锣鼓喧天。庙前
布袋戏台上正热烈地搬演着
好戏呀！好戏吗？
观众则稀少到几乎没有
所有早年的情况顿时狂奔向我：
那时几乎也都在庙前
观众很多，大人小孩男女老幼都有
热闹滚滚，有时还挤得水泄不通
叫卖零食的喊叫声此起彼落
戏台上则热闹地上演着
戏偶有许多样貌
文弱书生有，吟诵着诗词
孔武有力的武士有
甚至有生毛带角的
携着武器的，不携武器的
正派与反派厮杀成一团
使利器，吐剑光，甚至不必近身就致对方于死地
胜的扬眉吐气猛追
败的或反抗或奔逃
好像有些是虚拟的，天地外才发生的事
把什么天空地道都闹得沸沸扬扬
观众的情绪随戏码而起伏波动
后来戏转到电视台
剧情更离奇
人物更怪异
轰动到小孩子在学校考试时回答历史题目
曰：明末民族英雄误答为戏中人物史艳文
我每天的午饭配布袋戏
可是现在呢？现在的情况就在眼前：
虽然戏台上正热烈地搬演着
观众却少之又少，一点热闹不起来
这样的布袋戏演给谁看？
有人说现在的布袋戏是搬演给神明看的
是吗？不是？
这是什么道理？是时光把戏码搬走了？
是搬演者技术差？
是剧情不离奇？
或是人物不怪异？
还是观众已冷血了？
还是现在的戏码来自宇宙第几度空间？
谁也给不出答案。
For Whom is Glove puppetry Performed Hsu ChiCheng
It’s deafening sound of gongs and drums. In front of the temple
It’s warm performing glove puppetry on the stage
A good theatre! Is it a good theatre?
The spectators is scarce to almost zero
It runs wildly toward me all the situation of yore:
It’s almost in front of the temple too
Many spectators are there, there are all adult, child, male, female
Bustling and exciting, even to be jam-packed with people sometimes
The sounds which the retailers shout their wares rise here and subside there
There are performing with bustling and exciting on the stage
There are many appearances of the puppets
There are gentle and frail scholars, they who recite poems and ci poem
There are strong and powerful knights
Even there are the animal fur in their bodies and horns on their heads
There are either takes arms or not
Honest and upright fight with the oppose
Hold weapon, throw up sword light, even cause death the oppose with not near him
The winners pursue and attack closely who filled with pride elation
The fails may counterattack or escape hurriedly
It likes the fabricate thing which just come about outside the earth
Makes trouble into bubbling with noise everywhere
Rise here and subside there the spectator’s mood follow theatrical programme
It turns to television hereafter
It’s more fantastic than before in the plot
It’s more monstrous than before in the figure
Makes a great sensation that the children to answer the question of history test:
Responded by mistake that the nation hero is Se En Wen
And I match my lunch with glove puppetry performance
However, what about now? The situation of now is right before my eyes:
Though it’s warm performing on the stage
The spectators are as few as it can be and without bustling
For whom is thus glove puppetry performed?
Someone said that the puppetry performance now was performed for God
Yes? No?
What’s the reason? Is it the time carry away the theatrical programme?
Is it the skill difference the performer?
Is it the plot isn’t fantastic?
Is it the figure not monstrous?
Or is it the spectator is cold-blooded?
Or is it the theatrical programme comes from what dimensional space of universe?
No one can give the answer.@
责任编辑：林芳宇
