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05-2147Mongolian ChuoerTraditional MusicAleitaidi, XinjiangBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

His chuoer skills come from family transmission. From the age of four he studied the Mongolian folk instrument chuoer with his grandfather, and he is the fourth-generation transmitter.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Mongolian ethnicity, born in March 1977 in Altay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He can not only play the instrument but has also mastered its making techniques. He can make chuoer from a variety of different materials. The instruments he makes both preserve the original crafting techniques and incorporate innovation. His representative pieces include Altay Maheta Le and Yebin Duoligang. Under his influence and encouragement, many music lovers in the surrounding pastoral areas and other parts of Xinjiang have joined the ranks of chuoer learners, and have even spontaneously formed performance teams.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Mongolian Chuoer, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Qiaolongbatealeixian · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Mongolian Chuoer
Item code
Ⅱ-134
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Aleitaidi, Xinjiang
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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