Nuo Masks

Nuo Masks

Songtao County, Guizhou Nuo Mask - Zhong Kui

Zhong Kui is known in folklore as a great god who catches, eats and kills ghosts. Rumor has it that the prevalence of Zhong Kui originated from the dream of Emperor Tang Ming Huang, in which Zhong Kui was revered...
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Guizhou Nuo altar theater masks-sin dragon

Sin dragon, is an important role in the Nuo Nuo altar theater program, in Nuo Nuotang opera is not to bring auspicious signs, but is the embodiment of all disasters and evil, is to be driven away to eliminate the...
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Baima Tibetan Mask - His Holiness Chega

Cheega Dharma King, pronounced as "Dangjin Qujia" in Tibetan and meaning Dharma King in Chinese, is the image of Yama manifested by Manjushri, the Bodhisattva, who presents a wrathful appearance. In Qiangm performances, Dharma King Cheegar acts as the principal...
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Baima Tibetan Masks - Dharma Protector God

The Baima Tibetan Dharma Protector Mask of Sichuan is similar to the Qiangm Mask of Tibetan Dharma Protector, also wearing a skull crown and looking down on the world with five eyes. The masks are carved from wood, with simple...
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Jiangxi Nuo masks - eighty king

Eighty big king is jiangxi wuyuan nuo dance deity system in one of the main god, have research wuyuan nuo dance experts think, eighty big king prototype for the yellow emperor era of chi. More said its predecessor for the...
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Guiqi Nuo masks-recruitment of soul messenger

Recruiting soul messenger is Guizhi Nuo opera "chapter Wenxian" character in the play, black face and wide mouth, not angry since the power, combined with the black and blue color of the face on behalf of the fierce character, immediately...
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Jiangxi Wanzai Nuo masks-Ouyang Jinjia generals

General Ouyang Jinjia is unique to Jiangxi Wanzai Nuo God, also known as General, Grand Master, is said to be the first of the twenty-four wrongful death of the Nuo God of the Nuo musicians. This twenty-four musicians because the...
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Jiangxi Nuo Nuo theater masks-Wang Lingguan

Wang Lingguan is a forehead with God's eyes, and the fire is inseparable from the gods, so in Nuo altar, often Wang Lingguan as a god to send the gods expel the epidemic of the gods, through its fire to...
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Nuo Nuo theater masks-small ghosts

Small ghosts, in many Nuo opera have appeared. "Guangya - release day" said: "the gods of things called ghosts." As early as in primitive society, mankind has the belief that ghosts. Ghosts also have good and evil points, to bring...