Making Shadow Plays (皮影戏) on the wall is a great play. You need a light, hands and good ideas for a good show. Shadow Plays have been a play for hundreds of years in China.
People said Shadow Plays were from a story. In about 141 B. C. the great Emperor Wu (汉武帝) of the Han dynasty in China started his country. He was great and did a lot for his country. But then his favorite woman died. It made him very sad. He wanted her to be back, so he asked his officials (官员) to bring the woman back to life! Of course, this was not possible, but they had to find something to help him feel better.
The officials decided to make a model of the woman. They used donkey leather (皮革) to make her shape and dressed it nice clothes. Then they used a light to cast (投射) the shadow onto a wall when it moved. This moving model was the lost woman. The Shadow Plays made the emperor happy and a new entertainment (娱乐) was born.
