Hui nationality has a strong Islamic color in eating habits, dress decoration, birth naming, adult ceremony, marriage and funeral, festivals and other customs.

According to the regulations of Islam, the Hui people fast pigs, horses, donkeys, mules, dogs and all animals and animals that have died by themselves, and fast all birds and animals with ugly images, no matter cows, sheep, camels and chickens, they must read the name of Allah by imams or worshippers and then slaughter them, otherwise they cannot eat them.

In daily life, Hui people don't smoke or drink, but they especially like drinking tea and entertaining guests with tea. Due to the scattered places, different tea drinking customs have been formed, and there are cans of tea in the northern Hui area; There is roasted tea among Hui people in Yunnan; There is tea smashing among the Hui people in Hunan.

Gaiwancha is a special hobby of the Hui people in northwest China. The most representative one is "eight-treasure covered bowl tea", that is, tea, crystal sugar, medlar, walnut kernel, sesame, red dates, longan, raisins (or dried apples) are soaked in the covered bowl.

Extended data:

I. National languages

Contemporary Hui people use Chinese in general, and different regions hold different dialects. In the early days of Hui ancestors' eastward migration, Arabic, Persian and Chinese were used simultaneously. Due to the long-term coexistence with the Han nationality, especially the increasing number of Han Chinese elements in the Hui nationality, in the long-term development process, they gradually became accustomed to using Chinese as the homonym of their own nation, and kept some words in Arabic and Persian. "Uighur" in the Yuan Dynasty refers to the new Persian, also known as "Pusu Manzi".

At that time, there were Uighur translation history, Uighur history and Uighur order history in the Yuan government, which were full-time personnel who used Uighur to draft and translate documents. At the same time, in the Yuan Dynasty, there were official schools of returning to China and returning to imperial academy. The main content of teaching was new Persian. In the Ming Dynasty, although there was an official "Hui Pavilion" engaged in Muslim language teaching and translation, Chinese, as the same language of the Hui people, had been fixed.

Second, in the middle of Ming Dynasty, with the rise of Confucian classics education, Confucian classics and children's brocade appeared. ?

1, Jingtang language

Jingtang language is a special language used in the Jingtang education of Islamic mosques in China. It transliterates Arabic or Persian in Chinese, or paraphrases Persian and Arabic in Chinese vocabulary, and absorbs and transforms the elements of classical language and folk language of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in China.

2, children's brocade

Children's Brocade is a kind of phonetic writing created by the Confucian Classics under the specific historical conditions in China. It is formed by spelling Chinese with Arabic letters, which contains Arabic and Persian vocabulary, occasionally mixed with individual Chinese characters. It is not only used in the writing of Confucian classics, but also sometimes used in communication such as correspondence and notes.

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