1999. In March, Yangcheng Evening News reported the Nuo dance in Dongling. The Nuo dance in Dongling Village has a long history and is known as the "living fossil in the history of dance" (visual news 1999, eighth edition, March 6th, Yangcheng Evening News). The Nuo dance in Dongling Village and Dongling Village has attracted wide attention from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. In recent years, many experts, professors, literati and journalists have come to the village for investigation, interviews and photography. After the Lantern Festival in 2009, the Nuo dance in Dongling Village was reported by more than ten domestic media such as Zhanjiang Hometown, Zhanjiang Evening News, Bihai Yinsha's Reading Zhanjiang, Guangdong Culture Network, Culture China Network and Tencent Network, which attracted attention at home and abroad. 200 1, 1 1, and the academic paper "Kao Bing Nuo in Dongling Village, Huguang Town, Zhanjiang City" was published in Taiwan Province Folk Quyi. Professor Kang Baocheng, director of China Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University, also made a field trip to Dongling Village to study the phenomenon of Nuo dance.
According to records, Nuo dance was a ritual to drive away ghosts and diseases in the Central Plains in the pre-Qin period. In Dongling village, Nuo dance is called "testing soldiers", or "training soldiers" and "exorcism". It consists of five generals, including Che, Mai, Li, Liu and Hong, as well as landlords and land women. According to legend, these five generals were all famous soldiers who fought against Liao in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is understood that the Nuo dance in Dongling Village of Zhanjiang was moved from the north to Putian, Fujian in the Song Dynasty, introduced to Zhanjiang in the Ming Dynasty and settled here in the late Ming Dynasty. The mask of Nuo dance was carved in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and has a history of more than 400 years. Nuo dance masks are usually kept in Ling Gang temples.
During the Lantern Festival, the exorcism dance of five war generals "Kao Bing" in Dongling Village will appear in the ancestor worship ceremony of the Lantern Festival, which is located in Ling Gang Temple and the square in front of the temple. "Test soldiers" will start from dawn to dusk. Every household has set up an altar to accept sacrifices, and the landlord and landlady hold "magic sticks" to pray for the villagers. Five "war generals" crossed the fields and alleys, drove the epidemic from house to house, and sent disasters to receive blessings in order to make the country and the people safe. All Nuo ceremonies in this village are deeply influenced by the Central Plains and Wu and Yue cultures, and inherit their characteristics. 1992, the Nuo dance in Dongling was approved to be included in the book Integration of Chinese Folk Dance. Guangdong Volume ",a national key scientific research project. In addition, the mask images of five Nuo dancers in Dongling village were once adopted by Guangdong Telecom Co., Ltd. and printed on 200 telephone cards as the cover. In April, 2007, "Kao Bing" Nuo dance was listed in the first batch of representative works of intangible cultural heritage in Zhanjiang. From June 5438 to October 2008 10, Dongling Nuo Dance Team was also rated as the most dynamic folk art team in Zhanjiang.
"From the perspective of the folk custom ceremony of the Spring Festival, the Nuo ceremony in Dongling, Hakka festivals, the dragon dance in East Island of Zhanjiang, the song and dance in Chaoshan, the floating colors in Panyu and the lanterns in Li Anping all show the cultural heritage from the Central Plains, and the animism mixed in the southwest jungle enriches it. Guangdong is known as the' last secret hiding place' of the Central Plains civilization! "
Later, in order to commend the construction of rural spiritual civilization, further promote the work of "three works" in rural areas of our city, promote the construction of a new socialist countryside, and create a rural cultural brand, Dongling Village was awarded the title of "Zhanjiang Characteristic Cultural Village" by the Propaganda Department of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee and Zhanjiang Radio, Film and Television Press and Publication Bureau in March 2006.