Qu Bilahuo
Lineage & School of Heritage
From childhood he studied Bimo knowledge systematically and comprehensively under his father, practising the various Bimo chanting and reciting styles; by seventeen he could independently conduct rites of every kind, and by twenty-three he had become an influential Bimo in the locality.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Yi ethnicity, born in October 1977 in Meigu County, Sichuan Province. His representative works of Yi Bimo literature include Ye Huo, A Mo Ni Re, Zhao Bing Jing (The Scripture for Mustering Soldiers), Zhou Gui Jing (The Scripture for Cursing Ghosts), Mo Mo, Ye Jia, Zhi Zuo and Xi Sha. In September 2014 he took part in the Dali Jew's Harp Concert, and in November of the same year he took part in the Sixth Asian Youth Arts Festival, where he performed Bimo music. He has persisted in transmitting Bimo music for more than twenty years and has trained more than twenty apprentices in succession.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Bimo Music, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has always been devoted to the transmission and protection of Yi Bimo culture, accompanying domestic and foreign experts and scholars on one hundred and twenty field surveys, and assisting the Meigu County Cultural Centre in completing the general survey, registration and archiving of bearers of Bimo music. In 2012 he won first prize in the Bimo music and folk song category at the First China Meigu Yi Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Performance.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Bimo Music Ⅱ-163
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