Maoming puppet show, commonly known as "ghost boy show", is a popular folk art form. It is mainly divided into three types: large, medium and small classes. Maogang single-person puppet show belongs to the small class puppet show. It is said that it was introduced from the Central Plains during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years. The single-person puppet show is performed by one artist, and the performance is very difficult. The shape and production of the puppets are very particular. They are mostly made of soft pine branches and are carefully carved. The face is decorated with exaggerated artistic techniques, and the mouth and eyes can move. The posture is vivid and lifelike. After more than 400 years of evolution and development, Maogang single-person puppet show is unique in the Maoming puppet show industry. In June 2006, Zhu Xiaodan, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Lei Yulan, deputy governor of the province, and Fang Jianhong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee of Guangdong Province, looked at the one-man puppet show in our district. The one-man puppet show has few equipment and simple stage. A load of play boxes can hold all the belongings. A square table is a stage. It is known as "two bamboo poles sing the songs of the predecessors, and the abbot's stage sharpens the future generations". There are more than 30 puppets in a one-man puppet show. The roles are divided into ten major professions, namely "sheng, dan, clown, gong, po, and jing", and the facial makeup is different; the singing style is mostly seven-word sentences or ten-word sentences, which is developed and formed by absorbing the singing style of Cantonese opera on the basis of local folk songs. At the same time, it is accompanied by gongs, drums, cymbals, and wooden fish. There are complete percussion specifications. Singing, reciting, acting, and beating are all done by one person; the performance repertoire is mainly traditional stories and local legends. Especially in modern times, Maogang puppet show artists have boldly innovated on the basis of tradition and created a number of new scripts with the theme of reflecting the thoughts of new era figures, which has made great contributions to enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the local people and promoting the construction of socialist new countryside. The stage of the one-man puppet show is simple and low-cost, which is very suitable for mobile performances in rural areas. The artist combines dancing puppets, beating gongs and drums, and reciting lines in one, which has strong skills and appreciation. The content of the script is mainly to promote the traditional ideas of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and courtesy, and reflects the stories of talented scholars and beautiful women, generals and emperors. The singing is beautiful and has local characteristics. Maogang one-man puppet show has a long history and is one of the important categories of Guangdong ethnic folk art. It is a local traditional art with high extension, inheritance and mass appeal, and is very popular among the people. Its characters and props are exquisite and vivid, and its performance skills are skillful and ingenious, with high historical and artistic research value. The excellent traditional concepts of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and courtesy spread by the one-man puppet show still have far-reaching educational significance for modern society. Especially after inheritance and development, the Maogang one-man puppet show has been given new ideological connotations and has shown new vitality in the new round of cultural development. Protecting the one-man puppet show is of great significance to the inheritance and development of folk traditional culture and enriching the cultural life of the masses.