What to do on Gurpang Festival

On the morning of the festival, Uyghurs bathe their whole body (a big purification), and then go to the mosque to attend the gathering ceremony in full costume. After the ceremony, the first thing people do when they return home is to slaughter animals. Whether to slaughter cows, sheep, camels or horses is determined by the economic strength of each family. Usually people slaughtered the sacrificial animals, large pieces of meat with bones stewed in the pot, before the men began to visit each other. The men begin to visit each other's houses to congratulate the festival. The women stayed at home to put up the festival food, boil tea and prepare water, ready to welcome guests.

On the first day of the festival, the first to have had a funeral and family difficulties in the townspeople to pay homage, to express condolences; its is to the husband and wife's elders to pay homage; again, to the neighbors and elders to pay homage. In the ritual worship activities, in addition to the husband and wife to the elderly worship is the husband and wife to go together, other worship activities are often in groups of three or five, men and women separately. After that, it is the worship between friends and relatives of the same generation. In addition to mutual congratulations, greetings to each other, but also *** meal and drink, playing and singing with entertainment. Uyghur folk festival is an important part of the Uyghur people to strengthen social ties and strictly abide by the code of etiquette.

What are the customs of Gulbang Festival - Hui

Muslims before the festival usually have to clean up indoor and outdoor sanitation. Family compounds, streets and alleys are cleaned and things are stacked in an orderly manner. Families fry oil incense, deep-fried noodle cakes and hua hua before the festival. Children change into festival costumes and run and jump joyfully. Then they bathe, purify themselves, burn incense, and put on neat clothes to go to the mosque to attend the meeting ceremony.

The Guru Granth Sahib is as grand as the Eid al-Fitr festival. Everyone gathers together and the imam leads all 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. Gathering rituals, everyone recalled what they had done wrong during the year, what crimes they had committed, the imam will preach "wards", that is, the teachings and the need to comply with the things, and finally, everyone said "Sa'am" to each other to say hello.

After the end of the ceremony, a grand ceremony was held, which is the slaughter of cattle, sheep, camels and sacrificial animals. General economic conditions of the family, each person slaughter a sheep, seven people slaughter a cow, or a camel. Sacrificial slaughter is not allowed to slaughter less than two years old lamb and less than three years old calf, camel, not slaughter blind, lame legs, missing ears, less tail of the livestock, to select the strong and beautiful livestock. The slaughtered meat is generally divided into three parts: a self-food, a gift to friends and neighbors, a charity to help the poor.

Slaughter ceremony is completed, families began to bustle, the old people while cooking meat, while the children instructed: eat the meat, bones can not be thrown to the dog to chew, to be covered with yellow earth. This is a kind of preoccupation in Gulbang Festival. After the meat is cooked, it should be cut 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, and each other to the door to congratulate the festival. Some also ask the imam to the home chanting, eat oil incense, at the same time, but also to go to visit the grave, in memory of the ancestors.

What are the customs of the Gurban Festival - Uyghur

Prior to the festival, the pastoral farming areas of the people's homes are cleaned up, busy refining holiday cakes. Early in the morning of the festival, Muslims bathe in incense, tighten their clothes and go to the mosque to participate in the rituals. Whether in the city or rural areas, the square will be held in the grand Maxilaev song and dance gatherings. Around the square there is another scene: colorful umbrella shed, cloth shed, cloth tent, plywood room covered with a variety of wooden tables, carts, carpets, blankets, scarves, with a variety of snacks on top of the desserts. Kazakh, Kirgiz, Tajik, Uzbek and other ethnic groups also held during the festival goat, horse racing, wrestling and other competitions.

On the morning of the festival, Uyghurs bathe their whole body (big clean), and then go to the mosque in full costume to participate in the gathering ceremony. After the ceremony, the first thing people do when they go home is to kill animals. Whether to slaughter cows, sheep, camels or horses is determined by the economic strength of each family. Usually people slaughter the sacrificial animals, large pieces of meat with bones stewed in the pot before the men began to visit each other. The men begin to visit each other's houses to congratulate the festival. The women stayed at home to put up the festival food, boil tea and prepare water, ready to welcome guests.

On the first day of the festival, the first to have had a funeral and family difficulties in the townspeople to pay homage, to express condolences; its is to the husband and wife's elders to pay homage; again, to the neighbors and elders to pay homage. In the ritual worship activities, in addition to the husband and wife to the elderly worship is the husband and wife to go together, other worship activities are often in groups of three or five, men and women separately. After that, it is the worship between friends and relatives of the same generation. In addition to mutual congratulations, greetings to each other, but also *** meal and drink, playing and singing with entertainment. Uyghur folk festival is an important part of the Uyghur people to strengthen social ties and strictly abide by the code of etiquette.

Traditional activities of the Gurbang Festival

1, will be held during the ceremony, the Gurbang Festival, we all want to congratulate each other on the festival, every household, the host will be for the guests to serve up a plate of stewed chunks of mutton, and the guests that is eaten again, but also have to taste the host's mutton. 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.

2, slaughtering livestock, Muslims in general before the festival to prepare for the slaughter of livestock, livestock requirements must be healthy, divided into camel, cattle, sheep, three kinds, according to the family's financial situation to decide. The meat is divided into three parts, which are kept for personal use, given to friends and relatives, and given to the poor.

3, worship, early morning worship on the day of Gurbang Festival, is the largest worship in the year, all adult men go to the local worship temple to participate in the gathering ceremony, the scene is spectacular. After the gathering, every family will go to the cemetery to pray, remember and pray for the dead relatives.