June 12, 2012 was the days when Europe Cup was going on, and Poznan was the one of the spots of Europe Cup matches held, where the football events drew the attention of the local people. But unexpectedly, hundreds of people hurried to the grand Opera Theatre on time in order to view the shadow puppetry show “Ghost Youliu” organized by Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University by booking tickets.

Shadow puppet play has been known as an ancient type of Chinese „movie”, and has been viewed as traditional folk art that can best demonstrate the lingering charm of a combination of vision and actuality in Chinese culture. “All things can be sung by one mouth and millions of soldiers are performed by two hands”. For a long period of history shadow puppetry has become an enchanting part of traditional Chinese culture.

Shadow puppetry “Ghost Youliu” was jointly planed by Han Chi, director of Han Feizi Company, and Sarah Oppenheim, renown young French director, and Han Feizi, Poet and playwright, was invited to rewrite traditional Chinese classic play “Death of Judge of Hell” in innovation into a magic Peking Opera and shadow puppetry combined with traditional Chinese Peking Opera art and shadow puppet art.

Han Feizi Company, visiting and playing in France, was invited to play in Poznan by Confucius Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University.