The tajikCustoms and habitsTajik holiday information and clothing characteristics

Tajik ethnic origin can be traced back to several centuries BC distribution in eastern pamir fuck all the tribes of Iranian.Tajik have their own language, belongs to the indo-european language pamir Iran dialect, is divided into color le Kurt tajik and wakhan tajik two dialects.Due to the national exchanges, many tajik xinjiang and Uighur language and kirgiz language, widespread use of uyghur.

Tajik ethnic history

The tajik population is less, but it has a long history of culture."Tajik" is the national claims, according to folklore, the meaning of the word "crown".According to archaeological discoveries, in 2000 BC to 1500 BC, the tribes, where the eastern Iran language has been distributed in southern xinjiang region in our country, including distribution in green ridge (now pamirs) in the east, is China's ancestors of tajik.The 2nd century BC, zhang qian to the western regions, the western han dynasty set up under the jurisdiction of the western regions to protect.Tashikuergan region belongs to traffic arteries and "silk road" of the throat.Tajik ancestors by nurture in the cultural exchange between east and west.And develop yourself.The 2 ~ 3 century, appeared in the tashikuergan region were uneven, exhaust uneven is the tajik ancestor in China.The rule of law in 3 ~ 4 centuries, they've got development, irrigation agriculture, half agricultural half herd life.Were the uneven state 12 castle and more than 10 monasteries.In theravada Buddhism from the subcontinent region for the church of England.The tang dynasty, belong to anxi government jurisdiction.Kai yuan (713 ~ 741), in the "green ridge keep catch" note.In the 8th century, were the tortuous demise.9-16 century AD, the tashikuergan region successively from the south, rise in the qinghai-tibet plateau region of tubo, kara khan dynasty, west liao, Mongolian yuan dynasty and cahetai jurisdiction.Especially from the 10th century began in kara han dynasty in Islam, the impact on the tajik strongly, so that later became the faith of the whole nation.Late Ming dynasty, in the heart of color, Kurt has a batch of tajik village tower.From the late 17th century to the 19th century, pamir south and west of the south, wakhan al-zindani many tajiks in color le, gradually become China's tajik.The middle of the 17th century, the qing dynasty unified the country, to tashikuergan, continue to use the name of the yuan dynasty "color" Kurt ", establishing color le Kurt back to zhuang, kaidu-kongque counselor minister jurisdiction.Building of qing dynasty, greatly strengthen the tajik areas and southern xinjiang uygur the close ties between economy and culture.

Tajik national diet

Tajik favorite food to grasp the boiled rice and meat, milk, milk boiled scones.Tajik diet content and method reflect their economy, the life needs and national characteristics.Pastoral areas of food is given priority to with dairy, meat and pasta;Agriculture is given priority to with pasta, milk and meat is complementary.Pasta is mainly made from wheat, barley, maize, beans and other flour, called naan.They are kinds of food, food with distinctive features are: milk, milk batter, ghee rest porridge, milk, another batter, butter milk paste, ghee highland barley called naan, ghee pouring called naan, grasp the dried meat, esthetic, cheese, milk, milk tea and so on.

Tajik three square meals a solar eclipse, the main food is meat, noodles, milk.Agricultural and pastoral areas of tajik, on the food structure is slightly different.Agriculture is given priority to with pasta, pastoral areas is given priority to with meat.Like to face with milk or rice and milk made into staple food.Such as show, crouch (milk porridge, will wash the rice milk boiled into porridge), or silver too dike (milk, milk with noodles, then rolling into a thin, reoccupy milk cooked) milk boiling scones are inseparable from the milk.Tajik folk unique food such as Mr Mark (milk batter), Banks (roux), Taylor (ghee called naan) is of flour with milk, or made of butter and flour.Many other daily food, due to the influence of Uighur, its practices in general and in the same way as the uighurs.Such as flour KaoNang, made of rice and mutton, mutton fat, carrot and so on esthetic, etc.Tajik in daily diet, is pay attention to diet, don't pay attention to fushi, rarely eat vegetables.Three meals a day, breakfast is milk tea and called naan, lunch is noodles and milk batter, mostly dinnerTo eat noodles, meat soup, butter products.On the meat, tajik favorite will be larger meat cooked with water, then dipped in salt, considered a broth, plain, folk the carnivorous method referred to as the "shier wu" (hand grasping mutton).In addition, the kernel (or rest pieces to add another rest add milk, broth mixing to another), "hot transcribing g o" Guo (oil), oil cake, dry milk, milk bumps, creme is an indispensable food everyday.Tajik daily drink more used to drink milk tea.

