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Chinese Shadow Play
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Scott No: 2571-74
Serial number: 1995-9
Values in set: 4
Date of issue: June 8, 1995
Designers: Wang Huming; Yan Bingwu
Size: 31*52mm
Perforation: 12
Sheet composition: 40
Printing process: offset
Scott No: 2571-74
Serial number: 1995-9
Values in set: 4
Date of issue: June 8, 1995
Designers: Wang Huming; Yan Bingwu
Size: 31*52mm
Perforation: 12
Sheet composition: 40
Printing process: offset
 SN: (4-1) Title: Leather-silhouette Figure in Donglu, Shanxi Values: 20 fen Size: 31*52mm Type: T(Mint) | |
| SN: (4-2) Title: Leather-silhouette Figure in Luan county, Hebei Values: 40 fen Size: 31*52mm Type: T(Mint) | |
| SN: (4-3) Title: Leather-silhouette Figure in Xiaoyi, Shanxi Values: 50 fen Size: 31*52mm Type: T(Mint) | |
| SN: (4-4) Title: Leather-silhouette Figure in Dayi, Sichuan Values: 50 fen Size: 31*52mm Type: T(Mint) |
Background info
The Chinese shadow play is a kind of puppet show as well as an ancient Chinese play. It is said that the play stated in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), becoming popular in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and spreading across the country in the Late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The "figures" on performance are made of donkey skin, oxhide and sheep skin. After tanning and flattening, the skins will be carved, colored, ironed flat and bound into different shapes, which are controlled and played on the screen by artists through lights. Accompanied with music and singing, they become very interesting artistic images, which can "tell stories of hundreds of dynasties" and directed millions of soldiers by hands". The Chinese shadow play has close ties with other Chinese arts. It is a flat carving art, which is similar to the folk paper-cutting. From the modeling of figures, stage property, horses and carts and buildings of the shadow play, it is similar to the figures of local operas. The figure of a shadow play can be carved only from the front side. And the modeling of the shadow play stesses on empty instead of solid, forming a contrast between the empty and solid and projecting the image.
The shadow play spreads widely among the Chinese and is different from place to place, habits and aesthetic standards. The shadow play can be classified into Donglu and Xilu in Shanxi and Sichuan, Longdong and Longxi in Gansu, and Dingcheng and Xicheng in Beijing.
The Chinese shadow play is a kind of puppet show as well as an ancient Chinese play. It is said that the play stated in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), becoming popular in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and spreading across the country in the Late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The "figures" on performance are made of donkey skin, oxhide and sheep skin. After tanning and flattening, the skins will be carved, colored, ironed flat and bound into different shapes, which are controlled and played on the screen by artists through lights. Accompanied with music and singing, they become very interesting artistic images, which can "tell stories of hundreds of dynasties" and directed millions of soldiers by hands". The Chinese shadow play has close ties with other Chinese arts. It is a flat carving art, which is similar to the folk paper-cutting. From the modeling of figures, stage property, horses and carts and buildings of the shadow play, it is similar to the figures of local operas. The figure of a shadow play can be carved only from the front side. And the modeling of the shadow play stesses on empty instead of solid, forming a contrast between the empty and solid and projecting the image.
The shadow play spreads widely among the Chinese and is different from place to place, habits and aesthetic standards. The shadow play can be classified into Donglu and Xilu in Shanxi and Sichuan, Longdong and Longxi in Gansu, and Dingcheng and Xicheng in Beijing.
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