The doll is not yet -the representative inheritor Wu Xing, the representative inheritance of the visiting Xiaoyi Puppet show

Teacher Wu Xing performing puppet shows (data pictures).

With the loud gongs and drums of "— 锵 — 锵” ", the 72 -year -old teacher Wu Xing was shaking and entrusted with the heavy puppets to enter the field. Emotional. Originally, I was at home because of physical discomfort, but learned that it was an interview related to the puppet inheritance. The 72 -year -old teacher Wu Xing rushed to the interview site early.

As a native of filial piety, Wu Xing and the puppet have been associated for more than 50 years. His life and puppets have long been integrated. He passed all his joy and sorrow to the puppets between his palms. Compassion and puppet "resurrection", the sorrow and joy in the story are performed vividly ...

Emotional puppets give up

"No one likes him like him, and he loves the puppet so dedicated and obsessed. He is a puppet show for a lifetime!" Liang Zhizhu, director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Xiaoyi City, said with emotion. Entering the Xiaoyi Cultural Museum, this is simply a puppet base camp. The puppets wearing gorgeous costumes are different and lifelike. These works are from the hands of Teacher Wu Xing. Pen's hard work.

Wu Xing has been studying the puppet shadow performance since he was 10 years old, and later was admitted to the Wooden Puppet Troupe of Xiaoyi City. He witnessed the process of Xiaoyi puppet from red fire to deserted silence.

In 1956, Xiaoyi Shadow Puppet Art Troupe was established. In 1975, the transplanting modern drama "Prairie Red Flower" participated in the national show and rehearsed a large number of excellent repertoires. In 1989, Xiaoyi Wooden Puppets went to the UK for external exchanges; in 1997, participated in "Hero Out of Juvenile", "The Legend of the Grand" Wait for the shooting of the puppet TV series; in June 2002, the special repertoire "Huaguo Mountain", "Long Sleeve Dance" and "Crazy Guitarist" participated in the "World Cup" football celebration literary activity -South Korea Datian International Puppet Art Festival.

In 2008, Xiaoyi Wooden Puppet show was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects. Wu Xing, head of the puppet art troupe, was identified by the Ministry of Culture as a representative inheritor of the Innocean Cultural Heritage Sixi Puppet Project. In 2010, Wu Xing, who retired from Xiaoyi Yingying Puppet Art Troupe, established a puppet shadow performance team with a friend's funding. At that time, the team students were children who just graduated from art colleges. Wu Xing and her lover who was also obsessed with Mu Dai played the students. Starting from the basic skills, until the children can perform on stage, the couple have paid a lot of effort for this. Wu Xing took the children to CCTV, to the World Expo ... won countless honors. Unfortunately, in 2012, the team was forced to dissolve for some objective reasons.

As the age gets older, Wu Xing is more aware of the urgency of inheriting the puppet show. Today, he will polish the puppets in the studio when he is free and pour all emotions on them. If he has the opportunity to perform on stage, he has never spared no effort. On the podium, Mr. Wu Xing always held a photo with the puppet with the guests with both hands, so that Xiaoyi Mu Puppet received more and wider attention.

Difficult to adhere to the square inch stage

Entering the studio of Wuxing, the reporter saw that there are hundreds of tools for making puppets alone. Its complicated crafts test testing the producer's perseverance and concentration. After the color ratio of the clothing, it needs to pass more than 40 strict processes before it can appear on the stage. It takes half a month to one month or more from rough to molding.

If you want to make a complicated and special functional puppet, you need to add many processes. Teacher Wu Xing picked up a puppet that moved his mouth and said, "The puppet needs to spit fire, and it is necessary to install a fire jet. Some puppets can blink and speak, so you have to empty the eyes and mouth of the puppets first, then make the eyes and mouth again, and then install it. This series of tedious operations can now be completed independently.

For decades, Wu Xing has given great enthusiasm to teach his disciples, but he has received little response. He sighed: "I want to inherit this craft to more young people without reservation! But now young people rarely can withstand loneliness, to stand tedious, and keep poverty."

Making puppets require extraordinary ingenuity, and performing puppets must have suffering and persistence. "Puppets are in one, and they are transmitted up and down." Real people are puppets, and dummy entrusted real people. Only in this way can the realm of performing puppets. But the achievement of this realm is by no means a day. Many children who study art can not pass the puppet piles without dressing. You must know that this requires at least 2 hours a day for a day. When I came down, the numb arms couldn't even hold the water cup. After many people cried, they gave up. The reporter saw the powerful and powerful arms extended by Mr. Wu Xing. It really is different from ordinary people. This is the result of years of hard work.

"Many young people can't say the hardships of raising their piles. The main thing is that there is no future. The current system cannot solve the problem of children's preparation. , Persist in inheritance and difficulty. "Wu Xing said without worry.

Life in life refers to the Qian Kun

The music sounded, and the puppet danced freely on the stage; behind the scenes, the artists focused on the operation and gave the puppet life. I believe that many people have a deep impression of the puppet show in the happy childhood memory.

The puppet show has a long history of spreading in the land of Sanjin. It is known as the three must -have culture of filial piety and the bowl cavity of the shadow and bowls. The Xiaoyi Puppet show is a rod head puppet show. It is the most ornamental category of the three must -see. It is characterized by the real people in the lower and the puppets. The artist is inserted on the puppet and the two manipulation of the wooden puppet hand. The iron rod operates the entire puppet for performance. Today, it has developed into an art form that integrates performances, music, and produced in one body. Over the years, Mr. Wu Xing has innovated the filial puppet show in the inheritance of the inheritance. His puppets can perform high -difficult movements such as hair loss, fire injection, dancing silk, tapon, dumplings, and Buddha beads. His puppets reached 2.8 meters, weighing 50 pounds, and controlled the performance independently.

In 2010, Xiaoyi City won the honor of the hometown of Yingsing Puppet in China. In the same year, the small drama "Puppet Love" starring Mr. Wu Xing participated in the opening ceremony of the stars in the Great Hall of the People. In 2011, at the Xi'an World Horticultural Expo, Xiaoyi Puppets, on behalf of Shanxi Province, presented a visual feast to tens of thousands of audiences with 34 performers from 25 countries and regions. one". In 2012, the puppet drama "The Stars" appeared on the stage of Shanxi Satellite TV's "Creative China Show", and once again showed the world's style of intangible cultural heritage.

What I was so pleased that Teacher Wuxing was quite pleased that, in order to make the non -heritage light, Xiaoyi City established a non -heritage propaganda and popularization mechanism, vigorously carried out various forms of non -heritage protection work, and established an intangible cultural heritage expo.

Liang Zhizhu told reporters: "Teacher Wu Xing has contributed to non -genetic inheritance artists that are the objects that need to be protected. We will innovate the working mechanism of non -heritage protection, improve the living conditions and working environment of the inheritor, and carry out the receipt of the inheritance. Creation conditions for biography, teaching, and communication activities. "

Li Meixia, Chief Reporter of Shanxi Economic Daily

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