皮影戏的英文介绍

公选课《中国文化概况》课程作业

学生所在院系及专业经济学系经济学

Traditional folk art- Shadow play

Shadow play is called “yingzixi”or”dengyingxi”.It is a kind of characters

silhouette that made of hide or cardboard.It acting in the light irradiation with

every bright cloth. It is one of the puppet play civil widely circulated in the

folk.

When acting ,the artists behind the white curtain.Artists control opera

characters, while the local popular tunes sing above story, and at the same time,

match with percussion and string, a strong local flavor.In the henan province

and shanxi province village ,shadow play is popular.

Shadow play is ancient Chinese traditional folk art. The Peking called

“lvpiying”.For thousand years,the art with the first people from generation to

generation,they have a good time.Shadow not only belongs to the puppet art, or

a real handicraft. Shadow production is very exquisite.By the external

environment and hide the differences between the material quality of a material,

such as a variety of factors.So the style of shadow play is different.

In the dynasty of yuan,shadow play spread to many foreign country. Many

foreigner were addicted to this art.They called it “chinese yindeng”

Genially.

Shadow play in the different area have different style.Now I introduce Hubei shadow play.Hubei shadow play classify into “menshenpu(big shadow play)”and “weipu(small shadow play)”Menshenpu mainly concentrated in the jianghan plain.Weipu mainly distribute in the north and west of hubei province.The style of hubei shadow play is similar to shanyu shadow play. It is the result of the communicate in culture among the three place.

Jianghan plain belong to chuhan area.Chu culture is rich,which have prepared for the development of shadow play.Jianghan plain shadow play of singing with song cavity and YuGu cavity.As for song cavity. Jiming cavity heads from,it is the“living fossil”for the chinese traditional music.Yugu cavity from the old artist cover begging,has the strong flavor of rural life.

With the development of the modern culture and the old artist have die,Jianghan plain shadow has started to die out.The essence of art need the latter to inheritance.

Our country attaches importance to the protect of intangible cultural heritage. In 2006 shadow play was entering the world human non-material cultural heritage list of masterpiece .In 2011,shadow play has achieved the goal in apply for the world human intangible cultural heritage.