1. Food
Hui people like to eat pasta and are good at running the pasta industry. The Hui people's meat diet mainly consists of ruminant cloven-hoofed herbivores such as cattle and sheep, and chickens, and the slaughter and processing industry for cattle and sheep is widespread. Hui people often paint soup bottles and kettles on advertisements and signboards of shops or vendors selling halal food as a symbol of halal. Soup bottles and kettles were introduced from Arab countries. Hui people like to drink green tea.
2. Cleanliness and hygiene
Hui people have the habit of loving cleanliness and hygiene. Men expose their upper lips when shaving to show hygiene and convenience. Before performing religious activities, you must take a bath, which is divided into ghusl and wudu. Do not use backflow water when bathing. For ghusl, use a shower, and for wudu, use a soup bottle and kettle for bathing. When boys are young, they must be circumcised (circumcised) for hygiene reasons.
3. Language
The Hui people generally use Chinese and Chinese. Many Arabic and Persian terms are still retained in folk daily life, such as dosti (friend), saivab (alms), imam (imam), duwa (prayer), etc. When devout Muslims meet, they look at each other and wish each other peace. Religious clergy chant in Arabic.
4. Marriage
The Hui people are accustomed to intermarriage within their own ethnic group and practice monogamy. A traditional wedding of the Hui ethnic group is presided over by two parent representatives and an imam from both sides. The bride and groom arrive, the imam chants sutras and scatters happy fruits. Both the man and the woman clearly express their agreement to get married in language, the witnesses testify, and the imam writes a marriage contract with religious content in Arabic. The groom gives the bride a bride price, the amount varies, it is just a ritual.
5. Clothing
For Hui people who often go to mosques to worship or attend festivals, men generally wear black or white prayer hats; women wear black or white headscarves with no earrings exposed.
6. Funeral
The Hui people practice deep burial without coffins. The funeral is simple and the funeral period does not exceed 3 days. Don't look at Feng Shui. Cemeteries are generally chosen in places with higher terrain and solid soil. There are Muslim cemeteries in various places. When a patient is in danger, he should ask the imam to confess to him and remind him of his testimony. The dying person lies on his back with his head north and feet south, facing west, or he lies on his back with his head east and feet west, raising his head and facing west. After a person dies, they take off their clothes, lay them flat on a special water slide, then cover them with a clean white cloth, and let their children keep watch.
7. Traditional festivals
In addition to celebrating folk festivals such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival with the local Han people, the Hui people traditionally follow the regulations of Islam and celebrate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha every year. Waiting for holidays. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha have now evolved into grand national festivals. Eid al-Fitr falls on October 1st of the Islamic calendar. It is a day for Hui adults to celebrate the completion of fasting after fasting for a month. The Hui people of Shandong Province attach great importance to this festival. On this day, adults go to the mosque to bathe and attend ceremonies.