I. Characteristics
1, family characteristics
Families in tatar people are mostly monogamous families. Marrying with other nationalities who believe in Islam restricts the marriage between uncles and cousins, and there are few marriages between cousins.
2. Language and writing
Tatar language belongs to the west Xiongnu branch of Turkic language family of Altai language family, which was developed and formed on the basis of Bogar language and Kepchak language. Tatar people in China generally uses its own language when communicating within its own nation.
3. Religious belief
Tatar people, China, believes in Islam and does not worship any idols. Therefore, no portraits of people or gods are hung or erected in mosques and places of worship.
Second, customs
1, pay attention to etiquette
Tatar people attaches great importance to etiquette, shaking hands when meeting, and women shake hands more. Have great respect for the elderly, and let them walk, talk and eat first.
2. Hospitality
Tatar people people are hospitable. They are always hospitable and helpful to guests who come from afar.
3. Marriage customs
Tatar people's wedding is unique. What is different is that tatar people's wedding is not held in the man's house like other ethnic groups, but in the woman's house.
Tatar people's Historical Introduction:
Bogar is a nomadic tribe that appeared on the grassland north of Caspian Sea after the Xiongnu moved westward. Around the 7th century AD, due to the constant attacks of other nomadic tribes, the Bogar tribe was forced to migrate, and some of them came to the middle reaches of the Volga River and the Kama River to conquer the local indigenous people and formed the "Volga-Kama River Bogar Tribe Alliance", which gradually merged with the local residents and changed to agriculture.
/kloc-In the middle of the 0/3rd century, the Mongols of the Western Expedition destroyed the "Volga-Kama Bogar Tribal Alliance". Ba Dou, the grandson of Genghis Khan, established a golden tent khanate across Europe and Asia. Its residents are mainly the Bogar people and the Turkic-speaking Chibchak people (Chincha). Under the influence of local residents, the rulers of the khanate, the Mongols, gradually adopted Turkic and converted to Islam in the14th century.