Deep in the Taklamakan Desert on the southern edges of the Tarim Basin is a village and the residents there are known as the Desert Keriya people, but actually they are Uygur. Because they live in the desert where there is little access to transportation, they have rdativdy no connection with the outside world, so they have preserved many of the ancient and
unique customs of the LIygur people.The Keriya people mainly engage in raising livestock. The water supply for them and their livestock is taken from wells dug in the dried-up waterbed of the Keriya River. Whether in dress or food,the lifestyle of the Keriya people are rather simple. That area has now been included in theadministration of the Dariyabuyi Village of Yutien County, and the Keriya people have entered the modern era from their ancient, isolated, and sealed off past.