The dress colour and lustre of minority is gorgeous, colourful, razzmatazz, phyletic and various. The minority woman such as the Uygur nationality, the Kazak nationality are loving chromatic dress, wear bright-coloured or white scarf, love the ornamental such as dangler, eardrop, necklace, bracelet, ring, appear elegant, appear in all her glory. Male sexual love wears shirt of suit, embroider or Uygur or Tajik robe buttoning down the front to wait. Man of the Uygur nationality still likes to fasten a belt between the waist more. Wearing embroider hat is the common interest of most minority almost, but differ along with nation and area again and each other has difference.
Uygur culture and art, which have a long and rich tradition, has flourished. Uygur literature is very rich in style and subject matter. Many folk tales, parables, comedies, poems and proverbs praise the courage, wisdom and kindness of the ordinary people. The Uygurs are excellent at dancing. The "12 Mukams" (opera) is an epic comprising more than 340 classic songs and folk dances.
The Tajik ethnic minority group's Water-splashing Festival and Planting Festival are agricultural festivals in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and are held on the first day of every spring planting. The Xibe ethnic people in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have set April 18 of each lunar year as the West Moving Festival, also called the April 18th Festival. In order to commemorate this historical event, Xibe from near and far gather on this day to hold various activities, hence the West Moving Festival.
On April 18th, 1764, ordered by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), 3,275 Xibe people were forced to relocate from today's Shenyang in Northeast China to Xinjiang, far in the northwest. The Xibe were relocated to the frontier in order to serve as reserve soldiers at a military outpost in case there was an invasion or unrest along the border. After a one and half year trek, they arrived at Xinjiang and began constructing their new homes.
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