New Year's ceremony in a millennium old village

• Photographer
  Jiarui Yu
• Photo Date
  2024

In the Yellow River Basin of northern China, a New Year's blessing ceremony called Nuo opera has been passed down for thousands of years in peaceful rural areas. The main storyline of the festival is to invite gods to catch ghosts. Villagers participate in the performance in mysterious and solemn costumes, and the Nuo performers wearing huge masks are messengers connecting the world with the gods. Nuo Opera conveys the Chinese people's pursuit of happiness and love of life. They believe that the power of justice will last forever.

He is the youngest member of the China Photographers Association and the China Art Critics Association. He graduated from the Photography major at the School of Art and Design, Xi'an University of Technology in 2013, completed the Journalism course at the School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University in 2017, and completed the Cultural and Art Management course at the School of Continuing Education, Tsinghua University in 2022.He currently serves as the curator and academic host of the handmade book unit at the Pingyao International Photography Exhibition in China.