A Comparative Study of Rural Folk Traditions of China: Traditional Puppet Plays of the Zhoushan islands and Cangnan Prefecture

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I visited Cangnan prefecture, Taishun prefecture and Zhoushan islands, in China,in order to video tape the performance of the traditional hand puppet play YueTangYanYi, the life of GuoZiYi, a great general of Tang Dynasty. A puppet play in these places is played by one puppeteer alone. He manipulates puppets and narrates and plays musical instruments simultaneously. Although a puppeteer is usually focuses on his narration, he does not dedicate himself to manipulation. Puppets often stuck on the stage frame. I think it shows clearly that these puppet plays originate in the traditional narrative history in China.