Giuseppe Mamay: "Manaschi" of the National Treasure
the sun is still so bright, snow has covered the prairie, and the toshgan river has not had the noise of the past and is quiet, with only a few birds flying from time to time.
in a small town in the westernmost part of the country, there is a master of national treasure.
he's the only man in the world who can sing eight "manas" and be called "live homer" in late september.
at the age of 15, the man can sing eight " manas " , 40 years old, officially a legend in public.
he sings " manas " , over 230,000 lines, 14 times more than homer's " iliad " .
he sings manas in a 32-page book, and it's 50 centimeters thick.
and he himself said that his ability to sing manas was given by a dream.
where the kolkuz live, the music of manas is heard.
as one of the country ' s most famous three great epics, manas has become the birthplace of the korkuz culture.
manas is like a moon, a moon that shines above the heads of the corkez, and clearly shows their lives.
the director of the manas research office, ishabek bébek, explained that, if other peoples had preserved their culture and history in the form of written texts, sculptures, architecture, theatre, fine works, etc., the corkuzes reflected their entire inner world, their pride, their struggle and their quest in the form of oral epics.
the korkezian folk literature is rich and eccentric, and the epics and narratives are so vast as to be known as the poets of history.
china has recorded a total of eight corkez heroes' epics, over 230,000 lines.
manas broadly refers to the entire epic and narrowly to its first.
unlike tibetan epics, "mother of gosal " , and mongolian epics, " jianggar " , the owner of epics, " manas " , is not one, but an eight-generation family.
the whole epic is named after the owner of the first one.
manas, the first minister in more than 73,000 lines, has the most dramatic and widespread story.
from the family legend of the corkuz and the birth of the manas family, it has been singing the life of manas who led the people against the dark reigns of the kalomak and chedan.
before the birth of manas, king kalmakkhan, who ruled the korkuz people, was informed by the divulgator that the kolkuz people were about to be born of manas, a great hero who would grow up to overthrow the karkmak rule.
king kalomak khan then sent men to look around and examined all the pregnant corkuz women in order to kill the newborn manas。but, under the protection of the resourceful people of the corkuz, manas was finally safely born in breulkai in altai.
having witnessed the suffering of the people, manas had been a child of hatred towards foreign predators, and he was determined to avenge his nation.
when manas was young, he had grown into a great hero.
he sympathized with the poor people and gave them his family's property; he worked and cultivated crops in the hot tornado.
he grew up with respect for the elders, confidence in the wisdom, unity of the warriors in all directions, unification of the divided korkuz tribes, association with the oppressed peoples, and the war in the south, which led to a happy and prosperous life for all peoples.
he was held in arms as king of khan and became a recognized leader of the peoples who were then enslaved by kalmak.
later, he did not heed the advice of his wife, kanikei, his assistant, and took 40 brave men and soldiers to march on the city of the chedan.
when manas was seriously wounded in this expedition, when he returned to talas, the people of kolkuz returned to disaster.
the manas is mainly found in the kerkuz regions of xinjiang, in the xinjiang region of sukolkuz and in the tex steppe, as well as in kyrgyzstan, kazakhstan and northern afghanistan in central asia.
it's hard to figure out how güney mamy could go beyond remembering hundreds of thousands of epics.
for thousands of years, people have given a good name to the man who can sing manas.
this extraordinary talent has always been considered a gift from god.
one is that when a man sleeps, god turns an epic into a grain of wheat into his mouth; the other is that the hero of an epic enters someone's dream.
these two statements, though different, have a common result: once he wakes up, he can go out and sing manas.
there is no doubt that the world's greatest “manaschi” today is giuseppe mamy.
in chinese folklore, thai do-joon zhong zhong zhong zhuong zhuong zhuong zhuong zheng wen said that ghusouf mamayi was “the contemporary homer”.
he was hailed as “the living homer” by professor lehhill, university of bonn, germany.
so, how did giuseppe mamay become manasch? in the warm room of my home, the old man remembered the distant past -- "i fell asleep one morning and had a dream when i was 13.
there were five cyclists in the dream, and they turned their backs on me.
i went to the last person and he told me that the man in the front was manas.
after manas is the old bakai, followed by al-manblat, followed by chuwak, and finally the man who briefed me, ajibay.
they didn't speak, and soon passed away.
