Nacike Buwa

01 · Lineage & Regional School

From childhood he learned the zhuzanci from his grandfather, his maternal uncle, his mother and his elder sister; as an adult he took part widely in the New Year customs and life-cycle celebrations held by the local Mongol community, drawing inferences from one practice to another and integrating what he learned, and gradually formed a personal style of recitation. Within the regional tradition and school record of Zhuzanci in Hebukesaiermengguzizhi, Xinjiang: The Xinjiang Mongol benedictions and eulogies are widely current among the Oirat Mongol herdsmen of twenty-five counties in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and the Tacheng, Altay, Hami and Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture areas. The benediction and eulogy first evolved from shamanist sacrificial words and, in a specific environment and through specific ritual, is chanted by specific people.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

Male, Mongol ethnicity, born in February 1933 in Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He is a reciter of Mongolian zhuzanci. In the 1960s he served as a cadre of the county cultural centre and as head of the Ulan Muqir, the mobile cultural troupe; he actively transmitted the zhuzanci, and after retirement he taught singing technique and methods of composition to enthusiasts through classroom instruction in primary and secondary schools and at the cultural centre. Within the documented technical tradition of Zhuzanci in Hebukesaiermengguzizhi, Xinjiang: The benediction and eulogy is a traditional folk literary form of the Mongol nomadic people of northern China, including benediction and eulogy, collectively called the benediction and eulogy. Hoboksar Autonomous County is one of the important areas of its circulation. The benediction and eulogy first arose from labour and is the collective oral work of Mongol hunters and herdsmen. The ancient benedictions and eulogies were mostly praise of heaven and earth, hills and rivers and all natural things and prayers and blessings for fishing, hunting and herding production. With the development of social production people gradually gained a further understanding of nature, and the folk benedictions and eulogies gradually shed their primitive religious colour, replaced by direct description of labour and production and praise of the fruits of labour and daily life. The benediction and eulogy has accompanied the Mongol through the long river of the years; today it still shows extremely tenacious vitality and is a need of Mongol social life. The benediction and eulogy is the source of Mongol lyric poetry, and today we can still feel its melody in modern and contemporary Mongol poetry. It is the embodiment of the Mongol people's love of life and of the human lot, full of a positive and upward spirit and beautiful and kind wishes, giving people encouragement and hope and urging them to live actively and strive ceaselessly. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Benediction": The expression of love of and pursuit of a peaceful life and beautiful things. "Eulogy": The praise of labour and production, the fruits of labour and daily life. "The Origin from Shamanist Sacrificial Words": The formal origin of the benediction and eulogy from shamanist sacrificial words.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

National representative bearer of Zhuzanci, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He won first prize at the Xinjiang Mongolian zhuzanci competition and third prize at the "Hejilgen Cup" zhuzanci competition of the eight provinces and regions of China.

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

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.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Nacike Buwa · National Representative Bearer Archive