A brief introduction to the history of Ji'nan shadow play
"shadow" is a general name for the characters of shadow play and shadow play, including scenes, props, scenes and so on. Chinese shadow art is a unique art of ingenious combination of folk arts and crafts and operas in China. The old "shadow play" is also called "shadow shadow" and "light shadow play".
shadow play originated in the Han Dynasty. Its development was in the Song Dynasty, and it has been spread to Central Asia and Southeast Asia in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, some people used to hang paintings or activities, and the paper was accompanied by the Bible. According to Sun Kaidi's "puppet show test yuan", Buddhist monks "monks chant evening scriptures, install images." "Ming Dao magazine" written by Zhang Lei wrote in the Song Dynasty: "the master of Beijing has a rich family, less solitary, special money and a group of scoundrels to be induced by a hundred parties, and this son is very nice to make a movie, and every little to cut off the feather, weep and slow down." According to Song Mengyuanlao's "Tokyo dream Hua Lu" described: "every festival day, every lane there is no room for music, set up a little shadow play shed, in order to prevent the children of this workshop to lose, in order to bring together." "The capital of the city" said: "film and play." Where the shadow play is the capital of the Beijing people, the latter is colored with leather. The telephone book is quite the same as the history book. It is true that the true and the false are half the truth, and the honest and faithful are carved with the right looks, the evil ones and the ugly faces. During the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 20 people, such as Jia Zhen, Jia Xiong, Shang Yi and Wang Runqing, who enjoyed the famous shadow artistes in Hangzhou, were described in the book "the old things of Wulin". And also recorded the shadow group - the painting society. This shows that the shadow play has become a popular drama art in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, shadow play began to play in the northwest and Persia (Iran) as an entertainment activity in the army. It is said that the shadow play in Iran was passed by China. After that, it was introduced into Arabia and other countries. Gerd, a great German poet, is a shadow puppet enthusiast. In 1774, he introduced Chinese shadow play to a German audience at an exhibition. Later, he held a shadow show to celebrate his birthday. So far, museums in Japan, the United States, France and other countries have collected Chinese shadow puppets as treasures. There are shadow art groups in many countries. In the United States, there are "the board of directors of the yuyon shadow Troupe". In the leather Museum of Offenbach, Germany, there are more than 3000 pieces of shadow play in China and other countries in the world. All the exhibits in China are excellent in the Qing Dynasty. The three Chinese shadow puppet experts who were invited to help organize and arrange the exhibition were shocked and excited. The museum also collects shadow text information. Among them is Li Fuzeng's masterpiece - the shadow play "pig Ba Jie Zhi Monkey King" script.
China's shadow art has made great contributions to enriching the treasure house of the world culture and promoting cultural and artistic exchanges among the people of all countries, and also to the invention and development of modern film art. Western drama historians once said: "China's shadow puppet is the founder of the movie."
Ji'nan shadow play, formerly called "Lanzhou cloth shadow". It is said that Hebei Luanxian Leting shadow puppet was the first in the country, commonly known as "the shadow of the world, the number of Leting". It is also called "luanzhou cloth shadow". Because of a slip of the tongue, it was called "Lanzhou cloth shadow". "Lan" is a mistake in the word "Luan". Later, it was found that the characteristics and styles of the two shadow play were very different, so in 1952 it was renamed "Shandong shadow play".
in late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shengwang, a shadow puppet artist, passed on to Li Keao. In 1917, Li Keao took the shadow play from Zou County to Ji'nan, and shadow play took root in Ji'nan.
Li Keao, who was born in Shandong, Zou County, Li Jia Lou, was born and sold a steamed bun business. Because of his love for shadow puppet art, he studied in Qufu's Zhang Shengwang. At that time, Zhang Shengwang was a lonely artist, and later in Li's disease, he said: "I eat and live in your house, I owe you a lot of accounts, my shadow (refers to the skin shadow men) left you. It's not easy to get these shadows, even if we have paid the bills. Since then, Li Keao has inherited this artistic heritage and performed in Zou County. Later, it gradually became famous. It is said that Li Keao had performed two times in the Confucius Mansion, and the Kong Fu also gave him some shadow puppet props. In 1917, because of his home disaster, his disciple Zhang Peigen moved to Ji'nan to perform a shadow play. It was performed in Ji'nan Guan Ying (the north facing the JiNan Railway Station), the stone bridge, Huang Tai, and the mouth of the Ji'nan, and then into the South Post (the west of the people's market, the Wei Jia Zhuang), the western market, the exhilaion field (the south of Baotu Spring) and other places, which gradually became popular for the audience of Ji'nan.
at the end of the 1930s, Li Keao built his own shadow theater in the people's Mall, and named the theatre "Zeng Xiang tea garden" with his son Li Fuzeng and Li Fu Xiang. In 1955, with the support of the Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of culture, a group of shadow puppets was set up. In April of the same year, Li Fuzeng and Li Fuxiang represented Shandong to attend the first puppet show and shadow puppet show in Beijing, capital of China. It was warmly welcomed by representatives of the Congress and the audience, won the excellent performance award, and was selected to the Huairen hall for the party and the state leaders to report the performance and to win honor for the shadow of Shandong's shadow.
1959, merged into group shadow puppet club and Puppet Troupe, called Ji'nan puppet shadow play troupe. Li Xingtang and Li Xingshi, the third generation of Ji'nan shadow play, inherited the art of shadow play.
because of the third generations of people, Li Xingtang and Li Xingshi, Li Xingtang and Li Xingshi were conscientious and conscientious in the art of shadow shadow, and made constant innovations. The shadow play in Ji'nan was deeply rooted, blooming, and result in the country.
in February 1967, the troupe was disbanded. Now, only Li Xingshi and Zhou Maozhu, who have been performing in the past, performed in the quyi field of the spring city of Daming Lake. With the development of the national intangible cultural heritage protection work and the good inheritance of Ji'nan's shadow culture, the Ji'nan Mass Art Museum has set up a shadow workshop in the third floor of the mass art museum, No. 100, two weft four, in Ji'nan, and the third generation inheritor, Li Xingshi, imparts to the people of Ji'nan, who likes the shadow art. Skill.