The Uzbeks, with a population of 12,453, live mostly side by side with the Uygur and Kazak peoples in the southern and northern parts of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Uzbeks derived from the Uzbek Kingdom of the Mongolian Kipchak Khanate in the 14th century. When the Kipchak Khanate collapsed in the 15th century, Uzbek businessmen living in Samarkand, Khwarizm, Anjiyan and Bukhara came to sell their goods in the Central Plains of China along the Silk Road by way of Xinjiang. Later, some of these businessmen settled down in several towns of Xinjiang and formed the Uzbek people of China.
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Today, most Uzbek people live in towns and have become government workers or craftsmen. A small number living in the north raise animals while few farm in the south. For centuries, the Uzbeks have had close contacts with other nationalities living in Xinjiang, especially with the Uygurs and Kazaks. Their languages, customs, and faiths influenced each other and became similar in many details.
Uzbek women love to wear colorful shawls.
The Uzbek language, using Arabic alphabet, belongs to the West¬ern Xiong branch of the Turkic group of the Altaic family. Most Uzbek people can speak both the Uygur and Kazak languages.
Uzbek women excel In embroidery. Gorgeous tapestries are some ol the most characteristic Uzbek handicrafts.
The Uzbeks are Moslems. Their dance movements are graceful, brisk and twirling. Among the many musical instruments, the most popu¬lar are plucked and percussion instruments. Uzbek women are good at embroidery. Exquisite patterns can be easily founded on their clothes, hats, sheet and pillows.
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