Kazakh yurt building technology

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Kazakh yurt building skills

Applicant: Tacheng District, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Item No.: 966

Project No.: VIII - 183

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Tacheng District, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Protected by: Tacheng cultural center, Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture

Brief introduction of Kazak yurt construction technology:

Applicant: Tacheng District, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

The construction of Kazakh yurt is an ancient craft, which has a history of more than 2000 years. Kazakh yurt is closely connected with nomadic production and life style. It is not only a means of life, but also a means of production. It adopts the frame type combination of wood structure, which is unique in residential buildings. Kazakh yurt is mainly composed of skeleton and felt. The overall structure is exquisite and flexible, with mobility, easy to build, easy to unload, easy to carry, shockproof, and can move with grazing life.

Kazakh yurt building technology includes carving, carving, chiseling, weaving, binding, dyeing and other processes, the process is quite complex. Yurt builders made their own dyestuffs and dyed colorful wool to weave grass curtains and roll out flower felt without any drawings and patterns. All these show the Kazakh people's superb wisdom and infinite creativity, and show that the Kazakh's handicrafts have reached a superb level, which condenses the Kazakh's aesthetic concept, humanistic thought, folk characteristics and historical memory, which has an important reference value in the study of minority aesthetics and folklore.

Kazakh yurt occupies an important position in our country's residential buildings, which involves mechanics and material science methods, comprehensive dynamic plastic arts and technology ideas have high research value. In recent years, the emergence of cheap and high-quality carpet, embroidered carpet and light steel tube house in industrial production has brought a huge impact on the traditional Kazakh yurt construction technology. The inheritors of this minority's handicrafts are older, and are gradually decreasing. There is no successor for the inheritance of the skills, which needs to be protected.