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Yang Zongbao Finger Puppet

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Beijing Opera
Finger Puppet #2:
Yang Zongbao

Picture of completed model: [link]

Like Romeo, he\'s still a teenager, maybe 17 or 18 years old. All his uncles are dead, captured, married to the enemy, or in a monastery. He\'s the heir of the mighty House of Yang.

His father is the general-in-chief, and his mother is a general, too. So are five of his aunts. Even his grandmother is a general, and she\'s in her nineties!

So, is it any wonder that he becomes smitten with cocky Mu Guiying, the warrior-girl he meets in the forest?

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Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying lived during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), known as the Chinese \"Age of Invention\". Crossbows and trebuchets were used in battle. Paper, the printing press, the first paper money issued by a government, and the art of paper-cutting come from this era. Thanks to paper, navigation and mapping reached a peak, and the Song Dynasty was also an age of sail.

I\'ve taken the liberty of clothing Yang Zongbao in slightly more historical garments, instead of true Bejing Opera splendor. The back view shows that he is wearing a helmet very much like the Japanese Samurai. The horse hair crest is authentic.
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