Nuo Opera (Pinyin: nuóxì), also known as Nuo Dance, is one of the local operas in China. It developed from the ancient Nuo instruments in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. At first, the story was performed by singing and dancing. When the image of Zhong Kui appeared in Nuo ceremony, Nuo opera came into being. Zhong Kui's story of playing the ghost began with Yi Shi, a collection of strange stories in the Tang Dynasty. The image of Zhong Kui in the opera is transplanted from the novel. He went to Beijing to fight Zhong Kui three times, and died of anger because of Yang Zhiquan. The jade emperor pitied his integrity, sealed the judge and ruled the ghosts and gods on earth. The green, yellow, red, white, black and five ghosts refused to obey, making a scene, and were surrendered by Zhong Kui. Nuo opera is popular in Sichuan, Guizhou, Guichi, Qingyang, Anhui and mountainous areas in western Hubei. Actors wearing wicker masks play the legendary exorcist-exorcist, and perform repetitive and large-scale procedural dance movements, mostly on fixed festivals. Very primitive dance style.

Nuo Opera, also known as Nuo Opera and Duangong Opera, is a form of opera based on folk sacrificial ceremonies and is widely popular in Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Hebei and other provinces. Nuo opera originated in ancient times. As early as the pre-Qin period, there were witchcraft songs and Nuo dances to entertain the gods and people. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, various local operas flourished, and Nuo dance absorbed the form of traditional operas and developed into Tang Nuo Opera and Duangong Opera. After the Nuo Opera was formed in Xiangxi during the Kangxi period, it entered the Yangtze River from Shui Yuan and developed rapidly to various places, forming different schools and artistic styles. The Nuo Opera in Hunan and Hubei has absorbed the performing arts of ancient paintings, the Nuo Opera in Sichuan and Guizhou has absorbed the artistic elements of lanterns, and the Nuo Opera in Jiangxi and Anhui has absorbed the nourishment of Hui Opera and Mulian Opera.

China's Nuo opera has a long history, which originated from the Nuo sacrifice of totem worship in primitive society. In Shang Dynasty (1600- 1046), a fixed sacrificial ceremony was formed to drive away ghosts and diseases, which is Nuo dance. The development of Nuo dance has had an impact on local operas in China. Due to the different historical background and artistic influence, Nuo opera can be divided into three types: Nuo opera, local opera and Yang opera. Local opera is a kind of Nuo opera performed by descendants of soldiers who stayed in Yunnan and Guizhou in the early Ming Dynasty to sacrifice their ancestors. There are no folk life dramas and talent and beauty dramas, which are all martial arts dramas that reflect historical stories. Yang opera, on the other hand, was performed by Master Duan Gong to the living after completing the Buddhism. Therefore, the main performances reflect the small plays of folk life, and the vocals are mostly absorbed from folk dramas such as flower drum lanterns.

Guansuo Opera, a living fossil of Nuo Opera circulating in Xiaotun Village, Yang Zong, Chengjiang County, is an ancient Nuo Opera in Yuxi area. When this kind of drama was formed, whether it was local or imported from other places, remains to be verified. According to the information provided by Gong Xianggeng, an old artist of Guansuo Opera, it is inferred that this kind of opera may be a Nuo Opera tribe from other places, which was introduced into Xiaotun during Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty. At first, it was an ancient dance ceremony to exorcise evil spirits and epidemics, and then it gradually developed from exorcism to a small drama to express stories. It has gradually developed into an ancient and unique drama that entertains the gods and people. There is no literature study on why Chengjiang Nuo Opera was named after Guan Suo, a general of Shu and Han Dynasties. Guansuo opera is characterized by no stage, no makeup and no time and place restrictions. You can put on a mask (face shell), put on clothes and carry weapons to perform. There are three lines in the profession: life, courage and purity, and most of them take purity as the main line, and the roles are distinguished by masks and costumes. There is no string accompaniment during the performance, and all the drums (also irregular) are used to guide the ups and downs. Generally speaking, Xiaojun or stable boy will take the stage first. After the story is finished, all kinds of rolling movements will be started to attract the audience. Then, the actors will talk about rap, singing and fighting in the performance. Without a fixed program (or an incomplete inheritance), actors can play freely. The vocal cavity of Guan Suo's drama is quite complicated, accompanied by strings and singers. It is said that it originated from Gao Qiang, but from the analysis of some tunes, it is mixed with the melodies of local folk songs and Buddhist scriptures, and it is more obvious to absorb the mode of Yunnan opera. There is no fixed section, and the singer is not limited by the rhythm of the range, even if the same tune, everyone sings. Guansuo Opera is performed in the New Year. During the performance, there is a set of ceremonies throughout. For example, sacrifice to the drug king and practice martial arts before the performance every year. On the first day of the first month of the first month, the first program at the beginning of each performance will perform "Dianjiangtai". After the performance on that day, the words of resignation, boxing in the theater, and the delivery of medicines after all performances on the sixteenth day of the first month have their fixed later procedural requirements.