Kazakhs are celebrating a folk festival in a four-day singing and horse racing gala which opened Saturday, August 11, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Kazakhs playing a traditional sport, which is a combination of tug-of-war, basketball (or soccer) and horce racing (Image courtesy of Crienglish)
Kazakhs (also known as Kazaks, Qazaqs) are people from Middle Asia. Most of them live in Kazakhstan and its neighbouring countries, including Uzbekistan, China and Russia.
There are around 2.2 million Kazakhs in China; not really a small population but still considered as minorities with China’s 1.2 billion people.
Kazakhs are well known for their fierce love of freedom, skillful horse riding and hunting with semi-domesticated eagles.