Reyimubayi Mubalakexia
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Reyimubayi Mubalakexia, Male, Tajik, from Tashenkuergantajikezizhi, Xinjiang, is a fifth-batch national representative bearer of Tajik Folk Songs (Ⅱ-149). The tradition is documented in Tashenkuergantajikezizhi, Xinjiang. Within the regional tradition and school record of Tajik Folk Songs in Tashenkuergantajikezizhi, Xinjiang: The Tajiks of Tashkurgan live in villages grouped by pasture and village community and sing collectively; at festivals and weddings and in spare moments after labour they often gather in numbers to sing, accompanied by the eagle flute, the tambourine and the rawap, with a singer leading the chorus and everyone joining in; young men and women then declare their feelings through rubayi antiphonal singing (four lines to one couplet, or antiphonal singing), so Tajik folk songs have the dual functions of the ritual and of social life. The folk songs transmitted to the present day mainly have content reflecting ancient social life, ethics and morality, solidarity and mutual assistance, helping others for their own good, local customs and folkways, the praise of love, and religious activities.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
Male, of Tajik ethnicity, born in October 1962 in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Born into an artistic family, he learned to sing folk songs from his uncle from an early age, and by his youth had already become a locally known young singer. He has mastered the different singing methods of Tajik folk songs; he can sing more than one hundred folk songs of rich local character and can also skillfully play folk instruments such as the eagle flute, the rawap and the hand drum. Beyond singing, he has devoted himself to collecting folk songs, ancient instruments and ethnic costumes. Within the documented technical tradition of Tajik Folk Songs in Tashenkuergantajikezizhi, Xinjiang: Tajik folk songs are an important heritage of traditional Tajik music; from the music to the lyrics they bear the characteristics of the Pamir Plateau and the ethnic features of the Tajiks, and they are an important part of Tajik culture, with a long history. In ancient times Tajik folk songs came all the way down from the remote past together with Tajik religious culture, faithfully recording the development history of the Tajik people. Tajik folk songs are transmitted mainly in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County and the surrounding plateau regions. The Tajiks mainly earn their living from farming and animal husbandry; they are good at singing and dancing, and folk songs have become an inseparable part of their life. The content of Tajik folk songs is very wide-ranging. More of them take love as their theme; when young men and women are courting they also use the form of the rubayi (four lines to one couplet, or antiphonal singing) to sing against each other, expressing admiration and longing. Its main categories include: customary songs, love songs, narrative long poems, funeral laments, religious songs and humorous songs. Tajik folk songs maintain a plain, distinctive style. Judged by genre and function, Tajik folk songs include some folk songs that accompany dancing, so the melodies in Tajik folk songs are varied, with all kinds of folk songs in fast and slow rhythms. When the Tajiks sing folk songs, according to the different contents and tunes of the songs, they gather during festivals and weddings and in spare moments after work, accompanied by instruments such as the eagle flute, the tambourine and the rawap; the folk singers sing with feeling and the crowd dances gracefully. As modern popular songs spread, the younger generation has gradually forgotten the ancient Tajik folk songs. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Customary songs": One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs. "Love songs": One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs; more of them take love as their theme, and when young men and women are courting they also sing against each other in the rubayi form. "Narrative long poems": One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs, relatively long and mainly narrative. "Funeral laments": One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs.
Customary songs
One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs.
Love songs
One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs; more of them take love as their theme, and when young men and women are courting they also sing against each other in the rubayi form.
Narrative long poems
One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs, relatively long and mainly narrative.
Funeral laments
One of the main categories of Tajik folk songs.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
National representative bearer of Tajik Folk Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He frequently takes part in various cultural and artistic activities and has won a number of awards. He volunteered to serve as leader of the township farmers and herdsmen cultural troupe, teaching apprentices and passing on his art, and has already trained many disciples.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
The folk songs transmitted to the present day mainly have content reflecting ancient social life, ethics and morality, solidarity and mutual assistance, helping others for their own good, local customs and folkways, the praise of love, and religious activities.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reyimubayi Mubalakexia | Tashenkuergantajikezizhi, Xinjiang | 05-2166 | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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