The contrast of Chinese folk shadow show beteen east and west of Shanxi province
Abstract:As a birthplace of Chinese shadow show,a representative of traditional folk art,Shanxi province boast a profound cutural basis,and produces different schools during its thousands of years of development,which mainly comprise eastern school of shadow show concentrating on Huayin,Huaxian,Dali,and Weinan,and western school of shadow show centralizing on liqian,Qianxian,Xingping.Although they have a sameness or close in such aspects as the use of materials,tools,sources,contents,performance,modelling methods,they take on a different modelling characteristics
due to different cutural atmosphere,financial conditions,etc.This articls offers a simple contrast between Chinese shadow show from eastern and western schools in terms of their traits.
The key words:Shanxi province Chinese shadow show eastern and western schools characteristics,contrast