In addition to eating pork, the Hui people abstain from eating birds, beasts and fish that are grotesque, filthy, sharp-toothed and ferocious.

1. As far as birds are concerned, those who eat cereal, have stomachs and resemble chicken mouths can be eaten, such as chickens, ducks, geese, quails, pigeons, etc., while those who resemble eagle mouths and carnivores cannot be eaten, such as eagles, owls, raccoons, vultures, crows, etc.

2. Any animal that eats grass, ruminates, has four hooves and is docile can be eaten, such as cattle, sheep, camels, deer and rabbits, and vice versa, such as tigers, leopards, wolves, lions, rats, snakes, donkeys, horses, mules, dogs and monkeys, bears and elephants.

3. Fish in the sea can eat those with wings under their bellies, scales on their bodies, spines on their ridges, and heads and tails, such as carp, silver carp, crucian carp, yellow croaker, hairtail, etc., while those that cannot eat are whales, sharks and turtles, and seals and sea lions are also within the fasting range.

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Taboos of Hui people's life:

1. Hui people are forbidden to beg for visas, play gambling and worship idols.

Since ancient times, men, women and children have never allowed Yin and Yang, fortune tellers to tell their own fortune, nor to tell others' fortune, nor do they believe in geomantic omen and ghost houses, nor do they seek magic prescriptions, exorcise ghosts and treat diseases. Hui people think that all these things, such as asking for a visa and fortune telling, are improper and filthy behaviors.

2. Hui people are forbidden to worship any idols

Generally, there are no statues of heads in villages where Hui people live in concentrated communities. Statues of various figures and animals are not allowed at home, and people are not willing to hang portraits of heads on the walls, only landscapes are hung. Some Hui people hang portraits of people or animals at home, but when they worship, they cover their eyes with a blank sheet of paper.

3. Hui people also prohibit gambling.

They think that gambling is not good for themselves, others and society, and that gambling is "Al-Haram" (Arabic), and the money earned for nothing is ill-gotten wealth, so it is forbidden. In the past, there was also an individual among Hui people who played gambling, and the result was that his wife and children were separated and his family was ruined.

References: taboo customs of Hui people-Xinhuanet.