Chinese Shadow Theater

Posted by Risa Harada on Jan 31st, 2010 | no comments

Chinese Shadow Theater is one important item  of Lantern Festival Overseas,

Chinese Shadow Theater is the appellation of shadow show and its personages products ( including props and sceneries) . Chinese Shadow Theater, which is simple and elegant with profound national flavour,  has the value both for appreciation and reservation.

Terminology from wikipedia

A number of terms are used to describe the different forms.

• (皮影戏, pí yĭng xì) is a shadow theatre using leather puppets. The figures are usually moved behind a thin screen and is not entirely a show of shadows as it is more of a silhouette shadow. This gives the figures some color, and is not 100% black and white.
• (纸影戏, zhĭ yĭng xì) is paper shadow theatre.
• (中國影戏, zhōng guó yĭng xì) is Chinese shadow theatre.

Chinese Shadow Theater

It is a unique artistic variety form combining folk art and drama , and also an indispensable exquisite pearl in the palace of Chinese folk art.

Wiki shadow play

more about Related Activities of Chinese Lantern Festival Overseas

Maybe you like these post

• Lanterns in Han Dynasty
• The oldest lantern poem
• Special Material Lanterns in the Lantern Festival
• What is the Lantern Displays
• Lantern Festival customs

Leave a Reply

Click here to cancel reply.