The uighursCustoms and habitsUygur festival information and clothing characteristics

Is "Uighur Uighur itself, meaning" unity "or" joint ".Uighur mainly live in the south of tianshan mountain of xinjiang uygur autonomous region of kashgar and hotan area and aksu, korla area, the rest scattered in ili in places such as north of tianshan mountain, a small amount of live in taoyuan, changde, hunan.

The source of the Uighur legend

Different versions of the Uighur ethnic origin,.History of the Uighur ethnic people according to their own records.This nation with turkic tribe and xiongnu nation, is the huns of khan fight split the two princes, led their men to gradually formed a turkic and huihe two different nationalities, huihe is uyghur ancestors, so with other turkic Uighur language basically the same, just different pronunciation, including fusion already in Asia minor and the local ethnic groups for a long time the Turkish and Uighur basic same, uighurs to Turkey for a month can be completely learn to Turkey and azerbaijan, they listen to the two languages and the kazakh national languages such as there is no difference between, like listening to dialects.And many national experts mistakenly believe that its ancestors can be traced back to the third century BC to the northern nomadic jingle by iron.In different historical periods of Chinese literature in China on the family name "Uighur" have different translation to write.The late 4th century writing "yuan", 6, 7 "wei Ge" s writing, writing "Uighur" before 788, after 788 to the 1270 s to the huihe, writing in the 1270 s to the 1640 s "a" Uighur, in the 1640 s to the early 20th century, said "back" or "back" and so on.Some argue that the kalama source can be traced back to the third century BC "call jie", "wu jie", even the ancient tarim basin of the original indigenous peoples.

Began three years (744 years), Uighur, eliminate TuJueHan countries live in hubei, hun river and color stare blankly river Uighur people established a Uighur khanate, southwest of the governance scope including Lake Baikal, the yenisei river upstream, altai, such as large areas of southwest, north of the tianshan mountains, east of the hinggan mountains, after once occupied parts of the south of tianshan mountain, seven river, pearl river (now tin river), dial, the (now fergana), long friendship with the tang dynasty, has twice sent troops to help Tang Pingding an lushan and tang dynasty and many times.

Li han into five years (840), HuiGuHan countries burst, huihe department except a small part of the stay in the original residence, the vast majority of forced migration.South and west, south mainly divides into two teams, one towards the hexi corridor, and as early as when wu zetian south crossing the desert and move house in hexi Uighur of the polymerization.Build teeth account in ganzhou (zhang ye, gansu province today), known as huige or hexi huihe.

Salty pass two years (872 years) in ganzhou khan, 11 century as the xixia beat, and then was ruled by the Mongolian.They thrive for a long time, today the yugur of gansu province, this a huihe people's descendants.Another huihe department all came to the north of the tianshan mountains, west of the state (namely the gaochang, now turpan basin) as the center established gaochang huihe regime, history says west states huihe or gaochang Uighur empire.The regime has always been to the yuan dynasty, in the middle of the them with the local people of all nationalities live together, labor, and communicate with each other, gradually merged, today's uighurs become a part of this area.Moving west third huihe people into central Asia, and before they enter the region ge logic eloth department such as convergence.Because of its activities in the green ridge west of known green ridge huihe west.

9 at the turn of the century to the early 13th century, this a huihe, joint other turkic languages tribes to set up power, called qarakhanid, its extraordinary boom territory including today the central and west of tarim basin, the ili river valley and east of the balkhash lake, bo Lin valley and around the lake, tin river middle reaches and amu darya Middle East.They and the residents of the tarim basin in long-term interest-bearing gradually developed for modern uygur in this area.Another idea that uighurs have life in xinjiang since ancient times, and moving west after polymerization huihe people developed into the modern uygur.

Uighurs have their own language, uyghur belongs to the altaic turkic;Text phonetic writing system on the basis of the alphabet.After the founding of the people, promote the use of new words on the basis of the Latin alphabet, the two languages.

Uighurs have their own unique culture and art, stories any lift of the story, music dance epic "twelve mukam", uygur dance and other world-famous.Uighur traditional dance has a top bowl dance dance, inspiring, hoop dancing, grand tower, etc.;Uyghur folk dance has a race is mu, summer in the;Folk Musical Instruments have "just (drums)," he "and" hot tile just ", etc.Uygur folk medicine is an important part of the motherland medicine.

The custom of the uighurs

Uighurs have exquisite hospitality and guest.If visitors, to treat people sit on the seat, place called naan, all kinds of pastries, candy, etc., also put some fruits in summer, first to the guest pour tea, or milk tea.For rice do end up again after, if indicated in esthetic, want to bring a pot of water before meals, ask a guest to wash their hands.After dinner, the elder led to make "tile", stay clean tableware, guests can leave.Have a mealWhen guests do not fiddle with plate of food, do not casually to cookstoves, generally don't put the food left in the bowl, at the same time pay attention to not let fall rice crumb, if they fall to the ground, should pick up in front of his "rice".Total plate when eating pilaf, no longer will have grabbed a grain into the plate.The meal, if you have the elder "w", the guest can't look in all directions or stand.Elders sitting on the seat at the dinner table, table and sit as a family, after meal must wash, dry after washing can only use a handkerchief or cloth, taboo conveniently dumped water, think that it's not polite.

Uyghur marriage customs

Young men and womenTo get marriedCode, the imam or Iraq (both for religious professionals) chanting, the two pieces of GanNang with brine, let the bride and groom eat on the spot, said from now on as called naan and brine, share the joys and sorrows, a lasting relationship.Wedding banquet to spread white rice, on the carpet first place called naan, joyful,grapesDry, jujube, cakes, Fried sanzi, etc., and then get started catch mutton, pilaf.

Uighur eat custom

Three meals a solar eclipse, called naan and all kinds of melon and fruit sauce, sweet sauce for breakfast, drink milk tea, camellia, etc., is all kinds of staple food lunch, dinner is called naan, tea, or noodles in soup, etc.Is given priority to with pasta, like eating beef and mutton.There are dozens of species of staple food.The most often eat are called naan, lamb pilaf, steamed buns, noodles, etc.Uighur like drinking tea, milk tea eight.Summer with eat melon and fruit more.

Typical food: the Uighur favorite called naan, esthetic, steamed buns, noodles and other food, there are many famous flavor dishes and snacks, such as bake complete sheep, hand grasping mutton, butyl, Pal thin-skinned steamed stuffed bun, kebabs, etc., in addition to: oil sanzi, silver hammer (uygur language called "jade Gullah"), haller watts, haggis, curve, roasted pumpkin, carrots (carrot) paste, etc.

Uighur festivals

The Uighur Muslim.Traditional festivals are: early id al fitr, eid al-adha, festival, etc.Uighur attaches great importance to traditional festivals, especially in the lead "directly" section.When families are slaughtered sheep, cooked meat, making all kinds of pastries, etc.Slaughtering of livestock can, in addition to send outside mosques and religious professionals sheepskin, narrow, the rest of the used as the feed and entertain guests.When id al fitr, adult christians fasting for a month.During fasting, dine just before sunrise and sunset, absolutely forbid any diet during the day.