The origin of the salar

Salar is the ancient west turkistan gus department and the seed of the ruhr, live in China during the tang dynasty, after moving west central Asia.The yuan dynasty in the 13th century by way of samarkand, the migrating to travel long distances to the east of qinghai province, settled in xunhua areas, with the han, Tibetan, hui, Mongolian and other ethnic fusion, gradually formed a nation.Salar in the yuan dynasty "Sarah," he said "son" Sarah, Ming said "sand carving", "sand thorn clusters", "Sarah," and so on.

From the family lives on the edge of the qinghai-tibet plateau in China, mainly living in xunhua salar autonomous county of qinghai province and its adjacent HuaLong he nan hui autonomous county of gansu stone mountain village in gansu province and preserve some of the rural clan dongxiang salar autonomous county.There are a few scattered in xining city in qinghai province and other counties, in gansu province town was the yining county, xinjiang uygur autonomous region, urumqi and other places, also have a small amount of distribution.According to the 2000 fifth national population census, salar population of 104503.Mainly engaged in agriculture, horticulture is also very rich.Salar language use Sarah, belongs to the altaic turkic gus dialect, Sarah language use cahetai type Arabic letters before, now switch to the Latin alphabet.A lot from people will speak Chinese and Tibetan.The use of Chinese general.

Salar people claim to be "Sarah", hereinafter referred to as "off" the name.It is considered that salar is ancient turkic west wu gus of Sarah's descendants.Tales from the ruhr is hougomont, grandson of khan, the eldest son of tower black sweat."From the ruhr" meaning "everywhere waving swords and hammer spear", the original live in China in the tang dynasty, after moving west central Asia.Yuan dynasty via samarkand, east back to China, settle down near to xining.

Salar traditional festival

1. The eid al-fitr

Salar they called eid "rozi YiYiDi", people in each year in September, after the month of fasting, find the new moon, see the next day, the moon such a holiday.First, to clean the yard, ready to eat.Morning, baptism festival clothes, adult malesgravesChanting prayers, come back, with the people in droves to "Carl" (high long) HuiLi and celebration.Before HuiLi, family members to come up with quite a day living expenses to poor alms "tyre" (Obama).HuiLi ended, people said "both of the orders," said congratulations, must hold everything, sanzi, visiting relatives and friends, people, everywhere present happy festival atmosphere.Make an enemy of some people at ordinary times, in this to your holiday), also make up.Conditional family, imam and banquets, with family and friends also holiday together.

2. Eid al-adha

Eid al-adha, meaning "eid" or "eid-ul-adha", held in December each year.Salar, by contrast, emphasize especially eid al-adha.When bathing costumes, for a long green flags, the imam, led to "Carl sea" held in droves to HuiLi, imam listen to the lecture.Rise over that chanting prayers to the cemetery.Back home, their slaughter cattle and sheep.At an early age, and to kill the camel.Family in general, a few family and kill a cow, or camel, divide the meat into three, a charity, a eat, a gift friends and relatives.Also Fried incense and sanzi, do "dish", please the imam and village old man to dinner, feasts three days, very busy.

Section 3. The SAN ji

SAN ji, in each year in March 12, is the birth of Mohammed, it is also the date of the death of the prophet.In advance the teaching to raise money to slaughter cattle, cook wheat berry rice, Fried incense;Imam HuiLi, held by lecture, st, Mohammed biography.In addition, in the twelfth day of Ramadan, women will be "hair figure buy festival", to commemorate the daughter of the prophet.Then, to cook wheat berry rice, Fried sanzi, his memory.

Ethnic customs and taboos

Eating pork and dead animal meat, fasting, donkeys, horses, mules, dogs, cats and other animals meat, forbidden to drink.The slaughter of animals, have to recite the slaughter of the name of Allah, or even animals such as cattle and sheep meat can't eat.Can not use pig with salar any form of joke, can't use their food cooking utensils to make pork and other taboos.Please salarHave a meal, halal food raw material must be as raw materials, and cooking utensils to be cleaned.

Salar taboo to smokedrinking, can't let smoke wine to others, others also can't let smoke wine to them, cannot be engaged in any activity related to alcohol, tobacco, such as manufacturing, trading, transportation, etc.Others can't drink and smoke to their home, Ramadan, people can't smoke in front of the person you fasting drink, in the mosque or when they have religious activity, the others not to smoke in front of them drink.Avoid leave leftovers on the bowl at the dinner table, taboo with my mouth to bite eat steamed bread, etc., and to break to eat by hand.Sheng food avoid is filled with his left hand, avoid is from the left shengfan, rather than from the right.Taboo trample, waste food, fell to the ground, without dirty, pick up to eat.Eat, taboo not read "simi" (that is, "I PuCi special kind in the name of Allah") by the period while eating.Taboo choosy food, taboo gluttony, cannot span food, eating utensils, etc.

Salar oppose drag or disguised as men and men dressed in red, yellow, green, against the man wearing a gold and silver jewelry, men's wear show below the navel to the knee above share taboo, women's wear in addition to facial features and hand out taboo to reveal any other part.Taboo deliberately pursue outstanding curve to wear.Ban with married women, taboo man with long hair and long fingernails.

Salar not worship idols, so avoid hang any people and animals in the home, don't choose and employ persons and animals appliances such as quilt cover, sheet, taboo decoration and animal statues, taboo to whistle or sing a song in the home.Used to sing in the field "flower" or "her" (salar love songs) is allowed, but taboo at home or in the village singing such songs, so in the flowers sing: "in the zhuangzi sing can not, then when the old man heard scold li".

Salar is prohibited to pray the imago, face reading fortune, do not believe that the curse spell, when the weather is good, avoid is too happy, when the weather is bad, can't complain, more avoid lose hope in life and suicide.Salar taboo strange men and women alone, taboo stranger chat conversation between men and women.Forbid or late husband women marry others, both inside and outside the one hundred - day.After the funeral, taboo family or relatives howled, avoid wearing a gown, avoid sends wreath and large elegiac scroll, within three days, taboo in his house guests, family members are not allowed to go out to visit.

In terms of language, salar is much taboo.To avoid to produce unclean thoughts, in his generation, men and women, between some love words also become the object of taboo, such as "soyin" (love and like) a word, people rarely used.Aging is inevitable stage in the process of life life and death, is a normal physiological phenomenon.But in the process of language communication, people avoid naked will speak such words.In general use "kuxinvumis" (calls), "vuchangvumis" (uncertainty) to represent death, rather than "ul" (dead).When breaking the law or for other reasons is shot, don't say "uldsr" (kill), and in combination of the salar language, and Chinese word says "xoyla" (break).And after the slaughter of animals, can't say "dead", can only say "run away" (janicixmis).To avoid the embarrassment or misunderstanding, people often does not directly tell about disability words, and use other words instead.