Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/06
By: Liu Te-chan and Kuan-lin Liu

Bangkok, April 6 (CNA) Taiwan’s half-century old Sheng Ping Troupe Company performed a puppetry show at this year’s Bangkok International Book Fair on Friday to delight visitors with a traditional Taiwanese form of entertainment.

The performance took place at the Taiwan pavilion, themed “Tai-Thai Reading,” and told a story about the repercussions of human beings’ destruction of the environment.

The puppet show was accompanied by live music from traditional Chinese instruments, such as the suona (a Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument), erhu (sometimes known as the Chinese two-stringed fiddle), and a gong.

While not everyone in the audience understood the words spoken, the performance captivated them, allowing them to understand Taiwan’s culture through the movement of the puppets, said Taiwanese lawmaker Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲), who attended the fair.
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