Cui Yong
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Cui Yong, Male, Manchu, from Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Manchu Folk Tales (Ⅰ-53). The tradition is documented in Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning. Within the regional tradition and school record of Manchu Folk Tales in Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning: Manchu folk stories are distributed mainly within the eastern Liaoning Manchu cultural sphere, which is the vast area of the Changbai mountain outranges called by the Manchu people of Liaoning and Shenyang the mountains of the east. Eastern Liaoning Manchu folk stories arose in the period when the Manchu turned from fishing and hunting to farming and, in close contact with Han culture, mutually fused with it, having the cultural feature of a Manchu-Han mixture. Their content mostly traces the ancestral legends and national memory of the Manchu, such as The Swan Fairy, Bukūri Yongšon, The Pool Where the Heavenly Maiden Bathed and The Sun and Moon Peak.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
The bearer record for Cui Yong is anchored in the documented technical standards of Manchu Folk Tales in Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning. Within the documented technical tradition of Manchu Folk Tales in Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning: Eastern Liaoning Manchu folk stories are a broad cultural concept, including such prose oral narrative forms as Manchu myth, legend and story. In The Swan Fairy, Bukūri Yongšon and The Pool Where the Heavenly Maiden Bathed, the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the heavenly god conceives and gives birth to Aisin Gioro Bukūri Yongšon, the founder of the Manchu, after eating the red fruit brought by a vermilion bird or magpie. The Sun and Moon Peak tells how in remote antiquity, when the world was deadly still, the heavenly emperor's youngest daughter threw her left eye into the sky to become the sun, her right eye to become the moon and a string of pearls from her neck to become the stars, while the little fairy, to save the world, turned into a mountain, the Sun and Moon Peak. The Manchu folk stories arose in the period when the Manchu turned from fishing and hunting to farming and, in close contact with Han culture, mutually fused with it, having the cultural feature of a Manchu-Han mixture. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "The Swan Fairy": The ancestral legend telling of the birth of the Manchu founder Bukūri Yongšon. "Bukūri Yongšon": The legend of the Manchu founder Bukūri Yongšon. "The Sun and Moon Peak": An ancient myth in which a fairy turns into the Sun and Moon Peak to save the world. "Nurhaci Flees Disaster": A representative story reflecting legends of the Manchu forebears.
The Swan Fairy
The ancestral legend telling of the birth of the Manchu founder Bukūri Yongšon.
Bukūri Yongšon
The legend of the Manchu founder Bukūri Yongšon.
The Sun and Moon Peak
An ancient myth in which a fairy turns into the Sun and Moon Peak to save the world.
Nurhaci Flees Disaster
A representative story reflecting legends of the Manchu forebears.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
In 2025, Cui Yong was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Manchu Folk Tales, with Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Manchu Folk Tales in Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2008 (batch 2), with Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning as its declared area, and Liaoning Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Center (Liaoning Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Center) as its safeguarding unit. Since the project was inscribed in the national inventory, its declared area and safeguarding unit have carried out documentation, transmission and presentation within the national safeguarding framework. Together, the inventory record and the project archive form the public documentary basis for the bearer’s transmission practice.
04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier
Historical origin
Eastern Liaoning Manchu folk stories arose in the period when the Manchu turned from fishing and hunting to farming and, in close contact with Han culture, mutually fused with it, having the cultural feature of a Manchu-Han mixture. Their content mostly traces the ancestral legends and national memory of the Manchu, such as The Swan Fairy, Bukūri Yongšon, The Pool Where the Heavenly Maiden Bathed and The Sun and Moon Peak.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aixinjueluo Qingkai | Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning | 03-0790 | Same declared area |
| Cui Yong | Wenxueyishujielianhehuiminjianwenyijiaxiehui, Liaoning | — | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
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