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Bastille's In-depth Report: Sticking to the Dream of Inheriting Traditional Hand Puppet Cantonese Opera Culture in Modern Times
At the site of the Kam Tin Ten-Yearly Thanksgiving Festival, a group of "actors and actresses" dressed in splendid costumes are making gestures and moving nimbly to portray the joys and sorrows of the protagonists in the play. If you step closer, you will find the actors on the stage are not real people, but hand puppets instead. Behind the stage of this impressive performance is the only remaining hand puppet Cantonese opera troupe in Hong Kong - "Waa Saan Traditional Puppet Cantonese Opera Troupe".
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