Because the lyrics of Lingao puppet show are easy to understand and vivid, people love it very much and have a deep foundation among the masses. Lingao people like to hum a paragraph in their daily life, and many old people and even children can sing dozens or hundreds of sentences casually. Now, whenever there are festive activities such as ancestor worship, weddings, birthdays, and children's college entrance examinations, local people also invite troupe to perform in the village. Farmers in nearby areas are also riding motorcycles or carrying people with walking tractors to watch, which is very lively. The curtain of the performance slowly opened in the local "Aloha" music. An actor and a couple performed on the stage according to the plot, and sometimes focused on the couple. The performance was even and interesting. Sometimes puppets cooperate, coordinate and change; Sometimes puppets are replaced by people to make up for the shortcomings of puppets, ensure the continuity and integrity of actions, and often win applause from the audience. Lingao Puppet Show mainly sings "Aha" and "Tan Lang". Later, allegro, Li Limei cavity, Qiziban, Ugly Feet, Little Cowherd, Er Yi Li, Flat Panel, Moonlight, Bai Furong cavity and Cryboard were absorbed from the temporary play, and they were arranged and created by folk songs and folk music. In addition, it also absorbed the class cavity of Qiong Opera, such as Cheng Tu, Tan Ban, Kuban, Qiang, Jiao and so on.
The lyrics are mainly four sentences, including six, eight or even more than ten. The lyrics are mostly five, six and seven words, and the lyrics don't need to rhyme, but they are even. Like a four-sentence aria, the first sentence is flat or rising, the second sentence is flat, the third sentence is flat or falling, and the fourth sentence is voiced. Every time the last word of the fourth sentence is the key word, the actor doesn't sing, but only uses music instead, so that the audience can participate in the guess. If you guess right, sing it. It's seamless and unique. In the early puppet show, actors from all walks of life did not wear makeup to hook their faces. Until the 1960s and 1970s, actors from all walks of life wore light makeup, pretended to be handsome, and did not paint faces. But puppet idols have rich faces. For example, the old man, the old man (father), the mountain thief, the ugly official and the clown in the ugly line all express the personality characteristics of the characters through facial sketches. From the color point of view, there are red faces, white faces, black faces and colored faces: the upright characters in "The Old Lady" painted black faces, and the brave and strong characters painted red faces; A cunning and treacherous figure (father) drew a white face; Bandits, outlaws or foreign figures (mountain thieves) put on colorful faces. In the modeling of Facebook, it can be divided into full face and broken face. Generally speaking, red face, white face and black face are mostly facial makeup, and line drawings are made on eyebrows, eyes, forehead and heart; Multicolored faces are mostly tattooed faces, and cheeks, eyebrows, eyes, bridge of the nose, forehead and heart are outlined in many different colors, such as red, yellow, black, blue and green. The lines are complex or simple, relatively rich, and the hook method has also changed. If the player is the king of the mountains or a figure in the royal family, he will often write the word "king" on his forehead to show his identity.
The ugly faces of officials and clowns in ugly lines are similar to those of ugly beards and ugly peanuts in Joan's plays. Or paint white on the eyes, eyebrows and bridge of the nose and enclose them with black lines. The drawn white building blocks can be large or small and round; Or draw a small white block with a black circle on the bridge of the nose, and the size can be adjusted.
The early facial makeup of Ten Evil Girls among Girls was painted in red to show the feminine, vicious and fierce character of the characters. After the founding of New China, the mask of the heinous mother was changed to a handsome one, and only a mole was painted on her cheek to show her identity.
There are not many styles and types of idol masks in Lingao puppet show. Generally speaking, after the idol production is completed, it can be used as different roles in different dramas, as long as the industry is the same or the role type is the same.