•Glove puppet Glove puppetry may have originated from Jian Dan Xi, a kind of acrobatic street performance popular throughout China, in which the stage is placed on the shoulders. The exhibition area illuminates the different forms of glove puppetry stages, the process of making puppet heads, their elaborately embroidered costumes, the instruments that are played backstage, and more.
•Shadow puppet By the Song Dynasty, both marionettes and rod puppets had become widespread throughout China. Marionettes (string puppets) became a common fixture of traditional Taiwanese culture, and were once an irreplaceable part of any major celebration. The child puppets, “Cherry Blossom Ladies” and battling puppets featured in this exhibition area are all major characters found in Taiwanese marionette plays.
•String puppet According to legend, shadow puppetry began when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was grieving over the loss of his favorite concubine, Consort Li, and a vagabond sorcerer cut out her silhouette to comfort the emperor. Traditionally, shadow puppets have been sculpted from the hides of cows, goats or donkeys. This area exhibits the process of making a puppet from cowhide, as well as many precious shadow puppets from China and Indonesia.
Puppetry Art Center of Taipei was born from a passion for the art of puppetry. In 1998, Lin Ching-fu, chairman of the Taiyuan Arts and Culture Foundation, donated his personal collection of puppets, which he had gathered over several decades, to the Taipei City Government, in the hope of establishing a venue where these puppets could be preserved and exhibited in perpetuity.
Taipei Xia-Hai City God Temple ---- The Matchmaking God Matchmaker is the Deity of love and marriage in Chinese mythology. He is holding a marriage appointment book and red threads. Everyone’s ideal partner is written on the marriage appointment book. It is said that everyone has an invisible red thread on his wrist. The Matchmaker is the deity who helps you search for whomever is on the other end of the thread. In 1971, an elderly lady wanted to thank the City God for granting her the wishes. She donated a statue of the Matchmaker to the temple, wishing the deity would help those people who want to get married soon.
標題 The history of the tea lab: This tea shop was found by Mr.王芳群 and Mr.王珍春 and was named after the 2 founders. After two of them stopped working together, this tea shop was thus closed. However, Mr.王連河 reopened the shop and had the tea become world known after several years. Unfortunately, the tea market was no longer popular since the economy had changed. Wang’s family decided to donate their tea shop to the government so that the “tea history” could be preserved.
The appearance of the tea lab: The architecture of the tea shop is a union of Minnan style, western style, and imitation of Baroque style. This building is not only a shop but also a factory, a garage, and a place in which people can live. Moreover, on the floor sit a lot of small holes, which were part of the utensils of baking in the past.
The future of the tea lab: Besides proposing the culture and history of the traditional tea lab to the young generations, the tea shop can also be a landscape for movies. By doing so, more and more people could realize how important the tea industry is, and hopefully, people will be interested in these kinds of the industry so that the culture would not be disappeared anymore.