Comparative poetics of wedding ritual folklore of Central Asian Turks

Abstract Ritual folklore has always been in the spotlight of scholars and researchers of folk poetry, as it has a profound social context. In turn, Turkic culture is rich in wedding ceremonies and folklore, which is relevant to research, based on studies of predecessors and innovations of the time. The research aims to study the artistic richness of the Turkic people. Comparative, historical-typological methods, surveys and analysis have been used in the research to analyse the multinational folklore heritage of Turkic-speaking peoples. The issue of poetics of wedding ritual folklore of Turkic-speaking peoples, its current state and attitudes towards folklore elements among young couples who were not married at the time of the research have been studied.