Nuo Opera Mask

Nuo Opera Mask

China; Tibet

The Nuo Opera Mask is endowed with mysterious religious and cultural meanings. Folk operas are mainly performed in southwest China and Tibet, and their purpose is to banish devils and ask for blessings from the gods. Nuoism, a Chinese folk religion, goes back thousands of years.

This entity appears in the story “2. The Bitterness of the Masks”.