Tajik belongs to the Indian Mediterranean type of Europa. Its national language is Tajik, including two dialects of Selekul and Wahan. It belongs to the Pamir branch of the Iranian language family of Indo-European language family.
The main body of Tajiks is in Central Asia, mainly distributed in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries and regions. The Tajiks in China mainly live in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang.
“Tajik” is the name of our nation. As for the meaning of the word “Tajik”, there are ancient Arab tribes “Tay”, “Dashi” and the appellation of Persian speaking “tat” people by Central Asian Turks in the 11th century.
However, it is generally believed that “Tajik” comes from the word “Tajik”, which means “crown” in the Tajik language.
In history, Tajiks once believed in Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and other religions. These two kinds of religious culture remain in the Tajik people. Around the 10th century, the Tajiks began to believe in Islam. In the 11th century, under the persuasion of the famous Tajik poet and Ismail missionary Nasser hold, he began to obey Ismail, a branch of Shiite in Islam. There are few religious activities and mosques among the Tajiks. Some old people worship at home twice a day, while the general public only worships at festivals.
In Tajik village, there is “Gama ethane” (meeting place), whose structure and layout are not the same as those of the mosque. For example, there is no niche where Imam stands, but niches with Imam portraits hanging on two walls. When Gama ethane held religious activities, nonbelievers were not allowed to enter.
The main texts of Ismail are Yassen and Sur. In church, say “Muhammad, I miss you! Ali, I miss you!” 101 times, kowtow once and repeat five times. Devout believers use beads to count the number of times when chanting scriptures and cherish them very much.
The followers of Tajik belong to several Yichang. Yichang, appointed by Aga Khan, enjoys a special status among Tajik believers. According to Chan’s hereditary position, there is no diocese. Each of them has several Hai Hai Pai as their agents in various places. Huaihai sect presided over the religious ceremonies and other religious activities in the wedding and funeral ceremonies in the village where they lived.
The worship of Mazar is also an important religious activity of Ismail. Mazar is the tomb of the “holy descendants” of Ismail or the place where the “holy descendants” lived. Around Maza, there are many long wooden poles, huge wild sheep horns, and pebbles of various colors.
The Tajiks take the gallon Festival, the meat, and the Kizi Festival, and the holy day as the three major festivals. Also, there are distinctive festivals of Xiao Gong Bahar (Spring Festival), Piriki Festival (Lantern Festival), Zulu Festival (water diversion Festival), the Muzuvati Festival (sowing Festival), etc.
The annual festival of Shagongbahar in March is a festival to meet the beginning of the year, which is three days. At that time, every household cleaned the dust and sprinkled beautiful patterns with flour on the wall to show blessings. On this day, people are leading the “Xiao Gong” (leader of the festival) to congratulate all families and wish a good harvest for the next year. Then, we began to visit friends and relatives and celebrate each other. The women were dressed in beautiful and generous clothes, waiting in front of the door, sprinkled white flour on the left shoulder of the visitors to show their luck. During the festival, every family prepared rich food for visitors; young people sang and danced, and held horse racing, sheep holding, wrestling, and other activities. After the festival, people began to prepare for spring farming.
Parikh day is the first two days of August of the Islamic calendar every year. Before the festival, the family made a “Kawu day” straw torch (wrapped with cotton, and coated with butter); in the evening of the festival, each family lit two homemade small butter candles, prayed together before the candle, and prayed for heaven and fortune. Everyone on the roof