The artistic originality, content and production specifics of a traditional Chinese shadow theatre are identified. Its ritual origins and the similarity with the traditional Chinese theatre of live actors are traced. The features of the production (puppets making) and staging (organization of the stage, the composition of the troupe) processes are revealed. The musical and visual means of stage expressiveness in the traditional Chinese shadow theatre (timbre and rhythm, music and speech melody, colour, silhouette and shadow puppets’ plasticity, spatial compositional solution) are considered systematically and comprehensively.
确定了传统中国皮影剧院的艺术独创性，内容和制作细节。 它的仪式起源和与传统中国戏曲演员的相似之处得以追溯。 揭示了生产（木偶制作）和演出（舞台的组织，剧团的组成）过程的特征。 系统地，全面地考虑了中国传统皮影剧院的舞台表现力的音乐和视觉手段（音色和节奏，音乐和语音旋律，色彩，轮廓和皮影人偶的可塑性，空间组成解决方案）。