What are the customs in Xinjiang?

The customs in Xinjiang include dress customs, diet customs and marriage customs.

First, clothing customs

The costumes of ethnic minorities are colorful, magnificent and varied. Uygur, Kazak and other ethnic minority women like colorful costumes, wearing bright or white headscarves, earrings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings and other accessories, elegant. Men like to wear suits, embroidered shirts or buttons. Uighur men also like to wear a belt around their waist.

Wearing embroidered hats is almost the common hobby of most ethnic minorities, but it varies with different nationalities and regions. For example, Uighur men and women like to wear embroidered flower hats; Kazakh girls like to wear owl feather hats; Young Kirgiz women like to wear Red Velvet domes; Tatar women especially like to wear flower hats with colored beads.

Mongolian men love woolen hats and look smart. Hui people are all black and white small round hats, which look neat and solemn. Men and women of all fraternal nationalities like to wear boots. Every festive festival, all ethnic groups wear national costumes, which are colorful and make tourists dizzying.

Second, eating habits.

Eating habits have a strong flavor in the western regions, and all kinds of food are good in color and flavor. Mutton kebabs have been popular all over the country, and roast whole sheep is a famous dish in Xinjiang. The unique eating method of pilaf and hand-grabbed mutton is the favorite of ethnic minorities, and it is also a necessary food for weddings, funerals and happy events on holidays. Crispy pancakes, baked buns, Lamian Noodles, sesame seeds, oil towers, tissue paper bags and milk tea are traditional foods of ethnic minorities.

Ethnic minorities in pastoral areas can process milk and goat's milk into eight or nine kinds of dairy products, which are fragrant, sweet or sour, all of which have rich milk flavor and rich nutrition, so they can have a full meal. The koumiss wine fermented from koumiss is slightly fragrant, cool and delicious, and refreshing. In the middle of winter, the wind is biting, but you can see many people wearing snowflakes around the stove to eat watermelon in the street. This is the most western-style food custom.

Third, marriage customs.

Like other ethnic groups, weddings are celebrated in the form of rich banquets, dances and songs, but interestingly, their specific forms are different from those of other ethnic groups. A few days before the wedding, the man will take wine and meat to the woman's house to recognize relatives. This ceremony is called "raising a glass". In this ceremony, accompanied by the matchmaker, both men and women toast and worship the woman's parents and family one by one, and get familiar with each other's blood relationship and appellation. The day before the wedding, the bride's family slaughtered the cattle and sheep and held a wedding banquet, warmly welcoming relatives and friends who came to congratulate, singing and dancing until late at night or even dawn.

The next day, the bride's family organized a farewell party and escorted the bride to her husband's house. Surrounded by a group of young male and female friends, the bride got into the carriage to see her off, singing and laughing all the way, laughing all the way, and spreading festive laughter all the way. On the way to see the bride off, we should sing "Song of Farewell", praise the bride for finding a good husband's family and marrying a good son, and wish them happiness and a long life together.

Traditional Festival in Xinjiang-Sowing Festival

In the eyes of local Tajiks, Sowing Festival is a very important festival, usually held on the first day of spring sowing every year. Every sowing day, a respected old man in the village will lead the whole village to scatter wheat to the crowd and the earth to show the official start of spring sowing. There is also the custom of splashing water on this festival. On this day, if there are guests at home, women will put a few pots of clean water outside the door. When guests go out, they will throw water on them. The more they splash, the more they show respect for their guests.

Don't be afraid of getting wet for new friends. You can enjoy the local customs as much as you like.