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Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders: Ayghyr kosu
Ayghyr kosu is a rite succeeding the milking. Young men lead stallions (ayghyr’s) out and keep them in check until women take milk away with them. Then the bridles are taken off and the stallions join their herds.\n\nTraditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders – taking place in Terisakkan Village – mark the end of the previous and the beginning of the new yearly horse-breeding cycle. Rooted in traditional knowledge about nature and the age-old relations between man and horse, the rites involve skills inherited from nomadic ancestors, adapted to present-day reality. The rites take around three weeks in total, until the koumiss sharing ceremonies, which take place in every household, are over. The rites open a new yearly cycle of reproduction and manifest traditional Kazakh hospitality. Faced with the forced transition in the twentieth century from a nomadic way of life to a settled one, bearers have adapted the traditional form of horse breeding to meet present-day conditions to ensure its continued viability.
Kazakhstan -
MEVA-KHUSHKONI, mevaqoqkuni
Skills of drying fruits and vegetables for using them in other seasons. Fruits such apricot, grape, plum, cherry, peach and vegetables are dried in the sunny and shadow places with special methods.
Tajikistan -
Traditional technique of making ox-cart
The largest from the tools and equipments for animal husbandry crafted by Mongols is a cart with wheels. Our predecessors have produced the cart with wheels from the old ages. As stated in the “Secret History of Mongols”, Mongols have produced and used a variety of carts such as mukhlag tereg (cart with booth), khagaatai tereg, öljigtei tereg, tömör tereg (metal cart), tsuurgatai tereg (cart with socket) and tenkhlegtei tereg (cart with axle). Only a handful of skilled master artisans crafted these varieties of carts in different sizes.
Mongolia -
MEVA-KHUSHKONI, mevaqoqkuni
Skills of drying fruits and vegetables for using them in other seasons. Fruits such apricot, grape, plum, cherry, peach and vegetables are dried in the sunny and shadow places with special methods.
Tajikistan -
The art of steel carving
The traditional technique of steel engraving, perforating, drying and polishing with both hot and cold processions is one of the wonders created by nomadic Mongols. The hearth place of the origin of steel carving is believed was at the Dalaichoinkhor Van khoshuu (smaller territorial unit) of Sain Noyon Khan aimag (province). The Dalaichoinkhor style steel crafts of deities, teapots, incense burners, stirrups, knives, and other accessory of household items are famous for their design and makes.
Mongolia -
Terisakkan Spring Festival of Horse Breeders: Ayghyr kosu
Ayghyr kosu is a rite succeeding the milking. Young men lead stallions (ayghyr’s) out and keep them in check until women take milk away with them. Then the bridles are taken off and the stallions join their herds.\nKazakh spring horse-breeding rites mark the end of the old and the beginning of the new yearly horse-breeding cycle. Rooted in the traditional knowledge of nature and in the millennia-aged close relations between man and horse, these rites involve skills inherited from the nomadic ancestors and adapted to the present day reality. The festive rites compiles of the triade: (1) .‘Biye baylau’; (2) ‘Ayghyr kosu’; and (3) ‘Kymyz muryndyk’.\n‘Kymyz muryndyk’ (metaphorically, ‘initiation of koumiss’) is the 'first koumiss sharing' rite, opening a season of its making and drinking.
Kazakhstan -
MEVA-KHUSHKONI, mevaqoqkuni
Skills of drying fruits and vegetables for using them in other seasons. Fruits such apricot, grape, plum, cherry, peach and vegetables are dried in the sunny and shadow places with special methods.
Tajikistan -
Traditional technique of making ox-cart
The largest from the tools and equipments for animal husbandry crafted by Mongols is a cart with wheels. Our predecessors have produced the cart with wheels from the old ages. As stated in the “Secret History of Mongols”, Mongols have produced and used a variety of carts such as mukhlag tereg (cart with booth), khagaatai tereg, öljigtei tereg, tömör tereg (metal cart), tsuurgatai tereg (cart with socket) and tenkhlegtei tereg (cart with axle). Only a handful of skilled master artisans crafted these varieties of carts in different sizes.
Mongolia -
The art of steel carving
The traditional technique of steel engraving, perforating, drying and polishing with both hot and cold processions is one of the wonders created by nomadic Mongols. The hearth place of the origin of steel carving is believed was at the Dalaichoinkhor Van khoshuu (smaller territorial unit) of Sain Noyon Khan aimag (province). The Dalaichoinkhor style steel crafts of deities, teapots, incense burners, stirrups, knives, and other accessory of household items are famous for their design and makes.
Mongolia -
The art of steel carving
The traditional technique of steel engraving, perforating, drying and polishing with both hot and cold processions is one of the wonders created by nomadic Mongols. The hearth place of the origin of steel carving is believed was at the Dalaichoinkhor Van khoshuu (smaller territorial unit) of Sain Noyon Khan aimag (province). The Dalaichoinkhor style steel crafts of deities, teapots, incense burners, stirrups, knives, and other accessory of household items are famous for their design and makes.
Mongolia -
Traditional technique of making ox-cart
The largest from the tools and equipments for animal husbandry crafted by Mongols is a cart with wheels. Our predecessors have produced the cart with wheels from the old ages. As stated in the “Secret History of Mongols”, Mongols have produced and used a variety of carts such as mukhlag tereg (cart with booth), khagaatai tereg, öljigtei tereg, tömör tereg (metal cart), tsuurgatai tereg (cart with socket) and tenkhlegtei tereg (cart with axle). Only a handful of skilled master artisans crafted these varieties of carts in different sizes.
Mongolia -
New rice is put in the smoking – shelf for being dry and crisp
New rice festival of the La Chí ethnic group
Viet Nam