Of the kirgizCustoms and habitsInformation and dress characteristic of the kirgiz festival

Kirgiz mainly distributed in the western xinjiang region, for the most part in g kyzyl Su Keer kyrgyz autonomous prefectures, the rest distributed in ili, tacheng prefecture, aksu and kashi region.In addition, there are scattered in fuyu country, heilongjiang province.According to the 2000 fifth national population census, khalkhas population of 160823.Mainly engaged in animal husbandry, engaged in agriculture.

Kirgiz eat custom

Domestic kirgiz mainly distributed in China's southern xinjiang, kyzyl Su Keer kyrgyz autonomous prefecture and other places, mainly engaged in animal husbandry production, kirgiz people engaged in agriculture and handicraft industry;Traditional arts and crafts with embroidery, rolling carpet, carving, damask and treasure, xi with weapons, hawks, clouds and beasts for design.Love the horse racing, diao sheep, shooting and pegasus pickup right away.The material life has close relationship with business animal husbandry, dietary daily life also has the characteristic of the nomadic way of life.

Kirgiz breakfast is simple, but rich nutrition, with fresh milk with other foods, lunch is relatively simple, herders are mostly carry the food in the wild edible, is generally a big dinner.

The kirgiz people who believe in Islam, and since the death of livestock within the diet pig meat, horse meat sausage best food for the winter.

Their diet is mostly meat and dairy products, also like to eat cabbage, onion (skin opposite), potatoes and so on.Daily drink is goats' milk and yogurt, also like to drink with milk after boiling, add salt to tea eight.Rich herders drink goat's milk is milk, eat cattle, sheep, horse, camel meat, eat rice and pasta.Instead of chopping board, making pasta, made of leather roll out cloth.They also gave good ghee in processed after slaughter cattle stomach, sheep in the stomach.Bowl, a spoon and other utensils are made out of wood.

Kirgiz youth wedding ceremony by the imam, one of them and the episode of diet is very interesting, the imam will a called naan into two and a half, dipped in salt water, distributed to two new people, its meaning is said share the joys and sorrows, never part.

Kirgiz very hospitable and polite, have "friendship and enthusiasm is kirgiz people gold" sayings handed down from ancient times.Who have a guest come to visit, to know each other or not, all hospitality, took home the best treat people eat food, most with sheep head meat hospitality and respect.When treat people eat mutton, please eat first entered the oil, then Jia flesh and sheep meat, please.The guest and give some to women and familyThe childAnd return.

Kirgiz people in the diet also called naan, pot stickers, libraries, in accordance with maggic called naan (oil), power took shaq (Fried noodles block), in accordance with the power took shaq (Fried fruit), pancakes, Fried bumps, rest, cake, creme another ShaMu sand (baking steamed stuffed bun), qu QuEr sanzi (dumplings), oil, butter rice porridge, esthetic, pasta, rolls, etc.

Along with the improvement of living standards, and together with the people of all ethnic groups inhabit, joint production and life, kirgiz people's diet structure is also great changes have taken place.Vegetables begin to enter households of farmers and herdsmen, the variety of food is increasingly rich and colorful.

Kirgiz diet taboo, and other ethnic groups in xinjiang have both the same, and there were different.

After washing hands before meals, water not disorderly jilt, son must be a cloth to wipe dry, the owner let guests can eat.Men do not take food directly from the hostess hands, as a sign of the men and women are different.Guests should be bowl of food to eat in the net, avoid by all means will be leftovers fell to the ground.Have a mealNot opened the kitchen door curtain when the peep, after a meal to exit the back door.

Kirgiz marriage customs

Kirgiz engagement customs interesting, they have a special liking to white, white represents their favorite sheep.The man to the woman home, want to put all kinds of gifts and dowry immediately, they will plunge into a white cotton, the cotton and can also be pierced by the bride.If someone rode on a cotton sticking head sticking the horse, means that this person is for the engagement, local people will know.The woman's parents for the arrival of the man, will warm welcome, to treat the man do on rich food, and agreed on the date of wedding.In some places, when the man to betrothal, if agreed to the marriage, the wife to the man's body, sprinkle some flour to him his blessing, and that bodes ill for the groom, will be like white flour, clean and flawless.

To get marriedChoose more generally will have a three days, the date at the end of the month, ceremony mainly in the bride's side.Kirgiz's wedding is in the family. Mother to give her daughter shower in the morning, and by his mother and sister-in-law grooming, etc. The bride.Mother to daughter do up one's hair, with small plait comb into two large braids, crying marriage to comb while singing songs.Songs have a strong sense of mother and daughter feeling, also have a deep blessing.And at the same time for a sheep diao, horse racing and other activities, do pilaf, boiled meat preparations to meet the groom and his family.

Day 1 bundle of the groom

The groom side in early in the morning by the elders and youth team rode on a horse, profuse in the sound of the band to the dowry.Dowry including two sheep just slaughtered, a whole sheep cooked;A five zang-organs pulls out, not cooked peeled, will also take dozens of head small animals and all kinds of clothing.Bride two sister-in-law to stand in the door, one by one sample to check the man from the dowry, and then to accept gifts, even for the woman at the door for the groom gift show, and one by one in front of the crowd and try on clothes.

