What are the traditional festivals of Hui people

The main traditional festivals of the Hui people are: Eid al-Fitr, also known as Mezze. Gulbang Festival, Shengji Festival and so on.

Eid al-Fitr:

During the month of Ramadan, the life of Hui Muslims is organized to be much more sumptuous than usual. Generally there are beef and mutton, white rice, white flour, oil tea, sugar, tea, fruit and other nutritious food.

Fasting people, before the dawn in the east to eat a full meal. After the dawn in the east, until the sun sets, they are forbidden to perform sexual intercourse and cut off all food and drink. The purpose of fasting is to let people experience the pain of hunger and thirst, so that people with money genuinely relief of the poor. Through fasting, Hui Muslims gradually develop the virtues of fortitude, strength and integrity.

When people have fasted for a day and it is almost time to break the fast, most of the fasting men go to the mosque to wait. When they hear the sound of the clapper in the mosque, they eat "iftar" in the temple.

Fasting, if it is summer, the conditions of the first fruit, no conditions of a bowl of water or tea, and then eat. This is mainly fasting Muslims in the summer the first thing they feel is thirst, not hunger.

If in winter, some people talk about eating a few dates before eating. Legend has it that Muhammad loved to eat red dates when he fasted, so the Hui people now have this habit. After the fasting period, is the most solemn annual festival of the Hui people --- Eid al-Fitr.

Eid al-Fitr is a three-day festival, the first day from dawn on the lively. Families have to get up early and clean their yards and lanes to give a clean, comfortable and pleasant feeling. Men, women and children change into their favorite new clothes. The mosques, where the Muslims gather and conduct their activities, are also cleaned during the festival and hung with huge banners and colorful lights to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

Gurbang Festival:

"Gurbang", the Arabic translation of "erd gurbang", meaning "sacrifice", "dedication", so also known as "Eid al-Adha", "loyalty and filial piety festival". Most areas of the Hui people called "small Erde", is one of the three major Islamic festivals, generally held seventy days after Eid al-Fitr.

Gurbang Festival, but also held a grand slaughter ceremony, which is the festival, in addition to fried oil incense, deep-fried noodle cake, will be rituals, but also slaughter cattle, sheep, camels. General economic conditions are better, each person to slaughter a sheep, seven people 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. The slaughtered meat should be divided into three parts: one self-food, one to send friends and neighbors, one to help the poor and alms.

Some also invite the imam to the home to recite the sutra, eat oil incense, at the same time, but also to go to the cemetery, in memory of the ancestors. This form of celebration of the festival is diverse, and there are differences and similarities between different places. Some places in addition to participating in the gathering and visiting friends and relatives, but also organized a variety of recreational and sports activities. Xinjiang region of the Hui people in the Gulbang Festival, both men and women, like to organize a variety of recreational activities, joyful, extraordinarily lively.

Saints' Day:

Saints' Day, is to commemorate the anniversary of the birth and death of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Because Muhammad's birth and death coincided with the Islamic calendar on March 12, therefore, the Muslims are generally referred to as "Sacred Ki".

The day of the festival first to the mosque chanting, praise the Holy, about the life of Muhammad, after the Muslims voluntarily donate food, oil, meat and money, and invited a number of people are specifically responsible for grinding flour, purchasing things, frying incense, cooking meat, cooking, etc., the hard work is the Hui people voluntarily to do. Hui people to Shengji Festival this day of voluntary labor as a good deed, therefore, scrambling to be the first, not happy.