The yugurCustoms and habitsYugur holiday information and clothing characteristics

Hereby claim to be "yao".According to history records, the song dynasty yugur ancients referred to as "yellow head Uighur", "yuan said in my fear, Ming said" in a "Uighur, called" tin la wei gul ".At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, has called "in uygur.1953 through native representative consultation, to determine with "yao shout" sound similar to "the abundant solid" (also take Chinese rich cement) for said.According to the 2000 fifth national population census, yugur population of 13719.

Yugur religious beliefs

Yugur mainly engaged in animal husbandry, 1.In the approximation of Tibetan customs and habits.

Hereby the marriage customs

Hereby to monogamous marriage, sharing between kin are strictly prohibited.Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the marriage form has arranged marriage and counting house wear.Counting house wear head, married woman held adult ceremony, the bride's family to another bean counting house, a family is a relic of the ancient marriage system.Funeral cremation, burial, celestial burial three forms.

Yugu has very strange, at the wedding ceremony, the groom gives the bride even three without arrowheads in arrow (not hurt), symbolize the bride and groomA blind dateLove each other, both a lifetime.Shoot, the groom throw the bow broken, door, by the old man cast into the fire burned.This custom source an ancient myth: once upon a time, abundant solid people without fire, then there is a hero to get fire, abundant solid talented person a better life.At that time, there are a pair of newlyweds, husband go out hunting, careless wife at home will fire extinguishing.Her to seek a three-headed monster fire and must dedicate blood to drink it.After a few days later, the husband came back, the wife every day because of the demon drink blood and become skinny.After husband informed, with three arrows to shoot down the demon three head, and his also died because of serious injury.From then on, the yugur people in order to prevent the demon again, also in memory of the hero, the expulsion of demons rise when the wedding ceremony.Symbolize the bride has a good shot brave husband, protect, monsters and dare not to make waves.Contain the abundant solid people overcome evil, the pursuit of happiness life of determination and desire.

Of yugur's customs, in accordance with the end of the ceremony, the husband's family after entertain guests, the bride would be in the direction of the day, hour, lama selected, grazing two to three days.Grazing during the bride to personally count number of cattle, sheep, horses, and lay a alignment pole, picked up a bundle of sticks.To do so, on the one hand, in order to show the bride capable, thrift, on the other hand is to inform all the gods, it added on a newcomer, and began to grazing, in.

Yugur wedding in two days, the first day in the bride's side, the next day in the family, the latter is more grand.At the wedding, men and women both parties are to hire a singer.On the day of girl married, wear head ceremony.On the same day, the bride's side and relatives gathered at the girl's home.Visitors bring pure white hada, honor to the woman's parents, said the girl married congratulations.In the evening, master treat people sit on the floor in the yurt, male guests in the left, women in the right, in a piece of laughter, opened for the reception.

Wine several cruise, when the morning star rises, the bride in the company of the bridesmaid enter the yurt, covered by the red carpet for the wear leading ceremony.Wear head shall be presided over by two young woman.Uncle or singers sang and elegant with a leading song: morning star shine, lovely girl to wear head/seeing the bridegroom off cavalry shall start/the girl to the husband's family on the door.

In the melodious song, is about to marry girl, under the two young woman dress up, change the hairstyle, wear horn felt hat, wearing plastron and back on, wear with silver, jade, coral, agate, seashells, etc. Into the head.The ceremony means girl naive teenager has ended, toward a new life.

"The horse drink red sun diminished, minister announced".The bride and a bridesmaid ride on a horse or camel, say goodbye to mother, father, uncle, brothers, sisters and other family members surrounded by seeing the bridegroom off team, drinking all the way singing, heading for the groom's family.Male escort team on the way, spread a carpet, on the carpet with a sheep cooked, wine and rice.Seeing the bridegroom off line when it comes to the procession of people gave her guests hadad, honor.Then seeing the bridegroom off people drinking dismountHave a meal, "pinching"."Pinching", the two way people gathered together the majestic walked to the man's house.

To the man of the house, the woman good rider under the orders of the host, racing horses, camels to small yurt specially set for the bride to shock, a depressing streak.Battled to evict the man relatives and friends.Hit three rounds, then three times around the small yurt.This is a kind of symbolic ceremony, its meaning in the test's family's ability to escort the bride.

Then to the groom sheep leg ceremony: spread butter on the groom on his forehead, the sheep leg hung on her belt.The meaning of this ceremony as expressed by the "present sheep leg word" "adhesion on the sheep leg hair, like a husband's family home inseparable good score" to each other.

Custom, according to the abundant solid people in donor sheep leg at the same time, will shoot without clusters to the bride at the ceremony of an arrow.In the SaNaMa cosette, marriage customs and uninhibited toasting song of folk songs, a pair of yugur, into the bridal chamber, eating the sheep leg together, began their sweet life.

To get marriedAfter the ceremony wearing a head

Popular in gansu against south yugur autonomous county of yugu marriage trends, namely, the wedding ceremony held on the second day women's ceremony of shaping.On this day, the first deputy with coral, Zi, seashell ornaments made of about 5 inches long, about 3 feet wide on the leading department in the surge of women's hair.Leading is abundant because of women in braids of ornaments.Leading generally divided into three, each weighing up to 3-3.5 kg.Leading brand made with strip type hard cloth, each divided into four segments, each segment, with copper ring connections between each pattern is different, the precious ornaments by colored silk, woven inlays.The hair comb is about 3, braids by ears hanging in his chest, the other at your back.Wear head, invited specialized singers sing "wedding song" on the side, namely the wear head song, the lyrics is:

Black bears, alas!

