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Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Kazakh Folk Songs

Applicant: Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Project No.: 1078

Project No.: Ⅱ - 148

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Protection unit: Institute of culture and art of Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture

Introduction to Kazakh Folk Songs:

Applicant: Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Kazakh Folk songs are mainly spread in eight counties and two cities directly under Ili Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and three Kazakh autonomous counties including Tacheng, Altay, Mulei, Balikun and Aksai of Gansu Province. A small number of Kazakh people live in Urumqi, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture.

Kazakh people are mostly engaged in animal husbandry, and they have lived a nomadic life of chasing water and grass for thousands of years. It has strong, unique and colorful characteristics of grassland culture. The folk proverb "song and horse are the two wings of Kazakh people" vividly shows that folk song is an indispensable intimate partner in Kazakh people's life.

Kazakh Folk song singing is an indispensable way of folk entertainment in all kinds of festivals and family gatherings. It can be divided into four categories: labor songs, ode, love songs and custom songs in terms of content. The performance form can be divided into solo, duet, playing, singing, duet and so on.

Kazakh Folk songs are not only the true portrayal of Kazakh people's joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, but also a mirror of society and history. They embody Kazakh's history and culture, national spirit, local customs, life customs, psychological quality and aesthetic taste, and have a strong educational function.

In recent years, due to the prevalence of Chinese and the decline of Kazakh mother tongue, Kazakh Folk songs are facing unprecedented survival difficulties, especially toleos, one of the ancient treasures of Kazakh Folk art forms, is in an endangered state of disappearance, deformation, imbalance and distortion, which is in urgent need of protection and inheritance.