A few old voices sounded, and between the light and shadow, two shadow puppet figures appeared on the curtain. As the plot progresses, the shadow puppets move from side to side, sometimes standing and talking, sometimes colliding and fighting......
At the Intangible Cultural Heritage Comprehensive Learning Center in Xiaoyi City, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, a traditional shadow puppet show is being staged. When the performance reached the wonderful place, the audience couldn't help but applaud.
When I walked behind the curtain, I saw two hands holding the shadow puppet of the character, quickly and coherently changing their movements, and cooperating with the tacit understanding - Hou Jianchuan, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project Xiaoyi shadow puppetry, and his partner were performing. "Now we have more stages to showcase shadow puppetry, and I have brought out a lot of apprentices to pass on this traditional skill. Hou Jianchuan sighed.
There are 16 national intangible cultural heritage items in Luliang City, and 12 representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage items. In recent years, Lvliang has promoted the development of cultural inheritance through the establishment of intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls.
Xiaoyi Intangible Cultural Heritage Comprehensive Learning Center is located next to the Three Emperors Temple in Jiajiazhuang Village, Xiaoyi City. This quaint two-story courtyard is known as the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Courtyard", and has set up art workshops of different categories of intangible cultural heritage to carry out rich activities such as intangible cultural heritage project displays, exhibitions, performances, and exhibitions.
In the intangible cultural heritage exhibition hall in the small courtyard, the three representative intangible cultural heritage items of filial piety are displayed - shadow puppetry, puppet show, and bowl and bowl cavity. Exquisite shadow puppets, three-dimensional and vivid puppets, with old photos, display panels and music, let people feel the local traditional culture.
Walking into the intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting workshop on the first floor of the small courtyard, Wang Aihong, a paper-cutting craftsman, picked up a piece of red paper casually, and after a few folds, he cut it smoothly. After a while, a delicate and vivid butterfly appeared in his hand. "You see these paper-cuts in my house, there are zodiac signs and folk tales themes, and they can be made into ornaments after being framed, and there are many people who buy them. Wang Aihong said.
In other art centers, some craftsmen are making shadow puppets with carving knives, some are making puppets, and some are busy painting. "Many of these craftsmen are inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and they are engaged in artistic creation here every day. Their studio is also a vivid intangible cultural heritage display room, which not only enriches the visiting experience of tourists, but also generates economic benefits. Hu Xumei, chief of the public service section of the Luliang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, said.
"For the protection of intangible cultural heritage, we have set up special working institutions, as well as national intangible cultural heritage project protection units such as the Wanwancao Theater Troupe and the Shadow Puppet Troupe, and established and improved the inheritance and protection model of projects, inheritors, bases and protection units. Lvliang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism Director Lv Wenping introduced, Lvliang City also actively carry out the adoption of cultural relics, and actively guide the mobilization of social forces to participate in the protection of cultural relics, the city has completed a total of 156 cultural relics adoption tasks.