Wait until ready to let the groom entered the room, the bride's family men would have ready to the rope.Set the groom comes in at the door, such as the people, catch the groom bound, it tied tickling in front of the tent.The last to appear personally by the groom's father and brother, asking for a favor, her friends and family and give gifts to them, then they will unleash the groom.

The next day and joyful

The second day of the wedding ceremony in the beginning, just by a guest with the groom to the pen with a wooden stick at the top of the skylight pick to open, and then dried apricots from day window to the outside, such as oil, fruit, candy, festive food.At this moment, the bride and the groom's family of guests in the yurt stood apart waiting to grab those things, to share the couple's happiness.The bride's family to kill sheep and other livestock on the banquet, treat the guests from afar.

The wedding ceremony at YiQiLan taught dharma.Hosted by stomach o ceremony, read "monica rare testimony (marriage)," for each dip in brine is called naan, symbol of husband and wife grow old together, never part.To celebrate the wedding, the two sides are going to have a DiaoYang, horse racing, wrestling, wrestling and other recreational activities.Night, accompanied by the bride and groom best man and the maid of honor, sitting account LianNa speak freely, laughing and shaking;Drapes, young men and women play test and other Musical Instruments, singing folk songs, dance meeting, do other games, it until the middle of the night party.

3 day turn back home

The groom to the bride back to their new home.At this moment, the bride and his family don't cry.The bride's mother to take care of her daughter also accompanied her daughter to the groom lived in two to three days, some to live on a month to return.The woman have to prepare clothes, bedding and other articles for daily use as a dowry, with horses and camels bearing beam, but also prepared a horse, saddlery, tap, and their horses.Saddlery and whip if all is brand new, and decorate, with silver and copper is very exquisite.When the bride back to the husband's family, want to ride the horse, the horse also calculate as a dowry to his daughter.The bride and groom on the way back by local herdsmen hospitality, the couple also give joyful gifts such as a reward.

Kirgiz religious beliefs

Kirgiz people originally totem worship.Totem is a famous snow leopard and deer (ko language translation for buhu, kirgiz chingiz aitmatov's novel "white ship" the world famous writer about is also associated with the mother deer).In addition, also belief of "buy" the goddess (umaiene).Believe in the ancestors and gods, they pray toward the south, the worship of the sun, that Mars are unlucky.Was converted to Islam in qing dynasty, belong to the sunni orthodoxy.In the northeastern part of the kirgiz believed in shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism.

For the most part kirgiz people faith of Islam.Them as early as in the middle of the 16th century had begun to believe in Islam.They believe in sunni Islam hanafi pie.The mosque is the main place to religious activities.Most mosque was built in the city.Read buddhist five skill: "work", "worship the work", "work", "fasting", "the work".

Kirgiz festival customs

Major festivals are id al fitr, eid al-adha and novartis LuZi section, rob left section such as holiday.The feast, men and women are all the new clothes, and entertain each other to fruit tea, oil, etc.

Kirgiz's most valued life etiquette has born courtesy, cradle, the full moon ceremony, circumcision, funeral and weddings.

The birth of the ritual

Born inbabyWas born on the same day a new life by best wishes.Cradle ceremony is held in children born 7 days or 9 days, to kill and feasting and a dinner party, a small, participants and the limit of women.During the party going to sing "lullaby".The full moon, "celebration for baby's first birthday" similar with the han nationality.Circumcision, is an important ritual kirgiz people after the wedding.Funeral, kirgiz people basically carried out in accordance with the sunna.Wedding, is the biggest manners, kirgiz people are generally held in her home first, then the bride to meet new, more lively celebrations held in the man.The wedding was held throughout the songs and activities.

Such as transcribing section

"My hot transcribing" festival is a traditional festival kirgiz, on January the first public (i.e., the Gregorian calendar March 22) for festivals.Kirgiz eid al-adha and id al fitr.Also called "Sarah hartmann festival".If Mr We transcribing festival has a long history, it's in ancient uygur, uzbekistan, kazak, kirgiz and other turkic languages widely popular among peoples.

Every year lunar calendar spring equinox day this day, that is, after the lunar March 22, as if "Mr My transcribing festival".Its content is old, hope can bring luck spring happiness, if Mr We transcribing a communal this aspect of the content of the full performance:

If Mr My transcribing festival arrived, falling prices, spring or fall, grain sings full grain, poor people have to life, every family happy, today the hen chicks, if Mr We transcribing festival arrived, the mournfulness out, women were jubilant together, girls and boys particularly happy, they cant open the cap flowers ears, sound ripples were filled with laughter.

If Mr We transcribing festival performances in all kinds of games are driven for content of cold in spring.For example, in our north transcribing section, the old man, a man dressed as a winter after performing a, then took off his cotton-padded clothes, set he put on his resources to meet the arrival of spring.If Mr My transcribing section when someone close together, cook sheep, wish a good harvest, the holidays began to spring after planting.Since many parts of the uighurs still in the holiday.The festival celebrations in some uygur people, especially in some cities the young have no small change.