ALL
duck
ICH Elements 4
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MURGHOBI-SHIKORCHI, zalichak, jongirak, miyonravak,
A kind of traditional team game played with ball. A group in the field will be hunters and other group – ducks. Hunters with ball hunt the ducks.
Tajikistan -
Water Puppetry (Múa rối nước) of Hong Phong in Hai Duong
The tradition-bearers of the element are communities in the three water-puppetry guilds of Bồ Dương Village (in Hồng Phong Commune, Ninh Giang District), An Liệt Village (in Thanh Hải Commune, Thanh Hà District) and Bùi Thượng Village (in Lê Lợi Commune, Gia Lộc District). Water puppetry is a form of amusement for villagers during village festivals. Performances often takes place in a small nhà trò or thủy đình stage in a pond at the village’s communal house. Performers submerge themselves in the water, behind a bamboo screen, to maneuver wooden puppets with poles and robes. A show often includes short playful scenes with various puppet characters, such as the Tễu clown, dragon, turtle, lion, snake, fish, dragon boat, and so on. Puppets are made of sung wood (cluster fig), meticulously sculptured and ornately decorated. The puppet’s base, attached with a manual mechanism that allows maneuvering underwater, is always heavier than the top so that it can float halfway without sinking. Music, rooted from North folk songs and chèo music is an important component. Popular excerpts and scenes are intro by Tễu, wrestling, fishing, dragon dance, the Eight Fairies, so on. In order to accommodate new audience tastes in contemporary life, water puppet artists create new scenes and excerpt with more sophisticated techniques.
Viet Nam -
Puppet art and puppet-making
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performance is also known as a puppet production. Uzbek puppetry is considered to be a traditional art genre, which evolved in the form of an ancient traditional theatre of people. Folk puppeteers used "qol qoghirchoq" (puppet played with hands or gloves), "ip qoghirchoq" (puppet-marionette), "mayda qoghirchoq" (small puppet) or "katta qoghirchoq" (big puppet). Main feature of the puppetry is that main heroes are puppets and an actor, who manipulates them, hides behind the scene. The puppet show, which combined traditional as well as contemporary ideas, was staged together with folk pantomime dances, under accompaniment of music of national instruments. In the ХХ century there were more than 40 troupes of traditional puppet theatre in Uzbekistan. Most of them were engaged in hand puppet ("Chodir jamol"), the marionettes theatre ("Chodir hayol"), on the other hand, it was possible to see only rarely in Tashkent, Bukhara, Qoqand, Samarkand and Khiva. At present this art is being revived again thanks to the activity of craftsmen, who make puppets and actors-puppeteers. Puppet making is an ancient type of folk applied art. This type of art was evolved as a result of human’s relationship with the nature. Initial puppets were animalshaped and made of clay. They became more complicated step by step. Central Asian people mainly occupied with agriculture and cattle-raising and their art was associated with their lifestyle. Uzbek people have always loved children. Children always need dolls and puppets. Such puppets as sheep, lamb, duck, geese, roosters, fish, shell whistled and others were among them.
Uzbekistan -
Baba Nyonya Culinaries
The Baba and Nyonya communities are well known for their traditional culinary normally based on Chinese cooking but adapted to suit the buds of the Babas who love the Malay hot dishes. Their dishes are served during celebrations such as Chinese New Year, birthdays and weddings. The dishes are like curries, pastes, pang-teh, bak-wan, crab soup, timitik duck where the duck is covered with preserved vegetable, siohi duck where the duck is covered with spices, as well as nyonya pickle, and nasi lemak. The cakes are kuih bakul or tih kuey, and kuey-ku in the shape of a tortoise coloured in red, blue and black.
Malaysia