Zhao Cuilian, a 50-year-old folk handicraftswoman, examines a newly carved shadow play puppet in Houma, a city in north China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 28, 2007. Zhao began to make puppets used to perform shadow plays in which the silhouettes of manipulated puppets are cast onto a white cloth to tell story when she was 19 years old. Due to the reduction of audience of shadow plays nowadays, Zhao made puppets handicrafts to attract folk art lovers in market.(Xinhua Photo)
Li Shiwei, husband of shadow play handicraftswoman Zhao Cuilian, colors newly carved puppets in Houma, a city in north China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 28, 2007. Zhao began to make puppets used to perform shadow plays in which the silhouettes of manipulated puppets are cast onto a white cloth to tell story when she was 19 years old. Due to the reduction of audience of shadow plays nowadays, Zhao made puppets handicrafts to attract folk art lovers in market.(Xinhua Photo)
