What does Eid al-Fitr mean? What do Hui people eat on Eid al-Fitr?

What does Eid al-Fitr mean to Muslims?

Eid al-Fisher is a free translation of Arabic. Hui people in Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan provinces in China call it Eid al-Fitr, and Hui people in eight mountain counties in southern Ningxia call it Little Eid al-Fitr.

It, together with Eid al-Adha and Holy Day, is called the three major festivals of Islam, which is popular among the ten ethnic groups who believe in Islam in China, but the ten ethnic groups who believe in Islam have many national characteristics and customs during the festivals. Ramadan for Muslims is the September of the Islamic calendar, and Muslims are used to calling it Ramadan. Because hijri is a pure lunar calendar, Eid al-Fitr occurs at different times of the year.

Eid al-Fitr will last for three days, and the first day will be very lively from dawn. Every household should get up early to clean the toilets inside and outside the courtyard and in the roadway, giving people a clean, comfortable and pleasant feeling. All adult Hui people should take a bath. Men, women and children all put on their favorite new clothes, and the children all washed their faces and combed their hair.

Mosques are places where Hui people gather and have activities. They are all cleaned before the festival, and some places are specially decorated with huge slogans and colored lights to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

After eight o'clock in the morning, Hui people gathered in the mosque from all directions, from southeast to northwest, with a small blanket or a small prayer mat under their arms. In some places, as many as10,000 Muslims attended the ceremony, and the mosque could not accommodate it, so they chose another flat, spacious and clean venue. When the imam announced the start of the ceremony, the Hui people put down their blankets or small prayer mats, took off their shoes and immediately bowed in the direction of the ancient Mecca temple Baike.

What do Muslims eat for Eid al-Fitr?

Hui Eid al-Fitr is generally accompanied by nutritious food, such as white rice, white flour, mutton, camellia oleifera, sugar and tea.

At about four o'clock on the night of Ramadan, the master of each mosque (point) stood on the Bunker Building (minaret) of the mosque and bangzi. Some people take pains to walk up and down the street, knocking on doors from door to door, and wake the sleeping people up quickly to wash their hands, wash their faces, rinse their mouths and cook fast food.

This month, the life of the Hui people is much better than usual. Generally, there are nutritious foods such as white rice, white flour, mutton, camellia oleifera, sugar and tea.

People who fast should eat and drink before the East turns white. If some people get up late and have no time to eat, they will be blocked for a day if they don't eat or drink. After dawn and before sunset in the East, sexual life is forbidden and all food is cut off. Whether in hot summer or cold winter, whether you are thirsty or hungry, you are not allowed to eat anything or drink a mouthful of water under any difficult and difficult conditions. During fasting, excessive gargling and nasal choking are not allowed, and food such as fruit candy is not allowed to be swallowed. People who usually smoke should also resolutely quit smoking during Ramadan. People who cook or engage in catering can taste it, but they can't swallow it. If someone is injected subcutaneously or intravenously for nourishing, aphrodisiac, anesthesia, etc. During the fasting period, sexual intercourse and wet dream (except wet dream) are regarded as fasting, and the fasting on this day will be invalid.

It is said that the purpose of this fast is to make people experience the pain of hunger and thirst, so that the rich can really help the poor. Through fasting, the Hui people gradually developed the virtues of tenacity, firmness and honesty.

When people fast all day, when the fast is coming, most fasting men have to wash their faces, then put on clean clothes and white hats and wait in the temple. After hearing the clappers in the mosque, people in the temple and at home began to eat "fast food".

When breaking fast, if it is summer, eat fruit first, drink a bowl of water or cover a bowl of tea unconditionally, and then eat. This is mainly because fasting Hui people first feel thirsty in summer, not hungry. If in winter, some people pay attention to eating a few dates before eating. According to legend, Muhammad loves to eat red dates during fasting, so Muslims also have this habit.