Fujian Puppetry Successor Talent Training Program
Fujian puppet show is an outstanding representative of my country's puppet performance art, with the main performance forms of string puppets and palm puppets. Since the 10th century AD, it has been widely spread in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and surrounding areas. Its exquisite performance techniques, rich traditional repertoires and musical singing, and exquisite idol modeling art have formed a complete performance system and become a performing art form cherished by local community residents. Since the 1980s, with the changes in production and lifestyle, coupled with the complexity of Fujian puppet show performance techniques, young people's willingness to learn and inherit has declined, and Fujian puppet show has lacked successors. Since 2006, relevant communities, groups and representative inheritors have formulated the "Fujian Puppet Show Successor Talent Training Plan" from 2008 to 2020 around the main goal of cultivating inheritors. In the four years since the implementation of the plan, through systematic professional training, a new generation of puppet show practitioners have been trained to improve the survival ability of Fujian puppet show; through holistic protection, potential puppet show practitioners and appreciators have been cultivated to improve the living environment of Fujian puppet show, effectively promoting the protection and inheritance of Fujian puppet show.