Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha is a festival celebrated by China's Hui, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Salar, Dongxiang, Baoan and other minority groups*** together. It is one of the biggest Muslim festivals, which is dominated by ceremonies, the slaughter of cattle and sheep, and the eating of dinner.
When is Eid al-Adha 2018?
Eid al-Adha 2018: Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Eid al-Adha 2018 Holiday Arrangement: from August 22 to August 26, **** 5 days. work on Sunday, August 19th. During the holiday, local departments should make proper arrangements for duty and safety and security work. In the event of major emergencies, we must report in a timely manner, and in accordance with the provisions of the proper handling, to ensure that the people are safe for the holidays.
:Gulbang Festival activities
1. Holding ceremonies: Muslims gather in magnificent mosques or public **** places to hold grand ceremonies and celebrations. After bathing and dressing, Muslims gather in mosques in the city centers or carefree villages to hold grand assembly ceremonies, which mainly consist of reciting the Qur'an, commemorating the Prophet and praising the sages. Muslims everywhere fast for half a day every year and eat after the congregational rituals.
2. Sacrifice: Generally, Muslims must prepare sacrifices to the gods (sheep, cows and camels) three days before the festival. Large families use camels, medium families use cows, small families use sheep, and those who cannot afford to sacrifice are exempted. 1 sheep, 1 ox and 7 cows. Camels are equivalent to oxen. Whichever spirit is sacrificed, it must be healthy, strong and beautiful in appearance. When slaughtering the sacrifice, one must meditate on "Takbir" (i.e., God is the greatest). Only the slaughtering of the sacrifice is valid (Mustahabb, the sacrament of kosher). The slaughtered meat is divided into three portions, to be kept for one's own use, to be given to friends and relatives, and to be given to the poor.
Muslims in Xinjiang call this festival the "Great Eld" (Great Festival). On this day, Muslims dress up, slaughter animals, invite friends and relatives to visit, and hold various cultural activities. Eid al-Adha is more important to Muslims of Turkic-speaking ethnic groups in China than to Muslims in mainland China. On that day, thousands of people dress up for the ceremony, then slaughter animals to entertain friends and relatives, and hold colorful cultural evenings with other ethnic groups who come to congratulate the festival, singing and dancing for several days.
Among Muslims of the Hui ethnic group, this festival is less important than Eid al-Fitr, and is generally called the "small elders" (small festival).
:The flow of activities on Eid al-Adha
1. As the three days of Eid al-Adha approach, housewives in every household are busy. They have to make a lot of fried prickly heat and all sorts of delicate snacks to prepare enough delicacies for their friends and relatives who come to their homes to celebrate the festival and for the tourists who come from far and wide during the festival. The festival also turns into a big show competition of housewives' cooking skills and virtues of housekeeping;
2. The early morning service of Eid al-Adha is the biggest service of the year. All adult men go to the local sacrificial temple to participate in the service, which is a spectacular spectacle;
3. After the service, families go to the cemetery to pray, reminisce, and pray for their dead relatives;
4. In Xinjiang, after the ceremony of the Great Gathering in front of the famous Aitigrad mosque in Kashgar, the musicians climb to the top of the Aitigrad mosque to beat the nagla (iron-shelled drums) and play the sulnayi (suona), and the men in the square in front of the mosque would duly dance a spirited sama to express the festive mood.
August 22, 2018 is Eid al-Adha. 2018 Eid al-Adha holiday schedule for August 22 to August 26, *** 5 days. work on Sunday, August 19th.