Chinese shadow play is a national intangible cultural heritage Shadow play is a form of opera in which images are cut out of animal skins or cardboard and stories are performed by illuminating the cut out images with light, which has been spread to all provinces and regions of China and is a national intangible cultural heritage. Shadow play originated in Shaanxi, and its popularity is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different voices performed in different parts of the country. Shadow play, also known as "light and shadow play" and "earth shadow play," is a form of theater in which a light-insulating cloth is used to perform under the illumination of candles and other types of light sources. In the performance of shadow play, artists behind the white curtain, while using their hands to manipulate the characters of the opera, while singing the story with the local popular tunes, "shadow people" in the manipulation of the artists, relying on the