Master of Shadow Play in Jianghan Plain

Gong Benhuai (1907- 1993), male, Han nationality, was born in mian yang (now Xiantao). He is the founder of Mianyang Yugur Shadow Play Team. Before liberation, fishing drums and wine were played along the door, and teahouses sang songs. After the July 7th Incident, artists such as Huang Yutang moved to Huangpi, Yingcheng, Xiaogan and Wuhan. After liberation, Biyang County People's Government organized scattered shadow puppetry artists, established county-level shadow puppetry teams and shadow puppetry theaters, and fixed their performances in Xiantao, Pengchang and other big towns. Since then, shadow puppeteers have a place to display their talents and their lives have been guaranteed. Since the Shadow Play Team was founded in Changbiankou in 1952, it has participated in the land reform movement to fight bandits and tyrants. 1953, his adaptation of the shadow play "Song Wu Da Pu" won the first prize of the provincial folk music and dance performance. 1958 participated in the national Quyi performance, and promoted Mianyang Fishing Drum to the whole country, and officially named it "Hubei Fishing Drum".

His fishing drum singing style was published in the first episode of Hubei rap music integration. Under his leadership, the former Mianyang Quyi Shadow Play Team has become the most artistic shadow play team in Jianghan Plain through reform and innovation. In the early period of the Cultural Revolution, the Quyi Shadow Play Team traveled all over Hubei.

Biedaoyang, whose stage name is Bieyangyang (19 12- 1988), male, Han nationality, from Guanghua, Maozui, Mianyang. Bie Daoyang learned to sing fishing drums and catch wine along the door from his uncle Wu Yunnian when he was a child, and later sang tea house shadow play. The clever Bie Daoyang surpassed his predecessors in singing. He is very good at the lyrics of fishing drums, combining idioms with folk dialects (that is, jingles), and every lyric makes people laugh. Before liberation, he sang "Looking Around Henan" in Xu Yuan. Widows sigh at home all night, sing sadly with fishing drums, and quiet the audience. A widow in the theater wept bitterly and went home to commit suicide, thanks to the help of her neighbors. Bie Daoyang is the most famous old artist of Tian, Qian and Mianyu Drum Shadow Play. His lyrics and singing became popular in Jianghan Plain. The other is the largest school in Xiantao, and its inheritor Gao Fengcheng is a respected shadow puppet artist in Xiantao. 1988, when Bie Daoyang died, shadow puppeteers from all over Xiantao went to the funeral to pay tribute to other famous old artists.

Tonge, a shadow play in Jianghan, is a representative inheritor of the shadow play project in Jianghan Plain, the eighth inheritor of Tonge, and his 27-year-old son, Tang Ruihua, became the ninth inheritor of Tonge in 2008.

Liu Nianhua, the representative inheritors of Jianghan Shadow Play, studied under He, Zhao and Zhu Daixiong. He has led Lu to patrol Jianghan Plain for a long time. Liu Nianhua's daughter is one of the next generations of shadow sculpture art in Jianghan Plain.