What kind of folk drama should wear a woodcarving mask?

Wear a woodcarving mask when performing local operas in Anshun, Guizhou.

Anshun local drama, commonly known as "jumping the gods", is a traditional folk drama with wooden masks unique to Tunpu people in Anshun City. It is the most dynamic, distinctive and humanistic cultural phenomenon in Tunpu culture. Its simple and rude performance style and humanistic spirit have been widely concerned and welcomed, and it is known as "the living fossil of China's drama" and "the museum of Chinese drama history".

In 2006, Anshun local opera was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The origin of local opera is related to the development of central Guizhou in the early Ming Dynasty. It is said that in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent "barbarian" rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, ordered troops to be stationed and cities built in Anshun and Pingba, Guizhou.

With the entry of Ming army and southern immigrants, the Central Plains culture was also brought into Guizhou, and the Nuo culture, which was mainly to sacrifice to drive away evil spirits and epidemics, was also brought in. The military Nuo prevailing in the Ming army, which integrates sacrifice, exercise and entertainment, merged with the folk Nuo handed down from the Central Plains, and finally formed Anshun local opera.

Characteristics and inheritance significance

The remarkable feature of Anshun local opera is that during the performance, dancers wear green scarves, waist skirts, masks on their foreheads, spears and halberds in their hands, singing and dancing in response. He sang a rap that rhymed with a seven-character cross. Accompanied by a gong and a drum, one person leads the singer, which has a aftertaste of Yiyang old tune. The main characteristics of his dance are fighting and killing, vigorous and rough, simple and vigorous.

Anshun local opera is an important part of Tunpu culture, which is isomorphic with other cultural phenomena of Tunpu people (language, clothing, architecture, etc.). ) The 600-year-old legacy of Jiangnan in Ming and Qing Dynasties has attracted the attention of people at home and abroad.

Anshun local opera is a living teaching material for studying drama genetics, anthropology, religion, folklore, aesthetics, history, linguistics and other disciplines. Tunpu people in Anshun practice and inherit Wushu in a unique way. For them, local opera is not only art, but also a spiritual sustenance.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anshun Xidi