Nuo dance is a ritual of the ancients to drive away epidemics and ghosts. It was formed in the Central Plains during the Shang and Zhou dynasties and was very popular during the Qin and Han dynasties. According to a stele inscribed in the 15th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1835) in Qianshanping Village, Heping Town, Shaowu Nuo dance began in the Song Dynasty. The five towns in the southern district of Shaowu are all located in the mountains. Due to geographical and climatic reasons, infectious diseases such as plague, smallpox, measles, and malaria occurred alternately in history, taking away the precious lives of countless people, causing the tragic situation of "ghosts singing in thousands of households", forcing people to place their hopes on supernatural gods. Against this background, after the Central Plains culture was introduced into Shaowu as a Nuo dance activity to drive away epidemics and ghosts, it was naturally absorbed, developed, and passed down to this day. Historically, Shaowu Prefecture governed four counties, Shaowu, Taining, Jianning, Guangze, and Heping County, so Shaowu became the main distribution area of Nuo dance in Fujian Province. The Nuo dance in Shaowu is mainly aimed at driving away epidemics and ghosts, praying for blessings and warding off disasters. The dancers wear masks with a piece of red cloth attached to the back of their heads, and dance from village to village with dance movements. It has a clear inheritance relationship with the ancient "big Nuo" or "village Nuo". However, in terms of name, it is no longer called "jumping Nuo", but has different names according to its different forms. Five towns are called "jumping foreign monks". In addition to "jumping foreign monks", Dabugang and Heping are also called "jumping eight barbarians" and "jumping Maitreya", while Guilin Township is called "big foreign monk" and "small foreign monk" respectively. The remaining Nuo culture in Shaowu has two major characteristics. First, Shaowu retains the original Nuo dance rather than the developed Nuo opera. The Nuo culture of the Central Plains spread to the mountainous area of Shaowu, the "barbarian land" of Minyue. Today, the Nuo culture in the Central Plains has basically disappeared, and Nuo dances in many places have also developed into Nuo operas. Shaowu not only preserves and inherits the Nuo culture of the Central Plains, but also preserves pure Nuo dances with only dance movements but no plots or rap. It can be said to be a living fossil of Nuo culture. Another important feature is that some written historical materials about Nuo dance have been preserved. There are some Nuo cultural relics in southern Jiangxi, northern Fujian, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places in southern my country, but it is difficult to see historical records of Nuo culture. The Zhongqian Temple in Kanxia Village, Heping Town, preserves a "Zhongqian Temple Public Book", which the local people call "Temple Genealogy". In fact, it is a temple record, which contains records about Nuo sacrifices. The Qianshanping natural village of Kanxia Village has preserved a stone tablet from the 15th year of Daoguang (1835) that completely records Nuo sacrifice activities.