写皮影戏的英语作文

篇一：皮影 英文介绍

Shadow play (Chinese: 皮影戏, pí y?ng xì) or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. It is popular in various cultures. At present, more than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes.

Shadow puppets have a long history in Indonesia, China, India, Turkey, and as a popular form of entertainment for both children and adults in many countries around the world. A shadow puppet is a cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen. Translucent color is sometimes introduced into the cut-out shapes to provide a different look and different effects can be achieved by moving both the puppet and the light source. A talented puppeteer can make the figures walk, dance, fight, nod and laugh.

Shadow puppetry originated during the when one of the of of Han died from an illness. The emperor was devastated, and he summoned his court officers to bring his beloved back to life. The

officers made a shape of the concubine using donkey leather. Her joints were animated using 11 separate pieces of the leather, and adorned with painted clothes. Using an oil lamp they made her shadow move, bringing her back to life.[1][2] Shadow theatre became quite popular as early as the when holidays were marked by the presentation of many shadow plays. During the there were 40 to 50 shadow show in the city of alone. In the 13th century, the shadow show became a regular recreation in the barracks of the Mongolian troops. It was spread by the conquering Mongols to distant countries like Persia, Arabia, and Turkey. Later, it was introduced to other Southeastern Asian countries. The earliest shadow theatre screens were made of . The storytellers generally used the art to tell events between various war kingdoms or stories of Buddhist sources.[1] Today, puppets made of leather and moved on sticks are used to tell dramatic versions of traditional fairy tales and myths. In province, it is accompanied by music, while in Jilin, accompanying Huanglong music forms some of the basis of modern opera

篇二：皮影戏shadow play英文介绍 Introduction of shadow play

Shadow play (Chinese: 皮影戏, pí y?ng xì) or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque,

often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. Shadow play is a popular folk drama in ancient China, and it is the ancestor of world films. At that time, it brought people pleasure as modern movies and TVs do. In modern society, it’s very difficult to find the mysterious drama again.

What is shadow play then?

Shadow play is one of the oldest operas in China. It rooted in ancient Chang’an over2000 years ago, and prevailed in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. Shadow play is also called light shadow play, it’s a kind of national drama in China which performs stories by lighting silhouettes of dramatis personae made of beast hides or chipboards. Actors sing attended by music, and control shadow tools at the same time. The contents of those plays are more about traditional historical drama and fable stories. It combines some characters of drama, music and paintings, and is an integration of literators’ writing, handicraftsmen’s carving and painting, and folk singing. It’s delightful, abundant, suiting both refined and popular tastes, and contains rich culture and art resources. Shadow play is the treasure in the world culture and art family

Working procedure of shadow images making

A shadow image made with beast hide of high quality by 24 working procedures such as scraping, grinding, milling, washing, craving, coloring up and so on, and more than 3000 handcrafted sculpts.

The main procedures to make a shadow image:

Selecting materials: select well-qualified hide and make a translucent hide through dunking, scraping, and polishing.

Engraving: draw and sculpt various characters, properties, landscapes, birds and beasts.

Painting: after engraving, painting is begun. Paint is usually made by craftsmen themselves. They make bright red, green and apricot with local materials from local mine and vegetable. The painting is very flowery.

Dehydration: dry planished hide though scalding and baking. The paint is impressed into the hide with high-temperature.

Sewing: an integrated shadow image character is often made of 11 parts which are head, chest, abdomen, two legs, two elbow, and two hands. The handicraftsmen sculpt the link like turntable and they call it “bone eye”. This is a key step because the determination of “bone eye” is very related to the aesthetic feeling of shadow persona sculpts. The proper determination will make them very mettlesome. Otherwise, they will look like deadly

persons. (After all these procedures, the shadow images will be furnished with 3 bamboo sticks which are called prod. One stick is on the chest and the other two are located on the two hands. Then, the shadow images can be operated to various poses such as running, standing, sitting, lying, reclining, rolling, creeping and fighting by the handicraftsmen.) 篇三：皮影 雕刻技法英文版

Chapter Two ：THE TANGSHAN SHADOWPUPPET’S MODELING Tangshan shadow puppet ‘s modeling own the typical Traditional style . It is an important part in China Shadow Puppet . AS the playing shadow puppet’s stage property , there are five classes : The person , the animal ,the traffic tool , the furnishing, the view The person

Artist design it refer the true people , given it a head, a human body ,a waist , two legs ,two big arm s, two small arms ,two hands . But all of them are flank two you . Because it will act the story with other shadow puppet on the screen , the screen is flat ,not solid . When they talked something ,they must face to face . Because of the flat screen ‘s limit , they can’t stand afterwards each other , or the people before the flat screen can’t see them well . If you will feel sad about this limit , not at all . Just as this

limit , become it’s characteristic : many angles perspective on one part . It is not arbitrary , but has it’s rule . The head ‘s perspective include five : the half side on the face , the look up perspective on the down hat , the look down perspective on the top hat , the 70 per cent bevel perspective on the back hat ,the whole perspective on the eyes . For the human body , is usually half side perspective. For the waist , the perspective is about 70 per cent bevel perspective . The same as the waist , the legs are also 70 per cent bevel perspective .So you can the two legs at the same time for the person .

The artist try his best to express the shadow puppet ‘s info on the side body as many as he can. So the shadow puppet ‘s modeling become this .

The old shadow puppet‘s modeling like the ‘Suo na’ ,just like this image . The animal

Most of the animal’s modeling as the true animal . The moveable arthrosis are only the limbes and the mouth . In fact many of the arthrosises don’t be control when it is on the screen . It is only the metaphor . But if the leading role , the moveable artrosises are so exquisitely . Maybe that is why we called it is the art. The animal’s perspective is also many angles perspectives . the

face is 70 per cent bevel perspective .the body is the half side. The traffic tool

The traffic tool ‘s modeling design on the basis of the plot of the a play . If act the ancient times story ,the traffic tool must be the carriage . Can’t used the car . All of the wheel can’t be control . Because it is not important . The furnishing

I don’t know there are many perspectives in west country . Because we only learn the geometry perspective in middle school . My opinion change after meet Annie , she tell me there are many kinds perspectives for an object . Thanks for her . The furnishing include the desk ,the chair ,the tea table , the bed , one desk need two chairs to form the complete set . If the desk make of stone , it is used by celestial being or monster . The view

Such as the mountain , the tree , the stone , the house , etc.