CHINA-JIANGSU-KUNQU OPERA-PUPPET-INHERITORS (CN)

CHINA-JIANGSU-KUNQU OPERA-PUPPET-INHERITORS (CN)

(230519) -- NANJING, May 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Shi Xiaoming (L) and Shi Jinfang arrange puppets in Qidu Town, Wujiang District of Suzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 19, 2023. Kunqu, with a history of hundreds of years, is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an intangible cultural heritage in 2001. In Qidu Town of Suzhou, there is a unique form of Kunqu Opera called "Kunqu Puppet" which features actors presenting performance with puppets on the stage. In order to inherit the traditional "Kunqu Puppet", Sun Jing, Shi Jinfang and Shi Xiaoming were selected by local authority to study Kunqu Opera performance in an opera school while they were still middle school students in 2004. At the opera school, they first learned the art of Kunqu Opera performance before moving on to puppet handling. After graduating in 2009, they began to perform "Kunqu Puppet" at the cultural station in Qidu Town and have performed over 280 puppet plays of Kunqu Opera f

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