The Chinese Puppet Plays during the Great Cultural Revolution Period : Illustrated Dongsheng Puppet Play Troupe in Zhoushan Archipelago

This work, an investigation of Dongsheng Puppet Play Troupe in the Zhoushan Archipelago, had an insight into the history of Chinese Puppet Plays during the Great Cultural Revolution period. In terms of the national trends, it was not only Puppet Plays, one kind of folk performing arts, that was targeted for criticism as one of the four olds (old thought, culture, customs, habits) in those days. The presentation of the traditions drama that is a main component of Puppet Plays was prohibited, but also the stage, doll heads and tools were almost all burnt and suffered devastating damage. The influence lasts to the present. However, there are few concrete documents and records about the damage, and until now there was hardly a study about it. In this work, we examined the Dongsheng Puppet Play Troupe in the Zhoushan Archipelago as an example to concretely analyze and investigate the influence of the Great Cultural Revolution on Puppet Plays, from the perspective of replacing the do away with the‵four olds‵ movement and traditional dramas with the revolution model dramas in modern times, as well as the influence on the living of those old performers in the Zhoushan Archipelago