One of China's ethnic minorities - the Hui.
The Hui is the abbreviation for the Hui ethnic group, and is one of China's more populous ethnic minorities, with a total population of 1,058,060,087 (in 2010, excluding Taiwan Province). Contemporary Hui speak the Chinese language in common use, and hold different dialects in different regions.
On the whole, the distribution of the Hui is characterized by a pattern of "great dispersion and small settlements". The "great dispersion" is mainly manifested in the fact that almost all of the more than 2,000 counties (cities) in the country have Hui distribution. The "small settlement" feature focuses on the situation of the Hui living in the country, in the western provinces and regions, the Hui are characterized by continuous settlement, reflected in the Hui autonomous regions, autonomous regions, autonomous counties are in the north or the western region.
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-Adha, which are all calculated according to the Islamic calendar.
The Hui are the most widely distributed ethnic minority in China, living mainly in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.?
The main way of life of the whole people is Islamic, and there are mosques built to live in the places where they live in a more concentrated area, and their customs adhere to the traditions of the Hui, follow the rules of the religion, and pay attention to hygiene, and the Hui people abstain from eating pork, dog, horse, donkey, and mule, and do not eat animal and poultry meat slaughtered by those who are not believers in Islam and those who have died by themselves, and they do not eat the blood of the animals, and so on? The Hui people have a small centralized and widely dispersed residential characteristics. ?
The most significant feature of the Hui clothing is the Muslim dress that is characteristic of the Hui - men wear small white hats and women wear various colored headscarves.?
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According to Islam, the Hui are forbidden to eat pigs, horses, donkeys, mules, dogs, and all animals that die of their own accord, animal blood, and all birds and beasts that have an ugly image, no matter whether they are cows, goats, camels, and chickens and fowls, they need to be slaughtered by an imam or a worshipper who recites the name of Allah and then slaughtered, otherwise they are not allowed to be eaten.
In their daily lives, the Hui people do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, but especially like to drink tea and tea hospitality. As they are scattered all over the world, they have formed different tea-drinking customs. In the northern Hui areas, there are can-can teas; in Yunnan Hui, there are roasted teas; and in Hunan Hui, there are ringed teas.
Gaiwan tea is a special hobby of the northwest Hui. The most representative is the "eight treasures gaiwan tea", that is, gaiwan tea, rock sugar, wolfberry, walnuts, sesame, jujubes, cinnamon, raisins (or dried apples) and so on.
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