Cultural week event featuring mask dances to kick off in east China's Jiangxi

Artists perform Nuo dance, a dance used to drive away devils and diseases in the sacrifice rituals and pray for blessings from the gods, at Shiyou Village of Sanxi Township in Nanfeng County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 27, 2019. The opening ceremony of a cultural week event featuring mask dances was held here on Friday to display and study the mask cultures of China and the world. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)