![]() The shape of the puppets are often fresh and funny, comedy and highly symbolic. The water puppets are products of folk wood carvings, rich in realism, rustic, lovely, and lyrical. Through the performances of traditional water puppetry art, scenes of normal living activities, and reroute spiritual and life practices of Vietnam farmers are shown a clearly. It is really complete only as the show starting and disappears as the show finishing. Water Puppet stage is the space in front of the chamber. The water puppet chamber (water pavilion) is erected in the middle of the pond or lake with balanced architecture, symbolizing the pavilion of Vietnam rural areas.Īll puppetry chambers, stage are equipped with flags, fans, elephants, parasol, and votive gate like a reduced pavilion with curved roof reflected on the water surface. One of unique elements of water puppet is to use water surface as the water puppet theater to make fun, drama. Water puppet art has different characteristics with conventional puppetry. If the peasants are not close to the water until "living for soaking skin, dyeing for soaking dew", it is very hard to transmit the inspiration to water puppet characters. Soaking in mud and wading in water to make art is not a normal job making people interested in. Before officially becoming a theater art, water puppetry was mainly performed by groups in villages, which was "raised" by the enthusiasm of the Vietnamese people. It is really a unique blend of art, nature and people. In the poetic nature, the audiences have a chance to view the art forms including land, water, trees, cloud, wind, fire, also pavilion roof with red tile. Through the stories performed by the puppetry artist, the audiences shall feel the nuances of village festival, which are introduced into the ordinary and simple dream. Water puppetry is often performed on the harvest day, spring day, or in the festival. Water Puppet is a unique creation of the residents of the Red River Delta, was created by water recovery work. Puppetry appears in many countries around the world, but water puppetry is only available in Vietnam. Due to the unique, from a folk art, water puppetry has quickly become a traditional art that can be comparable to the classical drama, traditional operetta which has the high position on the national stage. Water puppet is also considered intangible cultural characteristics of the Vietnamese people. This type has been usually performed in festivals, village festival, fun day, New Year's Day, using the puppet to make fun on the water. Water puppetry has been born for over 10 centuries in the Red River Delta. Being a folk art, water puppetry art has become a traditional art, a special creation of the Vietnamese people. Water Puppet (or Puppetry) is a unique traditional folk theatrical art form, formed in rice culture. ![]()
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