i woke up from my dream and told my parents what i saw in my dream.
mom said to me: "don't tell anyone about this dream until you're 40." for my dream, my parents slaughtered lambs。dad said that, as manaschi, it was necessary to comply with the requirement that the manas could not be performed before the age of 40 and that it could not be performed after the age of 40.
speaking of which, this white-browed, yet ordinary old man laughed.
and he said, in a calm tone, "how can manaschi think of the scenes of epics, the scenes of epics and characters not go to sleep?" in fact, old giuseppe mamai started singing manas at the age of eight, under the guidance of his brother.
the elderly were born in the village of mirkage, harabrak commune, in the akrych district of xinjiang zul-sukorkuz autonomous oblast, and his brother balwai was a businessman and was present throughout xinjiang and central asia.
while he was doing business, he extensively collected and documented the epics of manas and the kolkuz folklore.
he first recorded the first three pieces of manas in the mouth of the then famous manaschi giuseppe ahun apay, and then the last five in the mouth of ephraim akunbek.
after studying with his brother to sing manas, it took only eight years to carry all eight epics.
hundreds of individuals, events and events in the epics are clearly in his mind, and through their own processing, they create unique musical variants.
this variant is the most unique, structurally ambitious, artistic and tragic, and invincible act in the world.
in the summer of 1958, the party committee of the chinese communist party, kazyle soklkorkuz autonomous region, convened a field pastoral conference in the district of ahouche, which was strongly recommended by the locals for the performance of " manas " by jisuf mamay.
on that occasion, for the first time, he sang manas in front of everyone.
he sang in his breath for four days and three nights, shocked all the listeners and shocked the chinese language.
people come from all sides on horseback and listen to him.
he's also been singing all night and night, for days and nights, up to 20 days, to feed himself with a bowl of soju tea.
from 1961 to 1983, giuseppe mamai once performed " manas " three times.
the first was in 1961 to sing the first five lines of epics for the uyghur autonomous region of xinjiang (xinjiang uyghur autonomous region) collection team of the uysnas census.
there were over 38,000 lines of manas, over 27,000 lines of symedei, over 18,000 lines of saitek, over 16,000 lines of kennim and over 28,000 lines of sait.
the second performance was in 1964, in the city of atush, he supplemented the first five epics and sang more than 45,000 lines of the sixth, aslbacha and bekmacha.
the third performance was in november 1978, when he was invited to beijing.
this time, it was his own recording and his own singing, and the elderly replayed and recorded the rest of the ministries, with the exception of the second "semétaire " , which was not lost in the "change"。manas, 53287 lines, semei, 35246 lines, saitek, 22590 lines, kenyni, 32922 lines, sait, 24,000 lines, aslbacha and bekbacha, 36780 lines, sombilek, 1486 lines, and chigtai, 12325 lines.
currently, all these epics have been published.
in 1979, güsoph mamy was received by the leaders of the country and called him the “national treasure”.
in the same year, he attended a symposium of chinese folk singers from ethnic minorities and the fifth national conference of civilities, and was elected member of the chinese cultural union and member of the research council of the chinese association of folk artists.
subsequently, he was elected vice-president and honorary president of the xinjiang union and permanent member of the chinese association of folk artists.
he was elected to the standing committee of the xinjiang uighur autonomous region political association and became a researcher on special state allowance.
today, the elderly have returned to ahouche to enjoy their two grandchildren in heaven.
because of their age, older people rarely sing " manas " , but they still like to read, and when they are free, they have to sing " manas " for their new heir, the granddaughter.
standing in the sunshine's room, the little girl opens her throat and sings manas.
the young girl is very emotional and has a rich face, with no musical accompaniment, but her tunes change from time to time, strutting and drenzy, and sometimes strained and long and intoxicating.
the old man was proud to say, "history is the spirit of the korkuz.
in the eyes of the kolkuz people, manas is a noble hero with the flesh and blood of mortals and the power of superman.
it is believed that the soul of manas is still alive and that he will protect the kolkuz from their plight and their ill health.
i'm going to sing "manas." following the interview
, there was an encouraging news: the corkuz hero historic manas was successfully selected for the united nations list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
as the only current heir to this precious legacy, ghussou mamayi became a true national treasure “manaschi”.
source: the daily light; journalist wang suu kyi