The village where the Keriya people live is in the middle of the Takalamakan Desert. The Keriya people living here named their village Dariyabuyi, which means those who live along the river. tribe. The Keriya people are able to thrive in this primitive land mainly because they have survived here from the beginning. It can be said that they are also a tribe full of light of life. The Keriya people here are tribes built along the river bank, with their backs It has survived here for thousands of years relying on the desert. It is completely isolated from the world and has not been discovered at first. It was later recognized as one of the most difficult-to-reach ancient villages in China. There is a Kriya River here that also forms an oasis in the desert, so the Kriya people can also rely on this river to survive and thrive.
Due to the geographical location and inconvenient transportation, the Keriya people have always been very far away from the crowd. The closed life also makes the culture here very unique. Sister, the tribes here are still semi-settled and semi-settled. The nomadic living quarters also rely on Populus euphratica wood as the directory of the house. They use red willow branches to form walls, mix them with mud, and pave them with mud to form a wall. Their main diet is mainly naan and mutton, and their life is very simple. . Because there is no contact with the crowd here, the most original Uyghur style is maintained. Because the land here is saline-alkali land and there is no way to farm, the Keriya people can only choose to herd. And herding is completely different from other Mongolian people. They can only graze in a small area along the Keriya River.
There is currently no accurate statement about the origin of the Kriyas. Some historians have speculated that although the Kriyas are classified as Uighurs, their true origins are the original Tibetan aborigines. The ethnic group is a branch of the Loulan people, descendants of the Western Han Dynasty. Some people also speculate that the Keriya people are descendants of the Aliguge dynasty in Tibet. They also fled to this oasis because of the war and began to multiply. Later, at the beginning of the 20th century, someone came here and made measurements for the Keriya people, confirming that the true origin of the Keriya people was the Indo-European people.
Finally, in today's society, the Keriya people still maintain their traditional national customs to thrive and survive, and they have been living here for thousands of years.