There are about 50,000 Hui compatriots in Shanghai, living in 12 districts and 10 counties in the city?
Mainly in Pudong New Area
, Jing'an, Luwan, Minhang, Zhabei, Nanshi, Baoshan and other districts, you can refer to the following details.
1, Shanghai's Hui people are mainly distributed in the Pudong New Area, Jing'an, Luwan, Minhang, Zhabei, Nanshi, Baoshan and other districts, of which there are about 7,000 people in the Pudong New Area, Jing'an about 2,400, Luwan about 2,700, Minhang about 2,800, Zhabei about 3,900, Nanshi about 3,000, Baoshan about 3,200. In addition, Fengxian, Qingpu, Chongming and other districts have hundreds of Hui compatriots.
2. The time when the Hui ancestors and the Hui migrated to Shanghai can be roughly divided into three stages:?
(1) In the Song Dynasty, there were Hui ancestors in the Shanghai area
From the Northern Song Dynasty onwards, Qinglong Town in the Shanghai area began to become an important port for foreign trade along the southeast coast of China, and foreigners gathered here. Arabs and Persians, who were good at business, kept coming here. Mi Fu, a great calligrapher and painter of the Song Dynasty, who was said to be a Muslim, served as the supervisor of Qinglong Town during the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty. According to local records, Qinglong Town was a town of smoke and fire, with a thriving market and "a large number of merchant ships" (Song Hui Yao. Officials" IV.4), it was the only place with international communication in ancient Shanghai area. Undoubtedly, these Hui ancestors - Arab and Persian merchants - also stopped here for some religious activities.
(2) The Yuan Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty was the period of the settlement of the Hui forefathers and the formation of the Hui community in the Shanghai area?
During the Yuan Dynasty, there were remnants of the settlement of the Hui ancestors in the Shanghai area, starting from Songjiang. Songjiang has been a major town of sea defense since the Yuan Dynasty, and the neighboring Qingpu has the ancient port of Huating County, which is a water thoroughfare for ships from overseas countries to enter China. In 1295 A.D., when the Western Hui Nasu Lading guarded Songjiang, he built the first mosque in Shanghai, which was once called "Temple of Worship", and it was a famous Islamic temple in Jiangnan, and Muslims from the Western region settled in this mosque as the center. The western region back to the civil and military officials and their hometown sons and daughters of the soldiers, settled in Songjiang, and then moved to the surrounding areas, successively in Qingpu County, Nanhui, Shanghai, Jiading and other places to settle down, they live in the region to marry and have children, multiply and become the Hui residents of the Shanghai area.
(3) From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty is the period of development of the Hui in Shanghai?
Ming Wanli six years (A.D. 1573), Shanghai Qingpu County, the city has been rebuilt in the true religion of the temple (also known as the Hall of Hui Hui), Changzhou governor Ma Hualong specially for the temple to write down a monument to the middle of the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing, Shanghai County, Qibao Town town of Muslims built a mosque in the South Street Wangjia field, it is said that in the townships of Qibao, the Qiu, and other townships have also built the "Hui Hui graves! ", indicating that the Hui population has expanded to the township.