What are the traditional dances of Kazak people?

Karajiaoleha is the most representative folk dance of Kazak nationality, which is widely spread in Kazak inhabited areas in Xinjiang.

Karagio Leha is Kazakh, which means "dark horse". There is an old saying in Kazakhstan: "Song and horse are the two wings of Kazakhstan". Horses are indispensable tools and partners in Kazakh life, and "black horse walking" is a stunner among horses. Its image is majestic, bright and black, its walking pace is steady and powerful, its posture is beautiful, and its hoofbeat is like a sonorous drum. Riding a dark horse is like entering an artistic realm. People are dancing and horses are dancing. As a result, the folk dance and music of the same name named after Karagio Leha were formed.

Eagle dance is a typical folk dance of Kazak people, which is mainly spread in Abeitan township and Brzin area in Altay region.

For a long time, besides grazing, hunting is also an indispensable means of production for Kazaks. Falcon is the hunter's closest companion in hunting. A good falcon can be used to catch antelopes, rabbits, wolves and foxes. So Kazakhs have a very special love for eagles. Raising and training eagles is not only a skill to make a living, but also considered as the best entertainment for men, which is the main symbol of tenacity and decisive character. There are many poems and music praising falcons among Kazakhs, and Eagle Dance is a representative work that expresses Shan Ying's brave and fearless image with dance.

"Bear Dance" is called "Ayubiyi" in Kazakh, and it is popular among Kazakhs in Tori area. The Kazakhs in Tory belong to the Kelie tribe, originally nomadic in Altay region. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, that is, after AD 1862, some of them moved from Altay to Tori. Now there is a bear dance in Tory, and there is also a bear dance in Altay, which shows that this dance is originally a traditional dance of Kelie tribe. But Tory's bear dance has a unique style after more than 0/00 years of development.

"Reaching the corner" is popular in Rem Kazak Autonomous County.

Kazaks who are good at singing and dancing have created many vigorous and beautiful animal dances in combination with life and labor production in pastoral areas. Among them, eagle, horse, sheep and bear are the most representative, and they are given different meanings: eagle is a sacred symbol, horse and sheep are shelters and shelters in daily life, and bear is regarded as a typical example of greed and deception. Although all kinds of animal dances have different connotations and emotional colors because of different performers' understanding and performance objects, on the whole, they all have realistic simulated gods, vivid images and unrestrained dance movements; , setbacks and powerful * * * have characteristics.

Reaching the corner is a dance that simulates the shape of a goat and is usually performed on the day of a holiday party.

Roller felt dance

"Felt Dance" is a kind of popular Kazakh women's dance, which is popular in Kazak inhabited areas such as Yili, Altay, Tacheng, Rem, Barkol and Urumqi.

Kazakhs have been engaged in animal husbandry for a long time and live a nomadic life. In that special environment, Kazakh women undertake heavy housework, such as burning tea, cooking, milking, peeling rice, shearing wool, winding felt, twisting thread, weaving and embroidery. They decorate the yurts with dexterous hands, beautify their lives, and are busy all year round, playing an important role in the herdsmen's families. Whenever Kazak herdsmen get together to sing and dance during festivals, hardworking and capable women will naturally improvise their most familiar labor movements into dance performances. Then, through the continuous processing and improvement of folk artists in the past dynasties, a series of dances expressing labor and grassland life have gradually formed, which is the origin and development process of roller felt dance, milking dance, embroidery dance and shearing dance. These dances are also collectively referred to as "labor dances" among the people.

Milking dance

"Milking Dance" is a kind of Kazakh labor dance, which is widely spread in Kazakh inhabited areas. The dance shows the whole process of Kazak women making milk tea, from milking, stirring milk … to serving milk tea. Mainly performed by women. According to their own observation and experience of life, dancers integrate the labor process into Kazakh folk dance and improvise in the performance, making it a Kazakh folk dance with unique grassland characteristics.

Embroidery dance

"Embroidery Dance" is a kind of Kazakh labor dance, which shows that Kazakh women carefully embroider all kinds of exquisite costumes and decorations in their busy production and labor to beautify their lives. Dance movements are relatively simple, and they are all carried out around the process of embroidery, such as "twisting thread", "arranging thread", "threading needle", "embroidering", "combing hair" and "looking in the mirror", which are relatively casual.