Chinese shadow puppetry, known as Pi Ying Xi (皮影戏), is a traditional performance art that originated in China over 2,000 years ago. It features intricate, translucent leather puppets manipulated against a backlit screen to tell epic stories, and the art has directly influenced similar shadow puppet traditions across Southeast Asia. The stories is usually feature historical epics, myths, and folklore, such as tales from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
