Exploration on the Innovative Inheritance of Lang Zhong Shadow Puppetry Modernization

Abstract

"A piece of cowhide has pleasure, anger, sorrow, joy, and half the face show loyalty, guile, good and evil", when the light passes through the figure silhouette made from cowhide, the phenomena in the world are projected on a piece of white cloth, and the oldest "movie" in the world starts. For hundreds of years, shadow puppetry has gradually spread with the performance of folk artists everywhere, due to the different customs and habits everywhere, it has begun its own localization process, especially Wang Shadow Puppetry in northern Sichuan. However, the inheritance of traditional intangible cultural heritage in modern society has encountered bottleneck: how to keep pace with the times and pass shadow puppetry culture to the public who are embracing, especially in the "leadership" new era of the post-90s and post-00s, how to make this "emerging force" develop into the main "carrier" of this folk-art communication.