A Little Inventor

Puppet animation about Mr. Dong Guo's encounter with a wolf.

Set in the Three Kingdoms Period, ancient China, India presents Cao Cao an elephant. Cao Cao wants to know the elephant's weight, only his youngest son Cao Chong comes up with an idea to weigh the jumbo.

The Magic Brush is a Chinese animated stop-motion film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A young and kind peasant boy named Ma Liang helped a rich man to tend cattle. He liked drawing and drew pictures everywhere and had the greatest dream to be an artist. He works very hard to achieve this dream even though he doesn't own a paintbrush.

It is said that on this day, the Tang monk, master and apprentice went through thousands of mountains and rivers, and came to a place called Flame Mountain. The flames here stretched for hundreds of miles, blocking the road to the west. It turned out that Sun Dasheng made a disturbance in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago and knocked over the alchemy furnace of the Supreme Lord. The true fire of samadhi descended from the sky, accomplishing another tribulation on the path of learning the scriptures. Tang Seng is frowning, Zhu Bajie retreats before the battle, and Monkey King plans to ask the wife of the Bull Demon King to extinguish the fire with a plantain fan.

During the Lantern Festival, mother took her daughter Xiaomei to a temple fair. Mother bought a beautiful doll for Xiaomei, and asked the master in the toy store to repair the little wooden figure that Xiaomei had damaged. Not long after Xiaomei returned home to play, she burned the legs of the little wooden man, stained the dolls, and threw them in the corner in disgust. Xiaomei falls asleep and dreams of the toys.

Another classic film from Shanghai Animation Film Studio, "Saving Mother" was one of the most popular animations in China. The story is based on the traditional Chinese folklore about a boy named Chen Xiang. His mother was a goddess and his father a mortal. His uncle, Erlang Shen, punished Chen Xiang's parents because their marriage was against the rules of the heavens. Chen Xiang's mother was locked in a mountain until her son split the mountain and saved her.

Uncle Mao and Aunt Mao are well-known surgeons and physicians within hundreds of miles. They are kind, honest and amiable, and their medical ethics and skills are quite praised by the people. Early one morning, the old couple split up and went out for a medical trip. Aunt Mao drank some wedding wine at someone's house after delivering the baby, and started her way home drunk. While lying drunk in the mountains, he encountered a beautiful tiger. The tiger had no intention of harming it, but was very docile. It turned out that it was hoped that Aunt Mao would help it deliver the baby to the tigress at home.

An introduction to Chinese puppet shows, including two plays: "Jiang Gan Steals Books" and "The Road Fights the Injustice" ("Lei Wanchun Fights the Tiger") performed by Yang Sheng and Chen Nantian.

Prince Zhaoshutun stumbles across a gathering of magical women who can transform into peacocks, and is enamored by one in particular named Nan Ma Na Well. When a bird of prey threatens one of the peacock, he kills it using a bow and arrow. With the help of a lake goddess, the prince declares his love for Nan Ma Na Well and she agrees to marry him.

The appearance of the tiger made the bustling forest instantly quiet, and the small animals fled to safe places to hide. When the tiger stopped at the entrance of a cave, the goats in the cave were frightened, but with an idea, it thought of a good way. The goat pretended to be the king, shouted that the tiger meat was delicious, and told the tiger to enter the cave quickly. Later, thinking about it, he was worried that the tiger might really break in, so he simply walked out of the cave, and then used his wisdom to scare the tiger out of his wits.

Jinshan Restaurant's business is bleak, and no one cares about the lobster dinner. The boss accidentally saw news in the newspaper that a group of Red Party members were rounded up at a certain hotel gathering, so he spread the false news that the Red Party members would hold a secret meeting at Jinshan Restaurant...

"Little Heroes" describes the story of the little animals uniting together and bravely fighting hungry wolves.

Watermelon Run is a puppet show animation produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in Mainland China in 1979 . The film is based on Liu Zhengtai 's folktale of the same name, and is divided into upper and lower parts, telling the story of a child soldier during the Shanghai Xiaodaohui uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty .

A painter went to make a portrait of Zhang Baotian, a model worker. On the train, he met a big man. The painter praised Zhang Baotian in front of him, but the big man said that Zhang was nothing special. Later, I realized that the big man turned out to be Zhang Baotian, so he prepared to make a portrait of Zhang.

This art film is a puppet film, which tells an absurd story that happened in a western country. From today's perspective, it has certain political metaphors. The blonde and the silver-haired are a pair of poor orphans. They have beautiful singing voices, but they can only live by begging in the bustling metropolis. The radio station is going to hold a singing competition. The blonde and silver hair become the lucky ones.