Why do Hui women wear head coverings?

Because the Hui follow the Muslim faith.

Muslims prohibit women from wearing clothes that reveal their body shape, except for their own husbands; they prohibit women from showing off their beauty and bringing other people's sons and daughters to pretend to be their husbands' sons and daughters; they prohibit women from traveling alone unless accompanied by close relatives; they prohibit them from being alone with a woman outside the home; and they prohibit them from looking at women outside the home.

The Hui women generally wear white round caps and gaiters (also called hitchhikers). Whether in Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Hainan and other coastal areas, or in the interior, generally green, green, white three colors, with a young girl, daughter-in-law, the elderly.

Generally young girls wear green, married women wear black, with grandchildren or older elderly women wear white. The green cover is handsome and delicate; the white cover is clean and dignified; the black cover is elegant and proper. Most of the selection of silk, silk, georgette yarn, indeed fine materials such as high-grade production. Older people's cover is longer, to be draped to the undershirt; young girls and daughters-in-law of the cover is shorter, the front cover the neck can be.

Expanded information:

Muslim clothing taboos:

Prohibition of excessive wear, which is wasteful.

It is forbidden for men to wear gold rings.

It is forbidden to walk barefoot and barelegged.

It is forbidden for a man to wear silk clothes.

It is forbidden for a man to wear saffron-dyed clothes.

It is forbidden for a man to dress as a woman or a woman as a man.

It is forbidden to walk in one shoe, for the devil walks with one shoe.

Tattoos are forbidden.

It is forbidden to shave your lips and beard.

It is forbidden to pull out facial hair and gray hair and white whiskers.

It is forbidden to dye black hair for men and women.

It is forbidden to shave the hair in half and keep it in half.

It is forbidden to draw images of animals and birds and people on clothes, walls, or paper. If it is necessary to draw, let the artist draw landscapes, such as mountains, rivers, streams, trees, flowers and plants.

It is forbidden to over-decorate one's home in order to show luxury and grandeur, wealth and power.

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