Jouney into Islamic China

Xixia
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2000/Sep/1996.htm


Western Xia Mausoleums--Pyramids in the Orient
About 30 km west of Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in the eastern foothills of the Helan mountain range, mounds made from the loess soil in different sizes rise up from a 50-square-km flatland. These are the mausoleums of the Western Xia kings, reputed to be the "Pyramids in the Orient".
The cone-shaped earth mounds are the most direct relics on the ground that tell the history of the Western Xia Kingdom which disappeared nearly 800 years ago.

In 1038, the Dangxiang tribe, under the leadership of Li Yuanhao, established the Xia Kingdom, with its capital being built in a place where Yinchuan now stands. Since it was located in northwest China, especially to the west of the Yellow River, it has gone down in history as the "Western Xia."

The Western Xia Kingdom first came into confrontation with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and then with the Southern Song Dynasty and Kin Kingdom. Later, it was destroyed by Mongolian troops led by Genghis Khan. Ten kings ruled over it during 189 years of its existence.

There are no official records about the kingdom, so people describing it usually have to use such terms as mysterious and enigmatic. Historiographers of the Yuan Dynasty compiled the Song History, Liao History and Kin History, but left no works on the Western Xia.



Halal food in Ningxia
Muslim and Christian tombstones in China , Quanzhou
http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/scholarship.php?searchterm=005_zayton.inc&issue=005

History of Hui People in China, The blue cap, white cap and black cap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people

Some well known Hui clans around Quanzhou in Fujian, such as the Ding and the Guo families, are examples of these Hui who identify as Muslim by nationality but do not practice Islam.

Many of these Hui worship village gods and do not have Islam as their religion, some are Buddhists, Daoists, followers of Chinese Folk Religions, secularlists, and Christians.^[196] Many clans with thousands of members in numerous villages across Fujian recorded their genealogies and had Muslim ancestry.^[197] These Hui clans originating in Fujian have strong sense of unity among their members, despite being scattered across a wide area in Asia, such as Fujian, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Philippines.