

Leather people are painted in various colors to express the good, evil, beauty and ugliness of the characters. There is also a certain emphasis on painting. Women's hair accessories and costumes are mostly designed with patterns such as phoenix, flowers, grass and clouds, while men are mainly designed with patterns such as dragon, tiger, water and clouds. Like dramatic characters, characters are full of life, beauty, purity and ugliness. The height of shadow play is 55 cm, and the height is only about 10 cm.

During the performance of shadow play, three or five artists manipulated opera characters behind the white curtain, singing stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion and strings. When performing folk myths, martial arts and ancient stories, the characters can walk in clouds and make all kinds of difficult movements. This is difficult for other plays to do, so it is very popular with the audience. Shadow play was very popular in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, there were forty or fifty shadow play classes in Beijing.

Shadow play is a kind of performance form that combines drama, music and other artistic expressions. It has a long history and is one of the earliest traditional arts in China.

In the13rd century, there was also a shadow play performance in the Mongolian military camp at that time, and it was later taken to Persia, Turkey and other countries with the army. Then spread in southeast Asian countries. Chinese shadow play was introduced to Europe in the middle of18th century. 1767, French missionaries brought it back to France and performed in Paris and Marseille. It was called "China Lantern Shadow" and caused a sensation. After being transformed by the French, it became a "French lamp shadow". Chinese shadow play has made a unique contribution to enriching world art. (Selected from Reading for Middle School Students, No.2, 2007, deleted)

9. After pointing out the essential characteristics of shadow play, the article introduces the emergence and wide spread of Chinese shadow play in turn. (2 points)

10. The article quotes the love story recorded in Hanshu, which has two functions: one is, the other is. (4 points)

1 1. Read the underlined sentences in the text and talk about the reason why the added word "one" cannot be deleted. (2 points)

12. xiaoyi city shadow play is an important branch of Chinese shadow play. Combined with the above contents, read the following links and summarize the characteristics of Xiaoyi Shadow Play. (3 points)

Material 1: According to experts' research, Xiaoyi Shadow Play originated in the Warring States Period.

Material 2: 1995, the image of the military commander in Xiaoyi shadow play is recognized as a stamp pattern by the people all over the country.

Material 3: There are many plays of Xiaoyi Shadow Play, and now there are 200 Yu Ben in the collection.

The characteristics of xiaoyi shadow play:.

9 A long history of shadow play performance

10 shows that Chinese shadow play has a long history, and the second is to enhance the interest of the article.

1 1 There are many traditional arts in China spread abroad, so it is absolute to remove the "one" and the expression is inaccurate.

12 has a long history, wide influence and rich repertoire.