Hua county Shadow Play Shadow Play is a kind of shadow play in Weinan, Shaanxi. It originated in Huaxian County (Gu Hua), Shaanxi Province during the Western Han Dynasty in China. It has a history of more than 2000 years. It is the earliest art of shadow play in the world, which is dubbed initiative by people. Some people think that shadow play is "the originator of modern movies". Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "shadow play", originated before the Han Dynasty. There is a poem in "Haiyang Zhi Zhu Ci" that describes the performance of shadow play in this way: "You can be realistic only when you play new songs with lanterns; Pei Sanwen, before Li Furen moved in. " (Li Furen, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) This is the primary stage of shadow play, and its heyday is the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wendi (BC 179- 156), Liu Yuxin cried after his birth, which troubled the whole palace. Once, a maid-in-waiting accidentally found the little prince staring at the shadow of leaves on the ground outside the window, lost in thought, forgot to cry and danced happily. Therefore, the ladies-in-waiting cut the leaves into various human figures and animal props and projected them on the white cloth with lights to amuse the prince. Because the leaves will soon dry up and the preservation time is too short, the ladies-in-waiting later found that the props made of cowhide are tough, easy to save and easy to collect, and the shadow play was born.