In traditional Chinese culture, Nuo is a social and cultural phenomenon with a long history and religious and artistic characteristics. Nanfeng Nuo dance is known as the "living fossil of ancient Chinese folk dance". According to records, in the early Han Dynasty, Wu Rui, the King of Changsha, spread Nuo in the area of Xixiang, Nanfeng. In the eighth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (720), the Nanfeng County government was moved to its current location. The "Kaiyuan Ritual of the Tang Dynasty" promulgated at that time promoted the spread of Nanfeng Nuo; the Song Dynasty was the development period of Nanfeng Nuo. Song Dynasty music geishas and scattered artists brought cultural arts from Kyoto, making Nanfeng Nuo opera mature; in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nanfeng Nuo was further improved. In the late Qing Dynasty, influenced by opera, "rural Nuo" was further entertained, and many new Nuo dance programs were compiled and performed. On the eve of the founding of New China, Nanfeng had hundreds of Nuo troupes scattered in various towns. With the development of "rural Nuo", the content and form are becoming increasingly rich. By the end of 2005, there were more than 130 Nuo classes and more than 2,000 folk artists in the county, who preserved more than 100 Nuo dance programs with original morphological characteristics and more than 100 types and 2,000 Nuo masks, plus Nuo accompaniment music, costumes and props of different styles and schools, forming the unique Nanfeng Nuo culture. The ritual dances mainly include the "Dance to Drive Out Epidemics" in Shiyou and other places and the "Search and Elimination Dance" in Shanggan and other places; there are nearly 100 traditional programs for entertainment dances, with different styles and rich content. Nanfeng Nuo dance includes various forms of mask dances such as "Dancing Bamboo Horses", "Dancing Harmony", and "Dancing Eight Immortals" in the Su Nature Reserve. Most of the classes are based on natural villages, and the artists are all farmers. Every Spring Festival, "Nuo" is performed in villages and households to entertain gods and people and bless Naji. The richness and richness of Nanfeng Nuo culture has attracted great attention from experts and scholars at home and abroad, and Nanfeng Nuo has also become a hot spot for studying Chinese Nuo culture. Since 1991, dozens of experts and scholars from home and abroad have come to Nanfeng to watch and investigate Nuo. CCTV, Jiangxi TV, Tianjin TV and Hong Kong Phoenix TV Chinese Channel have successively filmed special programs on Nuo culture. In 1992, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture officially named Nanfeng as the "Nuo Dance Hometown" in Jiangxi, and in 1996, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China named Nanfeng as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art". In 2006, it was included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage.