Nuo culture is a remnant of the witch culture,ancient and mysterious.Nuo cultural activities are to drive away evil spirits and epidemics,pray for blessings and disasters as the main purpose,compatible with a wide range of social needs of the people’s faith activities.Yulin area Nuo cultural activities are often performed in conjunction with the annual festival,cultural space,traditional customs,etc.,forming a major civil society event.There have been a large number of academic studies on Nuo culture,but there have been fewer research results on Yulin’s Nuo culture,which has not yet been specifically studied.The field research in this paper takes the Pan Gu Temple Festival in the Yulin area of the village of Lu Jia and the Pan Gu Temple Festival in the village of Qiaolu as the object of study.Through the examination of Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities,the author analyzes the deep humanistic spirit,cultural connotation,and artistic expression of Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities,explores the contemporary transformation of Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural resources,and provides reference material for the study of Yulin area Nuo culture.Nuo cultural activities are prevalent throughout China and are presented in festivals,life rituals,and other occasions throughout the region,as well as in Yulin.Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities are the remnants of traditional Chinese Nuo cultural activities,with the universal function of traditional Nuo rituals to drive away evil and epidemics,and also show the trend of Nuo cultural activities evolving with the times.Nuo cultural activities in the Yulin area are influenced by geographical factors,making its external performance unique regional characteristics.The content and form of Nuo cultural activities at Yulin Pangu Temple are also deeply influenced by the times,and are more diverse in form,incorporating religious rituals,folk music,dance and drama in the Yulin area,with both sacred and secular expressions,adding to the content of the people’s needs in the present,showing the people’s changing needs toward the present.Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities are rooted in the cultural soil of the Yulin region,surviving tenaciously in the folklore,playing an important role and becoming an important part of the social life of the people of Yulin.Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities fully demonstrates that Nuo cultural activities are rational choices made by the people according to their own interests.Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities make the people get great spiritual satisfaction,enhance the people’s expectations and confidence in the future of a better life.Therefore,Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities will exist in civil society for a long time and will not die out,only its correct management and guidance,in order to better play its positive role in civil society.Yulin Pangu Temple Nuo cultural activities can be combined with the current environment of the times to promote the tradition and protection of non-heritage,inherit and carry forward the positive content and form,so that it can better enter the public eye and promote the contemporaryization of its resources. |