The customs of Hui residents in Ningxia include clothing, diet, religion and festivals, as follows:

Clothing customs:

The costumes of the Hui nationality are basically the same as those of the Han nationality, and the difference is mainly reflected in the headdress. Most Hui men wear white or black and brown rimless round hats. Women often wear hijab, especially in northwest China: girls and newlyweds wear green, middle-aged women wear black, cyan and elderly women wear white. Hui men like to wear small white hats during festivals or weddings and funerals, while women wear draped towels, the front of which covers their chin and the back hangs over their shoulders.

Dietary customs:

In diet, Hui people generally eat ruminant cloven-hoofed herbivores such as cattle, sheep and camels, but do not eat horses, donkeys, mules, pigs and dog meat, and do not eat animal blood and dead animals. Especially no pork. Hui people pay great attention to food hygiene and pay attention to shower and washing. Walking into the clean and tidy house of the Hui people in rural areas, you can often see a pitcher hanging from the beam behind the door, and there is a shallow pit leading to the sewer below, where people often bathe. Usually wash your face and hands, use a soup bottle instead of a washbasin. As for wine, in the early days of Islam, only the amount was limited to not being drunk. Later, because some people were drunk, they delayed business and affected unity, so they declared it forbidden and could not drink.

Religious customs:

I am used to building a "worship temple" in my residence and living around the temple. Worship temples are gradually called mosques. "Halal" is a Chinese translation of "Islam" in China. "Halal" is generally interpreted as "clean and true". The diet is mainly rice and noodles, and cows, sheep, chickens and fish are eaten. Fried foods such as "fragrant oil" and "prickly heat" on holidays. Hui people love to drink tea. When entertaining guests, they should add rock sugar and red dates to their tea. Muslim snacks enjoy a high reputation. Clothing: Generally, men over middle age wear white caps, white shirts and black waistcoats; Women wear black, white or green hijab, elderly women like to wear black big-breasted shirts and jackets, and rural women like to wear colorful clothes. Funeral: Burial and quick burial are widely practiced. Usually die in the morning and be buried at noon; Die at night and be buried the next morning. The imam should be invited to preside over the funeral, wrap the dead body in white cloth and transport it into the cemetery with a corpse box.

Holiday customs:

There are two major festivals in the Hui nationality, namely Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, which originated from Islam. Fasting is one of the Muslim "five pillars of islam". Eid al-Fitr is the day when fasting expires. Generally, fasting is held in the ninth month of Ramadan, and the fasting period expires, and October 1 is Eid al-Fitr. Eid al-Adha is held on the 70th day after Eid al-Fitr, on the 10th day of Ramadan. Because December 10th is the last day for emigrants to go to pilgrimage to mecca, we slaughter cattle and sheep to celebrate and have a dinner party.