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  Can't focus on reading the article? Let the Nuo Opera radio read it to you! "Dong dong qiang, dong dong qiang..." In Tianjing Village, Gongxi Township, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province, during major festivals and peak tourist seasons,...

  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...

Can't focus on reading? Listen to the Nuo Opera Radio! In the long river of Chinese culture, Nuo opera masks have become treasures of folk art with their unique charm and profound cultural heritage. They are not just props for...

As soon as the winter break began in 2010, I rushed to Ceheng to conduct a field study on Buyi culture before the Spring Festival. Before coming, I had read in some articles about an ancient Buyi Nuo opera called...

Nuo, Those Messages from Ancient Times - Analysis of Chinese Nuo Cultural Forms and Thinking [Abstract] Nuo is an ancient and vast historical cultural system. It is related to human birth, aging, illness and death, and thus to human life...

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...

Here is the English translation of the provided Chinese text, maintaining the original formatting and links: "Wearing a mask, one becomes a god; taking off the mask, one returns to being human." In Nuo culture, a Nuo mask allows the...

Masks of Nuo Opera: A Visual Journey Image 1: Su Liwen, a folk "shaman" from the Nuo Opera troupe in Lengshuijiang, China. Photo by intern Gong Wei. Image 2: A Nuo Opera artist performing live. Photo by Xie Zhengyu from...

In the ancient Western Jin Dynasty, historian Sima Biao's "Continuation of the Book of Han" recorded a ritual called "expelling pestilence". This ritual was performed on the day before La Festival, led by selected sons of imperial guards wearing red...

As the Spring Festival approaches, every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, men and women of all ages gather in front of the "Nuo God Temple" in Shiyou Village, Nanfeng County, Jiangxi Province, which is isolated...