Song Guochao, successor of the national intangible cultural heritage of shadow play, watches his apprentices manipulating leather puppets during a performance in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 4, 2015. The Chinese shadow play is performed by manipulating flat leather puppets against a lit-up translucent screen. The art form was registered in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO in 2011. (Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Chunlei)
