String puppetry is a drama performed with puppets. Puppets were called puppets in ancient times. During the performance, the artist holds the puppets in his hands, sings and chants while operating them, and expresses the various movements and forms of the puppets by "picking", "hooking" and "swinging" more than 24 strings of each puppet. String puppetry is a highly comprehensive performing art, which not only includes skills such as lion dancing, juggling, and martial arts, but also includes drama music, tunes, singing, and recitation. The performances of "double lion dancing" and "juggling" are particularly difficult. Wenling's string puppetry mainly expresses traditional ancient costume mythological dramas, and the singing is mainly based on Luantan and Wu Opera, which was gradually changed to Yue Opera. From the eve of liberation to the Cultural Revolution, puppetry was active in towns and villages all over Taizhou all year round and was deeply welcomed by the masses. The Cultural Revolution began to change to modern dramas. Wenling's string puppetry art began in 1939, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, there were 5 family-based puppet performance classes in Wenling, including string puppets and glove puppets. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, under the leadership of Wang Dingyu, a former teacher of the Folk Education Center, the 5 family classes merged to form the Wenling Folk Puppet Troupe. In 1954, with the approval of the Provincial Department of Culture, the Wenling County Puppet Troupe was officially established. Since then, Wenling string puppets have been officially included in the government's cultural management sequence. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Wenling Puppet Troupe was disbanded and its staff was transferred to the lower levels. In 1979, the puppet troupe was restored, but it was disbanded again two years later. Since then, the Wenling string puppet show has quietly disappeared.