Kanastuwa Village

Tuwa Village

synonym

Kanas Tuwa village generally refers to Tuwa village

Kanas Tuwa village is located in the Kanas River Valley 2-3km away from the South Bank of Kanas. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and beautiful environment. It is the only way to travel from burjin county to Kanas Lake. With an area of 1.66 million square kilometers and an altitude of 1390 meters, it belongs to the type of cultural relics. There are about 2000 Tuwa people living there. It has a long history and has been recorded as early as in ancient literature.

Basic information

Name of scenic spot: Tuwa Village

Location: Altay, Xinjiang

Opening hours: null

Area: 1.66 million square kilometers

Tourism projects:

Suitable season: spring, summer, autumn and winter

Main features: Kanas Tuwa village is surrounded by beautiful scenery and beautiful environment, which is the only way to travel from Buerjin county to Kanas Lake. Tuva people still keep their own unique living habits and language.

Catering: more than 500 people

Accommodation: more than 500 people

Conference reception: not available

Parking: not available

Address: Kanas River Valley, 2-3km south of Kanas, Xinjiang

natural environment

In the remote Xinjiang burjin County, the Kanas Lake area deep in the Altay Mountains, there are about 2000 Tuwa people. Tuwa people are the "wulianghai" people recorded in Xinjiang Tuzhi in the late Qing Dynasty. They have followed the traditional way of life from generation to generation. Tuwa village is sandwiched between two mountains, not wide valley, just for so many 80 families living. Because the mountain is not high, the valley is open and the village is peaceful. Behind the village is a hillside, and at the top of the hillside is a snow peak. It was summer, and the snow peak was covered by lush green trees.

In the setting sun, the small wooden houses with pointed roofs and Swiss style in Tuva village reflect a warm golden light. The pine trees beside the hut were scattered in twos and threes, all tall and straight. There are also birch trees in the village, one by one scattered among pine trees. Because of the snow-white branches, birch trees grow quickly

Very conspicuous, coupled with the vigorous canopy, like a big umbrella. Behind Tuva village is the friendship peak on the border between China and Russia. The Siberian wind blows from the friendship peak. As the terrain drops, it suddenly warms, and this thick mountain forest is bred.

Tuwa village is a long strip-shaped village, because the wooden hut is square, the village also looks angular. The path in the village extends to the pine forest around the village. As soon as you enter the pine forest, there is no trace. Looking around, the mountains are like a pair of big hands, taking care of the village.

There are people in the village riding and galloping along the road. The village is not big. It used to be easy to go from one family to another, but maybe because of their long riding habit, they still hold their chests and shrug their shoulders and beat the horses fast. As for horses, they probably like to run like this, jumping up from the door of their house and galloping to another house like an arrow. Because the road is too short, often just a flash, then stop, people from the horse down, into the house, leaving the horse outside, head down to eat grass on the ground.

People and livestock are involved in many things

They all adhere to common principles.

In Tuva village, if you enter any family, the host will treat you warmly. As soon as you sit down, you will serve yogurt, milk wine, milk tea, milk lumps, butter, cake, oil sieve, etc. You can choose any food you like, but milk tea is a must. The host pours the tea for you, you can add the right amount of butter and cream according to your own taste. Butter into the tea will soon melt open, floating a few golden flowers, milk skin in the tea will soon be soaked open, soft floating on the surface of the tea. Drink a mouthful, along with the situation will be sucking milk skin in the mouth, a chew, immediately have a wonderful sour spread open. Most people drink milk tea, the first bowl is to drink while tasting, unknowingly finished, waiting for the next host will give you a second bowl.

You feel something in the seriousness of people's faces, so you have to drink the second bowl. After drinking, people will tell you that you have to drink two bowls of milk tea in Tuva's house, because you came in with two legs. After drinking two bowls of milk tea, you can walk out with two legs, which is auspicious and safe.

Tuva people fight, two people fight black and blue, and even death, onlookers just look on the side, no response. There was someone who didn't understand the fighting rules of Tuva people and went up to fight. As a result, the two people stopped fighting immediately and came to fight him together. It turns out that two tuvas fight to fight for heroes. If you pull them, they will think that you look down on them, so they will fight you together.

"In a year, there are seven months of winter and five months of summer. "It's a common saying of Tuva people.

