The singings in the shadow play in Hehuang region are mainly positive tune and negative tune.

Positive tune can be heard in the time or occasions of festival or happiness, such as victory on the battlefield, wedding, being enrolled in a good university or any other happy things. And such tune is loud and piping and lively. The singing will become passionate for most of the songs are pleasant and happy. The representative works are "Five Boys Fighting for Top Prize" and "Monkey King and the Pig Evil."

While the negative tune is generally sang with on the occasions of sad, sorrow and comforting someone. Such tune is low and slow. And the representative works are "Ten Months' Pregnancy" and "Mrs. Cen's Education on Her Son."

Hearing the passionate tunes and melodious melodies, and watching the bright leather puppets, how can we come to the idea that it is also one of the eldest films, and it is nothing but the precursor of the modern movie. In the giant work "Histoire du Cinema Mondial," written by George Sadoul, a famous French film historian, once called the Chinese shadow play as "the precursor of the movie." Actors manipulate the leather puppets, whose shadow will project on the screen under the lantern light, similar as that of the movie.