Luannan County is located in the southeast of Tangshan City and is under the jurisdiction of Tangshan City. The shadow play in the area is one of the local folk operas in Luannan County. It was originally called Luanzhou shadow play, commonly known as donkey 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 shadow play occupies a prominent position in the national shadow play, mainly distributed in Tangshan and Qinhuangdao areas, and has a great influence at home and abroad. It is said in the shadow industry that Huang Suzhi, a native of Luanzhou, was a poor student with many talents. In order to vent his grievances and suppress evil and promote good, he carved shadow figures and wrote shadow scrolls by himself. Later, he went to the northeast to study, and then brought shadow play back to his hometown, forming Luanzhou shadow play. 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 play occupies 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 play was created in response to the needs of the times. It has important historical research value for studying the development of national folk art, performance environment, performance form, artistic causes, and social environment and humanistic environment 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 and orderly, sustained and rapid development of the county economy, and building a socialist spiritual civilization. Information source: Hebei Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Hebei Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center