page_title: Hui people
section_title: "Muslim Chinese"
hierarchical_section_title: Hui people / Definition / Related terms / "Muslim Chinese"
caption_attribution_description: 中文（简体）‎: 摄于北京牛街清真寺对面。一个占据整个街区的建筑工地被一堵张贴有56个民族形成“民族团结大家庭”的宣传画的围墙遮挡。画中的民族从右到左分别为回族、基诺族、京族。 English: In Beijing Niu Jie (Cow Street), across the street from the Niujie Mosque. An entire block - probably, a construction site - is fenced with a concrete wall, decorated with a block-long poster wrapping around the block and depicting all 56 "recognized" ethnic groups of China (including Han) forming "The great united family of peoples" (民族团结大家庭). The figures are arranged mostly in the Pinyin alphabetic order from right to left. The section in the photo depicts Jino and Hui people Русский: Каптальный забор,окружающий (видимо) стройплощадку напротив мечети на улице Коров (Ню Цзе) в Пекине, и украшенный плакатом, изображающим "Великую сплоченную семью народов" (民族团结大家庭). Представители всех 56 "официальных" национальностей Китая размещены справа налево, более или менее в порядке алфавита пиньинь. На этом фото - Цзино и Дунгане
context_page_description: The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese speaking adherents of Islam distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2011 census, China is home to approximately 20 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some may practise other religions. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
  Their culture has distinct differences that developed from the practice of Islam. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China and have given rise to their own variation of Chinese cuisine. Traditional Hui clothing differs from that of the Han Chinese primarily in that some men wear white caps and some women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures. However, since the industrialization and modernization of China, most of the young Hui people wear the same clothes as mainstream fashion trends.
  The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China.
context_section_description: The term Chinese Muslim is sometimes used to refer to Hui people, given that they speak Chinese, in contrast to, e.g., Turkic speaking Salars. During the Qing Dynasty, Chinese Muslim (Han Hui) was sometimes used to refer to Hui people, which differentiated them from non-Chinese speaking Muslims. However, not all Hui are Muslims, nor are all Chinese Muslims Hui. For example, Li Yong is a famous Han Chinese who practices Islam and Hui Liangyu is a notable atheist Hui. In addition, most Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Dongxiang in China are Muslims, but are not Hui.
  John Stuart Thomson, who traveled in China called them "Mohammedan Chinese". They have also been called "Chinese Mussulmans", when Europeans wanted to distinguish them from Han Chinese.
caption: A fence in Niujie with art depicting the minority ethnicities in China, including the Hui (回族)
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