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Namuyi kuki li so su hi mugu

ELINVOIMAA NAMUYI-KANSANKULTTUURIPERINTN

NAMUYI TIBETAN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION

to

Kalle Mattila, Kaarina Sergejeff ja Nadja Nowak, Suomi

Kalle Mattila, Kaarina Sergejeff, and Nadjia Nowak

of Finland

Paikallisen kulttuurin voimistaminen sen omassa ympristss oli tavoitteena tilaisuudessa, jokapidettiin 4. elokuuta 2010 Dashuin kylss, Liangshanin yi-vhemmistn autonomisen piirin Xichanginkaupunkikunnassa Sichuanin maakunnassa Kiinassa. Tilaisuudessa esitettiin tarinoita ja laulujapaikallisella namuyin kielell. Se on lheist sukua tiibetille, ja se on pieni ja uhanalainen kielimuoto.Kulttuurisesti 5 000 hengen namuyi-kansa luokitellaan tavallisesti tiibetilisiksi.

A cultural revitalization program was held in Dashui Village, Lizhou Township, Xichang City,Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China 4 August 2010. The goal was torevitalize local culture in its own context. The material consists of story-telling and singing, all in thelocal Namuyi Tibertan language, which is very endangered.

by

Libu Lakhi (Li Jianfu; Dawa Tenzin )

2 April 2011


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NAMUYI TIBETAN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PROJECT

1. Report author: Libu Lakhi Contact: Mr. Li JianfuRoom 421, Unit 4, Building No. 1, Kojima Base, Wusi

Xilu Road 35, Xining City 810008, PR China; 810008 35

1 4 421

Phone: 13519764699

Email: [email protected]

2. Project Location: Dashui Village, Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR

3. Emphasis: Cultural preservation, education, and cultural heritage

4. Project backgroundNamuyi culture is rapidly vanishing in the face of modernity. Local religious practitioners spend

more time doing field work than in the past, when they would have spent much time treating human

illness and performing various rituals. Increasingly, families send ill family members to local

hospitals, rather than seek treatment from local religious practitioners. Local songs are rarely sung

and stories are unknown to young people since the advent of television in the village and its

immeidate assumption of the role of key entertainer. Traditionally, songs should be sung and dances

danced to entertain guests and when a period of labor, such as field work, has been completed.

During the lunar New Year period and during the Torch Festival, songs and dances were

particularly prominent. Today, however, during these speical times, watching television, gambling,

adn basketball competitions have largely replaced performing singing and dancing.

5. Objectives to involve, to create a space for the villagers of Namuyi Tibetan communities to sing and

dance, and to educate in the various aspects of Namuyi culture

to videotape the songs, stories, and dances during this competition party generate DVD data on endangered traditional cultures in a Namuyi Tibetan area that were

heretofore unvailable in digital format, provide 100 copies to local households, make the

material available globally via the Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/details/NamzinamuyiTibetanCulturalRevitalization

to provide an enduring record of this material freely accesible to anyone, and to illustrate

issues affecting local minority communities in terms of cultural preservation

raise awareness of the vlaue of cultural preservation among Namuyi Tibetans

6. OrganizationLibu Lakhi organized villagers to participate in this project activity by telephoning and talking to

villagers, chose and organized a team of five people to act as judges, filmed and later edited theproceedings, and distributed DVDs to local families, who were very pleased to see themselves

performing on TV. More importantly, children can learn songs and stories from the DVD later.

7. BeneficiariesNamuyi Tibetans today and tomorrow and scholars are the beneficiaries.


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PHOTOGRAPHS

Photo 1: Libu Shebur (left), a farmer from Dashui Village:

Many people dont know songs and stories now, especially, the young people. Young people gooutside to work to earn money doing construction work and young children spend their times in school,

only come home at weekend. Not many people are interested in sing and dancing anymore whenguests come in the village. Organize such party for people to gather together and sing is very good.

Photo 2: Qijin (right) a farmer from Dashui Village:

Every you come back to home, we are so happy because you encourage people to gather together todance and sing together. I hope you can come home and organize such activities every year.

Photo 3: Ndzexue of Dashui Village works in a restaurant in Xichang City:

I like to sing and dance, but there is no space and time to do so in the city. I only worry about making

money. Today, I sang and danced with all the relatives and felt the warmth of being home. Its greatthat our Finnish friends made it possibe for us to sing and that we could receive some reward as well. Iam very happy!

