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Animal shadow puppets in the nang talung tradition. Nang talung has been extremely popular for a long time. On the other hand, the art form is slowly disappearing because it is complicated. There is a campaign to preserve the traditions of nang talung for future generations. [7] The Malaysian wayang kulit gedek has its origin from Nang Talung.
Nang yai, whose name specifically means "large shadow puppet", features life-size puppets, while nang talung (a similar tradition of shadow puppetry whose name derives from Pattalung, a southern city where the tradition has long been popular) features much smaller puppets. [2] Both are particularly popular in southern Thailand.
Mong ching - Mong and Ching: two important percussion instruments used for accompanying the Nora dance (dance drama) and the Nang talung (shadow puppet) performance. Khong khu - pair of small bossed gongs suspended horizontally in a wooden box; used in theater music and music of southern Thailand
Shadow theatre in Thailand is called nang yai (which used large and steady figures); in the south there is a tradition called nang talung (which uses small, movable figures). [7] Nang yai puppets are normally made of cowhide and rattan and are carried by people in front of the screen compared to behind it. [59]
The reason it got this name, believed that this is because in the past the temple grounds were used as a place to dry cowhides to be stretched out to make drumheads. Another explanation states that the area around the temple was a place for nang talung (shadow puppet) making. [3]
Talung (ตะลุง) (shadow plays) is a popular folk performance of the south. Talung puppets are made of dried cattle hide, cut beautifully into the characters of each shadow play. The puppets are usually painted black and each of them is held firmly between split bamboo slats called "mai tap".
Germany is working to secure a drifting Russian oil tanker, believed to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to fund its war in Ukraine, after it lost control in the Baltic Sea.
Cherd Songsri (Thai: เชิด ทรงศรี, September 20, 1931 – May 21, 2006) was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer.A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao (The Scar), which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it.