Luanzhou Shadow Play (selected into the second batch of Tangshan City Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2011) Luanzhou Shadow Play is a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese culture. It has had an important influence on the creation and development of many modern arts. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Luanzhou Shadow Play was first created by Huang Suzhi, a scholar from Ange Village in Luanzhou. It has been more than 300 years. It was the spiritual home of the ancestors of Luanzhou, giving people infinite joy and comfort, hope and longing. Donkey skin can be used to make puppets without knowledge, and the actors behind the scenes sing about the world. Luanzhou shadow puppetry was once popular throughout the country and the world for its melodious and unique singing, touching storylines, exquisite shadow puppet carving, and superb manipulation skills. It has left mankind with eternal artistic beauty! Luanzhou shadow puppetry is "carved into figures with thin and transparent donkey skin, and paper windows are placed on the stage at night. With the help of light, the figures are vivid and lifelike, so it is called shadow play". Luanzhou shadow puppetry divides shadow figures into eight types: Shengjiao, Danjiao, Ranjiao, Jingjiao, Mojiao, Dajiao, Choujiao, and gods, demons, and immortals. The board style of Luanzhou shadow puppetry is divided into three types: Daban, Erban and Sanxingban. People pay attention to "board" and "eye" when singing or playing music, and even praise people for their clear and orderly reasoning and narration, calling it "board" and "eye". The accompaniment instruments of Luanzhou shadow puppetry mainly include Sihu, Sanxian, Daban, Benggu, hand gong, wooden fish, cymbals, etc. The shadow figures are carved from donkey skin. The shapes of the shadow figures are simple, naive, exaggerated, and general. The lines are smooth and flowing, the structure is rigorous, and the decoration is rich. The workmanship is exquisite and exquisite, and the colors are bright and simple. The shadow figures carved by the old artists Di Fengge and Zhen Fengyun in Luan County are unique. The new shadow figure "Three Beats of the White Bone Spirit" carved by Zhen Fengyun was introduced to the United States by the Chinese American Qin Zhenan. Most of the scripts are traditional plays, ranging from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, to the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and the Republic of China, as well as mythological stories. The themes are wide-ranging and the content is rich, which is popular among the people. Some consecutive scripts are performed for dozens of consecutive nights, and a single excerpt is performed only for one night. Squeezing the throat singing method: its deformed timbre and simple shape and the round, pure, and lingering timbre of the accompaniment music (especially the four-stringed fiddle) achieve harmony in artistic conception, giving the shadow play a unique charm and giving people a pleasing feeling. The recitations, lines and counting boards in the script are sung in the Luanxian dialect, which has a strong local flavor. There is no yinping tune in the Luanxian dialect, and the first and second tones are all flat tones. Luanzhou shadow puppetry is a product of the historical and cultural era. It has important historical research value for studying the development of national and folk shadow play art, the performance environment, performance form and the social environment of various historical periods. Luanzhou shadow puppetry has a wide variety of repertoires and beautiful singing music. Each profession has an independent singing system with strong expressiveness and high artistic research value. The excavation, rescue, protection and development of Luanzhou shadow puppetry will drive and promote the promotion of Chinese shadow play art, and will have a certain driving effect on enriching and improving Chinese shadow play music. Information source: Tangshan Municipal People's Government Information source: Tangshan Municipal People's Government