Dietary taboos of Hui nationality

In addition to eating pork, the Hui people abstain from eating grotesque, filthy and ferocious birds, animals and fish.

1. As far as birds are concerned, anyone who eats cereal, has a stomach and looks like a chicken's mouth can eat it, such as chicken, duck, goose, quail and pigeon. And those that look like eagles and carnivores are not edible, such as eagles, owls, raccoons, vultures, crows and so on.

2. All herbivorous, ruminant, hoofed and docile animals can be eaten, such as cattle, sheep, camels, deer and rabbits, and vice versa, such as tigers, leopards, wolves, lions, rats, snakes, donkeys, horses, mules, dogs, monkeys, bears and elephants;

3. Fish in the sea can eat those with wings under their bellies, scales on their bodies, thorns on their ridges and tails on their heads, such as carp, silver carp, crucian carp, yellow croaker and hairtail. Whales, sharks and turtles, seals and sea lions are not allowed to eat.

Extended data:

Life taboo of Hui nationality;

1. Hui people are prohibited from begging for visas, gambling and idolatry.

Since ancient times, men, women and children are not allowed to tell their own fortune, nor are they allowed to tell others' fortune, not allowed to look at each other's faces, not allowed to believe in Feng Shui, not allowed to ask for fairy medicine, and not allowed to exorcise ghosts to treat diseases. Hui people think all these things, such as getting a visa and fortune telling, are improper and filthy behaviors.

2. Hui people are forbidden to worship any idols.

In villages where Hui people live in compact communities, there are generally no headshots, and there are no statues of various figures and animals at home, and there are no headshots on the walls, only landscape paintings. Some Hui people hang portraits of people or animals in their homes, but they cover their eyes with white paper when they worship God.

3. Hui people are not allowed to gamble.

I think gambling is not good for myself, others and society. It is considered that gambling is "Al-Haram" (Arabic) and the money obtained for nothing is ill-gotten gains. In the past, there were also individuals among the Hui people who gambled. As a result, their wives and children were separated and their families were ruined.

References:

Taboo Customs of Hui Nationality-Xinhuanet