The Salar nationality and its culture have great vitality. When its ancestors first came to Xunhua, the number was very small. However, instead of being integrated by the surrounding great nations, she absorbed the surrounding Hui, Han and Tibetan nationalities and became a national community with common cultural characteristics, which is rare in national history. There are many reasons for this. First, the Salar people are strong, upright, brave and good at fighting, and the surrounding ethnic groups are willing to coexist with them and jointly resist foreign enemies; Second, when they first came, they were favored by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty because they belonged to Semu people, and they had official titles. From the Ming Dynasty, they were entrusted with the post of Tusi, and the people under the jurisdiction of Tusi gradually merged into Salar people.

Salar culture is formed through multi-level accumulation and integration. Judging from their culture, their culture is integrated from three levels. The earliest culture belongs to nomadic and hunting culture, and still retains a lot; Secondly, the Islamic cultural layer was formed after they believed in Islam; The third level is the Tibetan, Hui, Han and other foreign cultures they absorbed after they settled in Xunhua, which are reflected in their language behavior, life customs and even psychology. Han Zhanxiang, a Salar folk singer, said that the basic organizational structure of Salar society is (meaning family), and several people form an "Agni" (meaning close relatives organization). A number of "Agni" formed "Kongmu III" (meaning distant relative organization), a number of "Kongmu III" formed "Agro" (meaning village), and a number of "Agro" formed "Johnny" (meaning larger residential area). These pyramid-shaped social organizations have their own functions, and the daily life of society is still based on ".

For an arduous task, members of the "Fire" will cooperate to complete it, while for some large-scale activities, all the "Fire" in this "hole" will be completed. Large-scale activities, such as the construction of mosques, are all completed by Confucius in an "Ajello". For some super-large projects (such as large-scale water conservancy projects, road construction and bridge repair), it may be completed by one Johnny or even several Johnnies. These activities are mutually supportive. Social organizations at lower levels get help from members of social organizations at higher levels, and generally only provide accommodation without paying. This form of social organization not only enhances the Salar society's ability to conquer nature, but also enables the various traditional customs, values and social norms of the nation to be implemented step by step by virtue of the rigor of this organization, which promotes the stable development of society. Mr. Han Zhanxiang, a Salar folk singer in Xunhua County, believes that "Qimucang" is the smallest unit in the social organization structure of Salar people. In the old society, most families occupied more or less land, and each family became a hospital independently. When a new courtyard is built, a square or rectangular fence is built with rammed earth to form a "mouth"-shaped porch, and then a row of houses are horizontally covered at one-half or one-third of the porch to form a "front house and back orchard" layout. The houses in front are generally built into civil bungalows with a concave pattern. The whole building consists of a hall, a kitchen, a small room, a gate, a pen house and a straw house. The back orchard is used to grow vegetables, melons and fruits. It has become the main production base for supplying food to families. What is worth mentioning is the Salar community in Dazhuang Village, Mengda. Due to the special geographical environment, the entrance of each family is generally narrow and there is basically no back garden. Most of the houses are quadrangle-style simple walled buildings. The upper floor is a house, and the lower floor is a circle house. The bottom of the first floor wall is stone, rammed with sand, and the second floor wall is full of wicker fences. The roof of every house is surrounded by firewood and hay for winter use.