China's Nuo culture in Guizhou, Guizhou's Nuo opera in Dejiang, Dejiang's Nuo culture in the stable ping, stable ping town is known as "Nuo opera township". Nuo super originated in primitive society, legend has it that the apes ate animals, unintentionally hit the fire with a stone, eat on the burnt animal meat, feel the taste and happy to jump up and down, sang, in order to thank heaven and earth, and after generations of Tujia people's collection, processing, finishing, resulting in a special minority of Tujia culture - Nuo opera.
This original play - Nuo Tang opera, known as the drama of the "living fossil", initially used by the Tujia people to wish, pay God, over the activities. Nuo have Nuo Nuo mother, including: "open altar sacrifice", "pass the text", "into the stove", "catch Luo under the net", "demolition altar put soldiers", "open hole", "open road general", "lead soldiers land", "open mountain", "Anan gift", "Guan Gong chopped Cai Yang", "King grab the vanguard", "Shasha", "on the knife and ladder", "open red mountain" and so on. Nuo opera has a protagonist and supporting role, each activity consists of 4 to 10 people, with props, costumes, music. Commonly used props have order flag, horn, teacher knife, card with, order plate, God whip, God stick, sword, gossip, wooden fish, God drum, etc., integrated music, dance, rap, legal affairs, martial arts as one of the integrated performing arts. The whole play is divided into "half of the play" (12 God-faced characters) and "full play" (24 God-faced characters), some of the play is still unsolved mysteries, such as "open red mountain", "on the knife and ladder" and so on.
Nuo opera as a minority culture of the Tujia people, long history, carrying a deep national heritage. Through generations of outstanding Nuo opera performers inherited, Nuo opera famous at home and abroad, was named the national intangible cultural heritage.