The great Kazakh writer Mukhtar Auezov is the author of the world-famous novel-epic "Abai Zholy". He raised Kazakh artistic prose to the classical level. In this epic novel, Mukhtar Auezov comprehensively revealed the life of the great Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayuly, Kazakh national tradition. The narrative contains ethnographic, religious, cultural traditions of the people: transition to zhailau in summer, weddings and matchmaking, death and mourning, jute, elections of volosts, dominance in dispute, portraits of nature and hunting, and much more. These traditions contain all the age-old wisdom of the ancestors, their orders, relating to literally all aspects and stages of life: from birth to death. A secret from the poet's 50-year life: it can be seen that ethnographic, religious, cultural and cognitive traditions were not left out through the events that formed the basis of the epic novel. Real life is abundant in the epic novel. The poet's life, the image he suffered, the pain he suffered, the fun he saw - everything is connected with the true image of the Kazakh people.