Aitys is the national treasure of the Kazakh people. It has been preserved and continues as a genre of Kazakh folklore since ancient times. Aitys is similar to the struggle of two wrestlers, the victory of two players with songs verses written by two poets to defeat each other.

The poets use their method through words, piercing each other with words and winning. Two aityskers come together to find ways to gain superiority against each other and compete against each other. [3]. There is no precise information about the exact time of the emergence of the Kazakh art of aitys. However, written samples of aitys were reflected in the literature of the Middle Ages. For example, “Aitys of winter and summer” in Mahmut Kashgari's book «Divani ait-at-Turk" [1], “Aitys of Paradise and Hell” in Ahmet Yassaui's poetry collection “Divani hikmet”. This indicates that “Aitys” due to its formal-genre specificity was formed in early times.

The art of improvisational aytys, presented in collaboration with Kyrgyzstan, was inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Namibia, 24–28 November 2015).