The Origin of Hui-hui
It was largely publicized by the Chinese that the people of Hui-hui, an ethic minority living only in China, had been diverged from some Islamic nationalities in the Middle east, like Arabian, Persian and so on. As a member of this people, I do not agree with this kind of opinion because it makes us sound like mongrels. Actually, we are a pure people with the tribal name "Hui-hui" inherited from our patrilineal ancestors; we speak a language invented by our matrilineal ancestors, who had combined the official language of China with their own; we pray to Allah like our forefathers and eat bread like our foremothers. Our patrilineal ancestors were brothers of the Uyghur people, a Turkic ethnic group living primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The word Uyghur is similar to the name we call ourselves, Huihui, which is the Chinese assimilation of Uyghur by literal translation. There are many other words shar...