[DESC] 【Bilibili】Chinese dance- 牵丝戏/Puppet Show

Song’s story (from a comment/founded on BaiDu): From youth I could see ghosts/spirits. On a snowy day in a abandoned shrine I’ve encountered an old man holding a wooden puppet in his hand. The man’s hair was all white and clothes were ragged and old but his wooden puppet was well-made, like a live beauty, tear drops (water bubble-like drops) on her eyelashes and eyebrows, it makes people fall in love at first sight. The snow outside grew wilder so the two decided to sit around and warm up together around the fire. The old man talks to himself: “When I was young I loved to see puppet shows. It was because I’ve wanted to study intensively puppet shows, I’ve used up all of my youth. When I’ve finished learning it, I’ve already became old, but it’s also because of that (that=old age), I’ve became more determined, therefore I’ve made puppet show my career. Even though I’ve received happiness for myself, I was ‘floating around’ for my whole life, no places to stay, no love that will be with me for my life, the only thing I have is my puppet”. The old man mourns as he talks, I comforted him, inviting him to perform a show together, make a puppet show, he picks up his puppet and started performing on the 3 chi (Chinese measurement) red cloth, the puppet, sings gracefully, danced gracefully. Even though [the puppet] is drawn with a frowned face, it was still beautiful as ever. After we finished performing, the old man, holding his puppet, slowly calms down, but then suddenly he shouts with anger: “I’ve been living low my whole life, is all caused by you (at the puppet), can’t even buy some clothes when the days are cold, crawled (metaphor) all the way here, why don’t I burn you away instead (notice it’s not a question)”. Right after, he threw his puppet into the fire. I couldn’t stop him in time, [I] can only stomp my feet, grief about the puppet. Suddenly I see the puppet slowly stands up (remember she/he said she/he can say ghosts/spirits), faces the old man with a sad face, bows with both hands in front, bows as a sign of a eternal departure, as if it was a real human, smiles as it drowns in the waves of the fire. The fire extinguished the next day, the old man quickly realized, facepalms while crying: “It’s warm now but now..I really am by myself...” TAT it’s so sad but I’m still not sure whether I should translate the song or not (totally not because I’m lazy) Comment from:    • 牽絲戲 by 銀臨 & Aki阿杰 QIAN SI XI   Video from (second one): https://m.bilibili.com/video/av646727...