Hui festivals What are the Hui festivals?

1, the traditional festivals of the Hui people are: Eid al-Fitr, also known as Meat Ceremony. Gulbang Festival, Shengji Festival and so on.

2, Eid al-Fitr: Ramadan, Hui Muslims are arranged to live more than usual to be much more sumptuous. Generally stocked with beef and mutton, white rice, white flour, oil tea, sugar, tea, fruit and other nutritious food. Fasting people, in the east before dawn to eat a full meal. After the dawn of the east, until the sun sets, to prohibit sexual intercourse, cut off all food and drink. The purpose of fasting is to let people experience the pain of hunger and thirst, so that rich people genuinely relief of the poor. Through fasting, Hui Muslims gradually develop the virtues of perseverance, strength and integrity.

3, Gulbang Festival, but also to hold a grand slaughter ceremony, which is the festival, in addition to deep-fried oil incense, deep-fried noodle cake, will rituals, but also slaughter cattle, sheep, camels. In general, if the economic conditions are better, each person will slaughter a sheep, and seven people will slaughter a cow or a camel. When slaughtering animals, there are a lot of rules and regulations, and it is not allowed to slaughter lambs under two years old and calves under three years old and camels, and it is not allowed to slaughter animals with blind eyes, lame legs, missing ears and tails, and it is necessary to select strong and healthy animals to be slaughtered. Slaughtered meat should be divided into three parts: a self-food, a send friends and neighbors, a help the poor charity.

4, Sukkot, is the anniversary of the birth and death of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. As Muhammad's birth and death coincide in the Islamic calendar March 12, therefore, the Hui people generally referred to as "Sacred Ji".