彝族撮泰吉是流传于贵州威宁彝族村寨的古老傩戏，被誉为“戏剧活化石”，是极为小众的少数民族传统民俗仪式，不同于常见的京剧、昆曲、地方花灯戏，它原始古朴、无舞台修饰，仅在彝族特定祭祀节庆中上演，受众与传播范围极其有限。
The Yi ethnic Cuotaiji is an ancient Nuo opera popular in Yi villages of Weining, Guizhou. Known as a “living fossil of drama”, it is a very niche traditional folk ritual of ethnic minorities. Different from common Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera and local flower lantern operas, it is primitive and simple without stage modifications, performed only in specific Yi sacrificial festivals with extremely limited audience and communication scope.
撮泰吉整体以祭祀、祈福、驱邪为核心内核，表演全程佩戴古朴木质面具，演员身着粗布黑衣，以极简的肢体动作、古朴的彝语吟唱演绎先民迁徙、开荒、农耕、繁衍的远古故事。整套仪式没有华丽唱腔与繁复道具，保留了西南少数民族最原始的巫术祭祀与戏剧雏形形态。
Centering on sacrifice, blessing and exorcism, the whole Cuotaiji performance features ancient wooden masks worn by performers, who wear coarse black clothes and interpret the ancient stories of ancestors’ migration, land reclamation, farming and reproduction with minimalist body movements and ancient Yi language chants. Without gorgeous singing and complicated props, the whole ritual retains the most primitive witch sacrifice and embryonic dramatic form of southwest ethnic minorities.