Representative things of the Kazakh people

There are: Nago Days Festival, Dombra, Akan Playing, Tumak, Bata.

I. Festivals: Nago Days Festival

Nago Days Festival, also known as Porridge Day, which is a barley-based porridge with seven ingredients. This festival will be very grand in Kazakhstan. It usually requires a week's rest and is also considered Valentine's Day there.

II. Musical Instruments: Dombra

The Dombra, also known as Dongbura and Dongbra, is a traditional plucked instrument of the Kazakhs of North and Central Asia, and is especially popular among the Kazakhs and Oroqen in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia's Siberia, as well as in China's Xinjiang and the Daxing'anling region of Northeastern China.

The instrument has a wide range of tones and is suitable for playing some fast-paced and spirited tunes. Dongbura instrument pole slender, the speaker has a scoop-shaped and flat two kinds. Generally made of pine or birch, the neck of the fingerboard, in the past, more than the whole wood hacked into. The sound box on the pronunciation of small holes, Zhang sheep intestine strings two, the body has sheep intestine strings taste. Dongbula is a traditional instrument of the Kazakh people.

Three, traditional entertainment: Akan playing and singing

Aken playing and singing is the Kazakh people's long tradition of folk art forms. Whenever Akan singing, people from near and far dressed in costumes, riding horses, playing the Dongbula singing and dancing to the flowery grasslands, all kinds of singers on the stage, the audience cheered and cheered, often all night long for several days to enjoy.

Four, clothing: Tukmak

Tukmak is a Kazakh man wearing a hat in winter, with two ear fans, the back of the long-tailed fan that can cover the wind and snow, to avoid the cold air. The hat lining is usually made of black lamb skin or fox skin, and the face is made of brightly colored satin.

Fifth, etiquette: Bata

In the daily life of the Kazakh people, "Bata" (i.e., blessing words) everywhere, all the time. For example, from the birth of a baby, taking a name to marriage, from slaughtering animals, meals to go out to work, moving to a different place, from birthdays to festivals, etc., people naturally take the "bata" as an important ritual, as a way to express their good wishes for people and things.

For different objects, "Bata" blessing content is also different, such as guests to other people's homes, before and after dinner to "Bata", the content is: "May your pot of oil and water constantly, please your dining cloth (table) Food is always there, I wish your whole family happiness and fulfillment".

The Kazakhs firmly believe that the power of "Bata" is mysterious and powerful, and there are proverbs like this: "Rain dyes the earth green, Bata makes heroes", "A good Bata can make a person good luck, and without it, a person will have bad luck". Bata can make a man lucky, but without it, a man is doomed".

Expanded information:

The origin of the name "Kazakh":

1. "The name appeared in the 15th century. At that time, some herdsmen of the lower Syr Darya River moved to the Chu River basin south of Lake Balkhash under the leadership of Keri Khan and Ghanibek Khan. Because they went eastward to resist and escape from the oppression of Abulkhaiyar Khan, they got the name "Kazakh", which means "asylum seeker" or "detachment".

2. It is believed that "Ussun" is the counterpart of "Kazakh".

3. It is believed that "Kazakh" is the counterpart of "Kesa" and "Hoysa" in the Book of Tang. As early as in the 5th-6th centuries, the Mongolian plateau, some of the high car tribes across the Altai Mountains and the Irtysh River westward, nomadic in the Aral Sea and the steppes north of the Caspian Sea, and later became the Fulin (the Eastern Roman Empire) to the east of the Adriatic, along the Enchu, Hoya, Hao, Hao, also the end of the (pharyngeal) and other Tiele tribes.

4. According to the 11th century famous linguist Muhammad Kashgari in the Dictionary of Turkic Languages, the Turkic people described the sharpness of swords and other weapons as "Kazakh" (KAZAK).

North and South Dynasties, from the Mongolian Plateau to the Eastern Roman Empire, there are the Tiele Hoyan, Hoysa and other tribes, the Sui and Tang dynasties in Central Asia in the west of the formation of the Kesa Turkic State, Western Turkic Mud Pout Chu Luohan defected to the Sui Dynasty, followed the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty in the eastern expedition against the Goryeo, and was named "Hoysana Khan", meaning "brave and healthy Khan", "the brave and healthy Khan". The name "Hoysana Khan" means "Brave and Healthy Khan".

5. The ancestors of the Kazakhs were the Serbs who lived in Central Asia from the 7th to the 4th centuries BC. Some scholars believe that the word "Kazakh" is the combination of the names of two tribes, the ancient "Kaspey" (Kaspey) people living in Central Asia and the ancient "Sak" (Sak) people living in the Ili River basin. The two tribal names of the ancient "Sak" (Sak) people living in the Ili River valley. The ancient pronunciation of the word "Sai" is "Sak", which is an apt translation of the Sak people.

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