The Kirgiz has a very religious festival—Nuoruz Festival, which is as lively as the Spring Festival of the Han people. During the festival, every family manages to prepare meals as sumptuous as their economic condition allows, and treats their friends and relatives to a celebration. On the dinner table, the most indispensable is the food called “keque”, which is made from seven ingredients such as wheat and barley and serves as a wish for bumper harvest in the coming year. In the evening when the livestock herd comes back from the pasture, a bonfire is lit with achnatherum in front of each house, first for people and then for livestock to jump over, which is believed to dispel evil and ward off calamities and serve as a blessing for prosperity in the coming year.

The Kirgiz lay special stress on the birth ritual, the candle ritual, the full-month ritual and the circumcision. The birth ritual is celebrated on the day when the baby is born, to express their wish for a good life for the baby. The cradle ritual falls on the 7th or 9th day of the baby’s life. Usually livestock is boutchered to prepare a banquet for friends and relatives on a small scale. All the guests are women and they sing “the lullaby” in chorus. The full-month celebration is similar to the Han’s celebration when a baby is one month old.