Music #54 - Xinjiang Uyghurs songs

Some Uyghurs (维吾尔) songs/dances 

from Xinjiang (新疆):

* The Turpan Grapes Are Ripe / 
吐鲁番的葡萄熟了 

[They produce grapes in Turpan, Melons (哈密瓜) grown elsewhere in Chins was originated in Hami.]

* Black Oil / Qaramaa 克拉瑪依
[They produce crude oil and natural gas.]



* Harvest Season / 丰收时节 - female line dance 
* Song of the eagles / 鹰之歌 - male group dance 
* Heaven Mountains / 天山原色 - female group dance


* another love song / 大板城的姑娘 - more aggressive ... I want you and your dowry ...
* a Uyghur (Hun) folk song





* Lift your hijab / 掀起你的盖头来 [so that I can see your lovely face] - Islamic females cover their heads (and faces) with headscarves / 盖头.
* In A Far Away Land [... there is a nice gal ...]
* In A Far Away Land / 在那遙遠的地方.

* Qara Qara Qaghlar / more love songs - They adopt Arabic alphabets, that are read from right to left. [Their remote cousins in Turkey adopt Roman alphabets that, of course, write from left to right.]

* Ancient Uyghur dance

* Belly dance at Ah Fan Ti Restaurant @ Beijing

- Avanti is the name of the wise man in their legends.