What is the Nuo culture of Maonan nationality? What are the two cultural treasures of Maonan nationality?

Maonan is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, living in Huanjiang County, the only Maonan autonomous county in northwest Guangxi, at the southeast foot of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. At present, there are more than 50,000 Maonan people. Maonan nationality has formed a unique culture and art in the long historical development and produced two cultural treasures. One is Nuo culture, which is called fat cover by local people, and the other is that Maonan women use local unique bamboo to weave exquisite straw hats through ingenious weaving methods, which are called top-stuck flowers and flower bamboo hats by local people.

When people mention Nuo opera, they immediately think of exaggerated masks, huge dances, weird and loud voices, and all kinds of musical instruments playing together, which is deafening. Maonan Nuo culture is similar to this. Nuo opera is a living fossil of modern opera and the most primitive drama transformed from ancient witchcraft. The Nuo opera culture along the river in Guangxi is called Feitao. Performers will wear gorgeous costumes, wooden masks with exaggerated expressions and make all kinds of strange sounds. There are three people on the stage, once, clean and ugly, conveying rich educational content.

The Maonan nationality originally held a fat gathering to repay the favor of the Long Live Empress, so that the whole nation could continue to multiply. A huge wooden mask hung on the performer's face. Masks draw different faces in various colors to show the irresistible force of nature, which contains the good wishes of the whole Maonan people that their nation will multiply and harvest every year.

The flower bamboo hat woven by Maonan women has been circulated for hundreds of years, and it is the first choice for every local woman to get married. The material of the flower bamboo hat is made of bamboo and ink bamboo sticks which are abundant in the local area. Exquisite local women will weave all kinds of exquisite patterns on the top of the flower bamboo hat and then paint it in different colors, which makes a small hat have very high artistic value. The most practical value of the flower bamboo hat is to keep out the wind and rain.