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Helen Deng
AT the exhibition booth of Hebei Province in the No. 1 Hall, Li Haibin, 34, carefully moved a piece of hard paper behind a screen. On the other side of the screen, a nimbly moving bird appeared.
With slight movements of their fingers, Li and his colleagues played shadow puppets — animals, humans — attracting crowds at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Thursday.
“I have been in the trade for 15 years, and I’m happy to see more and more people becoming interested in the play. The cultural fair will certainly help the spread of the art,” Li said with a big smile.
Li works for the Tangshan Shadow Play Theater, where he performs the characters of old men. In the past 15 years he feels there has been increasing interest in the art from both China and abroad, and in fact, the shadow play has been listed as a world heritage, which he is very proud of.
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