* * * The Er nationality has its own unique culture and art, and the story collection "The Story of Two Generations of Love", the music and dance epic "Twelve Muqams" and the Uygur dance are well-known at home and abroad. The traditional dances of Uighurs include big bowl dance, big drum dance, hula hoop dance and Puta dance. Uygur folk dances include Sainaim and Xia Di Yana; Folk musical instruments include "Dafu (tambourine)", "Dutar" and "Rewafu". * * * Ethnic medicine is an important part of China medicine. When young men and women get married, imams or imams (both religious professionals) chant sutras and soak two pieces of dried naan in salt water for the bride and groom to eat on the spot, indicating that they will share joys and sorrows with naan and salt water and grow old together. The wedding banquet should be covered with white rice sheets on the carpet, including naan, candy, raisins, dates, cakes, fried dumplings and so on. First, then catch mutton and rice.
* * * Although the wedding reception was relatively simple, the whole wedding ceremony was quite grand. Weddings usually last three days. Music and dancing are essential at weddings. The tambourine is played to announce the wedding. All the people who held the wedding played suona and nagra drums on the roof, and people in and out of the yard danced happily, which became a grand festival for the whole village or the whole residential area.
On the first morning after marriage, the bride's family will bring breakfast to a couple. On the third day, the bride's family will take the bride and groom to visit her father-in-law's house, and the bride's mother will carry a bag of naan. If there is a flower in the nest, it means that the bride is a virgin, and the bride's mother is really happy to see this flower.