Procreation Customs and Procreation Healthcare
1 min readAttaching Importance to Procreation After being converted to Islam, Uygur and other ethnic groups accepted that the decision on child bearing and the number and gender of children were the predetermination of the Allah, so in the past they had the tradition of multiple births under the state of natural childbirth for a long time.
As to the gender, although the Uygur, Kazak and other ethnic groups have the preference for boys, they don’t have discrimination to girls, and there is no phenomenon of drowned and abandoned babies. Uygur believe that, life without children is the greatest painful. Once a popular proverb among Uygur goes like this:”A home with kids is like a Bazaar (Business prosperous area or market), while one without kids is like a Maza(graveyard).”If a female has infertility, she would try every means to seek solutions, such as seeing a doctor, worshipping Maza and sitting on the placenta of the woman who had many children.
Mongolians expect to give birth, so they always use words like”Wish you have many sons and grandsons pervading the hall and five livestocks are all over the fields”to give greetings to the married young couples. It is considered to be prosperity and good fortune to have more children and seniorities in the Xibe family. The married women with infertility or whose children died young will try various means to get children.
