In ancient times, there was a leader named Kalchahader, who was deeply supported and loved by people. Later, due to the defeat in the war, his tribe was scattered. He was seriously injured and walked alone in the deserted Gobi. It was a hot summer day, and the Gobi Desert was like a furnace. Seriously injured and hungry, he collapsed on the Gobi Desert in a critical condition. Suddenly, a white female swan flew from the sky.

It gave Kalchahader a few drops of saliva and then took him to the lake. Kale Chahader drank water and the injury seemed to completely disappear. In an instant, the white female swan suddenly turned into a beautiful girl, and the two got married. After marriage, a boy was born, named Kazakh, which means "white swan".

Later, Kazakh gave birth to three sons. The eldest son was named Beik Ars, the second son was named Ak Ars, and the third son was named Jiang Ars. Their descendants are the Big, Middle and Little Yuzi of the Kazakh ethnic group (Yuzi, equivalent to the regional tribal alliance); since the three Yuzi are all descendants of "Kazakh", the people of the Big, Middle and Xiao Yuzi are Take "Kazakh" as their ethnic name.

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The Kazakh diet is closely related to the nomadic life, mainly including tea, meat, milk and pasta. In the daily diet of Kazakhs, you can live without vegetables for a day, but you can never live without tea.

Three meals a day, and two meals during the day, mainly drink tea or milk tea made from brick tea and fu tea. The way to make milk tea is to add some salt to the fried strong tea, add some milk and milk skin, Ghee, accompanied by naan or fried noodles, fried wheat, this is breakfast and lunch. Eating a staple food with meat and noodles in the evening and drinking a lot of tea can keep away the cold in winter and relieve the heat in summer. Because we eat a lot of meat, drinking tea can help digestion and increase nutrition.

When winter comes and heavy snow is about to close the mountains, the Kazakhs will slaughter some horses, cattle, and sheep, and then process some of the meat into horse intestines, beef enema, bacon, fried meat slices, etc. for winter storage. Meat, the processed meat can be eaten until next spring.

Kazakh dairy products are mainly made from goat's milk, cow's milk, mare's milk, and camel's milk. There is a proverb that says: "Milk is the food of Kazakhstan." It can be seen that dairy products play an important role in Kazakh food. The main types of dairy products include fresh milk, yogurt, milk skin, milk tofu, milk pimples, butter, milk cake, kumiss and so on.

Due to the constant relocation of nomadic life, the preparation method of Kazakh pasta is simple, convenient and not restricted by conditions. The traditional pasta mainly includes scones, oil cakes, fried wheat, "Naren" (cooked mutton cut into small pieces and covered in noodles), "bolshak" (mutton deep-fried dough), etc.

In addition to some of the above-mentioned diets, the Kazakhs living in the city have also learned to cook various flavored meals from the surrounding fraternal ethnic groups, and their diet structure tends to be diversified. At the same time, it in turn affected the Kazakhs in farming and pastoral areas, enriching their dining tables. The rice sausages and noodles of the Uighur people and the pink soup of the Hui people have become commonplace meals for the Kazakhs.

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