The world-famous Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre Water puppetry is a popular form of entertainment nowadays too, especially for local children and foreigners discovering Vietnamese folk culture. A water puppet show typically depicts Vietnamese day-to-day rural life along with important historical events and ancient legends.
While puppets move around, directed by puppeteers standing waist-deep in the water behind the stage, singers tell their story in songs. It also conceals puppet strings and puppeteer movements, improves musical and vocal acoustics, and provides a shimmering lighting effect.Įach water puppet is hand-carved and given five layers of lacquer paint to make it waterproof and add vibrant colours to the performance. Water is both the stage and a symbolic link to the rice harvest at water puppetry shows. Villagers in the delta of the Red River and in other rice-growing regions of Northern Vietnam staged water puppet performances at religious and end-of-harvest festivals, and on other important occasions. Hanoi street food tour - Coffee Egg.Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique folk art practiced since the 11th century. Hanoi pancake - top food in Hanoi street food tour Same article:īun Cha "Obama dish" Hanoi street food tour. You will not regret spending your time to enjoy this traditional and meaningful show. However, if visitors have an opportunity to visit Hanoi, do not miss the Water puppetry show at Thang Long Puppetry Theater with The art of Water puppetry is the typical product of Vietnamese culture and it developed in almost all villages around Thang Long Citadel such as “Dao Thuc”- “Dong Anh” district, “Thanh Hai”- “Thanh Ha”- “Hai Duong” province and many wards in most of the Northern Delta’s provinces.Įxpect to Central Puppetry Theater and Thang Long Puppetry Theater, there are some wards likes “Dao Thuc”, “Te Tieu”, “Trang Son”, and “Nam Chan” own this type of art. The Water puppet show is very hilarious with lyrics, drums, drumsticks, and the firework which is bursted from underwater, in sparking lights and fantastic atmosphere.Furthermore, its music is often used for the traditional folks or folk songs of the Northern Delta. Music controls the speed, leads the movements, creates the atmosphere with traditional rhythm which plays an important role in Water puppetry. Water puppetry is excellent at tangling water with music. The success of Water puppetry mainly relies on the movement of puppet’s body. They manipulate each pole, rope or jerk puppets by the wire system which is arranged outside or underwater. To play Water puppetry, the artists have to stand in the chamber to control the puppets. It is also the main point of Water puppetry. The control machine and morphing controls of Water puppetry creates the activites of puppets on stage. The puppet’s faces are usually fresh, funny and humourous just like the human’s feeling. After that, these puppets need to be trimmed, polished and painted with many different colours. It has to be chiseled, hewned with stylized outlines.
The puppet is made of figs wood, a light wood which can float easily on water surface. It has to go through many stages and requires the sophistication of artists. Water puppetry’s chamber is built in the middle of ponds and lakes.įor puppet, the process of making puppet is very complicated. Around this commnual house, flags, fans, elephants and parasols are decorated. This art form is usually held on big occasions such as festivals, village festivals or Tet holiday.Ĭompare with common puppetry, Water puppetry has many other features such as: Water surface is considered as stage, Water pupptry’s chamber or also known as Water communal house with balanced structure which represents the communal house’s roof in Vietnamses rural. Accroding to various sources, Water puppetry was born in the Ly dynasty (1010-1225). Dating back to the 11 th century, Water puppetry orginated in the villages of the Red River Delta, an area of the Northern part in Vietnam.
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