Nuo opera：
Nuo opera is a kind of Chinese festival procession where people wear masks and play messengers of the gods，in order to pray that everything goes well in the coming year.
In the Nuo festival, Nuo opera mask plays a very important role. Nuo wind prevalent in the Shang and Zhou periods, in order to obtain a strong ancestral effect in the stalls, presided over the Nuo festival Fang Xiang’s wearing a “gold four eyes” mask. “Fang Xiang’s palm masked bear skin, gold four eyes, the end of the Xuanjie clothes, holding the Go Yang Shield, handsome hundreds of subordinates and when the stalls to Suo room to drive away the epidemic.” Fang Xiang’s into the “ghosts and epidemics, disaster relief Na Ji’s deification of the image, the appearance of the mysterious and fearful. In the stall performance, Nuo opera masks have become an important means of Nuo opera modelling art, but also Nuo opera is the most important, the most typical props. Actors wearing Nuo opera masks is Nuo opera is different from other important features of the theatre.
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According to the role of wearing a painted mask, commonly known as “face”, divided into a Wei, two net, three students, four Dan, five ugly, six outside, seven sticker Dan, eight small students; its performance is commonly known as “jumping exorcism”, accompanied by gongs and drums on the scene. Representatives of the repertoire are “catching yellow ghosts”, “Zhang Wenxian”, “Xue Rengui East”, “Pang’s female”, “Dragon King’s daughter”, “Liangshan land” and so on.
From 2006 to 2014, Nuo opera (Wuan Nuo opera, Chizhou Nuo opera, Dong Nuo opera, Yuanling Chenzhou Nuo opera, Dejiang Nuo Nuo play Wanzai opening Nuo, Hefeng Nuo opera, Enshi Nuo opera, Renzhuang fan drums Nuo opera, De’an Pangong opera, Meishan Nuo opera, Libo Buyi Nuo Nuo opera Linwu Nuo opera, Qingtan) have been included in the national representative list of intangible cultural heritage projects.
Nuo mask carving techniques require strict rules, square and round fall road, deep religious tradition. From the selection of materials (balsam camphor wood) to the completion of a complete Nuo face, please God, open blanks, facelift, polishing, primer, painting gold, raw beard, light, worship, An abdominal offal, recruiting, and other processes are missing one not less. Finally, with gold, red, yellow, black and white five-colour paint according to the mask form on the paint and paint gold, before finally completed a Nuo mask.
The story is about the friendship of a monster with a scary mask and a lonely child. they meet each other by chance in the forest and become friends. The theme of the story is affirmative action. The child sees the goodness of the monster through his scary mask, their friendship is not limited by race, age, or other conditions.