Yuan Youen, a folk artist, performs Shoulder Pole Drama, a local traveling puppet drama show the performer of which loads the stage property by a shoulder pole, in Balizhuang Village in Neihuang County, central China's Henan Province, Aug. 23, 2009. Yuan, in his seventies, who began performing Shoulder Pole Drama when he was 25, is now the only Shoulder Pole Drama artist alive in the village. (Xinhua/Chang Zhongzheng)