Getuken
Lineage & School of Heritage
He is the third-generation transmitter of Manchu and Xibe calligraphy.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Xibe ethnicity, born in December 1944, a native of Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Fond of painting and calligraphy from childhood, he practised assiduously year after year. Building on traditional calligraphy, he created eight forms of Xibe and Manchu clerical script and staccato cursive, expanded such scripts as the Pine Soul, Smoke and Cloud and Pine Soot styles, and perfected the regular, cursive, clerical and seal script systems of Xibe and Manchu writing, in which he has created Hundred Dragons, Hundred Tigers and the Twelve Zodiac Animals. He is especially skilled in the Ge style of calligraphy, in which the characters are refined and the ink superb, fluent, natural, flexible and varied, forming a school of his own.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Manchu and Xibe Calligraphy, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His calligraphic works have been exhibited, awarded and collected many times at home and abroad. He is devoted to research on Manchu and Xibe writing and to training successors, and is the author of Getuken's Calligraphy Collection, Xibe Calligraphy Copybook and A Concise Dictionary of Oracle Bone Script.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Manwenxibowenshufa Ⅶ-119
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