First, the difference in diet.

Han people mainly eat pork, while Hui people don't eat pork.

Pig is the most sensitive issue for Hui people and one of the most important issues in Hui customs. For a long time, no matter what pressure and resistance it encounters, it has not changed the Hui people's habit of prohibiting raising pigs and fasting pork.

At present, Hui people in China are not only forbidden to eat pork, but also to raise pigs. Series products made of pig and pigskin are rarely used. If you don't need bristles, bristle brushes, bristle toothbrushes, soap, soap made of lard.

Many Hui people in Jingyuan, Xiji, Tongxin and Wuzhong in Ningxia, Linxia and Pingliang in Gansu don't even wear pigskin shoes and pigskin jackets, and even some people who belong to the pig phase call themselves black, and the surname Zhu is changed to black because it is homophonic with pigs. All this has become an important custom of Hui people in China.

In terms of diet, the Hui people not only fast pork, but also fast the meat of non-ruminant animals such as dogs, donkeys and mules, as well as beasts and livestock such as cattle, camels and sheep that die by themselves, and fast the blood of all animals, birds and beasts, and non-Muslims and animals slaughtered in the name of God.

Second, the customs of alcohol and tobacco

Han people are usually inseparable from alcohol and tobacco when they entertain, while Hui people don't drink and don't prepare wine at home. Guests at home don't put wine. Sometimes, in order to receive guests, when others toast and clink glasses at banquets, Hui people mostly replace them with drinks such as water, orange juice and high orange.

The prohibition of alcohol in Hui nationality is mainly influenced by Islam, because Islam forbids drinking. Hui people don't smoke either, and they think smoking, especially opium, is a crime. Therefore, in the past, there were very few Muslims who smoked opium, "not one in a hundred", and all men, women and children knew its harm.

Third, no visas, no gambling and no idolatry.

Influenced by Islam, Hui people believe that people's fate is arranged by God and everything is decided by God, so they don't engage in other superstitious activities.

Hui people are forbidden to worship any idols. Generally speaking, there are no headshots in villages where Hui people live in compact communities. All kinds of figures and animal statues are forbidden at home, and people don't want to hang their heads on the wall, only landscape paintings.

Hui people also ban gambling, thinking that gambling is not good for themselves, others and society. They think that gambling is a "dual purpose" and that money gained for nothing is ill-gotten gains.

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