Hui is one of the most populous ethnic groups in China. Hui people also attach great importance to the Spring Festival, but the Spring Festival of Hui people is not our Spring Festival, but Eid. Today Xiaobian will take you to learn about the customs of the Hui people's Eid?
Hui people also celebrate the Spring Festival, but it is not their most important festival. In the custom of Hui spring festival, there are three major festivals of Hui nationality, namely, Eid al Fitr, gurbong Festival and holy period Festival. Compared with Uighur and other ethnic groups, Hui people pay more attention to the Eid Festival, which is the biggest festival of Hui people. Other ethnic groups call it the "Hui new year". In addition, there are small festivals and anniversaries, such as fatuma Festival, DengXiao Festival, Ashura Festival, etc. These festivals and Anniversaries are all based on the Hijri calendar of Islam, that is to say, the Islamic calendar. Hui people believe in Islam. The most solemn festival is Eid. However, Hui people celebrate the Spring Festival in their own way and custom, which has a strong national style. On the first day of the first month, Hui people eat noodles and stewed meat, and on the second day, they eat dumplings; white cut chicken, fermented tofu, zongzi and Youdui are the spring festival food of Zhuang people.
When it comes to December, it means new year. Families began to prepare for the new year. Every family arranges their work in order. Chinese New Year is the most interesting in the countryside. The best taste of the year. At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the rice flour processing factory in the village began to work. Every day, many people made an appointment to line up. People in Yanchi County, Ningxia, had to process the whitest flour to be used for the dim sum for the Spring Festival and the flour for the new year cake.
From the beginning of the month to the middle of the month, the village always makes the sound of "Pa, PA & hellip; & hellip;", which is the sound of beating felt. 'felt' is laid on the rural Kang and rolled out with wool. As a child, I saw a "felt maker" in my grandfather's house, who used many talents to make a good white sheep felt. Because there will inevitably be dust when it is laid on the Kang for a long time, people will take it out at the end of the year and beat it hard with sticks. Generally, two people catch a felt corner by themselves, and one of them beats it. The sounds echoed throughout the village. It's the prelude to firecrackers and the Spring Festival.
"Sweeping the dust" also kicked off at this time. Sweeping is cleaning the dust in the house. Choose a fine day and clean every corner of the house. At this time, we have to get up early in the morning to move the furniture out and cover it up. Take out all the bedding on the Kang. Let the house be empty, so that you can hold a broom on the wall, and the roof will swing around to clean up the dust of the year.
The Spring Festival custom of Hui nationality is to visit relatives and friends. Therefore, we must be prepared to entertain the guests at home, and the indispensable thing is the snacks made by ourselves. I can't forget the fragrance of home-made snacks. All hand-made, raw materials are very authentic and natural. Flour is the best flour in our family. Edible oil is also the most fragrant oil produced in this area. There is a kind of oil called sesame oil, which is squeezed with hemp seeds, and there is also a kind of sesame oil, which is very fragrant. There are usually fried and baked snacks.
All the dough is made by fermenting. It took two or three days. A large basin is covered with a thick quilt on the warm Kang, which slowly gives out the sour fermentation taste. Making snacks is also a combination of several families, both lively and time-saving. If you are ready, you can make snacks for three or four families in one day.
For the Hui people's Spring Festival custom, the end of fasting is one of the most solemn festivals of the Hui people.
Eid al Fitr is the free translation of Arabic 'ld & middot; fitul'. Although different names are used in different places, Eid is actually a grand and ceremonious festival. On the eve of Eid, first of all, we should do a good job in cleaning the dust and haircut. All Hui people who work outside, do business and travel on business should rush home in advance.
It's three days before Eid. The Hui people have been busy since the first day of dawn. Every family should get up early and clean the toilets in and out of the yard and the laneway to give people a clean, comfortable and pleasant feeling. All the adult Hui people need to wash and bathe. All the children washed their faces and combed their hair. Men and women, old and young, put on their favorite new clothes. Mosques, the places where Hui people gather and hold activities, were also cleaned up during the festival. In some places, giant banners and colored lights were hung to celebrate Eid. After about eight o'clock in the morning (some places are subject to the ringing of the congregation Bell), the Hui people gathered at the mosque from southeast, northwest and all directions with a blanket and a small mat under their armpits. In the custom of Hui spring festival, some places choose a flat, spacious and clean place because there are thousands of Hui people attending the ceremony and the mosque can't accommodate them. When the Imam announced the start of the ceremony, the Hui people laid blankets or felt, took off their shoes, and the old and the young automatically knelt in a very neat line to the West. Immediately kowtow to the direction of kerbai, the ancient temple of Mecca.
What are the customs of Eid?
Eid usually lasts for three days. From dawn on the first day, every family gets up early and cleans the indoor and outdoor, courtyard and laneway toilets to give people a clean, comfortable and pleasant feeling. The adult Hui Muslims have to wash and bathe. Men and women, old and young, put on their favorite clothes, and children washed their faces and combed their hair in a bright way. Mosques, places where Muslim people gather, should also be renovated and cleaned clean before festivals. In some places, huge banners and lanterns are hung to celebrate the Eid. After about 8 a.m. (in some places, the bells of the congregation will ring), Muslim people carry small blankets or small prayer felt and gather in mosques from southeast to northwest. In some places, because there are too many Muslims (as many as 10000 people) to attend the ceremony, the mosque can not accommodate them, so we choose another flat, spacious and clean venue as the venue. When the Imam announced the beginning of the ceremony, the masses laid blankets or felt, took off their shoes, and worshipped in the direction of the Kerr day room of the holy Mecca temple to complete the worship of heaven's destiny.
During Eid al Fitr, Muslim families fried seeds, oil incense, lessons, flowers and other traditional food with national flavor. At the same time, it also slaughters chickens, rabbits, sheep, etc., and makes cold noodles, stewed vegetables, etc. Send relatives, friends and neighbors to each other, and salute each other. Now more and more Han people come to experience the festival and the customs of a few ethnic groups during the annual Eid.