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The Historical Origin of Kazak Ait People
Aites has a long history, deep roots, wide social influence, strong mass color and distinctive national characteristics, and is also a poetic form with strong vitality.

In ancient times, Aite people sometimes held large-scale festivals and gatherings, and sometimes in ordinary wedding occasions, Aken people would find opponents to hold duet competitions and learn from each other. In ancient times, there was no school to impart knowledge and no auditorium for people to gather in kazakh steppe, not to mention radio and television, newspapers and magazines used by people since the 20th century. In addition, Kazakhs basically live a nomadic life and live in scattered places. At that time, the knowledgeable Akon and poets made full use of people's opportunities to attend weddings and other parties, asked each other questions in the form of duets, and improvised answers with poems, so as to impart knowledge or express some opinions to people through this form.

Historically, Kazakhs lived by chasing water plants, and their lives were scattered, so it was difficult to get people together. In this case, Akon plays and sings in places where people gather, such as weddings, festivals and anniversary celebrations, which are well received by the public and easy to accept and remember. After the meeting, people even played and sang together. When the host entertains the guests, he will invite the neighbors to get together and let the guests play and sing. At this time, the guests will pop up the relevant knowledge they have heard and the poems they have recited and sing them to people. In this way, his playing and singing soon spread all over Awule. In this way, it will soon spread in all directions. In the second half of the18th century, knowledge playing and singing spread widely among the people and began to play a propaganda role. In ancient times, customs, etiquette greetings, Islamic precepts and other life knowledge were publicized and spread through such playing and singing. As far as we know, the most influential and highest-level Aites in history were mostly in the late 19 and early 20th century. In the process of folk collecting traditional cultural heritage, several types and forms of knowledge are collected. For example, the duet between Miss Brooke and Ye Lintai was about 1900, and their songs were widely circulated in Emin and Toli counties. Their successors were Bashan Hari and Shade Khan, and their complete records have been collected.