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The National Center for Traditional Arts have a specially exhibition for traditional drama. The most stunning production is Stage Components of Hsiao Hsi Yuan.

The traditional hand puppet show’s stage are called “color pavilion” is used the great camphor wood to carve; stuck on gold-foiled color painting, the stage seen like a dazzling, grand, splendid and magnificent palace afar.

Color pavilion can not only segment between the stage and backstage also the performers and audiences; it offers a setting of the show, too. The color pavilion’s carving well or not will affects the show’ complete.

Except color pavilion it has exhibit some representative of puppet, like Liu Pei, Kuan Kung etc; valuable, rare celluloid puppet.

The Hsiao Hsi Yuan Puppet Theater is skillful to performers and brisk overseas, like France, Spain, Sweden, Holland, Germany, U.S.A, Canada etc.
It has traverse the five continents to exhibit the Traditional Taiwanese arts, is called the best culture diplomacy ambassador.

The Hsiao Hsi Yuan Puppet Theater was joining the Ninth Puppet theater contest in Plaque, 2005, with the theme of “Taiwan Temple Fairs”, they won the prize of “the Best Performance”.