Tien Shan and national character

The Kazakhs live in the steppes of the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Steppe. They live in a beautiful environment and have a bold and passionate character. Kazakhs love the grassland, love of life, the grassland everywhere floating their songs. They are hard-working and simple, living by water and grass, song and horse are two wings of the Kazakh people.

The Kazakhs are mainly distributed in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Altay, Tacheng, Ili area, as well as Barkun, Mubi Kazakh Autonomous County territory. The vast majority of Kazakh herdsmen live a nomadic life with seasonal transhumance, living in tents, there are also primitive and simple wooden houses. Kazakh tents are round in shape, with red willow wood as the skeleton and felt covering the back of the stent, making them lightweight and sturdy, and easy to assemble and dismantle. Wooden houses are mostly built with local materials, warm in winter and cool in summer, sturdy and durable.

Kazakh men wore sheepskin coats or black striped velvet coat, women wore dresses and back clips, from the girl to the middle-aged and elderly women are good at embroidery, with wool, camel hair made of felt, with self-twisted wool knitting clothes. The tents are decorated with embroidered handicrafts of various patterns, with strong and brilliant color contrasts, giving people the enjoyment of beauty. Diet to dairy products and meat flour-based, milk lumps, hand-meat and smoked horse meat for the characteristic flavor food, milk tea is essential for every meal.