There are three main differences in customs between the Han people and the Hui people:

First, the difference in diet

The Han people mainly eat pork, while the Hui people mainly eat pork. They don't eat pork.

Pigs are the most sensitive issue for the Hui people and one of the most important issues in the customs and habits of the Hui people. For a long time, no matter what pressure and resistance they encountered, the Hui people's habit of banning pigs and pork has never changed.

Now the Hui people in our country are not only prohibited from eating pork, but also from raising pigs. Series products made from pigs and pig skins are also rarely used. For example, do not use pig bristles or pig hair brushes, do not use pig hair toothbrushes, and do not use lard soap or soap.

Hui people in many Hui settlement areas such as Jingyuan, Xiji, Tongxin and Wuzhong in Ningxia, Linxia and Pingliang in Gansu do not even wear pigskin shoes or pigskin jackets. Some people who are born in the year of the pig even claim to be black. Because the surname Zhu is homophonic with pig, the surname was also changed to Hei. All this has become an important custom and habit of the Hui people in my country.

In terms of diet, the Hui people, in addition to fasting from pork, also fast from the meat of non-ruminant animals such as dogs, donkeys, and mules, fast from ferocious animals, and livestock such as cattle, camels, and sheep that have died by themselves. Eat the blood of all animals, birds, and poultry, and fast from non-Muslims and animals slaughtered in the name of other than Allah.

Second, tobacco and alcohol customs

Han people usually cannot do without tobacco and alcohol when having banquets, but Hui people do not drink alcohol and do not prepare drinking utensils at home. No wine is served to guests at home. , sometimes in order to receive guests, when attending banquets, when others toast and clink glasses, the Hui people often use water, orange juice, orange and other drinks instead.

The Hui people’s prohibition on alcohol is mainly influenced by Islam, because drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited by Islam. The Hui people do not smoke either and consider smoking, especially opium, to be a crime. Therefore, in the past, there were very few Hui people who smoked opium.

3. It is forbidden to ask for fortunes, gamble, and worship idols

Under the influence of Islam, the Hui people believe that people’s destiny is arranged by God, and everything about people is predetermined by God. So don’t engage in other superstitious activities.

The Hui people are prohibited from worshiping any idols. In the villages where the Hui people live together, they generally do not make sculptures of human heads. They avoid placing various figures and animal statues in their homes. They also do not want to hang portraits of human heads on the walls, only landscape paintings.

The Hui people also strictly prohibit gambling. They believe that gambling is harmful to themselves, others, and society. They believe that gambling is a "nuclear purpose" and that the money earned is unjust gain. No.

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