傀儡通常称为木偶戏。相传有一次刘邦波困,情况危急,这时部将令人做了许多木偶,装上机关,让木偶在城墙上来回走动,敌军误以为是守城将士,不敢攻城。当对方识破木偶,随即入城,但刘邦早已出城。后来人们把木偶加以化妆,拿到文化娱乐场所表演,便成了最初的木偶戏。唐代扬州便流行木偶戏,街旁酒肆茶坊中均有表演,观众多为普通市民。时至清代,扬州的木偶戏艺术日渐发达,不仅演出频频,且种类也日渐增多,木傀儡、水傀儡、布袋傀儡,相继登台,争 Puppets are often called puppet shows. According to legend, once Liu Bangbo sleepy, the situation is critical, when ministries will make a lot of people make puppets, loaded on organs, so that marionettes walk around the wall, the enemy mistakenly believe that the defenders, afraid to siege. When the other see puppets, then into the city, but Liu Bang already out of town. Later, people put the puppets to make makeup, get the cultural and entertainment venues, has become the first puppet show. Popular puppet show in Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, there are performances in the street wine cafes, the audience are mostly ordinary citizens. By the Qing Dynasty and Yangzhou, puppet theater art became more and more developed. Not only performances but also increasing numbers of puppets, wooden puppets, water puppets and puppet puppets came on the stage one after another