What are the characteristics of Hui architecture?

The shape of the house has the earth and wood structure bungalow, the front and rear two slopes brick house, the front slopes brick house, two-storey building and so on. In the north, most of the houses are made of wood and brick; in the south, and in the rainy and humid areas, most of the houses are made of bricks and tiles with two slopes in front and two slopes in back, and two-story buildings.

The Hui people cover the day of construction, generally choose the main hemp and other auspicious days, some also have to dry "er buried Li", and then start work. Earth and wood structure of the bungalow and brick house, generally in a good foundation on the basis of the wall, wall columns, inside the wall to erect wooden columns, the Hui commonly known as soil columns, after the joint columns support beams, beams on the purlin purlin lap rafters and then paved the reed fence or mat, and finally mat straw coated with mud.

The Hui house pay attention to craftsmanship and decoration, quite a national character; such as Ningxia Tongxin County, some Hui people cover the small high-rise type of house, windows and doors are all arched, the big doorway with a large green dome type, looks solemn and elegant, extraordinarily chic.

The two sides of the main door have couplets written in Arabic. Ningxia Wuzhong, Tongxin, three camps, Gansu Linxia, Zhangjiachuan and other places of the Hui people, especially Linxia Hui people house gable, purlin tenon, brick walls, doors, windows, porch in front of the place to engage in wood or brick carving.

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The achievements of the Hui people

1, science and technology

In science and technology, the Hui people have made great contributions to the motherland. The astronomer Zamarudin wrote to the Yuan Shizu's "Ten Thousand Years Calendar" and issued it to the whole country. He also set up an observatory and manufactured seven kinds of astronomical instruments, such as armillary sphere, inclined latitude and declination instrument, leveling instrument, globe, azimuth instrument, celestial sphere instrument and observatory, which occupies an important position in the history of astronomy in China.

2, culture and art

In literature, philosophy, art, since the Yuan and Ming dynasties also emerged many like Sadurat, Gao Kegong, Ding Hernian, Ding Peng, change Qi and other famous scholars. Yuan dynasty encyclopedic scholars support Si not only through economics, literature and history, but also study astronomy, geography, water conservancy, arithmetic, etc., made outstanding achievements.

3, sports

The Hui people have martial arts custom, many mosques also set up a martial arts field, some imams themselves on the martial arts, in addition to preaching on the class, but also self-appointed martial arts coach, to help, guide the full pull to practice martial arts. There is a proverb that says "Nanjing to Beijing, check the fist from the Church in the door". Hui many kinds of martial arts, history was once called "Kunlun school", is one of China's four major martial arts schools.

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