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What is Nuo culture?

Nuo culture is one of the Chinese humanities ancestor culture.

Nuo culture is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. The legend of the origin of Nuo God, preserved the ancient memory of the rest of mankind after the flood, recorded the ancient human life after the disaster, conquering nature, transforming nature, reproducing the arduous course of human beings.

Which Nuo is the meaning of the bird in the Miao language. Modern Chinese pinyin Miao language is written in naox. And Nuo is the god of birds. Miao is the bird god as a totem of the nation.

Expanded Information:

In the exorcism of the altar, enshrined in the most common, and from the myths and legends is the God of the originator, Nuo Nuo and Nuo Nuo, they are exorcism beliefs in the supremacy of the most prestigious exorcism God.

According to legend, Nuo Nuo, Nuo original siblings. In a very long time ago, the world's water, flooding the earth houses, crops, millions of people and animals were swallowed by the flood, brother and sister fled to a very high mountain, only to be spared.

The two siblings, seeing the fields, houses, people and livestock were devastated, the human race is facing the danger of extinction, the heart is very anxious. The two of them discussed it again and again, and in order to reproduce and rebuild a better life on earth, they simply got married.

But there is no such thing as a brother and sister in the world. The two siblings discussed a way, each holding a stone mill, from the east and west to roll down the mountain, if the two rolled together, the two stone mill together, will be married.

If they do not roll together, it means they are not destined to be married. So the brother and sister each hold a stone mill rolled down from the mountain, rolled to the mountain flat ground, just two people rolled together, the stone mill is also complete together, that God is in favor of their marriage, the brother and sister then determined to get married.

From then on, the two plowed the fields, spinning and weaving, children, generation after generation of prosperity, the earth, and a school of life. Therefore, later people Nuo and Nuo Nuo mother-in-law as the originator of mankind.

In accordance with local custom, where the marriage long childless, they will pray to Nuo Nuo, Nuo mother-in-law, and wish to letter, and later pregnant or born children please end public practices a hall, or theater reward.

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