Taiwan people join Shanxi folk events to celebrate Spring Festival

Pingyao county, a very popular historic spot in Shanxi province, played host to two dozen tourists from Taiwan this Lunar New Year, on Feb 23, who came to enjoy the shadow puppet plays at the Longzaitian puppet club, where the skills of the performers, and the music, and the play of shadows and light got a lot of applaud from the audience.

This was the first time for most of the visitors to get a taste of this form of puppetry, and some called it an amazing experience to see the folk arts and traditions of Shanxi, while the director of the club, Bai Changmao, reported that they had more than 200 visitors from Taiwan in all.

Bai added that he hopes the shadow puppetry will play a more active role in cultural exchanges with Taiwan and popularize traditional Chinese culture outside the province.