Keerkeziyuelong
01 · Historical Records
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 · Core Techniques & Process
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.
The Yolong for Urging Marriage
One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong.
The Yolong for Welcoming Guests
One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong.
Antiphonal Yolong (Question and Answer)
One of the kinds of the Kirghiz Yolong, its content reaching from daily life to common knowledge of the universe.
Yolongqi (Yolong Transmitters)
The transmitters who play an important role in the wedding, equivalent to the master of ceremonies.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
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.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
The Kirghiz Yolong are of many kinds and strongly improvisatory; they are a precious heritage of folk literature with important value for the study of folklore, ethnology and literature. With the change of the way of life the living transmission of the yolong faces a crisis and urgently needs protection.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Tawalidi Kelimu 03-0802
- Sawutimaihuti
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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