2-Hour Leather Shadow Play Class

Our guide and driver will meet you at your hotel lobby at confirmed time and transfer to have the Leather Shadow Play class. You will have the class in: Small Wild Goose Pagoda or Gao Family Courtyard. Both of them locate in downtown area of Xian city. There is a small garden named Yanyuan inside of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda provides many interesting Chinese traditional folk activity like Shadow Play, Calligraphy, Rubbings, Han Chinese Clothing dress and so on. Gao Family Courtyard is a 400-year-old residential courtyards where you could spend some time to observe the layout of rich Chinese family’s house in ancient time after the class.

Arriving in the theater or Gao Family’s Courtyard, you will firstly go to the room behind the scenes supporter to see leather figures and some other performance tools. If you want to try it in person, just feel free to ask the local artist to teach and try handling the figures to have a first impression of leather shadow. Then please enjoy the show appreciating time. The local artists will perform 1-2 shows. After the show appreciating, the artist will teach you how to perform a leather shadow play. You will find it demands strong coordination.

After the pleasant time at Gao Family Courtyard or Small Wild Goose Pagoda, you will be escorted back to hotel.