expensive traditions

Bishkek -  Each year Kyrgyz people spend about 2 billion dollars for observance traditions: a wedding is very expensive event. Another expensive tradition concerned with commemoration. If men died his family should knife sheep or cow or horse for people who will come to their home for praying. And this operation repeats on the 7-th, 40-th days after death and every year on day of this person’s death family should pray, invite relatives and other people and prepare a lot of food for them. Poor families often rent money for it and long time should work hard to repay it.
Nargiz Chynalieva – Bishkek Lab