What is the most influential handicraft of the Hui people?

The Ming Dynasty emerged on behalf of the Yuan Dynasty, and most of the original Hui people and Hui craftsmen were affiliated with the Ming Dynasty. Most of the original craftsmen who worked in the government-run handicraft workshops became individual craftsmen or changed to other industries. With the development of the feudal economy in the Ming Dynasty and the expansion of the scale of agricultural production in Huihui, some handicrafts with the characteristics of Huihui nationality also came into being and continued to develop and grow. In the Huihui nation, the handicraft production with important influence is mainly:

1. The incense industry is linked with the traditional spice trade industry of Huihui. The Pu family in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, has been engaged in the incense-making industry since the Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, they fled Yongchun and Dehua due to persecution. However, after arriving in Yongchun and Dehua, they still continued to operate the incense-making industry. For example, the 14th grandson of Pu Shimao created the Xiangpu Room in Yongchun, which has continued until after the liberation. Beijing's "Xianger Li family", its ancestral incense industry, is said to have hundreds of years of history.

2. Tanning. Tanning is also a traditional handicraft of the Huihui people, initially concentrated in the northwest of Hezhou and Zhangjiachuan. Since then, it has gradually developed to Zhoukou, Henan Province, Zhu Xianzhen, Meng County Sangpo, Jining, Shandong Province, Pingliang, Gansu Province and other places. The number of practitioners is large, and the technical force is also very strong. It is said that the tanning and fur production in Henan Province is almost monopolized by the Huihui people. And Henan's tannery, but also to the most famous Sangpo. It is said that "people know Sangpo, but do not know Meng County".

3. Pharmaceutical industry. Back to the medicine, the Yuan Dynasty has been famous.

1270 years (Yuan to Yuan seven years), the Yuan government in the metropolis on the establishment of the "Guanghui Division", dedicated to "repair the Imperial back to the drugs and and agents", to the hosts of the guards of the disease. 1292 (to Yuan 29 years), and set up the "back to the drug house". "back to the drug hospital" "in charge of back to the drug", the influence of the great, it is not difficult to glimpse its spot. In Shaanxi, Shanxi and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, from Yuan, Ming, folk also appeared a lot of people make a living by selling drugs. For example, Ding Hernian, a lifetime of displacement, in order to survive, "living in a monk's house, selling medicines to support themselves". Another example is the Huihui people who lived in Junzhou, and many of them were engaged in the pharmaceutical industry. It is rumored that the Yunnan Sun Jilu family, is a family of medicine.

His son created the "Wan Song Cao Tang" pharmacy, until modern times, also known for secret pills, loose, cream. Beijing Wang Hui Hui plasters, gold Hui Hui plasters, Ma Siyuan ingots, Yangzhou Xia Ziheng production of bright eye medicine, cough cakes, Shen Gong rescue pill, etc., are known far and wide. Changzhou Sha's, also good at making Chinese medicine, opened many branches in Beijing. In addition, such as washing and dyeing, salt, soap, flour milling and processing, copper and tin, mining, etc. also have some development.