The story of balagencang

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: the story of balagencang

Applicant: Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Item No.: 538

Project No.: i-51

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Protection unit: Tongliao Mass Art Museum

A brief introduction to balagencang's story:

Applicant: Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

The story of balagencang is very popular among the people in Inner Mongolia, especially in Horqin grassland. Balagencang is a smart folk figure. His story reflects the sharp contradiction between the Mongolian working people and the feudal rulers. Through this intelligent and humorous idealistic figure, the working people express their anger and resistance, satirize, ridicule, expose and flog the cruel, stupid and greedy exploiting class.

Balagencang's story is composed of many independent stories, full of humor and drama. These stories are the crystallization of Mongolian People's wisdom, which can not only enlighten people ideologically, but also have distinctive artistic characteristics.

Impacted by the way of modern cultural communication, the story of balagencang, which has been handed down by word of mouth, has gradually become vague and needs to be excavated, sorted out and protected.

Chinese PinYin : Ba La Gen Cang De Gu Shi