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Puppet was called figure-head, Fukui-puppet, puppet-Cave in ancient times. The drama performed by puppet was called puppet show.
 
The puppet art has a long development history, and the earliest puppet was possibly related to the funeral soldier figures in slavery society.
Puppet is a form of drama performed by the actors who operates the puppets. The puppet show in China rose from Han Dynasty, and had new development and improvement in Tang Dynasty, and can perform song and dance drama with puppet. Song dynasty is a crucial period for the development of puppet, as the workmanship and operation technique for puppet has further developed. With the development of social economy, the puppet show in Ming dynasty has been prevailed throughout China, and in the developed provinces of southern China, the puppet show is more prosperous and was crowned as “puppet tools of South” .After Qing dynasty, the puppet show welcomed its flourish period with large popularizing scale and increasing vocal cavity, followed by the emergence of puppet show in western Liaoning, Zhangzhou bag puppet show, Quanzhou puppetry show, Jinjiang bag puppet show, Shaoyang bag puppet show,
 
Gaozhou puppet show, Chaozhou bars puppetry, North Sichuan puppet show, Shi qian puppet show, Yang puppetry show, Taishun drug-made puppet show, Lingao figure puppet show etc. Viewed from the form of performance, the puppet can be divided into five kinds, namely Tixian puppet, Zhangtou puppet, Bag Puppet, Bars puppet and Drug-made Puppet.
 

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