The ornament adorns all the objects surrounding the Kyrgyz from the moment of birth to the end of life. Nowadays, ornaments are very popular and used not only for decorating yurts and utensils but also for festive attires, jewelry, and souvenirs. Kyrgyz gave the patterns their own names identifying them with elements of their own and surroundings in the world around them. The shape of the symbols has reached us through the ages, almost unchanged. Kyrgyz ornaments include simple geometrical symbols, floral patterns, images of animals (both living and fantastic), nature, and stylized images of people. One of the most popular patterns are: ram’s horns, which repeats the image of this animal and represents prosperity or Umai ene, winged woman with a child, a spirit that represents fertility and protects mothers and babies. There are several types of Kyrgyz ornamental patterns: 1.\tPatterns symbolizing landscapes and other natural objects and processes such as Earth, a spring, eternal movement, Sun, Venus, star constellations, day and night, equinox; 2.\tPatterns symbolizing elements of animal kingdom such as raven claw, goose foot, ram horns, goat horns, a bird wing, a dog tail; 3.\tPatterns symbolizing elements of flora such as almond, clover, pomegranate, tulip; 4.\tPatterns symbolizing household objects as a comb, a lock, tip of a knife, köökör, a vessel for fermented milk; 5.\tPatterns with anthropomorphic elements.

To commemorate the ancestors who came from the Central region to the South to reclaim land and establish hamlets, the families in Long An have the custom of providing offerings on their death anniversary - a party to worship Việc lề. They worship ancestors, grandparents, landowners (Ngung Man Nương), and gods related to land and spirits. The ceremony is presided over by the head of the family or the head of the branch of the family. The worship day is not fixed, usually during leisure time. Most of them arrange offerings on an almond cushion or a sedge mat spread out on the ground in front of the house. Offerings include Ám Porridge (porridge cooked with snakehead fish scaled with a bamboo knife, without cutting off the fins or tail), grilled snakehead fish, tam sên (duck eggs, boiled pork belly, shrimp; or snails, crab, shrimp). In addition to the above dishes, each family and locality has other dishes according to schedule. Offerings are placed on tree leaves, chopsticks are small tree branches, sedge stems or reed stems, and spoons are replaced with banana stems or pieces of pandan leaves. All to commemorate the first days of land clearing and hardship of our ancestors. The celebrant prays to the ancestors, then according to family hierarchy, each person comes to bow. Burning incense, the celebrant turns it into gold, spreads rice and salt, and floats a banana raft (a model of a small boat with rice, salt, votive paper, and jars of fresh water on the boat) with offerings, symbolizing food to send off. bring ancestors. Finally, there is a communal meal for family members.

The art of chakan embroidery is a kind of sewing ornaments, image of flowers and symbolic drawings with colorful threads on cotton or silk fabrics. Chakan embroidery is used to decorate women’s shirts, pillows, bed spreads, head scarves, towels, curtains and coverlets for cradles. In the chakan embroidery art, there are symbolic depictions and mythological images related to the surrounded nature and cosmos, which express people’s wishes and hopes. Each ornament has special name and meaning, for example, pomegranate flower, willow leaves, almond, tulip, cockscomb, nightingale, peacock’s tail, moon, star, sun, cloud and so on. Process of chakan embroidery consists of selection of textile and threads, drawing ornaments, doing the needlepoint images, and sewing clothes. The threads were prepared in the past from cotton and silk fibers, and colored them with natural paints prepared with some kinds of plants and minerals. Now, chakan dress makers use fabric threads for needlework. In the Khatlon region chakan shirt is an important dress of brides. Every bride should have chakan embroidered curtain and pillows as well. Grooms during wedding ceremony will put on tāqi – the national skulp-cap with chakan embroidery. In houses of the Khatlon are hang chakan embroidered needlework curtains. During the traditional festival and holy days Tajik women and girls wear chakan dress. Musical folklore groups and dancing ensembles of Tajikistan widely use chakan embroidered dress in the scene. Annualy in Tajikistan are held festivals and competitions of traditional costumes titled "Jilvai chakan".

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A kind halva which is cooked with milk, sugar and grind of almond or walnut.

A kind of dish, which is cooked with seeds of apricot, almond, pistachio and water. This dish is prepared mostly during the winter.