Tajik folk song "Maniguli" from the album "Chinese Music Map to hear the Xinjiang Tajik Folk Song Collection"

Mani Guli

Folk songs Ethnic Group: Tajik Region: Xinjiang

Sung by: Gulina Ahongjiang

Eikech: Awalibek Nishati

The Tajiks living on the eastern side of the Pamir Plateau and in Tashkurgan, Shache, Yechen and other places have a long and diversified musical tradition. Their settlements are located at the most mysterious and beautiful crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. All ethnic groups in the Western regions, as well as ancient Persian, ancient Indian and ancient Arab civilizations, have left their marks on Tajik music. The Musical Instruments of Tajik nationality are rich and similar to those of Uyghur nationality, but they retain their own ethnic characteristics. The tabla Dabu has a wide poplar frame, covered with animal skin, the string instrument Aichek has a unique violin case, the plucked instrument Tajdalzhwaf is often dug out of whole apricot wood, the sheep casing string, and the most noticed and praised Tajik eagle whistle "Nai"...

Guri, in the Uygur language, means flower, and it always appears in women's names. The beauty of Tajik women is well known, and such beauty, set off against the scenery of the plateau, can not help but sing praise. Beautiful girls, love and hometown are the themes of Tajik folk songs. The string of the Czech, melodious and slightly sad, between the rise and fall of the melody of the swim like a swan graceful flexion of the neck, bright female voice high and open, free and stretch, as if to the Pamir plateau boundless pasture, winding rivers and towering snow mountains, singing enduring ancient love songs, such as the eternal flower of love and love.