Tatar family wedding

Tatar ethnic family are monogamous family.Ethnic intermarriage with other faith Islam, limiting uncles marriages between brothers and sisters, cross-cousin marriage rarely.Buddhist wedding held in the wife, the groom is usually in the father-in-law lived a period of time, some until after the first child back to his home.

Tatar clan has a unique style, that is, the bridegroom "marry" first, and then back to "marry".

　　Engagement customs

Tatar ethnic engagement process with other ethnic groups, have their own originality, up and down as the last 1, 2 months the three stages of engagement process.

　　Phase 1: test the truth

Young men and women after meet, who know each other, love, will beTo get marriedWish to tell their parents, the parents would not agree to this piece of first marriage, in order to test the feelings between two people.If found two people is really true, successfully passed the test, will allow it to get married.

　　Phase 2: test the marriage

Act as matchmaker when the man to send two or three relatives or people with certain social status, to the family.The woman said to warm reception QinZhe.In accordance with the tatar ethnicCustoms and habits, the man in spoken for the first time, the woman can't immediately agree or reject.Said QinZhe to several times back and forth between the two.The woman agreed to after the marriage, the man's talent bring all kinds of food, cloth, gold engagement ring to the family.

　　Phase 3: out of the box is engaged

Finally enter the third stage, the man will give the woman take a big wooden case, after the woman received the cases held out the ritual will invite relatives or family friends, out of the box after the ceremony marked the men and women has set about matchmaking, cannot be changed.Subsequently, a matchmaker with both parents to discuss the wedding and wedding preparation, finally set a wedding date and date for the wedding.

　　The marriage process

The matchmaker for three transgressions of five times by relatives and friends, if her parents promised, dowry gifts man to woman, known as "kulaks suijiang cloud", namely the set of clothing to the bride from head to foot.The dowry, the engagement.

According to the traditional habit of tatar, wedding held in the bride's family, namely "marry" the bridegroom go out first.Get married a few days ago, the man to all the clothes, made for the bride cooker, furnishings, and wedding consumption items and their own "dowry" to the woman, including gifts for the bride parents (called a "g").Wait until the wedding night, the groom is officially "married" in the past.

　　The marriage customs

After marriage, the bride and groom should be the woman who lives in a period, some three months, or half a year, some even going to have a child before he returned to the family.When the couple back to the family, to take away all the bride's dowry.Will be to the family, the man stopped the bride's friends and family to use rope way, the bride prepare candy and so on, before release, the bride back to the family, his friends and family to the bride and candy, and held a banquet, recreation, and welcomed.

　　Marriage ceremony

The groom in the company of the best man and the relatives and friends, sit on the carriage, young man, the accordion, cheerfully sang "a few" tatar pop songs, singing, piano, whistles along the way, entertain tone, to marry the bride's side vastly.When the sun sets, the groom and his attendants a line of people came to the bride's family.Then to transfer to a circle around the courtyard first, and then to the door.And the bride's side doors are closed at the moment, the groom to offer gifts to get in.Later, the groom into the door, to the edge of the bed,Have a mealAnd will send XiQian.

Wedding ceremony by sunna, first by the imam chanting, and asked if the couple want to stay after men and women both parties "to" answered by imam again send a cup of sugar water (or honey water) to the bride and groom to drink, you both a lifetime, to rise into the bridal chamber.The next morning, the groom to visit her parents, home to a banquet, and hold all kinds of recreational activities, back to his father-in-law's house in the evening.After marriage, the bride and groom in the bride's side to a period, some three months, or half a year, some even going to have a child before he returned to the family.

Tatar ethnic treat son-in-law like treat their own children.During the family live, father-in-law, mother-in-law want to take out good food hospitality son-in-law, son-in-law was living in the bride's side like living in their own homes warm.

　　Tatar family eating habits

Tatar used to three meals a solar eclipse, the family for dinner at noon, for tea in the morning and evening, diet without noodles, meat and milk, and eat some rice, but are made of special food.

