Red Star over China (17) Xiang Feimu the level of Mosque
Xinjiang city of Kashgar in western China's most
The years 1997-2000, a period of impressive
Xiangfei Mu is the Islamic Aktaglik Sect leaders Apa Ke Huojia and his family's cemetery covers an area of 30 acres, was built around 1640 AD is a typical ancient tomb of the Islamic-style architecture, is rich in Uighur and Islamic architecture features style.
In front of the mausoleum, and there is no "Xiangfei Mu" message, the door on both sides of the layout is also very asymmetric, and the mainland is very different architectural style, in a door on the right embedded a sign above a "national key cultural relics protection unit, the People's Republic of the Administration Council, 19 ** years, "so described Xiangfei Mu is the brilliant culture of a member.
The door to the left a mosque, known locally as "the level of Mosque." Is composed of two parts, the door to high Mosque outside the lower than 1.5 meters above the Mosque Foundation, this arrangement is said to be rare in the world, and it is the main features of this mosque. Outside the mosque in the small size of the low, one can only accommodate less than 10 individuals, but the inside is Dongnuanxialiang, in general, to Kashgar travel mostly in the summer, in hot weather into this small mosque by immediately be able to experience to Cecil coolness, it feels even than the air-conditioned room into the cool!
Inside the door is generally not high Mosque open, worth a visit is placed outside a wooden items - "Tower 5 mention", "Tajikistan to mention" is the Uighur funeral supplies, which is used to carry dead wood frame. Uighur Muslims, the funeral ceremony, according to Islamic rituals are carried out before burial by specialized personnel (usually mosque's religious persons) purification of the deceased, the body wash after a new white cloth to the body Changuo up, the general wrapped around three men, woman wrapped around five levels. The net behind the body on the "tower of five mentioned," years, and covered with fabric alone, from relatives and friends escorted to the mosque after the funeral, that is sent to the cemetery burial. The pit into a rectangle, length 2 m wide and about 1 m deep almost 2 meters, and placing the body in the hole facing the West demeaning manner.
Graves are mostly rectangular shape, similar to a coffin shape, and some作成palace shape. Mainland visitors to first see this grave, are generally thought that the body was buried inside, in fact, the body is in the ground two meters deep, this shape of a coffin in the grave, the role is just the equivalent of tombstones.
This burial custom Uygur and Han completely different Xiangfei Mu guides told us to use the words of Han Chinese, which can be called: "It will not bring, refuses to bring," "come naked, naked in to go. " According to this view, those who at birth did not bring something, dead when they can not be taken away (including jewelry and even dentures inlay), both princes, dignitaries, or the civilian population, death is a new white things to do, there is no any funerary objects, the only difference probably lies in the texture of white cloth on different timetables.
I have to accompany the guests and the talk about this practice in ancient China than the Chinese funeral custom much better. However, from another angle, if the ancient Chinese method is also implemented in such a funeral, then we would not have so many ancient artifacts preserved, and no such Terracotta Warriors and other precious cultural heritage left to us.
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Author: hcw1969
