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The legendary song of Manas
Category: Music
Duration: 00:11:47
Publish Date: 2022-07-26 16:00:00
Description: “The Epic of Manas,” similar to the Homeric tales in the West, narrates the stories of a Kirgiz hero called Manas and his seven generations of descendants leading their people to fight against invaders. The grand song is considered a significant encyclopedia of the life of the Kirgiz ethnic people living in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In this episode, we will get-up close with Tuohenali Tuxunnali, an inheritor of singing this epic. He will share with us several famed excerpts of “The Epic of Manas.”
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