Luanzhou Donkey Leather Shadow Play (selected into the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list of Hebei Province in 2009) Shadow play in Luannan County is one of the local folk operas in Luannan County. It was originally called Luanzhou Shadow Play, commonly known as Donkey Leather Shadow Play. It is a branch of Chinese shadow play, with unique singing and manipulation skills, and making shadow figures is a kind of carving art. Luanzhou Donkey Leather Shadow Play was created in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The founder is Huang Suzhi. The shadow play in the middle and late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China is the same as the current shadow play. It is the authentic Luanzhou shadow play, also known as Lao Tieer Shadow Play. It spread in the Tang and Qin areas and spread throughout Luannan. In the 1930s, Luannan shadow play artists Zhang Shengwu, Zhang Zhanke and others pushed shadow play to 0, recorded a large number of records, and spread overseas. From the middle and late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, many shadow puppet troupes were active in Luannan, including Yang Jiurong's shadow puppet troupe in Baigezhuang, Zheng Dianyuan's troupe in Donghuangtuo, Chen Wenli's troupe in Xixinzhuang, Chen Wenzhi's troupe in Xixinzhuang, Wang Hongyue's troupe in Xichengzi, Baigezhuang, Gao Zhipeng's troupe in Xiqiao, Hou Laozhong's troupe in Dongshawo, Wang Ershun's troupe in Wangdongzhuang, Xia Jia's troupe in Duanhuozhuang, Ma Guoming's troupe in Youpanzhuang, and Hu's shadow puppet troupe in Dingzhuang. During the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, shadow puppet troupes played an important role in propaganda and education. After the founding of New China, other troupes such as Luannan County Experimental Shadow Puppet Club were reestablished. After the reform and opening up, some shadow puppet artists in Luannan County also formed shadow puppet troupes, including Wang Baohuan Shadow Puppet Club, Jia Xiangmin Shadow Puppet Club, Old Cadre Shadow Puppet Team, Wang Shaoyuan Shadow Puppet Team, and Luannan County Folk Shadow Puppet Troupe. The Luannan Shadow Puppet Troupe, which once performed in Portugal, is still active in the Jingdong area, performing about 300 shows a year and is very popular. There are four characteristics of Luanzhou shadow play that are different from other shadow plays: first, the shadow puppets are carved with donkey skin, which has unique manipulation skills; second, they sing in Luanyue dialect (there are more Leting accents and fewer Luanzhou accents), and the language is easy to understand; third, the throat pinching singing method; fourth, there are unique singing styles, such as Zhang Shengwu's "Ha" style. Luanzhou donkey skin shadow plays an important position in Luannan culture. It is an excellent traditional culture of Luannan, condenses the history of Luannan cultural development, and is the heritage of Luannan regional culture. Luanzhou shadow plays were created in response to the needs of the times. They have important historical research value for studying the development of national folk art, performance environment, performance form, artistic causes, and social and humanistic environments in various historical periods; studying the cyclical law of "formation, development, prosperity, landslide, silence and recovery" in the development of shadow play, and exploring measures to keep folk operas young, prosperous and prosperous; exploring the strong aesthetic value of local languages, and discussing effective ways and measures to protect and inherit, which has academic value. Protecting Luanzhou donkey leather shadow art and maintaining the inseparable deep feelings between excellent traditional culture and the people is an important mass cultural work, which can play an important role in building a harmonious culture and a harmonious society, prospering cultural undertakings, promoting social development and progress, promoting the healthy, orderly, sustainable and rapid development of the county economy, and building a socialist spiritual civilization. It has practical value.