Arts festival of aite

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Aken ballad singing while playing is currently named as aites.The reason is that antiphonal singing is not limited to singing in common sense.the content of the song is improvised and combining poems and singing.Aites covers a wide range of content，including myths，stories，poetry，folk songs，proverbs，maxims and so on These works were passed down orally by akens generation after generation and accumulated to form the rich oral literature of the Kazakhs.The emergence of aites is inseparable from the living environment，nomadic tradition and national psychology of the Kazakhs.the stability of settlement place，climate，traditions and lifestyle made it possible for aites to exist on the grassland for a thousand years.It is inherited by the Kazakhs and has become one of their collective wealth.Aken is the creator singer and disseminator of poem there are a relatively complete traditional singing for weddings and funerals，religious ceremonies and customs of life.These poems have a very important value for the studies on the history of national development，ethnic relations and religion.In the meanwhile，they are also important materials for the studies of history，anthropology，sociology ethnology and folklore.

The Kazakhs have traditionally made the major historical events and characters，living customs，religion，philosophy，hobbies，joys and sorrows and love between men and womeninto poems，set a particular tune and sang for exchanging information and talking.This habit may be closely related to the daily life of their ancient ancestors who sang instead of speaking，the antiphonal singing and the various customs and tradition related to primitive religions.Singing folk song is the most direct and effective way of inheritance，which is with their nomadic way of life and has formed their positive, free and straightforward simple and not restricted by time or space, free and unstrained This is closely connect haracter. the 18 century famous russian scholar pechorin remarked the turks of the 6 century ad sang their folk songs by turkic. Description about aites can be found in the ong love poem(narrative poem) of the 910 century The handsome Kuozi and Beautiful bayan and the girl Jibek therefore no later than the 9 century ad has aites the antiphonal singing come into being.