Kazakh herdsmen moving to another pasture
3 min readWhen taking a sweeping view of human civilization, we must say that oral materials and literature are what an ethnic group refers to while looking for its own root. In some sense, this is one of the features of grassland ethnic groups and farming ethnic groups. As an ora material, aites and dastan as a form of telling narrative long poems are a way of entertainment in the daily life of the Kazakhs which brings joy and cheerful atmosphere to family parties and gatherings. It is also an important form of inheriting traditional nationa culture. They get to know about their history, culture, customs and rituals from variousnarrative long poems on a variety of subjects. So,”The Han people write their history in books and the Kazakhs record their history by the mouth of akens. Two culture modes formed an interesting contrast.
From the perspective of nomadic culture, the nomadic people have maintained their ancient folk songs, poems, dances and handicrafts in nomadic life and production, forming a symbol of splendid nomadic culture and constituted the splendid chinese culture together ith the farming culture in the Central Plains, showing the great charm of “diversity and unIty.
The Kazakh people love poetry. The great ideologist, famous poet abai once said,”What opens the door to life and protects you is poetry, what embraces you and lets you rest forever is also poetry No other ethnic groups in the world were so obsessed with and practice aites as a whole like the Kazakhs Akens in fact have become the soul singers travelling on the prairie in Mt. Tianshan And aites is the record of the ideas and creation of the soul singers who tell the life and history of the Kazakhs with the unwritten texts of voices of songs and pass them down generation after generation, recording the experience f every generation Just as a Kazakh saying that goes, “Akens cannot live to a thousand years old, but their songs can.
A picturesque grassland
a scholar once remarked, This is a peculiar and heartening time for many ethnic groups in the western region, featuring the existence of aites with post-modern culture in the West, and the existence of nomadic way of information imparting with the Internet. This is the most vivid and concrete interpretation of cultural transformation in real life “Undoubtedly, aites as a national treasure of the Kazakhs is also an”encyclopedia”that fully reflects the social life of the Kazakhs and has been rightfully, together with other fine national cultural heritage, inscribed on the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage Which includes 518 items.
As intangible cultural heritage, aites is an important mark of the spirit and culture of the Kazakhs. It is a symbol of the spirit of the Kazakhs and a code of the cultural life of the Kazakhs. The survival of this cultural gene determines the survival of the spirit of an ethnic group. Today when we look back the cultural heritage around us, we lament the vicissitudes of life and the passage of time while marveling at the ingenious creations of our ancestorsAfter long time of development, they have become immortal, as if they have taken the elixir of life and are passed down generation after generation.
