Muslims dance in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to celebrate Corban Festival, Sept 24, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

Muslims From Other Ethnic Minorities

Besides Uygurs, other ethnic minorities such as Hui, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik and Kirgiz also celebrate the Corban Festival.

Ma Xueyan, a Hui minority, was purchasing goods for the festival in a Muslim supermarket in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

"Nuts, cakes, jam, and tea are necessities for the festival," Ma said.

Sulayman, 35, from the Kirgiz ethnic group, said in his hometown in Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Kizilsu, people participate in games like horse racing, lamb grabbing and sing folk songs to celebrate the festival.

Though Sulayman has got used to the city life, he still keeps the tradition of slaughtering a lamb on the first day of the festival.

"We cannot slaughter lambs in our modern residential community but there are some live-stock markets in Urumqi offering a place for us to do it," Sulayman said.

"You can find that people drive flocks of lambs to sell on the street or in some residential areas, which you can rarely see in other big cities in the country," he said. Enditem