{"id":6543,"date":"2019-11-20T22:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=6543"},"modified":"2019-11-20T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:10:41","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-kazak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-kazak\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Kazak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The Kazaks, with a population of 1,111,718, mostly  live in Ili Kazak Auto<em><\/em>nomous Prefecture, Mori and Barkol Kazak  Auto<em><\/em>nomous Counties. The rest are distributed in Gansu and Qinghai  provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the north of Xinjiang Auto<em><\/em>nomous Region, the Kazak  communities are surrounded by the Tianshan, Altay and Tarbagatay  mountains. In the middle are the Junggar and Ili basins with the Ili,  Tekes, Emin, Ertix and Wulungu rivers winding through and alpine lakes  rippling on top of mountains. In winter, the weather is extremely cold,  while in summer it&#8217;s cool with dramatic nighttime drops in temperature.  Therefore, the Kazaks drive their cattle, horses, and sheep each year  alternately from sunny slopes on the edge of the basins in summers and  then back to the river valleys in winters. There was very little farming  and little trade. However, with the rapid growth of the socialist  market economy, many Kazak people have become successful businessmen.<br \/>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>The history of Kazak people can be traced back to the  Wusuns in the Western Han Dynasty. The Kazaks emerged in the mid-15th  century as a distinctive ethnic community, an amalgam of various Turkic  speaking nomads. The dominant strain in this amalgam was provided by the  ancient Kipchak people. According to a folk myth, the word Kazak means  &quot;warrior&quot; or &quot;white swan&quot;, who were believed as progenitors of the  Kazaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Kazaks are Moslems. The Kazak language belo<em><\/em>ngs to the Turkic  group of the Altaic family. In ancient times, the Kazkas spoke the  Turkic and Huihu languages. Now the written form of the Kazak language  is based on Arabic letters.<br \/>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ili is the hometown of Ili steeds, Xinjiang fine-wool  sheep and Altay sheep. The Kazaks eat a lot of meat. Sausage made of  horse meat is their unique food and Koumiss is the favorite drink in  summer. The Kazaks love horse sports. Sheep snatching, horse racing and  the girl chase are the traditio<em><\/em>nal games on horseback.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their history, a wealth of ancient poems, tales, maxims  and proverbs passed on from generation to generation. Story-tellers  among the Kazak people are called Aken. They lour a<em><\/em>bout and sing the  legends of their proud ancestors for folks. Dances and so<em><\/em>ngs of the  Kazaks are sprightly. The traditio<em><\/em>nal folk musical instrument Do<em><\/em>ngbula  makes rich melodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <span>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3888933372\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kazaks, with a population of 1,111,718, mostly  live in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Mori and Barkol Kazak  Autonomous Counties. The rest are distributed in Gansu and Qinghai  provinces.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":281,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}