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Discuss these issues with your classmates or your teacher






1. Is there any point in having a big wedding, or is it just a waste of money?

2. In your opinion, should a person marry only after falling in love?

3. Is it necessity to keep all traditions during a wedding ceremony or it would be better to do your own thing?

Writing

Write some sentences or a short composition about this topic

Pretend that you were a guest at a traditional Kazakh wedding. Write to a friend describing the ceremony.

 

Aitys

Aitys os one of the ancient elements of Kazakh national folklore. It is a sort of competition in poetic speeches. Aitys demands vast poetic skills, wit, and the ability to improvise in the most unexpected situations. All versions of aitys are performed during competitions at the presence of a great number of spectators, who estimate the results of this wishes a victory for the participant of their origin and kin.

Only skillful and experienced akyns are allowed to take part in aytis. During the competition each of them tries to find the weakest position of the opponent and to make him acknowledge defeat. Consummate poetic skill, good knowledge and of course great talent are necessary for it. To become a winner a poet should glorify not only the fame and kindness of his own family and tribe but show some wear aspects of his rivals and the family, which they belong to. Thereby the information, which akyns gathered about various events in the life of families, kinds and tribes, was of great importance. Each participant has to respond to his opponent’s attack with improvised verses. The more highly artistic and caustic a poetic answer is, the nearer o poet will to be his victory. Only the real truth, the most appropriate reason, brilliant idea and sharp though can force the opponent to acknowledge defeat. According to Kazakh customs even the most famous akyn has to give the first prize to the poet who is really the best.

The art of aytis is inseparable form the art of poetic improvisation. Many of them have received large popularity among people. One can name them as the so called original art chronicles. Till now some people keep in their memory aitys between Birzhan and Sara, Kenshimbai and Aksulu, Dzhmbul and Kulmambet.

The competitions of akyn-improvisators are characterized not only by the breadth of the singing voice range but vocal range as well. The most famous and respected akyns are given an honorary title sal or ere. It can be made only by the people’s decision.

Akyns were the performance of national folklore of nomadic civilization and had a high status in the traditional Kazakh society. They differed from others not only by their style of clothes but also by the original manners of behavior in public. The most famous and well-known akyns traveled in the steppe all their life accompanied by the suite, and participated in various festivals and national celebrations. The genre of aitys has not been lost and continues to live in the Kazakh culture even now.






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