Dongdongtui, a Dong opera, was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list announced by the State Council in 2006. Dongdongtui is popular in Tianjing Village, a small natural village in the mountains deep in Wuxi. Tianjing Village is located on the north side of Dingtian Mountain at the junction of Hunan and Guizhou, and belongs to Silu Village, Gongxi Township, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province. This place was originally a mountainous area. In the 17th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1419), a Dong people named Long Jinhai came here from Jingzhou in the province. Seeing a long-flowing mountain spring, he settled here and developed the mountain spring into a well. Tianjing Village got its name from this. Therefore, the villagers with the surname Long here all say: Dongdongtui starts in Jingzhou and ends in Tianjing. After that, Dong people with the surnames Yao and Yang came here to settle down one after another. Now it has developed into a Dong village with 43 households and 251 people, including 19 households with the surname Long and 99 people, 16 households with the surname Yao and 86 people, and 11 households with the surname Yang and 66 people. Tianjing Village is a pure Dong ethnic group area. The houses of residents are all wooden stilt houses. There is a stone road leading to the village. There are high stone alleys on both sides of the road. Every household is surrounded by stone walls. The residents use the Dong language in their daily life. Young people and some middle-aged and elderly people can speak Chinese, which is mostly used for foreign exchanges. Tianjing Village is 56 kilometers away from Xinhuang County, connected by a cement road. It is 3 kilometers away from the seat of Gongxi Township Government. In the early years, a stone road from Hunan to Guizhou passed through the village. In 1986, a road from Gongxi to Guizhou was built, passing 150 meters below the mountain of Tianjing Village. In 2007, a cement road was built to the village. The complete transportation highway became a way for Tianjing Village to communicate with the outside world. Nuo Opera is not a local opera, but a type of drama performance, a primitive form of drama performance. It was born out of Nuo Festival and has a mother-son relationship with existing opera genres. As a drama for sacrificial rites, it has become a living fossil for studying the formation of Chinese drama, allowing us to understand how drama has evolved from sacrifice to aesthetics, and from worshipping gods to entertaining people. Nuo opera has a wide range of remains in Hunan and Guizhou provinces, and our Xinhuang "Dongdongtui" has its own unique features: first of all, our Dongdongtui is a Nuo opera of the Dong ethnic group that is circulated in the Hunan and Guizhou regions. Unlike the ethnic minorities in this area, the language used in the performance is the Dong language of the ethnic group. Second, "Dongdongtui" is only popular in a natural village, but its humanistic value is no less than that of other Nuo operas, and it is even more precious because of its uniqueness. Third, the singers of "Dongdongtui" are not wizards, but ordinary villagers. It is a national art in which villagers participate. Fourth, the Nuo operas in the Hunan and Guizhou regions all use Dongshan Shenggong and Nanshan Shengmu as Nuo gods, while "Dongdongtui" uses Pangu Dawang and Feishan Dawang as Nuo gods. Dongshan Shenggong and Nanshan Shengmu have become the objects of ridicule. Fifth, the repertoire of "Dongdongtui" suppresses witchcraft and promotes medicine, which reflects the simple materialistic thinking of the ancient Dong people. This situation is extremely rare in other Nuo operas in the Hunan and Guizhou areas. Sixth, Dongdongtui uses dance to advance the plot, that is to say, the entire performance, except for the characters' lines, is performed to the sound of gongs and drums of "Dongdongtui". Seventh, "Dongdongtui", as a kind of Dong Nuo opera, not only reflects the life of the ethnic group, but also includes the stories of the Han people, and makes the Han characters Dong-styled, making it more acceptable to the masses. A long time ago, "Dongdongtui" was a sacrificial opera for local people to worship Pangu King and Feishan King. At present, there are 21 existing plays, including 14 that reflect the life of the ethnic group: jumping the land, jumping the little ghost, Pangu meeting, Bodhisattva's rebellion, Tianfu's plague Hua Tuo saves the people, Liu Gao kills the melon spirit, the old man pushes the cart, the leper steals the cow, the local protector visits relatives, Yangpi borrows a file, drives away the tiger, carries Pangu on his back, the gong does not ring, and rebellion; there are 7 Three Kingdoms plays with Guan Gong as the protagonist or main character: Peach Garden Oath, Passing Five Gates, Ancient City Meeting, Opening Four Gates, Yunchang Recuperation, Guan Gong Catches Diao Chan, Guan Gong Teach His Son, etc. Among these programs, jumping the land and jumping the little ghost are must-performed in every show, because this performance must first be reported to the land, praying for a good harvest and the health of the villagers, and getting the land's generous promise, and then jumping the little ghost to drive away the plague and epidemics, and welcome good luck. In this way, the order of the following plays can be arranged at will. The singing style of Dongdongtui is based on the Liuliu style, Shiyin style, chanting style, Leige style and various similar styles commonly used in local Dong folk songs, which are performed with repeated beatings of "Dongdong" (drum sounds) and "Tui" (gong sounds). The dance is performed by repeatedly jumping on triangles with both feet to the beat of gongs and drums, which is called jumping drama by the locals. The current performers of Dongdongtui are relatively old, with an average age of over 60 years old. Among them, Long Ziming, the inheritor of "intangible cultural heritage", is over 100 years old, but he still performs in every show.