Photo 4: Libu Shebur told a story the day after the cultural revitalization event when Vazha asked

him to.

Photo 5: Libu Lakhi prepares to video.

Photo 6: Co-organizer, Buho, introduces the rules of judging songs and stories.

Photo 7: The five judge committee with the party announcer (left).

Photo 8: Villagers dance after the flute player.

Photo 9: Villagers dance.

Photo 10: Having drinks during the party.Photo 11: Villagers sing shalager'mountain songs' in men and women groups.

Photo 12: Villager Chunxu sings madami.

Photo 13: Libu Lakhi gives rewards provided by our Finnish friends to the villagers.

Photo 14: Villagers have dinner in the evening after the party.


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8. Problems Faced Some local people were unaware of the importance of cultural preservation, especially,

young children who are attending schools. The young children were not very willing to

participate in the singing and dancing. Some neighboring villagers did not join the activity,

9. Lessons Learned Building awareness of the importance of cultural preservation is a long term effort.

10. Recommendations Continuing this project for several years would lead to its sustainability; locals would in

time understand its value.

11. Financial Summary Total project budget: 6,350 RMB

Actual project cost: 6,350 RMB

Local contribution:

o

Libu Lakhi donated his time as manager, organizer, cameraman, video editor,and so on.

o Kevin Stuart lent his video camera.

o Many local villagers gave their time and energy to make the event a success, e.g.,

helped cook.


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NAMUYI TIBETAN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PROJECTFinancial Report

Total received: 6,350 RMB

Total expenditure: 6,350 RMB

Balance: 0

Detailed Expenses Report

DescriptionAmount/RMB

Sub-total/RMB #

Organization 2,650Drinks and candies fee for the party 1,550 1Gift for the party co-manager 100 2

Gift for the five people judging the songs and stories 500 3

Song Competition 3,100Reward for the 1st singer 700 4

Reward for the 2n singers (two people) 1,000 5Reward for the 3r singers (3 people) 900 6Encouragement reward for five people 500 7

Story Competition 1,100Reward for the 1st storyteller 500 8

Reward for the 2n storyteller 600 9

Total: 6,350 RMB


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NAMUYI TIBReceipt # 1

Receipt # 2

Receipt # 3

ETAN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PROJE

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Receipt # 5

Receipt # 6


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Receipt # 8

Receipt # 9


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NAMUYI TIBETAN CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PROJECTINITIAL PROPOSAL

NUMUYI TIBETAN SONG AND STORY COMPETITIONS IN DASHUI VILLAGE

What? Namuyi Tibetan Cultural Revitalization

When? 5 August 2010Where? Dashui Village, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR ChinaWho? Namuyi in Dashui and neighboring Shaba, Xiangshui and Xinshen CommunitiesCost? 6,350RMB

The ProjectNamuyi Tibetan culture with its own distinctive and precious store of human knowledge is

vanishing at an accelerating speed, as is common worldwide in the face of modernity. The objective

of this project is to make Namuyi villagers aware of the value of their culture by offering prizes to

those who sing and tell stories well. This will encourage more parents to teach their children songs

and stories, and to encourage children to request such songs and stories and thus slow down the

speed of culture loss.The project site will be in Dashui Village in Xichang but all villagers from Xinshen, and

Xiangshui in Xichang and Shaba in Mianning may attend and participate in daytime singing and

nighttime storytelling competition. I chose August fifth, the day after the Torch Festival, because

traditionally this an acitity when Namuyi gatherthey return home. Traditionally stories were told

at night, the reason for the time of the storytelling event.

Five local villagers will be selected to the singing and storytelling.

BudgetSong Competition

rank Amount RMB Number Sub total

1st 700 1 7002n 500 2 1,000

3r 300 3 900

encouragement 100 5 500

drinks and candies 600 600

3,700Night Time Childrens Story Telling Competition

Rank Amount RMB Number Subtotal

1st 500 1 500

2n 300 2 600

3r

100 3 300encouragement 50 5 250

judge 100 (gift) 5 500

party manager 100 (gift) 1 100

drinks and candies 400 400

2,650Total: 6,350RMB

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