On the 27th, the launch ceremony of the Tibetan-to-Chinese series of "Gesar", a major cultural project in the Tibet Autonomous Region, was held in Lhasa. It is reported that this series of books containing 33 (volumes) of epic stories in the late "Gesar" rapper Samdrup Tibetan rap book is currently the world's most complete series of books on the Tibetan translation of the individual rap artist rap book of "Gesar".
Gesar is a series of Tibetan translations into Chinese. (Photo courtesy of Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences)
"Gesar" is a thousand years of Tibetan legendary hero King Gesar descended the demon Voldemort, suppressed the strong and the weak, and benefited the people, known as the "Homer epic of the East", also known as the world's longest, largest and only "living" folk literature.
Jinguo Tsering Phuntsok, director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences, introduced that since the early 1980s, the Academy of Social Sciences of the Tibet Autonomous Region began to rescue the recording of the epic rap story of the elderly Samdrup "Gesar", and until the death of the elderly, a total of 2114 hours of rap stories had been recorded. In 2000, the rescue and sorting out of the Tibetan rap book of the elderly Samdrup was officially launched, and 45 (48 volumes) of the epic story of "Gesar" were edited and published, with a total of more than 520,000 poems in a full series, which is nearly twice the sum of the world's five major epics.
Born in 1922, Samdrup had wandered around selling art before the peaceful liberation of Tibet. In his rap career for many years, he has continuously absorbed proverbs, songs, production and life terms from all over Tibet, which is loved by the vast number of farmers and herdsmen in Tibet, and is praised by the academic circles as a "language master" and a "national treasure-level talent". In 2011, Samdrup died in his hometown of Mozhugongka County, Lhasa, at the age of 90.
At the launch ceremony, the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences presented books to the Tibet Autonomous Region Library, the Tibet Art Research Institute and other units. Photo by Tenzin Liezhu
"Sangzhu Old Man Rap's "Gesar" fills the record for the longest individual rap epic of "Gesar" artists in the world. In 2013, the "Gesar" Tibetan-Chinese translation project was included in the major cultural projects of the autonomous region, the set of translations of more than 320,000 poems, its translation work brings together the wisdom and painstaking efforts of experts and scholars from Tibet University, Tibet University for Nationalities, Tibet Archives, Potala Palace Management Office and other relevant units, as well as experts and scholars in the academic circles of "Gesar" in Beijing, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Gansu and other countries. Jinguo Tsering Phuntsok said.
According to reports, "Gesar" is the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which integrates the history, society, morality, art and other knowledge systems of several ethnic minorities in the mainland, and has high academic, historical, appreciative and original ecological and cultural values. (Chunla, Tenzin Liezhu)