Wubuliaisan Maimaiti
01 · Lineage & Regional School
He is the fifth-generation transmitter of the Uyghur dastan family tradition. In 1966 he studied dastan and the playing of various instruments under his father Maimaiti Aishan, the folk artist Abdulhelil Balati and Shah Maimaiti. Within the regional tradition and school record of Uyghur Dasitan in Xinjiang: The Uyghur dastan take the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as their main area of circulation; the gathering places of all-people festivals, the bazaar, the mazar (places of excursion) and places of labour are important venues of dastan performance and transmission. The Uyghur dastan are the general name for Uyghur narrative poems, handed down from generation to generation in the form of performance by the folk narrative artists the dastanchi and current in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By content and form they may be divided into heroic dastan, love dastan, historical dastan and janamah dastan, representative works including The Legend of Oghuz, Alip and Sanam and Nozigum.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
Male, Uyghur, born in July 1954, a native of Moyu County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He frequently sang dastan at various gatherings and large meshrep festivals, where he was welcomed and loved by the people. He took seven disciples, teaching them instruments and transmitting dastan. Within the documented technical tradition of Uyghur Dasitan in Xinjiang: The Uyghur dastan are the general name for Uyghur narrative poetry, their content very wide; by content and form they may be divided into heroic dastan, love dastan, historical dastan and janamah dastan, current mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Uyghur heroic dastan are fairly long, taking major historical events and heroic legends as their subject matter and reflecting in verse the wars between Uyghur tribes and peoples and the great deeds of heroic figures. The Uyghur love dastan mainly celebrate the faithful love of the hero and heroine and expose the tragedies caused by society's interference in young people's marriage and love. The Uyghur historical dastan take major historical events and figures as their subject and praise the protagonists' spirit of dedication to the people's interests. The Uyghur dastan are performed and handed down from generation to generation by the folk narrative artists the dastanchi. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "The Legend of Oghuz": One of the representative works of the Uyghur dastan. "Alip and Sanam": A representative work of the Uyghur love dastan. "Nozigum": One of the representative works of the Uyghur dastan. "Performance by the Dastanchi": The mode of transmission through performance by the folk narrative artist the dastanchi.
The Legend of Oghuz
One of the representative works of the Uyghur dastan.
Alip and Sanam
A representative work of the Uyghur love dastan.
Nozigum
One of the representative works of the Uyghur dastan.
Performance by the Dastanchi
The mode of transmission through performance by the folk narrative artist the dastanchi.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
He is a representative bearer of Uyghur dastan, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. With his disciples he sang dastan in Moyu County and elsewhere in the region, and took part in dastan seminars and sung recitals with instrumental accompaniment held in Beijing, Urumqi and Hami in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; his performances of long dastan poems such as Abidahang Pasha and Sarihan won first prize.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
The Uyghur dastan are the general name for Uyghur narrative poems, handed down from generation to generation in the form of performance by the folk narrative artists the dastanchi and current in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By content and form they may be divided into heroic dastan, love dastan, historical dastan and janamah dastan, representative works including The Legend of Oghuz, Alip and Sanam and Nozigum.
05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage
National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.
| Bearer | Declared area | Roster code | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiahe Maimaiti | Xinjiang | 03-0798 | Same declared area |
| Wubuliaisan Maimaiti | Xinjiang | 04-1501 | This page |
| Yibulayingyakefu | Xinjiang | — | Same declared area |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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