"The Legend of the White Snake - Lingzhi Salvation"
The monk Fahai regards Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing as demons and thus destroys the relationship between Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen several times. Xu Xian was persuaded by Fahai and thus asks his wife, Bai Suzhen to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. After drinking the wine, Bai Suzhen changes back to her original form as a white snake because she couldn't stand the stimulation of realgar wine.
Xu Xian later bumps into his wife and finds out that she is actually a snake. He is then scared to death and faint. In order to save her beloved husband, Bai Suzhen risks going to Kunlun Immortal Mountain to steal Lingzhi grass, the legenary cure-all. Can she retrieve it and return safe and sound?
The troupe's director, Chang Fu-Kuo, is committed to preserving the traditional craft of puppetry. Chang emphasizes the importance of innovation in the plots, puppets and set designs.
Chang Fu-Kuo and his father Chang De-cheng (the fifth generation, the head of the troupe), both Taiwanese shadow puppet masters, have excellent drawing talent. They are good at transforming a variety of characters, animals, gods and monsters into of shadow puppets. Their exquisite carving techniques as well as their use of rich color and talents in adapting scripts and improvisation quickly attracts the attention of the audience.
He and the seventh generation of young actors are committed to involve shadow puppetry as a lively performing art into different fields. In addition to being invited to perform at home and abroad, they also voluntarily link up local cultural organizations and schools to organize shadow puppet teaching, lectures and exhibitions, so that more and more people can learn to appreciate and continue the traditional skills.
In 2020, Kaohsiung City Government honored Mr. Chang as an official cultural heritage conservator for shadow puppetry.
