Hui people
- Zhong-Lin --
1 History
The 7th century AD, there have been a small number of Persians and Arabs reside in China, they and their descendants were known as: "fan off" and the "native-born fan off." To the Yuan Dynasty were generally referred to them as "barbarians off back and forth."
13 century, the Mongol army westwards during the part of Muslims of all ethnic groups in Central Asia, Persians, Arabs move into China, is called: "Hui" and, later so they claim.
In my opinion, Hui nationalities that from the above-mentioned "fan off" and "Hui people" in our land, the formation of the Han Tong marriage. Hui Hui is the nation's short.
Second, language and religion
Hui use of Chinese, their language remained essentially the northwest provinces and dialect features, but also mixed with a small amount of Arabic, Persian, and Uighur, Kazakh and religious vocabulary words. A lot of people Kanemichi Hui, Xinjiang Uygur, Kazak and other ethnic languages.
National Hui Muslims.
Third, marriage
In the past, child marriages by their parents call the shots in general, maternal cousin, cross-cousin consanguineous marriage is more common.
Now, to promote free love, it still retains some of the traditional marriage rites. And so on, as well as gift and so on. Get married, it is necessary
Under normal circumstances, people do not Muslim and non-Muslim people Tanhunlunjia, unless fate Nanduan. In this case, have the following characteristics: First, in order to return to marry men and women of the Han majority. Second, pass marriage Han Han male or female must change their beliefs, Islam. Third, pass marriage, Han Han male or female nature to be with all the customs of the Hui.
Muslim marriages are basically the following procedures:
1. Choice: free love, or perhaps through a middleman.
2. Inquire about: the man think of a way to know the woman's attitude toward the marriage of their elders.
3. Propose marriage: If a marriage meaning older woman, the man chosen by the family or friends and relatives in the most respected elders matchmaking skills to the woman's house Yue Mei, and submitted to the "opening ceremony" (sugar, tea, walnuts, dates of a package, also known as the four-color-li). This "opening ceremony", and sometimes need to send several times, each time a group or an array, each four packets.
4. Betrothal: send rings, necklaces, bracelets and so on.
5. Gift: to send a few sets of clothes, a few cut-off cloth and cash, ranging from thousands of first million.
6. Receive a marriage certificate: proceedings.
7. Tingri: date of the decision to marry.
8. Please imam chanting "Ni Kaha" (marriage words).
9. Married: there must be accompanied-law, bridesmaids and so on.
10. Back Door: newlywed couple go to visit the woman's parents and relatives were to visit to the bride, the groom's left, they donated gifts.
4, funeral
Funeral, burial according to Islamic law implemented without coffin of this. When you try to avoid the three hour funeral procession - sunrise, Japan, sunset; bogey burial is not speed that the dead person (not a "dead") "rest in eternal peace, do not ask feng shui, not a long time to stop." Thus, the general death morning afternoon funeral, dead the next day morning afternoon funeral, when special circumstances and not more than 3, a simple funeral. If the journey or in the distant foreign land dies, then the choice of the burial nearby.
Died in the voyage, if you can not quickly transported back to the land, for the deceased held a "who was then" burial ceremony, the input Jianghai "Shuizang."
Construction of any vault, disable the fire thing, such as bricks, lime, pottery, usually of wood, stone, earth as raw material. The tomb can be set a little pest control mosquito material, and forbids any funerary objects.
Their loved ones after death, the seventh day, 14th day,第二十一日, thirtieth day, Disishiri, 100th year anniversary of the day and have to chant.
5, clothing and diet
Middle-aged more than wearing black or gray cloth coat, I am pleased to wear white shirts and black or blue or brown waistcoat. Men often wear white skullcaps. Older women more than the dark clothes, take the hijab.
Women fond of wearing jewelry, many wearing earrings, card issuers. Young women in traditional dress for dajin embroidered jacket, embroidered chest pocket, Tie embroidered apron. Now that young people dress similar to the Han people, only the elderly and some rural women, still retains some traditional characteristics of Muslim dress.
Older male beard is very particular about the effects of age and religious beard shape are also different.
Hui people in order to face the main staple food, are generally steamed bun, Hanamaki, steamed buns, dumplings, wonton, pulling film, whistle face, pull strips, etc.. Like tea, then steep Ribes entertain visitors.
Well-known dishes are the "Gaza", "meatballs" and "Meng Zi", where "Mengzi" approach is: the lamb into the pot boiling, and add ginger, pepper, aniseed, onions and so on. Meat cooked clean wok, cool, cut into two inches long box, Sheng in the tray, mix garlic, onions, salt and so on, light refreshing taste, but also fragrant tender again.
Famous snacks are grass jelly, Niangpi son, Fen Tang, cannabis and oil incense, which Niangpi sub-key is: starch, stir flour into a paste add, into the platter, the thickness of a half means that tray with vegetable oil prior smear, a few plate stacked on the steamer, the slow fire steamed, Cheng Fen Pi-shaped, and then gently with a small spade shovel out into the cold water immersed about using Kuaidao cut into wide strips powder. When transferred to eat sesame oil, vinegar, chili oil, garlic and other seasoning Serve. Clear mellow flavor taste, fairly tapped when inserting tendons Road.
6, room and specialty
Hui large scattered, small-concentrated housing characteristics, mainly with the local ethnic minorities live together, the general distribution of traffic online.
Any Muslim place of residence, in the countryside, always an existence of discrete together; in cities and towns, they are always focused on certain lots and streets. Hui houses are generally built in close proximity to water sources, easy to clean. Portrait is generally not posted on the wall inside the house.
Hui people pay attention to clean, like hygiene. Is mainly engaged in agriculture, some concurrently animal husbandry, handicrafts. Good at doing business, especially in this business highlights.
7, festival
Many Muslim festival, as detailed in the eight festivals of Islam.
8, taboos
1, Xinjiang Muslims, the common taboo
Common to the Islamic nation.
2, marriage taboos
Engagement bogey-free, "Mai All Fall" (ie the bride price). Islamic Code provides that: the direction of marriage of men to pay the woman money, the number of unregulated and capabilities, many are limited. Its role is to consolidate their combination. The bride price to pay the woman, it becomes the woman's personal property, even if the divorce shall not be recovered. To choose an auspicious wedding. Taboo of women without reproductive ability as a ground for divorce or abandonment.
3, the word taboo
Bogey words "death", it should say "Guizhen," "finished off," and "dead people" and so on. The body should be referred to as "buried bodies." Ji said, "fat", such as can say "meat Chuang," can not say "fat meat." Jiyong taboo thing to make an analogy, such as the taboo "The chili, like the color red, like blood," this figure of speech and so on. Ji said, "kill" can only be slaughtered chicken or slaughtering, etc..
4, other taboo
Temperance, dinner guests, are tea, on behalf of the wine. Non-Muslims told not to water wells, reservoirs, or water tanks yourself, by the Hui people, or consent of the owner to allow their behalf after the self-created; drink, the container left the water back to bogey down wells, reservoirs, or tank in. Avoidance of non-Muslims to use their own cooking, dining utensils, bogey to others in their own homes smoking, drinking.
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