What are the customs and traditions of Gurbang Festival?

Traditional customs of Gurbang FestivalWhat are the customs of Gurbang Festival

Gurbang Festival is a grand festival of Hui, Uygur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Salar, Dongxiang, Baoan and other minorities*** in China.

Every Muslim household has to slaughter at least one sheep during the Gurban Festival, and some also slaughter cows, camels and horses (Sark and Kyrgyz), and those whose families are too poor also have to slaughter a chicken. However, due to various constraints, urban Muslims now have to buy slaughtered beef and mutton in the market.

The housewives of every household get busy near the time of the Gurban Festival, making large quantities of deep-fried deep-fried noodle cakes and various kinds of exquisite snacks, and preparing plenty of delicacies for the friends and relatives who come to their homes to celebrate the festival and for the guests from afar. The grand festival is also a great exhibition and competition of the housewives' craftsmanship and housekeeping virtues.

During the Gurbang Festival, we all have to celebrate the festival with each other, and every time we go to a house, the host will bring up a plate of stewed mutton for the guests, and the guests will have to taste the host's mutton even if they are full. Friends and relatives get together, depending on the song and dance for the meal of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, will play the piano, singing, dancing, everywhere is a happy scene.

After the Great Gathering Ceremony, all families go to the cemetery to pray, remember and bless their dead relatives.

The early morning service on Gurban Day is the largest service of the year, and all adult men have to go to the local mosque to participate in the gathering, which is a spectacular scene. The most famous is the big gathering ceremony in front of the Kashgar Etigarh Mosque, after the gathering ceremony, the musicians climbed to the top of the door of the Etigarh Mosque, struck the nagara (iron shell drum), blowing up the Sunaiyi (oboe), the men on the plaza in front of the mosque danced a passionate and spirited shamanic dance.

Vi?t Nam's Gulbang Festival

Gulbang is the transliteration of the Arabic word for "slaughter" or "blood sacrifice".

Before Gurban, people have to make all kinds of preparations, especially for the "sacrificial" animals to be bought in advance. On the morning of the festival, people bathe the whole body of the "big clean", and then dressed to the mosque to participate in the gathering ceremony. After the gathering, the first thing people do when they return home is to kill the animals for the blood sacrifice. Whether to slaughter cows and sheep or chickens and geese is determined by the economic strength of each family. Usually, after the animals for the blood sacrifice are slaughtered and large chunks of meat with bones are stewed in a pot, the men begin to pay homage to each other, while the women stay at home to stew the meat, put out the festival food, and make tea in preparation for welcoming the guests. On the first day of the festival, they first pay their respects to those who have recently suffered a family tragedy such as a funeral, then to the elders of the husband and wife, and then to their close neighbors and elders. In this kind of ritual worship activities, except for the worship to the husband and wife's elders, which is done by husband and wife together, the other worship activities are often done in groups of three or five, men and women separately. In Uyghur folk rituals, it is generally not allowed to mix men and women.

After this, it is the festival of worship between friends and relatives of the same generation. In addition to congratulating each other and greeting each other, we should also *** meal and drink, playing and singing together for entertainment. Uyghur folk worship festival is an important part of the Uyghur people to strengthen social ties and strictly abide by the code of etiquette.

The Hui Gulbang Festival customs

"Gulbang", the Arabic translation of "Erde? Gulbang", which means "Guld? Azuha", meaning "sacrifice", "sacrifice", so also known as "Eid al-Adha", "sacrifice", "loyalty", "sacrifice", "sacrifice", "sacrifice", "sacrifice" and "sacrifice". ", "loyalty and filial piety festival", "Erde Festival". The Hui in the mountainous areas of southern Ningxia are called "Big Erde", and the Hui in Yunnan are called "Small Erde", which is one of the three major festivals of Islam, and is generally held seventy days after Eid al-Fitr. This festival belongs to the ritual scope of the Muslim Hajj homework. Islamic regulations, the religious calendar in early December each year, Muslims go to Mecca pilgrimage, the last day of Hajj, began to hold celebrations.

Why do the Hui people slaughter animals for Gulbang Festival? According to legend, Ibrahim, one of the ancient prophets of Islam, dreamed at night that Allah ordered him to slaughter his beloved son Ismaili for sacrifice to test his devotion to Allah.

