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Culture: Folk art helps illuminate Hunan

As a pioneering area that focuses on China's intangible cultural heritage, the Yuhua District of Folk Art and Heritage in Changsha, Hunan province, was established on Sept 20, covering more than 600 square meters. The district has more than 300 cultural heritage programs, and over 200 cultural inheritors have set up their booths. As an intangible cultural heritage, bianlian, or face-changing in English, is a method used in Chinese opera, to reveal an opera character's inner thoughts and feelings. Shadow play performances, where illuminated puppet figures are manipulated by three to five artists using a transparent white cloth screen, are also hugely popular.

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