Sawutimaihuti
01 · Lineage & Regional School
Sawutimaihuti, Male, Kyrgyz, from Xinjiangshifandaxue, is a sixth-batch national representative bearer of Keerkeziyuelong (Ⅰ-83). The tradition is documented in Xinjiangshifandaxue. Within the regional tradition and school record of Keerkeziyuelong in Xinjiangshifandaxue: The Kirghiz Yolong circulate mainly in the Kirghiz-concentrated areas of the Pamir plateau such as Akto county in the Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang; no mass activity of any kind is complete without yolong singing. The Kirghiz Yolong are the customary songs peculiar to the Pamir Kipchak tribe, long sung orally in the Kirghiz-concentrated areas of the Pamir plateau and closely bound up with such mass activities as weddings and festivals, carrying the oral art, cultural tradition and ethnic memory of the Kirghiz people of the Pamir Kipchak tribe.
02 · Mastery & Signature Works
The bearer record for Sawutimaihuti is anchored in the documented technical standards of Keerkeziyuelong in Xinjiangshifandaxue. Within the documented technical tradition of Keerkeziyuelong in Xinjiangshifandaxue: The Kirghiz Yolong are the customary songs peculiar to the Pamir Kipchak tribe and are of many kinds, including the yolong for urging marriage, for welcoming guests, riddle yolong, antiphonal yolong, satirical yolong, exhortatory yolong, plucked yolong, and women's and men's yolong. No mass activity in the Pamir area is complete without yolong singing. The invited yolongqi, the yolong transmitters, are equivalent to today's wedding masters of ceremony and play an important role in the wedding. The singers improvise into the yolong the splendour of the wedding and depictions of the happy life of bride and bridegroom, adding lustre and honour to the wedding. The singers also, in the form of exhortatory yolong, educate and guide the newly-weds in good and evil, right and wrong, brotherly feeling, harmony and friendliness and human dignity. The antiphonal yolong include question-and-answer yolong, their content reaching from daily life and nature to common knowledge of the universe, embracing a very wide range. The yolong are strongly improvisatory, and folk artists singing the yolong of their predecessors mostly also use improvised creation. The yolong carry the oral art, cultural tradition and ethnic memory of the Kirghiz people of the Pamir Kipchak tribe and are a precious heritage of folk literature. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Riddle Yolong": One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong. "Exhortatory Yolong": The yolong educating and guiding the newly-weds in good and evil, right and wrong and harmony and friendliness. "Plucked Yolong": One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong. "Chanting at the Pamir Gatherings": An occasion of yolong singing at mass activities in the Pamir area.
Riddle Yolong
One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong.
Exhortatory Yolong
The yolong educating and guiding the newly-weds in good and evil, right and wrong and harmony and friendliness.
Plucked Yolong
One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong.
Chanting at the Pamir Gatherings
An occasion of yolong singing at mass activities in the Pamir area.
03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status
In 2025, Sawutimaihuti was announced in the sixth batch of national representative bearers for Keerkeziyuelong, with Xinjiangshifandaxue as the declared area. Within the documented safeguarding record of Keerkeziyuelong in Xinjiangshifandaxue: The project was inscribed in the national inventory in 2008 (batch 2), with Xinjiangshifandaxue as its declared area, and Xinjiangshifan University 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
The Kirghiz Yolong are the customary songs peculiar to the Pamir Kipchak tribe, long sung orally in the Kirghiz-concentrated areas of the Pamir plateau and closely bound up with such mass activities as weddings and festivals, carrying the oral art, cultural tradition and ethnic memory of the Kirghiz people of the Pamir Kipchak tribe.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tawalidi Kelimu | Wuqia, Xinjiang | 03-0802 | Other regional school |
| Sawutimaihuti | Xinjiangshifandaxue | — | This page |
06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography
This static English edition is rendered at the edge for search engines, AI crawlers and readers without JavaScript. Compiled from official national representative bearer archival records and the associated project dossier, organized by topic and translated into English. 阅读中文版。