Kazakh folk song "White Swan Singing Gake Ku" from the album "Chinese Music Map to hear Xinjiang Kazakh Folk Song Collection"

Singing Swan "Gakku" Singing swan "Gakku"

Folk songs Nationality: Kazak Chinese lyrics Compilation: Anonymous Region: Xinjiang

Singing, Dongbula: Manaphaz Musa Khan

The Dongbula is perhaps the most familiar national instrument unique to Kazakhstan. This wonderful plucked instrument used to be fashioned from a whole block of pine or birch, with long slender poles and fingers on the neck, and beautiful and simple cases of various shapes with two gut strings. It is light, carried with it on nomadic migrations, cradled in the arms of the herdsmen or their singers, Akan, by the campfire, on horseback, singing between the strums, a poem that encapsulates the joys and sorrows of their lives and endless landscapes.

"Song and horse are the two wings of the Kazakh people." At this moment, with the sonorous and fierce jingling of Dongbula, the loud and vigorous Kazakh male voice is singing the beauty of the white swan. Kazakh people worship and cherish the white swan very much. In spring, the swan flies back to the beautiful northern grassland. In the eyes of Kazakh people, "the swan returns, the great fortune comes down" will pay the most pious respect.

According to legend, there was a heroic leader who fell on the Gobi with serious injuries after a fierce campaign, saved by a swan, and married the swan into a beautiful woman, he named their son "Kazak", meaning "soldier", and meaning "white swan". The Kazakh people claim to be the descendants of swans, and the swan flying in the clouds is their family emblem, and the white swan has become a symbol of Kazakh nobility, innocence and love.