Qiming star came out, the bride should comb my hair.The east sunrise rises, the bride should wear a head.

Oh black bears well:

The bride sat in the front of the mirror, shiny black hair is beautiful;Light like silk, soft like water

Black bears, alas!

Leading studded with pearls, agate, is a kind mother embroidered in under the lamp;How beautiful bride carries on, like a six fork of velvet antler.

Black bears, alas!

Wear this embroidered robes, wish the bride to the husband's family give birth to a boy.Carrying on the ear felt hat, to wish the bride to the husband's family ah black bears give birth to a daughter well:

Seeing the bridegroom off team is about to set out, seeing the bridegroom off cavalry vastly and mightily raised dust cover all over, the bride to the husband's family on the door.

Sung the song wear head after, the bride's uncle, guests, and represent the bride's singer singing, the lyrics is grateful to the parents' support, and exhortation, and comfort of the bride will leave her maiden mood, etc.Sing farewell song, while the new owner for the main guests from seeing the bridegroom off "horse cup" wine, bride bridesmaid will support on horseback or kyphosis, and the bride drivers, sister, or putting a man escort the bride to ride a horse or other camels.Wear head on the same day or the next day by a woman's family and friends to send the girl to get married the man's house.The bride wear a head of time and department head (for women), would please lama calculate potential, is often done in the morning.

Yugur's eating habits

Yugur people's diets and they engage in animal husbandry, general milk tea drink 3 times a day with Fried noodles, eat a meal.Staple food is rice, noodles and grains, fusi is milk, meat.They also like to drink wine, smoke cigarette.Forbidden to eat goose, fish, diet pointed mouth round hoofs of animals, such as horse, donkey and mule, dogs and chickens.(do not eat horse, donkey and mule because yugur people need them for piggy back items, in the era of nomadic for yugu people is crucial, have you heard the story of a hunter with a gun when firewood?Don't eat dog because the dog is the most effective helper yugur people.For chickens, yugur people eating, basically have not taboo, but remember: yugur people don't eat birds of prey, such as the eagle, eagle, hawk, etc.)

Milk and tea in yugur occupies a very important position in the People's Daily life, folk have three tea one meal a day or two the habit of tea is a meal, after getting up every morning, usually just boiled water or tea first scoop a spoonful of sprinkled around the tent, means a new day has begun, and then transferred to butter, salt, milk drink after repeated agitation.If combined with ghee, creme, la (milk bumps), Fried noodles, red jujube, or elaeagnus angustifolia can be earlier.Also want to drink tea at noon, at night, to stay after all labor, to a formal dinner.Evening dinner general is given priority to with rice flour, rice, noodles, etc.

Yugur usually like eating beef, mutton, usually made hand grasp the cow, lamb meat, complete sheep, cattle, sheep BeiZi (i.e., bring full of cattle, sheep rump bone cooked on the table), stewed mutton, dry air drying mutton, beef, haggis soup, etc.In addition to cattle, sheep, and food, camel meat, chicken or pork stir-fry.Cattle, sheep, often with garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, etc.

Because of natural conditions, herdsmen who seldom eat fresh vegetables, can only collect some chrysanthum, sand onion, wild, wild leeks and garlic to JuanPi (similar to black fungus), and other vegetables.Autumn is filled with XianMo grasslands, so XianMo is often eat food after autumn.

Yugur milk food mainly made of yak, cattle, sheep, with sweet milk, yogurt, creme, ghee and casein.Hereby also like in the rice, porridge Riga some fern hemp,grapesDry, red jujube, mix in sugar and butter, or within the millet, yellow rice, add some sheep diced meat, yogurt, as a staple food.

Yugur normally rest also like flour to make another, Fried cake, steamed stuffed bun, etc., the best is to eat dumplings, in winter, every family to do a lot of dumplings, and frozen, is to eat cooked, some people even can save until spring a lot to eat.

Typical food: yugur made of lamb all kinds of dishes, including a representative of sausages and dried fruits.

Yugur festival

Cut mane: yugur traditional farming worship activities, popular in the 'south gansu area, generally in the lunar calendar date after April 11 days.Yugur people love animals very much, when the foal grow to be a one full year of life, first cut mane to held a grand ceremony.On this day, to relatives and neighbours congratulated, please.Cut mane, sing the song cut mane, cut.Cut the first piece of mane, take into the tent, and dedicated to the Buddha, in order to bless.After the cut, host hospitality to the guests.The guest borrow wine ZhuXing, praise owners with the horse.In the end, he will ride a pony on the string of tents.Everywhere, people want to congratulate to geely.

Fire flooding devils: yugur's ancient religious customs, every yearThe Spring FestivalBefore 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.

June conference: 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.

Wrestling: abundant solid language called "marla lars", is a traditional yugur sports entertainment sports.It is a kind of strength, more important is the competition of skill, wisdom and perseverance.Both sides sideways to hold each other's waist, can use your legs to trip, to see who can put each other down.The winner will be affected by the praise of people, seen as "good man", hereby referred to as the "battle".