Nuo opera mask role and cultural significance of the introduction

Nuo opera mask in Nuo opera has a very important position, is an inseparable part of Nuo opera. From this we can also see that Nuo opera masks for Nuo opera has a very important meaning and role. So, let's go to Nuo opera culture specifically to see what significance and role it.

The role and significance of Nuo opera masks:

In ancient times, Nuo worship, Nuo opera popularity is very wide, the southwest belt, the Yangtze River Basin, the Yellow River Basin, Nengjiang River Basin are popular. But with the development of society and cultural evolution, Nuo worship, Nuo opera in the Nengjiang River Basin, the Yellow River Basin, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is declining.

However, the remote southwestern region, especially the ethnic minority areas, the long-standing transportation isolation, backward science and technology, the formation of low productivity level of the closed social environment and ethnic minorities unique cultural personality, as well as the culture of the Central Plains, Jingchu culture, the tragic penetration of the culture of BaShu, Nuo Nuo rituals and plays for the survival and development of Nuo provides a fertile soil.

A vast area centered on Guizhou, including the province of Guizhou, Yunnan Dongdu, southwestern Hubei, Hunan, western and southwestern Hunan, northern Guangxi, and to this day, still for the stalls and Nuo opera popular areas, and preserved the most Nuo opera, the most complete varieties, the most significant features. This region's colorful Nuo opera group can be roughly summarized into three categories, namely, the play, Nuo Tang opera, change people play.

In the Nuo festival, Nuo opera mask plays a very important role. Nuo wind prevalent during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, in order to obtain a strong ancestral effect in the stall sacrifice, presided over the Nuo sacrifice Fang Xiang's wearing a "gold four eyes" mask.

> said: "Fang Xiang's palm masked bearskin, gold, four eyes, Xuanjie end of the garment, holding the Go Yang Shield, Shuai Hundred subordinates and stalls, to Suo room to drive away the epidemic." Fang Xiang's become a ghost driven by the epidemic, eliminate disaster Naji deified image, that look mysterious and fearful. In the show, Nuo opera masks have become an important means of Nuo opera styling 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 theater.

With the Nuo festival and the development of Nuo opera masks, far-flung, colorful. In addition to & gt; and so many generations of literature on Nuo opera masks made a more vivid and graphic description, over the years, some places have been unearthed and found a lot of Nuo opera masks belonging to the ancient, ancient, ancient, ancient Nuo opera masks in kind and mask images, found that since modern times, Nuo opera masks in kind is more abundant.

For example, Sichuan Wushan Daxi excavated double-sided stone human face, Shandong No Showing County, Gangshang Village excavated jade human face, Gansu Yongchang Yuanyang pool excavated stone human face, Liaoning Niuliang River Hongshan cultural sites excavated clay goddess head and so on is the ancient period is very representative of Nuo opera masks. Henan Anyang and Joon County, Beijing Fangshan and Pinggu, Shaanxi Xi'an and Chenggu and other places unearthed bronze masks are typical representatives of the Shangzhou period (ancient) Nuo opera masks.

Xilin, Guangxi excavated bronze masks of the Western Han Dynasty, Jiangsu Xuzhou excavated jade masks of the Western Han Dynasty, Hunan Xupu excavated Han Dynasty talcum swallow mouth and so on is the typical Nuo opera masks in the ancient period. Nearly ancient and modern since the survival of Nuo opera masks, the country counted up, can be described as thousands, part of which is obtained through archaeological excavations, a larger part of the until now still circulating in the private sector or Nuo opera artists collection.

Nuo opera masks of cultural significance:

Although Nuo opera masks are given a complex and mysterious variety of religious and folkloric meanings, but it is not lost in the garden of art treasures. It itself is a kind of plastic art, following its own artistic rules and principles. Its modeling, often due to the role of different and different.

Its expression is mainly based on the changes in the five senses and decorations to complete the character of the swarthy, fierce, fierce, mighty, stern, stable, deep, calm, heroic, arrogant, treacherous, funny, loyal, upright, fierce, perverse, amiable, gentle, beautiful, kind and so on the character of the image building.

From the theater point of view, the mask has the function of artistic spokesman, what role generally wear what masks have to pay attention to. At the same time, a variety of different mask modeling once displayed, people will get endless artistic beauty. The beauty of plagiarism, the beauty of ferocity, the beauty of hideousness, the beauty of rigidity, the beauty of Yingqi ...... is not shown.

Nuo opera masks of various artistic styling, texture selection, color application, utilitarian purposes, folk imagery, etc., are due to geographical, ethnic, cultural, aesthetic and other aspects of the difference. Because of this, Nuo opera masks are more varied and colorful. The following three typical Nuo opera and its masks on the ground play, Nuo Church play, change people play so a brief introduction and a little discussion.