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The art of shadow puppetry. Chinese shadow play is a beautiful folk art. China claims for the longest shadow play history. Chinese shadow play model is of the most beautiful and its performance technique most excellent. CSP is simple in modeling, exaggerated in texture, and excellent in carving. The color is clean and bright and impressive and the figure are vivid. CSP, on the white screen, through light, shadow and human maneuver , could be very vivid. The singing has a rich quality and sounds beautiful, tender, moving. In ancient times, whenever people held a celebration ceremony, they would invite shadow play teams for performance. Therefore, the shadow play performance has a strong local flovor. In the past, the troupes were usually made up of poor laboring people. They went to the fields for work in busy times and went to perform when the agricultural work was not busy. They had a close relationship with the common people. In its passing down from generation to generation, shadow play has become an important means for the realization of history and of society.