Zhuzanci
01 · Historical Records
The benediction and eulogy first evolved from shamanist sacrificial words and, in a specific environment and through specific ritual, is chanted by specific people.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
The benediction and eulogy is a traditional folk literary form of the Mongol nomadic people of northern China, including benediction and eulogy, collectively called the benediction and eulogy. Hoboksar Autonomous County is one of the important areas of its circulation. The benediction and eulogy first arose from labour and is the collective oral work of Mongol hunters and herdsmen. The ancient benedictions and eulogies were mostly praise of heaven and earth, hills and rivers and all natural things and prayers and blessings for fishing, hunting and herding production. With the development of social production people gradually gained a further understanding of nature, and the folk benedictions and eulogies gradually shed their primitive religious colour, replaced by direct description of labour and production and praise of the fruits of labour and daily life. The benediction and eulogy has accompanied the Mongol through the long river of the years; today it still shows extremely tenacious vitality and is a need of Mongol social life. The benediction and eulogy is the source of Mongol lyric poetry, and today we can still feel its melody in modern and contemporary Mongol poetry. It is the embodiment of the Mongol people's love of life and of the human lot, full of a positive and upward spirit and beautiful and kind wishes, giving people encouragement and hope and urging them to live actively and strive ceaselessly.
Benediction
The expression of love of and pursuit of a peaceful life and beautiful things.
Eulogy
The praise of labour and production, the fruits of labour and daily life.
The Origin from Shamanist Sacrificial Words
The formal origin of the benediction and eulogy from shamanist sacrificial words.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
The Xinjiang Mongol benedictions and eulogies are widely current among the Oirat Mongol herdsmen of twenty-five counties in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture and the Tacheng, Altay, Hami and Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture areas.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
With social development and the quickening of modernisation, the Xinjiang Mongol benedictions and eulogies may now be seen in the pastoral areas but less in the cities, their state of continuance not optimistic, and they need excavation and protection.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Deligeer 05-2018
- Nacike Buwa 05-2019
- Shanxi
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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