Well known Uzbek Traditions and Customs

Centuries-old customs and traditions of Uzbek people are carefully maintained and passed on from generation to generation. Like many Asian nations, most festive Uzbek customs are related with major family celebrations: births and weddings. These events include many rites and rituals, involving parents, children, brothers, sisters, immediate and remote relatives as well as neighbors and guests. Each one has its own role. Uzbek traditions are based on hospitality, respect for elders, observance of rules of the Koran.

• Centuries-old customs and traditions of Uzbek people are carefully maintained and passed on from generation to generation. Like many Asian nations, most festive Uzbek customs are related with major family celebrations: births and weddings. These events include many rites and rituals, involving parents, children, brothers, sisters, immediate and remote relatives as well as neighbors and guests. Each one has its own role. Uzbek traditions are based on hospitality, respect for elders, observance of rules of the Koran.

Customs and traditions of Uzbekistan

• Traditions
• Customs and traditions of Uzbekistan
• Traditions and customs of Uzbek people have formed over centuries. They are quite original, bright and diverse, and go back to different ages and religions. A large number of rituals associated with birth and raising a child, weddings, engagements, etc.
• Tradition of hospitality
• The traditional Asian hospitality is not alien to the peoples of Uzbekistan. The ability to take the guest is valued above the Uzbeks wealth of the table or family affluence. Do not take the guest meant to disgrace the genus and family.
• Hosts distinguished guests met at the gate, greeting. Shake hands, as a rule, only men. During the handshake one for health and state of affairs. Women made a slight bow to greet their right hand to his heart

• handshake one for health and state of affairs. Women made a slight bow to greet their right hand to his heart.
• Then, guests are invited into the house, put on a most honorable place at the table or in Uzbek dastarkhan. According to ancient custom, men and women should sit at different tables, but it is fully preserved only in rural areas. Head of the family itself seats guests, and for the most respected places diverted away from the entrance.
• Each meal begins and ends with tea drinking. Initially, the table serving sweets, cakes, dried fruits and nuts, fruits and vegetables, followed by snacks, and only at the end - a mandatory pilaf or other festive dish.
• Guests pours tea master of the house. Traditional element of hospitality here is characterized by a small amount of the drinking of tea - the guest of honor, the less in his cup of beverage. This custom is explained as follows - the more guests will contact the owner of the additive - the better. This is a sign of respect for the home. If the bottom of the bowls still remains tea, the hostess throws it, and fills the bowl again. Accordingly, the uninvited guest