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    ??If we push forward the cultural monuments of Wannan Province 300 years, Yunxi City can definitely be mentioned on the table.  Why is there such praise? Let¡¯s start with the Wannan Puppet Show, which is called a ¡°unique skill¡±.

    How popular is Wannan Puppet Show?  According to unofficial records, when Emperor Qianlong celebrated his birthday, he specially invited the Wannan Puppet Troupe to the Forbidden City.  Of course, we don¡¯t know how credible the rumors are, but it is an indisputable fact that the Wannan puppet show was popular all over the country.  According to the specifications of the stage at that time, a maximum of 100 people could watch a play. This is like today's superstar tour. Only 100 tickets are sold at a time, and the content of the performance is not spread or broadcast. You can think of it with just a little effort of your cerebellum.  Puppet shows at that time were by no means something ordinary people could consume at will.

    Since the Wannan Puppet Show has followed a high-level approach from the beginning, the content of the show must also be of a very high standard. If there are only a few clich¨¦s, it will definitely not be sought after by dignitaries.

    ??Wannan Puppetry has an extremely strict set of rules from puppet production to performance.

    The puppets used in opera can be roughly divided into bag puppets, string puppets, stick puppets, and wire puppets. Each type of puppet has a different operating method, which practices the performer's skill.

    ??Wannan Puppetry also pays attention to the coordination of hands and mouth. After mastering the operating skills of various puppets, the next step is to practice the actor's mouth skills.  Guankou, local opera, dialects, ventriloquism, tongue twisters, etc. Everything you can think of is covered by Wannan Puppetry.

    Puppet show apprentices need to start learning from a master at the age of 10. They practice in the winter and in the summer for ten years. They can only go out to perform with their master at the age of 20.

    Don¡¯t think that no one cares about the puppet show in Wannan because it is so strict. At that time, if anyone could produce an apprentice in puppet show, it would be more honorable than the graduates of Peking University today.

    Chen Xilai is such a lucky person.

    Eight-year-old Chen Xilai was born into a poor peasant family. Both his parents were yamen coolies, and he could only make a living by renting land from the government all his life.  Chen Xilai has five brothers and sisters. The small rations at home can only sustain the whole family one meal a day.  Perhaps God was blessing this poor family. When a puppet troupe came to perform for the Yamen Master, the troupe leader immediately took a fancy to the clever Chen Xilai and decided to take him under his wing as his disciple.

    This pie-in-the-sky incident almost made Chen Xilai's parents cry with excitement. They exchanged half a year's rations for a rooster, put it on the incense table, and performed the apprenticeship ceremony. The newly sensible Chen Xilai  Xilai followed the master and lived a wandering life.

    The days of practicing puppetry are particularly unforgettable for Chen Xilai, and they can no longer be described as "painful".  In order to ensure that the puppet can make every action vividly, the reverse joint manipulation of the fingers is almost commonplace. The fingers are connected to the heart, and the pain inside is difficult to describe with words.

    If you just complain when playing puppets, it may be a bit premature, because for puppetry, hand skills are only the foundation of the foundation, and verbal skills are the essence.

    If you want to sing well in opera, your tongue must be flexible. Holding stones in the mouth is the best way to exercise your tongue. In order to prevent your tongue from being punctured by the stones, practitioners must stir it constantly. When the sharp-edged stones are polished, they will be rounded and smooth.  , to be considered qualified.

    After the tongue skills reach a certain level, the next step is the voice. There was no microphone at that time. During the singing process, the actor had to ensure that more than 100 people present could hear clearly, so the voice had to be loud.

    In puppet shows, the basic skill of raising one's voice is called "brightening one's voice". People at that time believed in the principle that the wider the mouth opens, the louder one's voice becomes. Therefore, one must open one's mouth before "brightening one's throat".  Lifting heavy objects is the most primitive method.

    It takes at least three years to master the basic skills, followed by the learning of various operas and singing styles. Sometimes, in order to satisfy the curiosity of the audience, puppeteers also need to have special skills, commonly known as "flower work."  After the normal repertoire is performed, if there is no "flower work" at the bottom, it is like eating without wine. It is difficult to interest the dignitaries. "Flower work" is no longer as simple as casual anti-joint movements. Sometimes it can  There are many people who have reached the level of "unique skills" and devoted their whole life to studying puppetry.

    After 11 years of inhumane training, Chen Xilai was finally able to perform on stage. After nine years of wandering around performing, he returned to his hometown and became a local puppet show master. In order to allow more poor children like him to have a future, he decided to  A sect was established in his hometown, named Chen's Puppetry.

    Chen¡¯s Puppetry has absorbed the advantages of Wannan Puppetry and made up for its shortcomings.??.  This is like an album. Some songs are catchy, while others are hard to listen to. Chen Xilai combined his many years of performance experience and basically incorporated those more popular tracks into his own name, and then he mixed them together.  Local ditties and popular rumors brought puppet shows that could only be enjoyed by dignitaries into the homes of ordinary people.

    Or it can be said that the power of the masses is huge. This innovative measure immediately achieved extraordinary results, and Chen Xilai became a famous actor who could dominate one side.

    Practicing puppetry requires physical strength, and it has always been passed down from male to female. Chen Xilai has three sons, and they have all made a living from puppetry throughout their lives.  Chen's puppet show has been brilliant for nearly a hundred years starting from Chen Xilai.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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