Kazakh yurt building techniques

Xinjiang
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The construction of Kazakh yurts is an ancient craft with a history of more than 2,000 years. Kazakh yurts are closely linked to the nomadic production and lifestyle, and are both living materials and production tools. It adopts a wooden frame combination, which is unique in residential buildings. Kazakh yurts are mainly composed of two parts: the frame and the felt. The overall structure is exquisite and flexible, with mobility, easy to build, easy to unload, easy to carry, earthquake-proof, and can be constantly migrated with pastoral life. The Kazakh yurt construction skills include carving, engraving, chiseling, weaving, tying, dyeing and other techniques, and the process is quite complicated. The yurt builders make their own dyes and dye colored wool to weave straw curtains and roll flower felts, without any drawings and patterns, and embroider while making. All these show the superb wisdom and infinite creativity of the Kazakh people, indicating that the handicraft skills of the Kazakh people have reached a high level, which condenses the aesthetic concepts, humanistic thoughts, folk characteristics and historical memory of the Kazakh people, and has important reference value in the study of ethnic minority aesthetics and folklore. Kazakh yurts occupy an important position in Chinese residential buildings. The mechanics and materials science methods, comprehensive dynamic modeling art and craft ideas involved in them are of great research value. In recent years, the emergence of industrially produced, inexpensive and high-quality carpets, embroidered carpets and lightweight steel pipe houses has brought a huge impact on the traditional Kazakh yurt construction skills. The inheritors of this ethnic minority handicraft are relatively old and are gradually decreasing. There is a worry that the inheritance of skills will have no successors, and protection is urgently needed. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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