Nanfeng Nuo Dance Nanfeng Nuo Dance, commonly known as "Dance Nuo", is a folk dance that gradually evolved after years of continuous reform and innovation, following the ancient ritual of exorcism and epidemic prevention. Tracing back to the source, there are Nuo records in the written history of China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins has the word "Kou", which is an ancient weapon to kill ghosts indoors. The word "dance" is recorded in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is the image of a masked man. It shows that there was masked exorcism dance before Shang Dynasty. Later, it was recorded in The Analects of Confucius, Lu Chunqiu and Zhou Li. The Book of Rites describes Nuo in more detail. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng's Ode to Tokyo also described the Nuo dance. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, Nuo dance was a sacrificial dance to exorcise epidemic ghosts. After the Song Dynasty, Nuo dance added entertainment elements and gradually developed in a dramatic direction. Nanfeng Nuo Dance is regarded as "the living fossil of China ancient dance" by Jiangxi Volume, a collection of Chinese folk dances, because of its simple movements, rigidity and primitive style. Nanfeng has a history, which began in the Han Dynasty. According to the Records of Jinsha Nuo in the genealogy of Yu Rebuild in Xixi Township, Nanfeng, "Hui (the author of this article) tasted the old records of the city records of the Song Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, General Wu Rui was the King of Junshan. He once begged a thief from Chen Ping to stay in Junshan, and said to enriching the people,' There will be swords and swords in this place for decades, with towering military valleys and angry bells. Ji Bian also quoted Shimonoseki, Zhou Li, as saying, "Fang wants to drive God with his palm, bear skin with four eyes and Geyang shield, and all the epidemics will be eliminated. It can be seen that the reason why Nuo "dances" is to suppress evil spirits and drive away epidemics. Under the system of Han Cheng in Tang Dynasty, the court Nuo ceremony was large in scale, and the Kaiyuan Grand Ceremony promulgated by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty made specific provisions on Nuo ceremonies in counties. In Nanfeng, the migration of population promoted the development of Nuo dance. It is recorded in "Rebuilding the Genealogy of Jinsha Jade" that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, jade moved from Raozhou (now Poyang) to Nanfeng, and invited the God of Qingyuan Miao Dao Zhen Jun to move to Jinsha, "to set up a temple to worship, burn incense when old, and keep it as' exorcism'. "So he invited more than ten disciples Meng Xiongrong, decorated with yi zhu and Zhu Shang, to hold a shield to ward off bad omen, which was a habit of Yu's life." Since the end of the year, new roles such as judge, Zhong Kui, little sister, land and kitchen god have appeared in Nuo ceremonies, and the elements of entertaining people have gradually increased. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Tang, a native of Nanfeng, wrote the poem "Observing Nuo", saying that "the drums are crisp and ghosts and gods change into operas" (for the whole poem, see Wen Juan, Zheng Wen), and described in detail the performance of Nanfeng Nuo Dance Opera at that time. In Ming Dynasty, folk Nuo was very active. According to "You's Wu Family Tree Reconstruction", during the Xuande period (1426- 1435), Wu Chaozong, a county magistrate, returned to his hometown to serve as the magistrate of Haiyang County, Guangdong Province, and was building Nuo temples and organizing Nuo classes. The well has been active ever since. In the 11th year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (15 16), the entry of "twelfth lunar month" in Jianchang Mansion Records shows that "children dance in the city with masks, like ancient Nuo instruments". At that time, Nuo dance had broken through the category of Nuo instrument and formed a folk dance to entertain people and gods. Since the Qing Dynasty, some Nanfeng Nuo dances have been infiltrated by other cultures, and drama performances and martial arts movements have been integrated into the Nuo dance performances, and some have drawn content from legendary novels, fairy tales and folklore to create new programs. Nanfeng Nuo Dance has been handed down from generation to generation from the Han Dynasty to the present, and has experienced the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the founding of New China, Nanfeng Nuo Dance, with the attention of the party and the state, has been sent to excavate, arrange, study and innovate many times, and its ancient artistic appearance has taken on a new look. 65438-0953, Nanfeng Nuo Dance won the Jiangxi Classical Art Award and the Central South Folk Art Concert. 