Children watch folk artist Yuan Youen perform Shoulder Pole Drama, a local traveling puppet drama show, in Balizhuang Village in Neihuang County, Henan Province, Aug. 23, 2009. Yuan, at his seventies, who began performing Shoulder Pole Drama when he was 25, is now the only Shoulder Pole Drama artist alive in the village. [Chang Zhongzheng/Xinhua]