Many Vietnamese water puppetry troupes have participated in a number of international puppetry festivals, won many high awards and attracted the attention of audiences from many countries around the world.Vietnam Water Puppets History Where did water puppetry originate? Water puppetry has become the pride of the country, the pride of Vietnam in the international arena. Over the years, the art of water puppetry is being protected and developed to be worthy of its stature in the national cultural heritage. Water puppetry is a highly collective art form, a product of the Northern Delta's water culture, expressing the unique features of the Vietnamese national identity. In the treasure trove of water puppetry of Vietnam, there are 30 traditional performances and hundreds of modern puppet shows telling about the folk tales and daily life of the Vietnamese people. Water puppetry has become an indispensable cultural activity of the people of the Northern Delta region and is attached to their lives from generation to generation. The art of water puppetry is an indigenous cultural product of the Vietnamese people, developed in most of the villages around the Thang Long citadel and most of the puppet wards in the provinces of the Northern Delta. Music controlling speed, keeping rhythm, leading movements, creating atmosphere with traditional rhythms plays a key role in water puppetry, water puppet music often uses cheo tunes or folk songs of the Northern Delta. Water puppetry is a clever game that uses movements as an expression language, water puppetry is as attached to music as dance art.
The movement of the body, the act of acting as a puppet contribute to the success of puppetry. or pull the puppet with a string system arranged outside or under the water. The water puppeteer stood in the game room to control the puppet. The show was bustling with lyrics, drums, muzzles, horns, rat cannons, rocket cannons, firecrackers opening the flag from the water, in shimmering light and fanciful smoke. Water puppet performance cannot be complete without auxiliary drums and firecrackers. creating the action of the water puppet on the stage. The puppet is performed by the control of the people behind the background through the system of poles, strings. The puppet's body is the part that floats to the surface to represent the character, and the base is the part that sinks under the water to keep the puppet afloat and where the controller is installed for the puppet to move. Opening the show, Uncle Teu appeared cheerful and naughty as the leader of the story. The most typical character is Uncle Teu – round body, optimistic witty smile. The shape of the puppet is usually fresh, funny, humorous and highly symbolic. Light wood floats on the water, carved by artisans with its own stylized lines, then sharpened, polished and decorated with different paint colors to enhance the personality lines of each character. There is a backdrop behind to create a stage for performing water puppetry (called a y mon plate), around decorated with flags, fans, elephants, parasols, gates, etc. The art of water puppetry using the water surface as a stage (called a puppet house or water house) is usually erected in the middle of a pond or lake with a balanced architecture symbolizing the roof of the communal house in the countryside of Vietnam.
With unique features from an art form with folk elements, water puppetry has quickly become a traditional art and is considered a unique intangible cultural heritage of the Vietnamese nation. This art form often uses puppets to perform tricks and plays on the water and is held on festivals, village festivals, happy days, and New Year's Day. Water puppetry is an art form that was born around the 11th - 12th centuries when Buddhism began to thrive in our country associated with the natural conditions and living conditions of agricultural farmers who grow wet rice. Puppetry art exists in many countries around the world, but water puppetry is unique to Vietnam. Water puppetry (also known as water puppetry) is a unique and creative traditional folk theater art form with bold traditions of the wet rice agricultural civilization, born at the same time as the traditional folk culture.
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