A Brief History of the Turks: What are the Traditional Festivals of the Turks?

A Brief History of the Tu People:

The Tu people, one of the less populated ethnic groups in China, the language of the Tu people belongs to the Mongolian group of the Altaic language family, and the state created the Tu language script for the Tu people in 1979, which is based on the Latin alphabet and the Hanyu Pinyin alphabet as the form of letters.

The Tu mainly live in the Mutual Assistance Tu Autonomous County in Qinghai. Minhe and Datong counties in Qinghai and Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County in Gansu are also relatively concentrated, while the rest are scattered in Ledu, Menyuan, Dulan, Wulan, Guide, **** and Xining in Qinghai and Zhuoni, Yongdeng, and Sunan in Gansu.

Traditional festivals of the Tu people:

1. Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is one of the grandest festivals of the Tu people.

2. Dragon Boat Festival

Like the Han Chinese, the Turks also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Turkish people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also similar to the Han Chinese tradition. Before the moon comes out, people offer mooncakes, fruits, walnuts, jujubes and other offerings on the roof of the house, and light a pair of oil lamps. When the moon comes out, they wait until the oil goes out and then bring all the offerings down to share with the whole family.

Farmers start sowing seeds. In the evening, they eat oil-filled wontons with a few grains of wheat and grain mixed in, and the leftovers are given to the livestock to show that the crops are a treasure for raising people and animals.

4, Grain Rain Festival

In the day of Grain Rain, the crop people asked to write "Grain Rain". Because in the past in the Sanchuan area scorpions multiply a lot, in order to prevent scorpion fair, in a yellow framed paper in the upper part of the writing "Master to the door of the court, immortal gas blowing a mouthful of scorpions do not come out of the hole, the old man in a hurry, such as the order".

People usually draw a rooster in the lower half of the yellow paper, a scorpion in its mouth, and some chicken people take a little blood from the crown of the scorpion, and then paste the yellow paper on the wall.

5, day social festival

Lunar equinox season, the people of the Turkish people to the tomb to sacrifice ancestors. Relatives of the same family name will be a pig or a sheep slaughtered and carried to the place where the ancestral graves, the conditions of the family also do a plate of chicken, the specific method is to kill a rooster with a needle after the hair to cook, the chicken body covered with paper cut out of the flower clothes.

The chicken is covered with a handful of cotton in its beak, and then put on a wooden plate surrounded by five bowls of coleslaw made of bean sprouts, eggs, bacon and green onions, and offered in front of the ancestor's grave. At the time of the ancestor worship, people carry a slaughtered pig or sheep on a wooden board to the back of the ancestral tomb to offer sacrifices, burn paper money, etc., men and women kneel down, and one of the elders prays that the ancestors will bestow blessings on the future generations.

6, Naton Festival

Minhe Sanchuan area of the Turkish in the crop harvest of the lunar calendar, starting in July, held the traditional festival of the nation "Naton". "Naton" is a native language, meaning entertainment. Naton Festival is the Minhe Sanchuan region of the Turkish people to celebrate the harvest and held every year, the unique traditional festival, from the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

"Naton" from the earliest crop ripening in the village of the lower river Song, the interval of one day or several days, from the lower river by the river Qi, Yang family, etc., gradually moving north, has been extended to the river ZhaoMuChuan, the official pavilion BaoJia around the last to the September 15 of the lunar calendar, ZhuJia "Naton" end. " closes.

7, the flower will

Tu ethnic hill country also prevailed in the special song "flower will", more in the second month of February, the eighth of April, the sixth of June, the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar held every year.

8, September 9 temple fair

September 9 to 11 of the lunar calendar, Sanchuan some village temples held in September 9 temple fair.

People on the first day to invite the master and yin and yang, cut coiled pole. Venerable master began to wear vestments, next to the two sing "dress up song", a dress from head to toe of the master praised. Venerable master has been decorated, flick incense and prayers, began to perform the law, while dancing and singing "Lotus Song"). The Lotus Song is divided into five sections, namely, the five colors of the lotus flower: green, red, soap, white and yellow.

9, Lahai

The eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the Lahai Festival of the Tu people. In the early hours of the morning, families to the river bank back to a few pieces of ice standing in the fruit trees or dung heap. And hold a pile of wheatgrass in the ground, on the pile of dung and under the fruit tree to burn it. A bowl of water is placed in the yard, and when it freezes, the shape of the ice bumps up to predict the next year's crop.

10, the ring will

Mutual aid county seat Weiyuan Town, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year to sing the ring theater. According to historical records, before the Song Dynasty, the town of Weiyuan area called "Nuojidou" (native language meaning forested areas), Song renamed the "Makoma camp", for the military, is a place of frequent military activities.

11, eggs will

Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, March 18, April 8, Daitong, Mutual some areas of the traditional temple fair, the people will take a lot of cooked eggs, knocking on the venue for the show, was cracked the egg will be given to the winner of the winners to have fun. So people customarily called "egg will".

12, the Guanjing will

Guanjing will be held in Yuning Temple prayers for the year. Yuning Temple is the largest Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa monastery in the region, formerly known as "GuoLongGuanBa" (Eagle Valley Temple). History called "the mother of all temples in the north of Wen". The temple in the first month of the lunar calendar every year on the 14th, the first eight or nine of June held two large-scale view of the scriptures.

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