18 Facts About Salar people

1.

Salar people are a Turkic ethnic minority of China who largely speak the Salar language, an Oghuz language.

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2.

The other chief Han Shanba of the four lower Salar people clans got the same office from the Ming government, and his clans were the ones who took Ma as their surname.

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3.

The ethnogenesis of the Salar people started from when they pledged allegiance to the Ming dynasty under their leader Han Bao.

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4.

One of the Salar people primers was called "Book of Diverse Studies" in Chinese.

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5.

Salar people preached silent dhikr and simplified Qur'an readings bringing the Arabic text Mingsha jing to China.

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6.

Han and Salar people mostly do not intermarry with each other unlike marriages of Tibetan women to Salar people men.

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7.

Hui people started assimilating and intermarrying with Salars in Xunhua after migrating there from Hezhou in Gansu due to the Chinese Ming dynasty ruling the Xunhua Salars after 1370 and Hezhou officials governed Xunhua.

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8.

Salar people asked them to install on their houses's four corners Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, to pray with Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels with the Buddhist mantra om mani padma hum and to bow before statues of Buddha.

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9.

The later Qing dynasty and Republic of China Salar people General Han Youwen was born to a Tibetan woman named Ziliha and a Salar people father named Aema .

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10.

Salar people later defected to the Communist People's Liberation Army, serving in numerous military positions and as vice chairman of Xinjiang.

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11.

Salar people had led Chinese Muslim forces against Soviet and Mongol forces in the Pei-ta-shan Incident.

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12.

The Salar are an entrepreneurial people, going into multiple businesses and industries.

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13.

Ma is a Salar people surname for the same reason it is a common Hui surname, Ma substitutes for Muhammad.

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14.

Salar people fought in the Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China, leading Salars in a revolt in 1952 and 1958.

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15.

Salar people serves as their spoken language, while Chinese serves as a both spoken and written language.

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16.

Salar people language spoken in Amdo Tibet, has heavy Chinese and Tibetan influence.

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17.

Salar people language has taken loans and influence from neighboring Chinese varieties.

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18.

Many Salar people adhere to the Naqshbandi Sufi order, which spread throughout the region in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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