Traditionally, three meals a day diet arrangement, the production of all kinds of food, shall be borne by the housewife, men generally don't need to step in.Dinner, the meal the carpet with a single (cloth napkins), diners around the around, in their elders, rice dish in accordance with the seating order delivery.

Tajik religious beliefs

Islam ismaili residents common belief.Mosques are rare.Not pilgrimage muslims fasting, or not.Common people only in the holiday week.Religious leaders called "zen".Families christians believe in a generation in the successor of the zen and hereditary.

The eagle and tajik very close relationship.Tajik folk dance of the "eagle dance", the name given to the basic action is completely imitate the eagle action.

With the most distinctive features of the tajik ethnic Musical Instruments is the eagle flute, it is made of eagle wing bones.Tajik in widely circulated at various legends with the eagle.In these stories, eagle and tajik people life and death together, always, in a crisis, the eagle is always stood up, sacrifice themselves, create happiness for the people.In the general concept of tajik, eagle is also brave, justice, loyalty, a symbol of purity.Presumably, the eagle is a tajik ancestors worship of the totem animal, tajik culture these cultural phenomena related to the eagle is the remains of ancient ancestors tajik eagle totem worship.

Tajik people think that famous in the religious circles, and the tajik in the 10th century, the Muslim, tajik is the only Chinese national faith ismail instrument sect.

Tajik ethnic festivals

Ethnic and religious festival of eid al-adha, begging begging off dear love take off (The Spring FestivalSection), barrow, id al fitr, Taiwan wood disconnect it orders (sow), we finished section (water), etc.Tajik festival has a strong ethnic characteristics.Such as begging begging off dear love (Spring Festival), the time in the grass will sprout of Gregorian calendar march every year.Every big cleaning cleaning.In the morning,The childLead a cow to the room around a circle.Host to the cow back and flour, feed pull out after a little bread.Then, his family said.Then her love to visit each other.Women want to give the guests left shoulder and flour, to show his good luck.

Tajik islamic, many ethnic festivals are related to religion, the traditional "barrow" section is one of them."Lift" barrow, generally in the islamic calendar on the first two days in August every year.Because of the festival night every family at a special lamps, therefore is called the Lantern Festival.

Barrow "Lantern Festival" general at the head of the islamic calendar year 8 for two days.Because of the festival night every family at a special lamps, therefore is called the Lantern Festival.On the eve of the festival, every family should do more than little lights in the candle and the candle that an outsized.It is on a plateau special "card," caocao do core rod, wrapped in cotton outside, into the torches, dipped in oil or fat.Festival night, the whole family sitting on the kang, among the sand table for insert lamps.At this time, the parents according to seniority and age call everyone's name, called a promise, and put a lighted candle in front of the site, in order to show auspicious, the family of the lamps are lit, the candle that stretched out his hands in his own name on each roast, to pray, "may god bless peace.The ceremony and family size under the lights share an abundance of food.Then, he took home a good that one of the largest lamp candle lit after inserted to the roof, it is called "sky lanterns".The whole family to come out to stand in front of the house, looking up at the sky lanterns, silently praying.At the same time, each in front of the point fire exorcism.Teenagers by candlelight, was dancing before the fire, tickling, sleepless.