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XuetangX

Shadow Play—Seeking the Lost Shadow of China(皮影戏)

South-Central University for Nationalities via XuetangX

Overview

 Chinese shadow play is a form of folk drama with a long history and cultural connotation. It embodies the essence of the traditional Chinese modeling and performing arts, and is an important representative of the oral and intangible cultural heritage of human beings. It is rooted in the deep soil of Chinese traditional culture. To learn this course, students need to have a strong interest in Chinese traditional culture and Chinese shadow play, and to experience the legend of light and shadow in the world.

 In recent years, due to the aging of the inheritors and the shrinking of the market, this skill is facing great development difficulties and bottlenecks. For the sake of inheriting traditional culture, the course classifies Sheng, dan , jing and chou, so that students can understand and master the plastic art of traditional shadow play. From theme creation, role modeling to stage performance, it can improve students' aesthetic ability of modeling and cultivate their humanistic quality of excellent traditional culture.

    The existence of shadow puppets used to be just an entertainment activity for people, but today, we take the shadow puppets workshop as the carrier to learn and spread the traditional culture. We will bring the skills left by our ancestors to make the artistic flowers containing the excellent culture of China open more and more colorful, and blossom the endless cultural charm.



Syllabus

  • Chapter 1: Meeting shadow play
    • Chapter 2: Introducing shadow play workshop
      • Chapter 3: Endemic shadow plays
        • Chapter 4: Crafting shadow play
          • Chapter 5: Shadow play character design: Sheng
            • Chapter 6: Shadow play character design: Dan
              • Chapter 7: Shadow play character design: Jing
                • Chapter 8: Shadow play character design: Chou
                  • Course questions

                    Taught by

                    Jun Pan

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