Historical evolution

The residents of Kanas Tuwa village are Tuwa people who call themselves Mongolian. Tuwa is also called "Tuwa" or "dewa" or "kumenqiak". It has a long history and has been recorded as early as in ancient literature. It was called "DUBAO" in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and "Tuba", "tubas" and "wulianghai people" in Yuan Dynasty. Some scholars believe that the Tuwa people are part of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers left by Genghis Khan during the western expedition, and have gradually multiplied to this day. The middle-aged elders in Kanas village say that they belong to the same nationality as the Tuva people in the Republic of Russia.

Tuwa people keep their own unique living habits and language. Tuwa language belongs to the Turkic family of Altaic language family, which is similar to the Kazakh group. Therefore, Tuwa people can speak Kazakh, which is different from Mongolian. The Tuva school basically popularizes Mongolian. In terms of living habits, in addition to the traditional Oboo Festival, Tuwa people also celebrate the zoulu Festival (Winter Festival), the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month of the Han nationality. The Tuva believe in Buddhism. But Shamanism also had a deep influence on them. The houses of Tuwa people are all built with logs, with a square structure at the bottom and a pointed structure at the top. They still lived in yurts when they were nomadic.

Kanas Tuwa village and Kanas Lake complement each other and merge into a whole, which constitutes the unique charm of human landscape and ethnic customs in Kanas tourist area.

As for the origin of the Tuwa people, there are representative statements: first, they migrated from Russia and Outer Mongolia 500 years ago; second, some soldiers left over from Genghis Khan's western expedition multiplied, because the seal of wulianghai Left Banner was excavated here, many Tuwa people claimed to be "wulianghai Mongols" and "wulianghai people"; third, they returned to the east from the Volga River Valley in the early Qing Dynasty Department. In this regard, Professor Cheng Shiliang, who specializes in the study of Turkic language and culture and Central Asian issues in the Department of Ethnology of Central University for nationalities, believes that the Tuwa people were formed by migration. It is an independent and authentic Chinese indigenous people. According to him, Tuva people first lived in the upper reaches of Yenisei River and the vast area to the north of sayanling, where they nomaded, lived and multiplied. In the 17th century, due to the entry of tsarist Russia, they were forced to move to tangnuwulianghai area to the south of sayanling, that is, today's Autonomous Republic of Russia and bayanulegai province of Mongolia, and a small part moved westward to China Altay.

Today's Tuva people living in the Altay Mountains came here at that time, and some of them came from Lake Marka in Kazakhstan in 1881. At that time, these areas were all Chinese territory. From the 6th century to the 19th century, the central dynasty appointed officials to exercise jurisdiction. These are accurately recorded in Beishi, suishu, xintangshu, Mongolian secret history and ancient documents of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Later, tsarist Russia seized the tangnuwulianghai area (about 70000 square kilometers) to the south of sayanling, and the independence of Outer Mongolia was added, so the situation today appeared. Speaking of this, Professor Cheng felt very sad. He said: "the time when tsarist Russia occupied 70000 square kilometers of China's territory was after the middle of the 19th century, later than the time when Hong Kong ceded it, and it was illegal." Because there are many tuvas in Russia and Mongolia and they are an independent nation, many people mistakenly believe that the tuvas in China migrated from Russia and Mongolia.

Oboo Festival

The enthusiastic Tuva people present hada to the guests, and the stone pile behind them is Oboo.

June 8 is the Oboo festival of Mongolian Tuwa people living in Kanas.

We started in the morning of June 6 and entered baihaba village in the evening of June 7. Everywhere we could see were wooden houses of Tuwa people. We drove directly to Wu Hua's house to stay. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I smelled the fragrance of milk. Regardless of the tiredness of the journey, I went straight to the kitchen. The hostess was making milk wine, which was food for Oboo Festival.

Walking around the village, I found that every family was killing sheep and stewing meat. I was looking for colorful autumn colors to meet and travel together. The travel diary of 12 constellations, recording the journey, making milk wine, cleaning rooms, hanging clean clothes in the courtyard of each family, and taking out the costumes of the festival, was a celebration before the festival.

sacrifice

Early in the morning of the 8th, we arrived at Oboo, which is about 5 kilometers away from baihaba village. "Oboo" is a Mongolian translation, also known as "EBO". It means duizi, which means a pile made of wood, stone and earth. Offering sacrifices to Oboo is the most common and lively sacrificial activity on the ancient and magical Mongolian Plateau. The Oboo in front of us has a history of 30 years