育才学习网1.英语介绍维吾尔族
The Uyghur (also spelled Uighur; Uyghur： ئۇيغۇر； Simplified Chinese： 维吾尔； Traditional Chinese： 维吾尔； pinyin: Wéiwú'ěr) are an ethnic group of Central Asia. They are one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnicities, consisting of 8.68 million people according to the 2004 Chinese census, but this may be an under-estimation. Throughout the history of Central Asia, they left a lasting imprint on both the culture and tradition. Today in China, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (also known by its controversial term Eastern Turkistan). There are also existing Uygur communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and Turkey and a smaller one in Taoyuan County of Hunan province in South-central China.[2] Uygur neighbourhoods can also be found in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.[3]Uygur was originally written with the Orkhon alphabet.Toward the end of the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th, scientific and archaeological expeditions to the region of Eastern Turkestan's Silk Road discovered numerous cave temples, monastery ruins, wall paintings, as well as valuable miniatures, books and documents. Explorers from Europe, America and even Japan were amazed by the art treasures found there, and soon their reports were capturing attention of an interested public around the world. These relics of the Uygur culture constitute today major collections in the museums of Berlin, London, Paris, Tokyo, Leningrad (St-Petersburg) and the Museum of Central Asian Antiquities in New Delhi. The manuscripts and documents discovered in Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) reveal very high degree of civilization attained by the Uyghurs. This Uygur power, prestige and civilization, which dominated the Central Asia for over a thousand years, went into a steep decline since the Manchu invasion to their homeland.The local Uyghur people operate of off "Xinjiang time", two hours earlier than what the rest of the city, and the Han Chinese operate off of, "Beijing time", known among the locals.--Wikipedia。