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Inheritance and Protection of Handmade Puppet Show

When Xinfeng's puppet show arose, there is no way to verify it. It is said that Hunan people first evolved from Han tune. With the southward migration of Hakkas, this art form spread to Xinfeng, where it took root and blossomed, and was widely welcomed by rural people. On weekdays, whoever builds a house and an auditorium will be invited to sing Little Wang Ban. Artists, on the other hand, walk from village to village, and their tricks are delivered to their doors, and their performances have not stopped for many years. At that time, artists were popular, drinking spicy food and paying attention to it, and puppet shows were also very popular. However, with the changes of the times, in the increasingly modern countryside, puppet shows have long faded out of people's sight and gradually faded out of people's sight. Tieshikou Town, Xinfeng County is a fertile soil with profound cultural heritage, and the inheritance of puppet show skills is relatively complete. Liu Hongyuan, an old man from Gao Qiao Village, Tieshikou Town, can still perform puppet shows at the age of 75, and occasionally attend the last show. It is understood that puppet artists used to be found in various towns and villages in Xinfeng, but now only a few towns and villages such as Tieshikou Town can find a few old artists, and they are all older. Young people are unwilling to study because of their hard work and poor economic benefits.

Xinfeng's puppet show practitioners are obviously lacking and aging. The lack of successors, the impact of cultural diversity and the change of young people's entertainment orientation make the puppet show face the danger of extinction. This precious traditional opera form is in urgent need of rescue and protection. In order to protect the precious intangible cultural heritage, Xinfeng County has devoted manpower and material resources to declare the puppet show as the second batch of intangible cultural heritage in Jiangxi Province since 2006. Video recording, photography, text recording and filing protection were carried out for the puppet show. Special funds were allocated to buy some equipment for the practitioners of puppet show, and they were invited to participate in folk art performances in the county. Xinfeng's puppet show should be better inherited, and its main tasks are: first, to create an environment. We should pay enough attention to this kind of Hakka culture and art, organize specialized personnel to study and protect it, increase publicity, let more people know and understand it, and list it as an important content of rural cultural development. Every major cultural event or festival, the government can pay the bill and invite puppet artists to perform for the broad masses of the people in the county or Wei town. The second is to cultivate artists. The third is innovative art, puppet shows have their traditional artistic characteristics, but innovation should be studied to meet the needs of modern cultural development. The fourth is to step up rescue.