The Hui believe in an Islamic way of life. There are mosques in the more centralized places where they live, with imams presiding over the religious activities, and the Koran is the main text, and the believers are called "Muslims". Life customs adhere to the Hui tradition, follow the rules, do not eat pork.
By the influence of Islam, the Hui people in Ningxia in clothing, diet, living hygiene, marriage, funeral and other aspects of the formation of a unique customs.
1. In terms of diet, it is forbidden to eat pigs, dogs, donkeys, mules, horses, cats and all beasts of prey, self-dead livestock, animals and livestock slaughtered by non-Islamic people, and it is forbidden to smoke and drink alcohol, etc.;
2. In terms of faith, it is forbidden to worship idols, etc.
3. In terms of social behavior, it is forbidden to engage in loan sharking and play gambling, etc.
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4. Hui men and women like to wear white beanies and black vests. Hui women also like to wear caps, gold and silver earrings, rings, bracelets and so on.
5, Hui people pay special attention to health, indoor and outdoor clean and tidy, clean stove. Usually wash your hands, wash your face with soup bottles, bathing with hanging jars. Hui people like to eat cattle, sheep, camels and other ruminants even-footed herbivores meat, but also eat chickens, ducks, geese, fish, banned pork, do not eat animal blood and since the death of livestock. The animals and poultry eaten by the pious must be slaughtered by the imam.
6, Hui people generally do not smoke, do not drink, men, women and children love to drink soaked in rock sugar, tea, wolfberries, walnuts, sesame, cinnamon, dates, dried fruit and other nutritious spices, "eight treasures" Gai Bowl Tea.
7, festivals, the Hui more production of oil incense, deep-fried food such as deep-fried noodle cakes, oil fruit. When there are honored guests, they will be warmly treated with sumptuous "whole goat feast" and all kinds of Hui snacks.
8. In terms of marriage, monogamy is practiced. Hui wedding is very grand, and there are many religious and ethnic characteristics. For example, when the wedding is held, the imam should be asked to read "Nikaha", that is, with the Arabic scriptures to witness the marriage and congratulations.
9, Hui funeral simple, the implementation of burial, thin burial. The funeral includes washing the body, wrapping the body in white cloth, holding religious prayers under the auspices of the imam, and burying the body in four procedures.
10, the Hui people by the influence of Islam and traditional Chinese consciousness, does not promote singing and dancing, but the Hui people love to sing a kind of folk songs called "flowers", Hui women love to play a kind of bamboo made of "mouth string". To date, the folk are still active in many "flower" singer and specialize in playing the "mouth string" of the Hui women.