What are the characteristics of shadow play?

The artistic characteristics of shadow play: the characters are big in head and small in body, narrow in body and wide in bottom, with their arms above their knees. Facial images are generally positive except for three-quarters and a half sides of individual clowns and ghosts.

Shadow play focuses on the performance effect, because all parts of the characters in the shadow play can move, and the melodious singing makes it have strong local characteristics and folk flavor. There are many plays in Longdong shadow play. In the picture, Luo Tong swept the north for the romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. The characters and props are carefully carved, so the actions and plots when you perform will be fascinating.

Inheritance and development

Traditional shadow play has inevitable limitations in many aspects. This is the biggest obstacle for it to adapt to today's fast-paced society.

1, the shadow play is beautifully produced, and the ingenious color modeling has fascinated countless artists, but it has brought great difficulty to its production. The production of a filmmaker includes more than ten processes such as tanning, drawing, carving and coloring. These complicated processes are enough for a craftsman to spend weeks, not including the possibility that it can't be modified because of any small mistakes during this period.

2. The preservation of finished products is also a difficult problem. Long-term exposure to the sun will make the pigment fade, and the damp-heat change of temperature will also cause the deformation of shadow play. This is undoubtedly a fatal weakness for industrialized societies that emphasize mass production.

For a long time in the past, shadow play basically appeared in the form of performance, all for entertainment purposes. In today's era of diversified entertainment life, the charm aura of shadow play is gradually fading, which can only be seen on these special occasions.

With the progress of society, people's material living standards are constantly improving, and their aesthetic level is also gradually improving. Therefore, everyone uses more exquisite carving techniques to express the roles and characters in the previous shadow play.