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Shadow puppetry is a traditional Chinese folk drama in which silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard are made to perform stories. During the performance, the artists are behind a white curtain. While manipulating the filmmakers, tell the story with popular local tunes. It is accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, and has a strong local atmosphere. Its popularity is extremely wide and has a long history. We hope that more people will have the opportunity to know and understand synthetic biology and science. The general knowledge preaching, which lacks an interesting form, does not make the target object accept and understand well.
Synthetic biology and science are presented through shadow puppetry, a Chinese intangible cultural heritage. Being able to expose people to shadow puppetry while learning about synthetic biology and having some understanding of our project is exactly what we want.
August 23. We came to Liyayuan Community in Shenzhen. We educated the the old and children in the community through shadow play. Let them learn the knowledge of synthetic biology in the process of experiencing Chinese traditional culture.
We found that last year's PV was very popular with the public, and《Journey to the West》 is also one of the four famous Chinese masterpieces. Therefore, we want to use the intangible cultural heritage-shadow play to interpret the relevant content of our project (for details, please click to view the shadow play script). We attracted a lot of children and the old in the process of performing shadow puppets. the old seem to have a more intimacy with Chinese traditional culture. So when we were performing shadow puppets, the the old all stopped to watch and discussed the content of shadow puppets. Children were very interested in our shadow puppets and want to perform with shadow puppets.
So after the performance, our members tought children how to manipulate shadow puppets. How to use shadow puppets to perform content related to our project. Whether the shadow play or synthetic biology, the children learned very serious. )