The familiar classroom of Erxue 301 is extremely lively today. At 19:30, w88 casino’s shadow puppet club presented a wonderful shadow puppet performance: "Mr. Dongguo and the Wolf" and "Butterfly Lovers".
Teacher Chen from the Youth League Committee and Teacher Pan from the China Shadow Puppet Network were also present to help the fun. Teacher Pan showed great interest and support for the shadow puppet activities of college students and gave high praise.
The scene was set up early, with a white cloth as the stage, microphones, speakers, and various shadow puppet characters and shadow puppet scenes. The students were very interested in this ancient Chinese art form and curiously looked at the various props and posters at the scene.
The lights were turned off at the beginning of the performance, and each character appeared one after another with lifelike movements as the plot developed, attracting bursts of applause. They gave the old story new content, added many realistic and humorous elements to the plot, and coupled with the students' skilled acting skills, the whole performance was quite successful.
The two plays were finished quickly, and the students were still playing with the shadow puppets.
Poster at the door of 301
Shadow Puppet "Butterfly Lovers"
Working background
The two-dimensional puppets and scene props and scenery in shadow puppet shows are usually leather products made by hand, knife carving and painting by folk artists, so they are called shadow puppets. Shadow puppet performances require skill and singing skills. During the performance, the artists have the ability to control the shadow puppets, musical accompaniment and narration and singing at the same time. The martial arts scene is intense, with the shadow figures swinging guns and swords, tumbling up and down, and it is very lively. The music and singing in Wenchang are full of melodies, beautiful and beautiful. It can be passionate or touching, joyful or sad, full of emotion and emotion, and touching the heartstrings. Shadow puppet scripts are usually carefully processed by veteran artists based on legends.
The Shadow Puppet Club was initiated by the Humanities Society of the w88 casino. It was established in June 2003 under the guidance of teachers Pan Tieli and Peng Lanzhen of the China Shadow Puppet Network. It currently has more than 30 members. We are the first shadow puppet troupe among universities in Beijing and even across the country. In the past two years, we have trained two groups of members. We systematically studied and initially mastered the production process of shadow puppetry. From character design, character production to screenwriting, drama rehearsal and live performance, I have accumulated rich experience.
They also had a brief discussion with teachers on how to promote the art of shadow puppetry, and believed that only by reforming and developing it to adapt to contemporary society and people's lives can its problems be fundamentally solved. So we made full use of the characteristics of college students who love to think and are good at learning, and "processed" the shadow puppetry. In terms of character production, while highlighting the characteristics of traditional shadow puppet characters, improvements were also made to incorporate cartoon elements to make it easier for students to accept it. The dubbing is also inspired by musicals, boldly using popular songs as lyrics or background music to make it vivid.
