Shadow Play

When darkness closes in on the earth, the drumbeats ring out, thenacts of life
tragicomedy were played out under the dim light, either brandished swords and
spears to fight, stamped ones foot and beated ones breast in expression of
regret; or speeded across the sky like a god who mounted the clouds and rode
the wist danced trippingly, all with out exception were remarkably true to life.
The figures either were napped and soundly sleeping, or wielded writing brush
and life-like. Musiclamplight\supporting singer\aside, what a busy place!
Kiosks and towers \carriages and horses\flags! Personality and identity, which
each has his own merits. Ss it is said, One mouth can sing the drama through
the ages, Two hands dance out the spectacle of million soldiers, Shadow Play
is actually the originator of film and TV field.The great poet Johann wolfgang
von Goethe honored it as The living fossil of the world film; the ancestor of
the world film; the ancestor of film.

Chinese Shadow Play, with the local name of Shadow Drama,use leatheror
donkey skin to nitrate*coloured drawing and connect stitch by stitch. The main
mould-making of this handicraft inherits and integrates smoothly the
magnificence of Han Painting, the exquisiteness and realism of Song academic
painting, the decorative lines of Folk Paper Cuts, the Idea performance of Folks
Painting, and the effect of scatter point clairvoyant of Chinese Painting. Its
lines are neat and plump, and its color is resplendent. Shadow Play began in Qin
Dynasty, formed in Han Dynasty, prospered in Song Dynasty and thrived in the
ascendant in Ming and Qing Dynasty.

Shadow play is one of the oldest play method, which have more than 1000 years' history. No matter European or America loves it.