1954, the county held a Nuo dance performance, with 26 classes and teams participating. 1955, Chinese opera researcher Huang Zhinei and other Nanfeng visited Nuo dance; Subsequently, Sheng Jie, Secretary General of China Dance Art Research Association, and his party went to Nanfeng to investigate and collect data, which lasted 1 month. 1957 In March, the second national folk music and dance performance was held in Beijing, and the Ministry of Culture invited Nanfeng Youshi Nuo Dance to participate. In May of the same year, the film crew of Jiangxi News of Jiangxi Film Studio produced the album Nanfeng Nuo Dance. Professional literary and art groups at the central and provincial levels have also sent people to Nanfeng many times to collect folk songs, and created dance programs such as Celebrating Folk Music with a Covenant, Harvesting Music, and Creating the World with Nuo Dance Words. The traditional Nuo dances excavated and arranged by literary and art workers in this county and the folk world, as well as their newly-edited Nuo dances "King of Orange", "Racing", "Picking Up the Ears of Crops" and "Boundary Monument" have participated in folk world literary performances all over the country, regions, provinces and regions for many times, all of which have been well received. 1953, Kuoyuan Nuo Dance, Shuinan Nuo Dance and Shuibei Hehe Dance participated in the first folk art exhibition in Jiangxi Province and won the classical art award. They participated in the first folk art exhibition in Central and South China that year; From 65438 to 0957, You's Nuo Dance was invited by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the second national folk music and dance performance held in Beijing. In the same year, Jiangxi Film Studio came to Nanfeng County to make Nanfeng Nuo Dance Album. 1959 The newly choreographed Nuo dance "Orange King" was selected to participate in the second rural cultural performance in Jiangxi Province, among which 26 Nuo classes participated in the rural amateur cultural performance held in the Spring Festival of 1954. During the "Cultural Revolution", Nuo masks, costumes and props were regarded as "four old", all of which were burned, and Nuo dancing activities were forced to stop. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Nanfeng Nuo Dance has developed rapidly and Nuo instruments have been protected. In order to carry forward the national culture, Nanfeng Nuo dance is full of youth. 1985, there were as many classes in Nanfeng as 108. In the same year, Zhou Hezuo, a member of Zhoujiabao Nuo Dance Class, was accepted as a member of Chinese Dancers Association and was elected as the second director of Jiangxi Branch of Chinese Dancers Association. From 1986, the county Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the county cultural center jointly conducted a survey on Nuo dance, and in that year, they completed the Information Book of Nanfeng Nuo Dance, which included Mountain Opening (Shitie Class), Lei Gong, Hehe, Paper Money and Nuo Gong. Kaitong, King Kong, God of Wealth, Kuixing Diandou, etc. 16 programs were incorporated into China folk dance and integrated into Fuzhou area. 1June, 989 Shuinan Village of Qiaobei Township became a farmers' Nuo Dance Art Troupe; In September of the same year, Nanfeng Nuo Dance "Nuo Wind" went to Beijing to attend the second China Art Festival and won the prize. 1992 The Nuo Dance Performance Team of Youshi Village, sanxi town, jointly organized by Jiangxi Branch of Chinese Dancers Association, Nanfeng County Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Nanfeng County sanxi town Government, gave a special performance for 100 domestic experts attending the Guangxi International Symposium on Nuo Opera, which once again shook the altar of Nuo Opera. Mr. Qu, the president of China Nuo Opera Research Association and a famous opera theorist, said: "You's Nuo Opera is indeed the oldest existing opera in China." Nanfeng Nuo Dance is known as "the living fossil of ancient dance in China", and Nanfeng County is also known as "the hometown of Nuo Dance".