What are the customs of the Hui people in Ningxia?

The customs of the Hui people in Ningxia include clothing, food, religion and festivals, as follows:

Clothing customs:

The Hui clothing is basically the same as that of the Han Chinese, and the differences are mainly reflected in the headdress, the Hui men wear white or black, brown, brimmed hats. Women wear headgear, especially in the northwest: young girls and newlyweds wear green, middle-aged women wear black, green, elderly women wear white. Hui men in festivals or in the event of red and white wedding, like to wear a white cap, women wear a cloak-style scarf, scarf front cover to the chin, the back draped over the shoulders.

Dietary customs:

In terms of diet, the Hui people generally eat cattle, sheep, camels and other ruminants even-hoofed herbivores, do not eat horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, dog meat, do not eat animal blood and dead animals. Pork is especially forbidden. Hui people are very concerned about food hygiene, pay attention to shower and washing. Into the rural Hui clean and tidy house, often can see the door behind the beam hanging on a water tank, below the shallow pit through the sewer, where people often bathe in a big clean place. Usually wash your face, wash your hands, then use a soup bottle, not a basin. As for wine, in the early days of Islam, only the amount of restriction, in order not to get drunk as a limit, and then because some people drunkenness appeared to be wrong, affecting the unity of the behavior, it was declared forbidden, not to drink.

Religious practices:

It was customary to build a "mosque of worship" in one's place of residence, and many people lived around it. Gradually, the temples of worship were collectively called mosques. "Halal" is the Chinese translation of "Islamic" in China. "Halal" is generally interpreted as "clean and true". The diet is based on rice and noodles, and cattle, sheep, chicken and fish are eaten. During festivals, they fry "oil incense" and "deep-fried noodle cakes" and other foods. Hui people love tea, and when entertaining guests, they add rock sugar and red dates to the tea. Halal snacks have a good reputation. Clothing: Men above middle age generally wear white caps, white shirts and black shoulders; women wear black, white or green heads; elderly women love to wear black shirts and jackets, and rural women like to wear brightly colored clothes. Burial: earth burial and quick burial are commonly practiced. Generally, if you die in the morning, you will be buried at noon; if you die in the evening, you will be buried in the morning of the next day. To ask the imam to preside over the funeral, the deceased will be cleaned with a white cloth wrapped in earth burial, with the transfer of the body box into the cemetery.

Festivals and customs:

The Hui have two major festivals, namely, Eid al-Fitr and Gurban Festival, the source of Islam. Fasting for Muslims "five merits" one. Eid al-Fitr is the day of the expiration of the fasting period. Generally held in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar fasting, fasting period expired, October 1 for Eid al-Fitr. Gulbang Festival in the 70th day after Eid al-Fitr, held on December 10th of the Islamic calendar. Because December 10 is the last day of migration to Mecca for the Hajj, everyone slaughtered sheep and cattle to celebrate, gatherings and celebrations.