A saying, one sentence to tell a story, two hands to compete against a million soldiers, is a true portrayal of shadow play, whose main props are shadow dolls (commonly known as paper dolls), liangzi (the video screen), and lamps (light). The yellow cattle leather is the main raw material for shadow production. In order to make a doll, we should draw pictures, carve it, dye it, iron it, and sew in it.

　　Shadow carving artists have inherited the traditional production process in long-term creation of for faces, costumes and props, and have learned from Qinghai folk paper cutting art in the shapes, patterns, and colors, which has gradually formed a strong but simple artistic style and local flavor in Qinghai plateau, refined carved and richly ??colored. There are all kinds of major historical traditional figures, mythological figures, palace pavilions, boats and chariots, flowers and trees, animals, and etc.