Around 4800 years ago, the Yellow Emperor and the Yandi clan united together against Xuan You, and the victory in the Battle of Zhuolu not only established the status of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor in the Central Plains, but also became a sign of the barbaric era of excessive entry into the era of civilization.
After the victory of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor, the descendants also multiplied in the Central Plains, and Chinese also called themselves "descendants of Yan huang", or Han Chinese, but in the development of ancient dynasties in China, the major ethnic groups began to integrate, and one ethnic minority was born one by one, but most ethnic minorities were gathered from groups on Chinese soil, and there was a nation that did come from Arabia.
This ethnic minority is the Hui, the Hui is a large ethnic minority in China, the population of more than 10 million, the common language of the Hui is Chinese, but the Hui also retain Arabic and Persian, living in the interior of the Hui people, basically have been Sinicized, but the Hui people in the border areas, still maintain some Arab traditions.
In the Taiping Guangji, it is recorded that the Hui entered the Central Plains during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and most of the Hui people at that time were Hu people, Fanke, and Hu people who called themselves Hu people, but in fact, most of them were Central Asian and Persian people, who called the place where the Central Plains lived "Fanfang", and they engaged in commercial activities through the Silk Road.
These Central Asian people can't stand the cold of the East, every winter, they will return, there is also a "return visit" among the Hui people, and the "Siyi Guan Kao" also writes: "Hui hui in the western region, the earth and the heavens are neighbors", "Hui Hui" once began to become popular in the Yuan Dynasty, most of them refer to the foreign population.
The Hui people gathered into tribes, probably in the Ming Dynasty period, the Ming Dynasty forty-one years of the Beijing Niujie Chapel Temple "Edict of Worship Temple" stele, the Hui call themselves "Hui Hui", which is also the earliest record of the Hui, and the title of Hui, which can be verified at present is the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Qianlong's "New Chronicle of Rebuilding Suzhou" writes: The Hamiyi people migrated to the three ethnic groups living in Weidongguan Township, Suzhou during the Ming Dynasty. The Uyghur people are slightly the same as the Han customs; the Ha Labu people are the same as the Yi; the white-faced Hui, then the Hui people, qianlong also officially set the name hui.
In the place where the Muslims are relatively concentrated, there are also mosques, they are Muslims, every year on December 10, is the Islamic Eid al-Adha, the Muslims will also live the "Eid al-Adha" according to the tradition, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Adha in Arabic, there are sacrifices. The meaning of devotion.
Although the Hui people maintain some traditions of the Han people, the most famous feature is the clothing of Muslims, men's small white hats, women's turbans of various colors, this custom has begun to be handed down from the Sui and Tang dynasties, although the society is developing, they still maintain the Tradition of Islam.