You must have seen puppet shows, but have you ever seen a stick-headed puppet show that can spit fire and change faces?
How difficult is this performance?
How is it different from a normal puppet show?
Let's experience it with Xiaoxin and see how many ways traditional puppets can play in the hands of non-genetic inheritors.
The 31-year-old Xu Ning is the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project Shaojiabanzhangtou puppet show. When he was in college in Sichuan, he accidentally came into contact with the unique skills of Sichuan Opera. After all kinds of hard work, he finally learned from a teacher.
After graduating, he returned to his hometown Zhangye, and learned puppet show performances from the elders. He innovatively combined Sichuan Opera's face-changing and fire-breathing skills with puppet show.
A puppet with a height of more than one meter and a weight of 30 pounds, from the outer clothing to the inner structure, almost all Xu Ning completed the production by himself.
The performance of the puppet spitting fire is limited by factors such as venue, environment, and wind speed, and it is not always successful, which is also its difficulty.
Within five minutes of the performance, Xu Ning was already sweating profusely.
He said that it is precisely because of love that he will try his best to persevere.
In addition to the traditional Peking Opera puppets, Xu Ning also combined the Yugur people, a unique ethnic group in Gansu, with the whole family to produce Yugur girl puppets and applied for a patent.
(Reporter Yin Chunyong Gao Ying Yan Jiao)
Responsible editor: [Li Yuxin]