After the MV crew was formed, the group set off to Licheng.

The silk play sung in "Silk Show" is actually a very old puppet opera in my country - string puppet show.

Legend has it that the marionette show originated in 180 B.C., and it also involved a historical celebrity, Liu Rong's self-confessed ancestor, Liu Bang.

At that time, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was besieged in Baideng City, and his military advisor Chen Ping made a plan to make a human appearance with wood, attracting attention at the east, west and south city gates, and the enemy mistakenly thought that someone broke through the east, west and south city gates and was attracted to the past, only the north gate was empty and there was no defense. Therefore, Han Gaozu successfully escaped from the north gate, and the people also had the saying that "Chen Ping was a puppet, and the Han Dynasty would protect the people".

However, puppet theatre, like other traditional cultures, has declined after thousands of years.

At present, there are still relatively intact puppet shows in China, and only Licheng remains.

Founded in 1952, the Licheng Puppet Troupe has performed all over the country, and has even performed overseas several times, and has won a lot of awards at home and abroad. At first glance, it seems to be quite beautiful, but in fact, how many young people in China know about this troupe? And how many people know about marionettery?

The Licheng Puppet Troupe is now in the same predicament as other intangible cultural heritage inheritors – there is no successor.

With the development of the times, the enrichment of people's cultural life and the change of aesthetic taste, there are fewer and fewer people watching marionette shows. Due to the shrinking audience, in the past 10 years, the economic efficiency of the Licheng puppet troupe has been poor, the number of performances has become less and less, and it has become more and more difficult to find people who are willing to learn this craft, and there has been a fault in the age structure of puppet actors.

The Licheng Puppet Troupe is still like this, not to mention some other small theater troupes.

The existing puppeteers are gradually entering their old age, and the young people are reluctant to learn, and with them, some puppet-making skills and performance techniques are on the verge of being lost.

Nowadays, many people cite the laws of nature to look at the traditional culture of China, the survival of the fittest, and feel that since no one likes it anymore, then it should be eliminated.

But it never occurred to them that if we eliminated these things, what would we have left? A nation that has no culture left, will we also be the survival of the fittest?

This nation has been inherited for 5,000 years, and how many foreign races have been defeated, and they have always competed for the best, why are they starting to consider the fittest now?

"Han Shuai, we're almost there." Fang Qiaorui reminded.

"Hmm." Han Lan replied and looked at the ground under the clouds outside the window.

In fact, this time they could have let the Licheng Puppet Troupe make a special trip to Lin'an, but after thinking about it, they still came to Licheng to find them, and by the way, they filmed locally.

Although it costs a little more money, some things still have to be photographed locally to have that taste.

Moreover, you can also meet more old artists.

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The song "Silk Play" is actually singing a small story after singing, so when filming the MV, Han Lan also hopes to restore it as much as possible.

The script has been driven out by the company's screenwriting team, and it has also been handed over to director Wang Xianzhi in advance, and Wang Xianzhi also knows the basic shooting process.

After all, it only takes a few minutes to finish cutting, which is a pediatric for a professional director.

Sometimes he also served Han Lan, and the MV was able to find his teacher Zhao Chengwen. It's just such a thing, and it's a bit of a knife to kill chickens when he comes to shoot.

But he didn't have any complaints, after all, Tomahawk Entertainment did give a lot of money.

There are three scenes in the whole MV, the first is a dilapidated temple, but because it requires a blizzard, it is basically built in the studio, and the wind and snow special effects are added in the later stage.

The second, and the main one they were going to shoot on this trip, was in front of the stage of the puppet show.

Then the third one was also filmed in the studio, filming the hyun hee girl singing and dancing, and then inserted it into the MV as a picture supplement.

The people of the stage troupe have already cooperated with the crew to set it up, and now Wang Xianzhi is explaining to the extras the precautions for filming for a while. In fact, the assistant director should be responsible for these, but there is no way, the crew does not have an assistant director.

If you have to count, Han Lan should be the assistant director. But Han Lan ......

Han Lan was watching marionettes with the Hyun Ji girls right now.

Han Lan is okay, after all, she has seen this thing before, but it is very novel for the Xuanji girls, around that exquisite puppet for a while to pester the teacher to perform, and then take a look at it yourself, and then take a group photo with a scarf is naturally indispensable.

Han Lan was filming a vlog next to her, and she returned her hair to enrich the content with her neck and 233 station, otherwise it would be too boring to shoot food every time.

The marionettes used in this MV are actually customized in advance, imitating the image of the hyun hee girl, and there will be close-ups at that time, and the makeup is also a little poignant.

After all, this is a poignant little story.

At this time, director Wang Xianzhi said hello, and the Xuanji girls here also put away their playfulness and began to follow the director's instructions to run to the back of the stage to prepare.

The puppet troupe is usually composed of seven people, and it just so happens that the Hyun Ji Girl Troupe also has seven people, and they are asked to play puppet show artists in the MV. The two of them stood and operated the puppets, even rapping and singing, and the five of them operated various instruments to play and beat to accompaniment.

Of course, at the level of the seven of them, they will definitely not be able to perform, and now that they have learned a little bit of fancy shooting, they still have to let the teachers get started with the shots of the puppet part in front of them. As long as the lens is well connected, there will be no goofs.

"Ike God!"

With a shout from director Wang Xianzhi, the camera began to shoot -

The audio of "Silk Play" was played live, which made it easier for them to lip-sync and feel it, and the effect of filming was as if they were performing a silk play.

But in fact, after the five people in the background played all kinds of musical instruments, they were directly out of order, especially the moment when the suona sounded, Zhen Nima urged him!

Even the two members in charge of operating the puppets were so shocked that they couldn't shoot at all.

"Stop! Oh, my God...... Who's that? Chen Ruoxi! Suona, don't really blow it! Just put on a show, where did you get your little girl's lung capacity to blow the suona? ”

The girl who played the suona stuck out her tongue in embarrassment.

The seven people of the Xuanji girl actually studied opera before entering Tomahawk Entertainment as trainees, and these national musical instruments sometimes they will find teachers to play in the background, and they will definitely use them, but whether they can listen to them is another matter.

Especially suona, it is already very good to be able to blow, but ordinary people really can't blow it.