Those taught what was termed as high-class matters, such as the higher form of ritual and old cosmogonic myths, would have nothing to do with black magic. The subjects taught may be classified as high-class ritual and lore historical and other matters of less importance and the arts of black magic. These men were tasked with sharing the lore to the young men selected as pupils. They were the people of the Maori that were responsible for keeping and reciting the oral history of the tribe. The institution was known as the whare wananga and whare kura. In pre-European times the Maori preserved tribal lore by teaching it to a certain number of young men. The Maori culture relied heavily upon oral storytelling practices passed down through the ages. Throughout these years and up until today, traditional oral storytelling has been an important part of the Maori culture. Over time, the Maori culture evolved in New Zealand until they adopted their own distinct race, apart from other Polynesian people the Te Maori. More than 1,000 years ago, the Maori people came to New Zealand from the tropical Polynesian islands. New Zealand carries a rich heritage with its indigenous people. In this series, we explore the importance of traditional storytelling, and the storytellers that tell them, across various cultures. A lot of cultures have rich storytelling traditions that are unique to their culture. Since stories have been told from time immemorial in all human communities under all kinds of circumstances, we must find the distinctive vestiges that point to storytelling, rather than 'telling of stories'.Storytelling isn’t just entertainment, it’s a way to protect your heritage and culture. The question is only how far one is willing to stretch the concept while looking for the roots. When we look for the origins of Chinese storytelling, it is only natural that there should be a long prehistory of more or less informal 'telling of stories' leading up to the establishment of a professional genre of entertainment. There is, however, so little evidence about the situation and contents of the telling, that one can hardly conceive of this as a case of professional storytelling as known in China since the Song dynasty. One famous passage refers to the practice of summoning a blind person to recite poems and tell edifying matters to pregnant women during the night, conceived as one of the important ways to secure the birth of a healthy and virtuous child. In written sources from the Han dynasty, pointing back to the distant past of early Zhou ( c.1200 bc), we have some hints of situations that may have had some likeness to 'performance of stories'. The dating of the earliest testimony of this art varies within a time span of about one thousand years, from the Han dynasty (202 bc-220 ad) to the late Song (960-1279). The rise of professional storytelling in traditional China is a much-disputed question among literary historians. The origins of professional storytelling in China Great Enlightenment Storytellers' House.The storytelling event of the recent past.
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