The Changing Of Shadow Play In Shanxi Houma And It's Development Of Industrialization

The coordinated development of social politics, the economy and the culture has become the very important factors for giving impetus to the sustainable development. In these three factors, the culture as a main factor become more and more important than before. The whole nation from top to bottom has payed more attention to the Intangible Culture Heritage as a big part of culture productive forces. Houma shadow play, as a part of Intangible Culture Heritage , is not only useful and enjoyable ,but also with the high value of arts and collections. The shadow play can also be named "leather-silhouette show" . "light shadow play" or "earth shadow play", In somewhere, it is also called "leather-monkey play" , "paper shadow play" ect. Lights shine on the paper or fur which is made different figures to show stories. The script and melody are always influenced by the local drama. The shadow players sing and operate together followed the music. The shadow play has a long history in China. It spreaded widely and went abroad and has become a world art.There's a jingle about the traditional carving skills and process of Houma shadow plays in lacal area: First carve the head and face . Second carve the five sense organs .Third carve the clothes and fairs, and last put the clothes on ,coloring it after carving, and all processes end. Nowadays , many arts and crafts-lovers overseas see shadow play as an art decoration of show case . Most contents of the shadow plays are historical stories and myths stories. Every different area has a different type of producing . But the exquisite carving, the exaggerated decoration are the same with lingering charm.As the representation of the players in Houma shadow play has been passing on generation to generation, keeping on the memory and emotion till now .Though Houma shadow play is at the bottom of the Intangible Culture Heritage , it's so unique that made it self flourish. So it's very important to research Houma shadow play deeply.With the attitude of using living examples, I went to countryside , watched and researched there. From the art theory and acting theory, with each examples ,I find that the real values of Houma shadow play are shadow and play , shadow play is deeply loved by civilians and it's the paragon of Chinese folk arts.