The origin of the yugur

Yugur ancestor can be traced back to the third century BC jingle, 4th century of iron, and living in color tree fern, river and earl gave Uighur hun river basin.Uighur of east iron (also called DiLi, dingling, high car) of one of the six most.Then east iron in their fight against the east TuJueHan countries, formed the Uighur as the core of the tribal alliance, known as "le toghuzghuz iron" or "toghuzghuz" for short.Eight century, beat the turkic Uighur Utrecht in mountain love mountain branch (now hangzhou), warm up established the Uighur khanate (now hubei hun river).The middle of 9th century, Uighur khanate to educate the ending, the broken parts of the Uighur travel around, one to the hexi corridor, came with an earlier part of the Uighur rendezvous, reproduced here, become the yugur of today.

Yugur traditional festival

1. HerebyThe Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the most main traditional festivals, yugur preganglionic shou sui for ancestor worship activities.On New Year's eve, families get together to eat dinner, there are mainly grasp the meat, Fried oil fruit, sanzi, ghee tea and so on.Thirty shou sui, the first day get up early in the first lunar month, which is frequently early spring.According to the habits, young people and the younger generation to water in hand, on the tents, or buffaloes, clean auspicious said.Eat dumplings after New Year, people visit family and friends, happy New Year, each other gifts.When gifts, gifts, wrapped in beautiful first bag, with a square white cloth above diagonal folded into a triangle block, similar hadad, said good lucky for you.The tents of the night lights, drink a toast to sing, burning it.

From to 15 for religious holiday at the beginning of the meeting day, the temple more than hold SuYouDeng flower show, monks wearing devils in animal forms such as "chang wood" (dharma) dance mask, jump while saying, very grand scene.

Section 2. The horse hair cut

In the middle of April lunar calendar date, generally for two days.When the horse is mainly to prepare ghee, milk tea, barley wine, grilled meat and other foods and horse hair cut plate, the plate is placed into a with Fried noodles bumps barrier layer 7 to 8 small tower, the tower has ghee, solidification, butter can make the tower fixed in the disc.Ping an said all directions rich.Article also on the cutting horse hair scissors to tie the auspicious white hada.

Lead to pony cut mane, family, the host invited guests, the experienced shepherd of shear guest recommend each other, their repeated practices.Finally, by a recognized both good mane cut and will dance people cut open.He (she) shear horsehair, while shear mane singing.Cut a lock head mane, by his (her) to drive into the tent, and honor to god "MAO", "MAO" god bless.Shall continue to cut out the account, but have to leave a part of the other guests.To host all the pony cut after full one full year of life, everyone sitting and drinking into the tent.Toasting song answer, very HuanQia.Master makes guests eat drink more as far as possible;Guests warmly praised master in square, livestock prosperity.After dinner, the host on mane had just cut the foal, Mercedes Benz, every one, will get others' congratulations.Horse hair cut and a bit like a line to young adult ceremony widely attention.

Living from the nomadic yugur, the horse has a special emotion.There is a good horse, for a yugur man, is a great honor.Yugur jockey club held a grand, every year in the grasslands of full of festive atmosphere, racing to attract the audience in all directions.

3. The general assembly in September

Which is also called "conference" in October, yugur traditional religious festivals.Popular in gansu SuNa County yugur ghetto, held on 26 October twenty four or lunar calendar, three days, is to commemorate the death of the gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism founder tsongkhapa, held the traditional religious activities.First monastery walls and doors and Windows are painted white and gray as a souvenir.Monastery in the middle of tsongkhapa hung like during the festival, people gathered from all directions in the temple, to tsongkhapa like lighting incense and kowtow, lama, monks chanting.Monastery offered hand grasping mutton, Fried fruit and other food to participants.

4. The conference in June

Commonly known as "will", yugur traditional religious festivals.Popular in gansu SuNa County yugur residence, the temple session time is differ, held in lunar early June to 15 days.At the appointed time, mountain nomads to lama, please read the safe and the bayan obo and up the hill.When people obo stem and green tea in hand, to point the sacrifices of god and the edge on the mountain green tea, and pray to the god bless.

5. The first meeting

Yugur's greatest religious festival, popular in the 'south gansu area.This date is not completely consistent, usually held on the 15th day of the first lunar month ten solstice, for six days.At that time, men, women and children dressed in festive costumes, came to the temple, the old people praying for peace and burn incense kowtow, pray for the light.Temple monks wearing masks, dressed as the image, such as horses and cows, ancient sacrifices god dance, abundant solid language called "zen", and the crowd scatters red jujube, and law.Temple by hand grasp mutton, Fried fruit and milk tea for participants.Butter sculpture goes sometimes.

6. Fire flooding a demon

Ancient religious customs yugur, held a year before Chinese New Year's eve.Old, it is considered that the lunar New Year's eve every year to the next year the fifth day, is the most rampant evil devil, only fire can expel evil evil spirits.Coming New Year's eve, therefore, yugur families to put the tent (or houses) inside and outside clean, and then in the empty place two fire lit, outside edgeSet off firecrackers, through two fire while herding cattle.From New Year's eve to the fifth day, tents and pen both inside and outside to hang SuYouDeng, lit through the night.The evil spirits wouldn't close to people and animals in this way, a demon, in order to protect peace.

Yugur custom taboo

Yugur taboo in our daily life more, strongly penetrate the cultural consciousness of religion.

In the past, yugur June, lunar, don't do farm work, ferial involuntary pay springs on digging a well.Every tiger, dogs, rats, snakes, (with the date of the twelve animal signs say) don't move tents.Every day do not go out, think unlucky day to go out, do not which.Whenever the new moon, 15 incense worshipping Buddha, don't sell cattle.Ban on the prairie o 'hara (namely marmot).

Yugur clan seniority is stricter, junior the elder's name, banned the vulgar lama's name.The younger generation in riding the elder, must be dismounted early the objects in the greeting.Yugur people believe in Tibetan Buddhism, known as lamaism.Layman riding through the temple will mount a horse as far too;moveWhen pack the yak, horses and cattle, sheep and people can only pass behind the temple;Near the temple can't speak loudly, noise;To the temple worshipping Buddha into a man from the left into the oratory, woman's right, a man must take off their shoes into the left foot, and cuffs over your mouth and with his left hand ever-burning lamps.Women walking into the monastery shall not be arbitrarily, must walk on the wall, also can only pull over when the kowtow;Women can't go to the front of the Buddha, maternal not into the temple.

Yugur people tent is set above the plug, god used to "point, rare," legend "point, Abraham" in red, red horse riding.So the layman in red is not allowed, riding a red horse into the counting-house, into considered offend gods.Every guest to someone's home, carrying guns, ammunition, whips, raw meat are not allowed to be brought into the tent, must in the tent door to master, can enter the counting-house.

The guest enter the counting-house, according to the male left female right sit, sit sequence arrangement according to the guest identity, seniority, age, identity, seniority, high for senior.Just above the guest can't sit or walk;Master hands pass bowl, bowl for the guests, and starting from the seats on.Giving guest pour tea, rice, are performed by the housewife, the guest may not be for themselves, not to take the ladle or teapot, master the guest when have dinner, the guest may not move.

Fast yugur also pointed mouth round hoofs animal meat, such as chickens, geese, cranes, fish, horse, donkey and mule meat, eating dog, woodchucks, meat.Yugur pastoralists have herding dogs, has been to raise it to the old, bury away, not peeling without meat.Along with the development of times and the changes of customs to chicken, noweggs, fish have started eating, has been fasting for mule donkey meat.If the hunt pheasants, yugur, given a is not allowed to get into the house, the second is pot won't let you in.