Nuo dance is a popular dance in ancient Changjiang Dai Valley of China. Dancers wear all kinds of simple and exaggerated masks with distinctive witchcraft colors. It was originally a blessing ceremony, and later it gradually developed into a folk dance.
It is recorded in The Analects of Confucius, Encyclopedia of Ancient and Modern Events and Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty. Nuo dance is quite popular in Qingyuan Village, Qiukou Township and Likeng Village. ?
There are forty or fifty kinds of Nuo dance masks, which are generally woodcarving, vivid, loyal and treacherous, ignorant, happy and sad. There are dozens of traditional programs of Nuo dance, such as Creation of the Earth, Liu Hai Beating Golden Toad, Two Monkeys Catching Ticks, Shooting the Sun in Houyi, Zhang Fei Sacrificing a Gun, Drunk Judge, and the Monkey King Descending Rat Essence. The dance moves are rough and simple. ?
2. Dragon lantern?
Around the Lantern Festival every year, there is a custom of dancing dragon lanterns in rural areas such as Yushan, Wuyuan and Shangrao County. In other words, bamboo bone colored paper is tied into the dragon tail, and every household is tied with a dragon body. Every household is equipped with a long bench with two to five lanterns tied on it as the dragon's body.
Candles are lit in each lantern, and two lanterns on each lantern are 2 meters long and held by one person. One-stop lamps are composed of hundreds of panel lamps. On the night of Lantern Festival, walking on the village road, the lights reflected the sky, like a Youlong. It attracted thousands of people and the scene was spectacular. ?
3. Dragon boat race?
Every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, Xinzhou District of Shangrao City and Boyang, Yugan and other counties in the lakeside area will hold dragon boat races of various sizes. In the Xinjiang River Basin and Poyang Lake, colorful flags fluttered and drums burst, and all kinds of dragon boats scrambled to attract a large number of people on both sides of the strait to cheer, and the road was blocked for a while. ?