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Jiahuojiamucuo

05-3028Qinghai HujihaiFolk CustomsHaibeizangzuzizhi, QinghaiBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

His father was a Tibetan folk-custom researcher. Guided by his father in his early years, he concentrated on Tibetan folkways and customs, and was especially devoted to the sea worship at Qinghai Lake, resolving to do all he could to transmit and promote this ancient folk culture.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Tibetan ethnicity, born in April 1962, a native of Haiyan County, Qinghai Province. In order to gain a systematic understanding of the sea-worship custom at Qinghai Lake, he visited and collated the historical knowledge, ritual rules and scriptures related to the rite, and wrote the book Sea Worship, which gives a comprehensive account of the historical origins and cultural background of the Qinghai Lake sea worship and of the historical and cultural content and transmission of the rite among the Dayu tribe.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Qinghai Lake Sea Worship, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In September 1982 he was ordained and took monastic vows at Baifo Temple (White Buddha Temple), where he systematically studied Tibetan history and the history of religious lineages, and began work on the protection of the Qinghai Lake sea worship.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Jiahuojiamucuo · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Qinghai Hujihai
Item code
Ⅹ-86
Category
Folk Customs
Region
Haibeizangzuzizhi, Qinghai
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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