The eighty-six-year-old Tibetan man has been singing "The Legend of the King of Gosal" for over 2,000 hours

the name of the eighty-six-year-old sanju, among the fifty-seven tibetan hymn singers who have been visited in tibet by the chinese news agency lhasa on june 17th, journalist yoo joon-wu, appears in the recently released list of representative heirs to china's third batch of intangible cultural heritage projects.

to date, the institute of nationalities of the tibetan institute of social sciences has recorded 21,114 hours of the hymns of the gosal, which sings to the sanjoo master, and has collated and published 30 of them in public, and will produce 44 more epics over the next three to five years.

on 17 days, journalists learned from the cultural office of the tibet autonomous region that there were 21 more candidates for the third national list of representative heirs of intangible cultural heritage projects in tibet, including the sanju elderly.

as a result, fifty-two tibetans have been included in the national list of representative heirs of intangible cultural heritage and sixty-one projects have been included in the national list of intangible cultural heritage.

according to the information received, more than 50 national-level non-material cultural heritage heirs in tibet include buddhist music, traditional music, dance, play and play, as well as traditional tibetan craftsmen, such as kaft-weaving, tibetan paper and traditional medicine.

prior to that, more than 30 items in tibet, such as tibetan plays, donka, gessar, shelton festival, queima, lazim, tibetan astronomical calendar, were selected for the first and second national list of intangible cultural heritage.

“history of oral history” is a unique folk culture view of tibet.

starting in the 1980s, academic institutions such as the tibetan institute of social sciences and the university of tibet began to visit and record the singers of the king of gosal.

to date, the tibetan autonomous region has interviewed 57 rap artists and recorded 15 of them for nearly 5,000 hours.

sang-ju is one of the most prominent rap artists.

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