Villages have preserved in virtually their original forms their ritual water processions with many water-related objects and activities. Prayers to various deities for good crops were an early form of religion at agrarian festivals in rice-growing areas since the results of peasant’s labour depended on seasonal rainfall. These records indicate that water puppetry existed even earlier in the rural villages where it was first performed. Historical inscriptions confirm that water puppetry was in vogue at court during the eleventh century. Where did traditional Vietnamese water puppetry begin? If you want to see water puppets in the true environment, you must watch them in the cradle where they began – in the open air of a village in Vietnam’s northern Red River Delta.ġ. In many travel guide to Vietnam, people said that “ Not watching a performance of water puppetry means not traveling to Vietnam yet.” Most visitors to Vietnam should try to watch a show of water puppetry at least once. We don’t know whether water puppets appear in other countries or whether they remain only in Vietnam, but we do know that they continue to spread and to gain intimacy with their audiences. Water puppetry is a unique form of Vietnamese art, which has existed for more than 1000 years.
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