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- Guangdong News
Date: 18-May-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
AT the exhibition booth of Hebei Province in the No. 1 Hall, Li Haibin, 34, carefully moved a piece of hard paper behind a screen. On the other side of the screen, a nimbly moving bird appeared.
With slight movements of their fingers, Li and his colleagues played shadow puppets - animals, humans - attracting crowds at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Thursday.
'I have been in the trade for 15 years, and I'm happy to see more and more people becoming interested in the play. The cultural fair will certainly help the spread of the art,'Li said with a big smile.
Li works for the Tangshan Shadow Play Theater, where he performs the characters of old men. In the past 15 years he feels there has been increasing interest in the art from both China and abroad, and in fact, the shadow play has been listed as a world heritage, which he is very proud of.
Like the shadow play, other folk arts on show in No. 1 Hall also attracted large audiences.
Nianhua, or traditional Chinese New Year pictures, attracted many buyers to the booth of Wuqiang County of Hebei Province, which claims to be the home of folk woodcut nianhua art. 'I will put the nianhua on my home's front door even though New Year is still months away,'said a visitor who gave only her surname Zhou. Zhou, who bought a picture for 20 yuan (US$2.60), said the fat babies on nianhua reminded her of her grandma's home village.
At the exhibition booth of Nanchang, capital city of Jiangxi Province, Zhou Xinxing was busily carving tiny Chinese characters on a brush-pen, with the help of a magnifying glass. Many people stopped to watch Zhou, who has been practicing micro-carving skills for more than 30 years and can finish carving a brush-pen in three minutes.
Elsewhere in the hall, Kunqu opera from Jiangsu Province and Chinese paper-cutting from Weixian County of Hubei Province also drew interest from visitors.
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