[Photo] Corban Festival

Dec.9th was Corban Festival. I skipped a morning class and took part in the festival in Zhuhai with Ding. Moslem gathered around the mosque in Jida, downtown. Men aggregated in a public space beside the mosque while women assembled in the mosque. I was forbidden to step into the mosque because I'm not a moslem.
This uygur man was very pious from the beginning till the end. Zhuhai is very far from Xinjiang where most of the uygur people live. This uygur man was so conspicuous that I could see him in the crowd of people. At first I thought he was serious and was afraid to look at him. But after the religious service finished he smiled at me and said hello to me in Uigur when we walked in the crowd. I was taken aback for a second then said hello to him immediately. He waved his hands with a big smile on his face and said hello to me too. That was really amazing. This moslem kid kept being sad in the religious service. I stood beside him and filmed him with my DV. The saddness froze in his face. He looked around with silence. His mysterious parents never showed. Sometime his friends came to him and played with him. It seemed a lot of stories hid behind his back.
This father playing with his boy maybe was the most warm scene then. They laughed all the time. That boy even crawled on his father's back.
This man seemed came from the Middle East. He held that pose for a long time. When he saw I was filming him he smiled at me. I waved back with a smiling face.
These two boys sat there. I asked the boy in blue cloths if they wanted to taken pictures. He was happy to be in my photo. But at that moment the boy in white cap had a badly stomach-ache. I comforted him but had no idea what to do. The boy in blue cloths called his brother and friends. Then they left. I saw the boys later. The boy seemed be OK.
The moslem greeted to each other with special Arabic on Corban Festival. I like nan very much. Moslem could get some for free on Corban Festival.

I felt uncomfortable among the men for being the only woman there.
Moslem could donate their money to the mosque.

This uygur boy was very handsome.

Ding is a moslem. I learned a lot of Islamic stuff from him. By and by I kinda understood the taugh situation of the moslem in China especially in Zhuhai. The majority of people around the world don't know what happend among them.I determined to make a documentary film from then on. This is not an easy subject. I know. But I'll try my best to collaborated with Ding. Ding's family is really complicated. Plenty of dramatic stories just happened in his family. We have to clear our minds and collect the best materials to make up this film.