How to pronounce Nuo dance?

What is the pronunciation of Nuo dance? [Nuw incarnation]

Nuo dance, also known as ghost play, is the oldest entertainment dance in Han nationality to worship gods and jump ghosts, drive away plague and avoid epidemic, and express Anqing. In the traditional civilization of China, "Nuo" is a social and cultural phenomenon with strong religious and artistic colors, which has a long history and is widely popular among Han people. It originated from the natural worship, totem worship and witchcraft consciousness of Han ancestors.

The origin of Nuo dance is related to primitive hunting, totem worship and witchcraft consciousness. In the Zhou Dynasty, Nuo dance was incorporated into the national ritual system. According to the pre-Qin literature, Nuo ceremony is to adjust Yin and Yang in four seasons to meet the needs of cold and summer, with good weather, abundant crops, safe people and animals, and a prosperous country. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the court Nuo ceremony was unprecedented and spread to Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. At the end of Northern Song Dynasty, the court Nuo instrument adopted a new system, and Nuo developed in the direction of entertainment. Nuo ceremony was rejected because of different beliefs.

Palace furniture was restored in Ming dynasty, but it was no longer held in Qing dynasty. However, the "villagers' Nuo" recorded in The Analects of Confucius and the Rural Party has been continued among the people, and it has been combined with religion, literature and art, and has evolved into various forms of Nuo dance and Nuo opera, which is still popular in the vast rural areas of China, such as Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Anhui and so on.

It is usually carried out from the first day of the lunar new year to the sixteenth day of the first month. Nuo dances usually wear masks of certain roles, including mythical images, secular figures and historical celebrities, thus forming a huge pedigree of Nuo gods. "It is human to take off the mask, and it is god to put on the mask."