Performing joys and sorrows at the fingertips, why is puppetry called the 'ancestor of all dramas'?

Puppetry, also known as 'puppet show', is known as the 'ancestor of opera', and it is a visual and auditory feast that has been passed down for thousands of years. The actors in human drama are called 'actors', and the actors in puppetry are called 'sirs'. During the Three Kingdoms period, Ma Jun's 'Water Turns Hundred Dramas' was an imitation of the human drama of the Han Dynasty. A hanging silk puppet was unearthed from a Western Han tomb in Laixi, Shandong, which is the evidence of the formal transition from figurines to puppets. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, there were hanging silk puppets (string puppets), rod head puppets (stick puppets), medicine hair puppets (flower puppets), meat puppets (palanquin), water puppets, etc. In Zhejiang, there are currently Taishun string puppet show, Pingyang puppet show, Cangnan single file puppet show (palm show), Twenty-eight puppet show (Ming), Taishun medicine hair puppet show (Qionghua puppet), etc.