Archives

Yang Ren is a general in the Zhou army in the Nuo opera *Fengshen Bang* (The Investiture of the Gods). Due to slander by Su Daji and the foolishness of King Zhou, he was persecuted and lost his eyes. His...

  Nuo ceremonies mark the initiation of Nuo rituals, colloquially referred to as "Kaitan" (opening the altar) by Nuo opera masters. Aside from the sacrificial elements, Nuo dance is also integrated into the process. The master of the altar first...

Here is the English translation of the full summary: Full Summary This book is part of the compilation of Chinese Nuo drama scripts — "Guangchang Meng Opera". Edited by Zhu Hengfu, it collects various scripts of Meng Opera from the...

Here is the English translation of the full summary: Full Summary This book is a research work on Deng Nuo culture and ritual drama, chief planned by Zeng Yongyi, written by Du Xiuming, and published by the National Publishing House....

Here is the English translation of the book introduction: Content Overview The world recorded in world history is an incomplete world, and China recorded in the Twenty-Four Histories is an incomplete China. Just as there are wild flowers and cultivated...

In the flow of human culture, there has always been both primitive sensory culture and mature rational "civilized" culture. In the past, it was believed that these two types of culture had distinctions in superiority and chronological order. However, today's...

Book Introduction Full Summary This book is a monograph on Guizhou Nuo culture, written by the author. It mainly introduces the classification and origins of Nuo masks in Guizhou region, and explores the natural forms in Nuo mask designs. Additionally,...

This book also attempts to provide some preliminary cultural interpretations of Nuo using anthropological methods. I am not a specialist in anthropological research, but rather a "rural wild child" eavesdropping on students' recitations outside the window of the anthropology classroom....

Full Text Summary This book, titled "Research on Chinese Nuo Culture", is a professional work aimed at exploring the origins and development of Nuo culture through the study of existing Nuo phenomena materials in the Guizhou region. It seeks to...