Are famous for their cooking tatar ethnic women are good at making all kinds of pastries.witheggsAnd small called naan made of flour, famous for delicate, delicious.Festivals and hospitality food besides the esthetic, and with cheese, dried apricots, rice and with pumpkin, meat, rice, baking two cakes: "at the end of the ancient worship," and "kuyt white in the west", is a tatar ethnic peculiar flavor food.

Tatar ethnic women are famous for their cooking skill, is good at making all kinds of pastries, such as flour, rice and cheese, eggs, butter,grapesDry and dried apricots baked "at the end of the ancient worship," and its external crisp, soft lining, well-known xinjiang flavor;Will also have mixed grilled meat and rice became famous for "kuyt white west" dim sum, is good at using eggs, butter, sugar, milk, cocoa powder, soda and made fine flour and delicious called naan.

Staple food with meat, carter (with beef, potatoes, rice, eggs, salt, pepper, ingredients, similar to the esthetic), called naan and pasta, and Lamar west (pie), dumplings, Fried pancakes (potato), etc.Tatar nation like the flavor of drinks: similar to the beer "g son west ma", is made from fermented honey, there is made of wild grapes, sugar and starch "g" le "and so on.

　　Tatar ethnic religion

Tatar ethnic religion of Islam.All aspects of life, customs, under the influence of islamic culture.Tatar ethnic Muslim must, in accordance with the provisions of time program for religious activities: for five times a day "is the son of manasseh" chant buddhist scripture;Going to the mosque every Friday for a week.

"Fasting for a month, every year during" fasting ", after the sun mountain and the mountain we haven't been able to eat and drink.In addition, in our daily life and many other complex ring gauge and taboos.For each Islam, the Koran, "he" (graveyard) and the mosque is sacrosanct "holy" and "holy land", "pilgrimage" is every islamic thought the most glorious thing.

The feudal ruling class has used religion to collect all kinds of tolls, set up the inquisition, squeezing the working people.Islamic rules christians must fulfill the obligations of tax is a religion.Tatar ethnic people in addition to outside the economic stand all sorts of exploitation, endure a religious court of oppression.Every engagement, marriage, inheritance, buying and selling contract, pawn document must have a religious professionals to testify and affix one's seal to have legal effect.After the liberation, the freedom of religious belief.All legal religious activities, the people's government of protection of the laws and policies, many hazardous to people's physical and mental health and production development of religious rites, people according to their will be simplified.

　　Holiday celebrations

Tatar ethnic festivals are mainly id al fitr and eid al-adha.In addition, "and" class section (also called ploughshares, colter) is unique tatar ethnic traditional festival, "section" class "(verse ploughshares) is an annual event, choose more scenic place, with singing and dancing, tug-of-war, horse racing, wrestling and other public activities.

Tatar clan is an agricultural nation, "and" class, kirgiz language, meaning "celebration of spring".Every year after the spring with township as a unit for celebrations, already finished celebrating spring, and to reap a bumper harvest in the autumn of my desires.This kind of celebration tatar language "buy," said the "group".Villagers all attend to celebrate in farm or field, presided over by the elders have prestige, the main activities of wrestling, pole climbing, singing, dancing, running, tug-of-war, horse racing and so on, the winner will get a women hand weaving a handkerchief, scarf, embroidered shirts and other prizes.

Singing is the main content of the festival, adults sing hope to harvest;Young people singing of friendship and love;Teenagers around the crowd sang: "rain, rain, and we don't hungry, never seen the like the lion, the plague."People in a duet, also lesson idlers song: "don't stray, go home fast the bottle change horses, quickly put the bottles plough share, honestly crops."

　　Tatar ethnic folk traditional festival

Tatar ethnic Muslim, so belief Islam, and other ethnic brothers, three big holiday is its main festival, also tatar ethnic class section of our nation's traditional festivals.

And class section: also known as the "ploughshares festival", held in spring scenic places.Tatar ethnic sing, love drama, music and dance.Tatar ethnic music rhythm is bright beautiful, smooth melody and luxuriant, short of enthusiasm.Traditional musical instrument of the tatar Xiao He harmonica with wood, in addition to the accordion, mandolin, lyre, violin and other Musical Instruments.In all kinds of traditional festivals, traditional dancing.In song and dance activities, tatar ethnic habits of traditional dance male role by the woman.