Chinese ethnic minority literature has rich forms, a large number of works and distinctive characteristics, and plays an important role in the history of Chinese literature. Narrative Poem is a very distinctive poem in Chinese ethnic minority literature. Their creation narrative poems, hero narrative poems, and love narrative poems are of great national style.
The long hero narrative poems in it are usually called epics. They use major historical events or ancient legends as the content to create a famous hero image, with a grand structure and full of fantasy and mythology.
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The Tibetan "Biography of King Gesar" is an endless heroic narrative poem. It has been sung for thousands of years and is still continuing and enriching and developing today. This epic describes the heroic deeds of the son of the god Gesar who was reborn in the lower realm, won the championship in the horse racing competition, and led the tribe to fight everywhere, eliminated the demons on earth, stabilized the three realms, and finally broke into hell to rescue his mother and beloved concubine, and returned to heaven together.
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As one of the longest epics in the world, it is known as an "encyclopedia" that studies the ancient Tibetan social history, ethnicity, religion, language, literature, customs, etc.
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When traveling in Tibet, we often see buildings related to Gesar King , hear stories related to gesar King, and visit mountains, rivers and rivers related to gesar King.
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On the way from Maduo Township, Qumalai County, Qinghai to Zhaling Lake, you will pass by a building complex related to King Gesar, called Gesar Horse Racing King Ascends the Route. The stone platform is backed by a hillside, and is 1.8 meters long, 1.4 meters wide and 2 meters high. At the top is a 3-square-meter flat boulder, and the platform uses about 15 tons of stone. The legendary story of King Gesar begins here. He climbs up to the high platform, looks out at the mountains and land in the distance, and trains soldiers and horses from the ridge country.
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But this agenda has not been a long history, so it may not be very accurate to say so. The guide Jun means that its construction history is not a long time. In May 2016, Gesar cultural research experts from all over the world gathered in Maduo Township, Qumalai County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. Based on the Gesar horse racing scene described in the epic of "King Gesar", they unanimously agreed that the location of the Gesar horse racing as king ascends the throne is now consistent with the epic, so they established a related monumental building - Gesar horse racing as king ascends the throne.
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became the axe, in order to better inherit and develop Gesar culture, the local government will hold sacrificial activities here on important festivals. Gesar's horse racing as king did not stand alone on the vast grassland. There are also several three-story small stone platforms with high steps distributed around it. The small stone platforms are full of magical arrows. These small stone platforms stretched out orderly on the vast grassland, which is spectacular.
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If one day in the future, readers and friends will set foot on this land, they must not forget to go to the place where the legend of King Gesar began to see and experience the magnificent life of Tibetan heroes.
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