Ibrahim had sharpened his knife to a gleaming, razor-sharp edge. When Ismaili lay on his side, he put the knife to his son's throat. At this he cried out in grief and tears like streams. The first cut left only a white mark on his son's neck, and the second cut scraped a little skin.

Ismaili said, "O my father, turn me over so that I may lie prostrate, so that you may make up your mind to obey the command of Allah."

Ibrahim listened to his son's advice and turned him over, then when he unlocked his knife and made to slaughter it, Allah was moved and sent the heavenly immortal Jibrzeil to carry a black-headed billy goat as a sacrifice in place of Ismaili. At that point Ibrahim took the knife and pressed the sheep's throat and slaughtered it, and it fell over. Since then, Muhammad set the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar as Eid al-Adha, which is the origin of the legendary "Gurban".

China's Hui people's Gulbang Festival is based on the content of this religious calendar, the long-term development and evolution of a traditional national holiday: there are multiple composite content, has been a great difference with the purely religious festivals, and the main content is no longer religious content. Now China's Hui people, whether religious or not, in accordance with the different habits of different places, celebrate the Gulbang Festival. The scale is generally larger, more villages, townships, towns, lanes and other units, some places in accordance with the traditional custom of three days, some places only one day.

Cleaning up indoor and outdoor hygiene before the festival. Family compounds, streets and alleys are cleaned and things are stacked in an orderly manner. Families fry oil incense, deep-fried noodle cakes and huahua before the festival. The children change into their festival costumes and run and jump happily.

At the dawn of the festival, they take a bath, burn incense and put on clean clothes to attend the mosque.

There is a common saying among the Hui people: "If you can't be a monthly Hui, you have to be a yearly Hui." This means that no matter how busy you are, you have to attend the annual rituals and celebrations. Even if you don't understand Hui customs, then, you have to follow them.

The Guru Granth Sahib rituals are very grand, as is the Eid al-Fitr festival. Everyone gathers together and the imam leads all the Muslims to bow and prostrate to the west. If it is held in a large township, it can be described as crowded, many but not chaotic. In the gathering ceremony, everyone should recall what they have done wrong during the year, what crimes have been committed, the imam will preach "Waltz", that is, the teachings and the need to comply with the things, and finally, everyone said "color two eyes" greetings to each other.

After the end of the ceremony, a grand ceremony will be held, which is the festival, in addition to frying oil incense, deep-fried noodle cakes, and the ceremony, but also to slaughter cows, sheep and 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 to be divided into three: a self-food, a send friends and neighbors, a charity.

China's Muslims eat meat in Ramadan, the custom of slaughtering animals on the Day of Gurbangui, in the past, is the ordinary Chinese surprised, and the correct understanding of Islamic teachings of the Tang Du Huan in the "Book of the Sutra", especially pointing out that these two things, said that "meat for fasting to kill the animals as a merit.

After the ceremony of slaughtering animals, families began to bustle again, and the old people cooked meat while giving instructions to their children: after eating meat, the bones can not be thrown to the dog to chew, but to be covered with yellow earth. This is a kind of preoccupation in Gulbang Festival. After the meat is cooked, it should be peeled into pieces and built into portions; the water under the sheep should be braised into a dish. And then visit friends and relatives, gifts of oil incense, vegetables, each other to the door to congratulate the festival. Some also invite the imam to the home to recite sutra, eat oil incense, at the same time, but also to visit the grave, in memory of the ancestors.

This celebration of the holiday in a variety of forms, each different from each other. In some places, in addition to participating in the gathering of rituals and visit 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. Xinjiang rural general also held a goat, singing and other activities, singing, touching the scene, improvisation, especially love to sing "flowers and young people" and other songs. Gansu,

Ningxia, Qinghai and other places of the Hui youth, singing "flowers" during the festival.

Islamic associations around the Gulbang Festival, generally have to hold a reception, invited Hui celebrities, imams and other people to participate. China's People's Government also expressly provides for a one-day holiday for Hui people on Gulbang Festival, and gives special care to urban households by supplying them with additional mutton, perfumed oil and superior flour. Leaders at all levels of the Party and the government also and the Hui people to participate in festivals and celebrations, talk about friendship, congratulate the Hui people on the festival of happiness, joy, and enhance national unity, to the Hui people's traditional festivals have added new content, given a new significance.