Recently, in the Cangnan County Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, the county Intangible Cultural Heritage Center held a puppet show parent-child experience activity. This activity invited Hu Yunzao, the leader of the new art puppet show, to give a different and interesting puppet class to the 12 participants in the way of “lecture + interaction”, and also guided the children and parents how to manipulate various puppets.
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At the event, Hu Yunzao taught the puppet types and their manipulation techniques, the puppet roles and their performance characteristics, the puppet materials, the performance techniques, as well as the history, culture, current status and future development prospects of cangnan County puppet show. The teacher introduced the knowledge of puppet art in a relaxed and humorous way, which won a burst of applause and laughter.
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During the teaching process, the teacher invited the children to come on stage to try to experience the operation. Under the careful guidance of the teacher, friends of both big and small controlled the role of the puppet, feeling the cultural charm of the intangible cultural heritage puppet show.”Marionette, looking simple, the actual operation is quite difficult, very test of arm strength.”Said one participating parent.
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Puppet show, also known as “puppet show”, uses the puppet by actors to perform the story, and singing in Minnan language is the characteristic of Cangnan puppet show. Cangnan puppet show has a long history. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, its heyday was followed to the early period of the People’s Republic of China, when there were puppet troupes in almost every village in Cangnan. Before the play accidentally is a short line, now changed to a long line, each play accidentally generally has 8 lines, important roles as many as 28 above, play up lifelike. In 2012, it was listed in the fourth batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage in Zhejiang Province.