What is the custom of Xinjiang Uygur people when they die?
After the death of Uyghur people, the body should be treated to make the dead look very peaceful. Then people can be informed to come to mourn the Uyghur people and carry out quick burial, early and late burial, late and afternoon burial. If you want to wait for the dearest relatives, the body should be stored for no more than three days at most. The body should be cleaned and wrapped with a shroud before funeral. When doing these things, irrelevant personnel should avoid, and Imam should pray for the dead to make atonement in front of the clean door. After burial, relatives pray for the dead in front of the tomb for a long time. People also use branches to make prayer flags and put them in front of graves to express their grief. Uyghur mourning activities and funerals, heretics and unrelated people are not allowed to be present.
After cleansing, the body is put into the body carrier, covered with cloth sheets, escorted by relatives to the temple for a Funeral (women do not attend the funeral), and then carried to the cemetery.
The women could not enter the cemetery, so they had to let the funeral procession at the entrance of the village, and the people who had nothing to do with the infidels could not be present.
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The funeral of Uighur is a grand and serious ceremony. After the Uygur people believed in Islam, the funeral ceremony was carried out according to the Islamic etiquette, and the burial was popular. Uighurs believe that the death of the dead on Friday, Rouzi Festival and gurbangjie is the happiness of the dead. Many ethnic groups have the custom of "falling leaves and returning to their roots", while Uighurs pay more attention to this. They are willing to stay in their home for a day or two, but no more than three days, so as not to rot the body. Before burial, a special person should clean the body of the dead. Generally, the mosque's maiseng and one or two elderly men are invited to clean the body of the dead. If the dead is female, the elderly women or Bouvier are invited to clean the body of the dead. Both the boy and the girl can wash it. After cleaning, wrap the body with new white cloth, generally three layers for men and five layers for women. No one else is allowed to enter when you are clean. If the patient is hopeless, they will return home rather than die in the ward; if someone dies suddenly in another place, the family members will try their best to transport the body back to their hometown for burial.
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After the Uighurs died at home, they dealt with the dead and then reported to their relatives and friends. In particular, we should pay more attention to the death of the elderly. After the death of a person, his face should face Xi'an and be covered with a clean white cloth, which should be tied to his chin to make his mouth shut and make him feel that the deceased is sleeping there peacefully. Uighur people practice quick burial. Generally, after death, the corpse will not stay at home for a long time, and will be buried early or late, and will be buried late or in the afternoon. If their children are outside, they will pray for the dead in front of the clean door to make atonement (no atonement ceremony for children). After cleaning his back, he put the body in the "tower five" (carrying the body wooden frame), covered with cloth sheets, and escorted by relatives and friends to the mosque for a Funeral (women do not attend the funeral). After entering the temple, the first thing to do is "iscatel", which means to give alms for the last time and give money and property to the Imam and other people in the temple. Then the "standing ceremony" is performed, and the Imam chants and prays. After that, they were sent to the cemetery for burial. The pit is rectangular, 2 meters long, about 1 meter wide and nearly 2 meters deep. Cut a hole in the wall and place the body in the hole facing west. Before the funeral, the Imam recited the Scriptures. All the people attending the funeral grabbed a handful of soil, and after chanting the Scriptures, they scattered it around the body. Then they blocked the hole with soil blocks, and then filled the straight pit. Most of the tombs are rectangular in shape, some of them are built into palaces. Once the Uyghur family has an accident, their relatives all cry loudly. Once the neighbors hear the cry, they immediately come to mourn and comfort. Every time a group of mourners came, the relatives of the dead cried loudly. While crying and singing, there is no unified word and content of Uyghur, which is compiled by the singers themselves. The main content is to sing the virtues of the dead and express the grief of the bereaved. The close relatives and friends of the dead usually wear white belts, while women wear white covers as well as white belts.
At the end of the funeral, 'Nazir' will be held on the third, seventh, fortieth and anniversary of the person's death. "Naizil" means "sacrifice", which is the main activity of mourning and mourning the dead.