Why do Hui people wear hats?

This is mainly related to Islam. Hui people in worship kowtow, forehead and the tip of the nose must be on the ground, in order to facilitate, they wear a small white hat without a brim. There are individual Hui people wearing a sun hat, meet the gathering ritual activities, a section of the brim moved to the back. Visible wearing a brimless white hat than wearing a sun hat is much more convenient.

Because of religious reasons, gradually developed the habit of Hui people wearing a small white hat without a brim. Now Hui men, whether it is a hundred years old, or four or five-year-old children, on the temple worship and not on the temple worship are like to wear this sign back to the national "number cap".

White hats are generally made of indeed, polyester card, cotton and other materials, and hooked with white cotton thread. Black is made of flat velvet, flower tweed, there are also hooked with thick woolen thread.

Expanded Information

The Hui is the abbreviation for the Hui Hui nation, a relatively populous ethnic minority in China, with a total population of 10,586,087 (in 2010, excluding Taiwan Province), and the contemporary Hui people speak the common Chinese language, with different dialects held in different regions. On the whole, the distribution of the Hui is characterized by a pattern of "large dispersion and small settlements".

Because of their belief in Islam, the Hui celebrate three major festivals each year, namely, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Adha, and Eid al-Sunnah, all of which are counted according to the Islamic calendar.

The origins of the Hui can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and academics generally believe that the Hui were roughly formed in the Ming Dynasty, while the Yuan Dynasty was the preparatory period for the formation of the Hui, and the Ming Dynasty was the period in which the Hui nation was finally formed.

The Hui people have a glorious tradition of fighting against oppression, and Hui people all over the world also took part in different forms of struggle against imperialist aggression. The May Fourth Movement and the founding of the Chinese ****productivity party pointed out the direction for the complete liberation of the Hui people.

Whether in politics, economy, culture, Hui Hui nation in history have emerged a number of outstanding figures, to the people's life at that time and production and construction have made positive contributions.

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