Alternatively, the puppet’s base may be directly attached to a rod accompanied with a paddle. The puppet is controlled via strong thin string attached inside, running through loops on the side of the rod to reach the puppeteer’s hand. Thus, the puppets appear to be moving over the water. A large bamboo rod supports the puppets underwater, which is the puppeteers’ control mechanism. The internal apparatus connects the puppet’s limbs to strings, allowing different parts to be moved and manipulated. The puppets are hollow inside with a detachable back. If used on a daily basis the average life span of a water puppet is four months, meaning some villages in Northern Vietnam are able a maintain their income and livelihoods solely by manufacturing water puppets. When creating a new water puppet the artisan must think of the movements and the operation mechanism involved.
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Puppet makers must be good at designing and carving plus with a good knowledge of the complicated movements of water puppets. Once dry the puppets are painted in a variety of colors forming their faces, figures and clothes. Next, artisans polish the surface and apply a black lacquer coating. This stage is similar to plastering, which gives the puppets a waterproof surface. Next, a mixture of Vietnamese lacquer and alluvium from the Red River is applied to the puppets. Then the artist covers them with nets for protection.
After being carved, any cracks are filled with lacquer. There are five main stages of construction. Puppets are carved from fig wood, the most endurable and suitable material and each can weigh up to 15kg.
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Nowadays water puppet performances tend to be help in one of three venues – on village ponds, on portable tanks built for travelling performances or, as in Hanoi and major cities, in specialized water puppet theaters with specially constructed pool stages. It also hides the puppet operational equipment and puppeteer movements, enhances the acoustics and provides a shimmering lightening effect. The water serves a dual purpose – it is the puppets’ stage whilst and a symbolic link to the rice harvest. Original water puppet festivals were those literally held inside a rice paddy, with a pagoda built on top to hide the puppeteers, who stand waist deep in water. When the rice fields flooded, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play. The tradition of water puppetry dates back to the 11th Century originating in the villages of the Red River Delta in Northern Vietnam. The story they tell is the story about bravery, and I try to be as brave as I can, just like the water puppets.One of the most popular tourist attractions in Hanoi is the iconic Water Puppets Show, or Mua Roi Nuoc in Vietnamese, meaning, “ making puppets dance on water“. The water puppet represents me because they are strong and never give up, no matter what happens. This object connects to my family and me because half of the family is Vietnamese, and my parents respect Vietnamese history. Since I’m Vietnamese, the water puppet is very important to me. When our family went back to Vietnam in first grade, I saw my first water puppet show, and I was just as amazed as my parents were five years ago. Our friends invited my parents to a water puppet show. My parents had to wait five years after adopting my brother to adopt me! While my parents were in Vietnam, picking up my brother, they met some people, became friends and now we visit them. These shows are very popular, and very important to the Vietnamese people. In one show there's about one hundred puppets used. Sometimes, they fish, sometimes they carry something, other times they eat. The puppets are used to make a story the people control the puppets.
You're sitting in your seat, then music starts playing and the show begins, but there's no screen or stage: there's water! There are actual humans in the water with the puppets. The Vietnamese water puppet is a block of wood molded into the form of a human.
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