Hui Customs and Traditional Culture

The customs and traditional culture of the Hui nationality: historical writings, customs, diet, clothing, religious culture and art.

Hui nationality has a strong Islamic color in eating habits, dress decoration, birth naming, bar mitzvah, weddings, funerals, festivals and other customs. Hui women generally wear white round hats and hijab (also called hijab). Whether it is Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Hainan and other coastal areas, or the mainland, it is generally blue, blue and white, including girls, daughters-in-law and the elderly. Generally girls wear green, married women wear black, and elderly women with grandchildren or elderly women wear white.

The green hijab is handsome and charming; The white hijab is clean and heavy; Black hijab is simple and elegant, mostly made of high-grade and medium-grade boutique materials such as silk, silk, georgette and polyester. The old man's hijab is long, so he should wear a vest. The girl's daughter-in-law has a short hijab, and the front can cover the front neck. Headdress is the most typical and distinctive dress of Hui nationality. Because Islam is still white, the Hui people regard white as the cleanest and happiest color.

Ethnic distribution of Hui nationality

Hui nationality is a minority with a large population in China, with a total population of 98 1 1,680 (excluding Taiwan Province province in 2000), distributed in 3/kloc-0 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is the main inhabited area, with the Hui population of 1, 862,500, accounting for 1 of the total Hui population in China.

In addition, areas with a Hui population of over 200,000 include Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Yunnan, Gansu and Xinjiang. From the eastern, central and western regions, the Hui population in the western region is the largest, accounting for 60.75% of the total population, followed by the eastern and central regions.

From the north and south, the Hui people are mainly distributed in the northern provinces of the Yellow River Basin, and the population in the south is relatively small. According to the data of the fifth population census, among the 56 ethnic groups, the dispersion of population distribution in various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of Hui nationality ranks third after Han nationality and Gaoshan nationality, which shows that Hui nationality is one of the most widely distributed ethnic groups in China.