Lin joined the theater when he was 16, and he has carved about 1,000 puppets. Glove puppetry in Fujian and Quanzhou styles can still be performed at Chinese Buddhist temples in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, or Taiwan and may have. In 2009, Lin was named a national inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage. Singapores last traditional puppet stage maker Puppet shows once made appearances around Taoist temples scattered all across Singapore. Just launched my new book Forgotten Heritage: Uncovering Singapores traditional Chinese puppets with Dr Caroline Chia With the great support of the. His works feature in the play Flaming Mountain, which was based on one of the four great classical Chinese novels, Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Lin has committed himself to the trade for more than 40 years. Held in Singapore, it aims to be a puppetry festival that gathers reputable puppetry groups from across the world for exchange and interaction, and to perform. Quanzhou puppetry was named a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006, and, in 2012, the Quanzhou Puppetry Theater was added to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices by UNESCO. The process for each character includes rough shaping, forming, coarse carving, intricate detailing, paper mounting, color application, facial sculpting and wax coating to create a puppet. To ensure timely delivery, Lin has put in many extra hours. With nothing in way of puppet show stage orders in sight beyond an order that Mr Leong is currently in the process of fulfilling, this last stage that he is building may be one of the last, if not the last, traditional puppet show stages being made not just at Mr Leong’s workshop, but also in Singapore.Lin Congpeng's puppets range from historical figures to folk opera characters. There are five forms of traditional Chinese puppetry still performed by four regional (dialect) groups in Singapore, namely Hainanese rod puppetry, Henghua string puppetry, Hokkien string puppetry, Hokkien glove puppetry and Teochew iron-stick puppetry. Chinese opera performers from the Lao Sai Tao Yuan troupe await their cues onstage in Singapore. Having been started in the 1940s by Mr Leong’s father, whose name the business is identified with, the workshop must have been involved in putting together a countless number of stages. Chinese Theatre Puppet t Caroline Chiaresearches on the theatrical forms of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, China, Taiwan and Australia. Caroline Chiatells us why this art form should be preserved. This quick turnaround time, the lack of a customer base, and the fact that a stage can be used and reused for as long as ten years, does mean that there is little in terms work in the area for the business that Mr Leong runs, Leong Shin Wah Art Studio. Chinese puppetry is a tradition that is slowly losing ground in Singapore. All it takes is a few weeks to add the decorative work before a stage can be put together. Chinese shadow puppetry is a form of theater whereby colorful silhouette figures perform traditional plays against a back-lit cloth screen, accompanied by music. A typical Chinese puppet stage is really an assembly of pieces of plywood on which colourful decorations and backdrops are painted on one side and reinforced on the other.
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