When you attend a show of water puppet, you are definitely surprised at how people can bring the “soul” for lifeless puppets just by their hands. They use long bamboo rods and string mechanism hidden beneath the water surface so that the puppets can move smoothly on the water. There are up to 8 puppeteers or more in big shows standing behind a split-bamboo screen in order to control the puppets. In the puppet show, the stage will be called “Thuy Dinh” Puppeteers
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However, performance still occurs in traditional venues-on traditional ponds in villages where a staging area has been set up, especially on village’s traditional festivals, on portable tanks built for mobile performers besides a specialized theatre where a pool stage has been constructed. On the water surface, people build a stage which is decorated to resemble a temple façade or called “Thuy Dinh” to hide puppeteers who stand in the waist-deep water. Artists now commonly perform modern water puppet in a pool of water which is miniature of a pond with 4 meters square. Nowadays, many things have changed but the heart of the water puppet hasn’t changed so much, only the settings and locations. Furthermore, the best North Vietnam tours such as a Hanoi city tour of Splendor of Vietnam and Cambodia 17 days tour will take you to a theater in Hanoi, so that you can watch a show without traveling to the field. Later, to make it more convenient, some expert puppeteers performed a water puppet show on the village’s public pond so that it could attract more audience to come on special occasions like traditional festivals, Tet holiday, Mid-Autumn, etc. How a water puppet is performed?Īs it is said above that the original water puppet shows were performed in actual rice paddies moreover the simple stages were built around flooded fields.
It is believed that the shows were not originally meant just for the entertainment of the local rice farmers but also as a way to keep the spirits amused so that their crops would be prosperous. It’s not easy to take a control of puppet A large bamboo rod is used by puppeteers who normally stay behind the stage in order to support and control the movements of puppets. The shows are performed on water like pools, ponds or rice paddies. The puppets are made from wood which is available in every village, then they are lacquered and decorated as well. After the hard working time on the field, farmers could sit right on the banks of the field they relax, come up with as well as enjoy some “little festivals” performed by real artists who are actually simple-hearted people a few minutes ago such as singing, dancing, and especially water puppet show. Therefore, there are many festivals and traditions showing itself “the breath” of the agricultural culture. In the past, the daily life of Vietnamese people was closely linked to the water rice civilization and rice paddies. One of the typical scenes in water puppet show in Hanoi Vietnamese water puppets historyĭating back as far as the 11 th century, even it could go back further by a few hundred years, the water puppet was born right on rice paddies in the villages of the Red River Delta located in the north of Vietnam. It can be literally understood “making puppets dance on water” or “puppet show on water” which is one of the most distinctive features in Vietnamese cultural identity. You are probably familiar with a puppet show but a little bit strange with the term “water puppet” which North Vietnam tours recommend. That’s why in the North Vietnam tours, travelers shouldn’t miss enjoying a water puppet show in Hanoi. Nowadays, among the domination of modern types of entertainment, water puppet still has its own role in the life of people in Tonkin that can’t go away.
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