Salar Chinese - Islam in Central Asia (sitios de interés)
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Culturally similar to Hui, the Salars are believed to have come from Samarkand during the 13th-14th c. Salars have their own language (Salar) which is Turkic in origin, but borrows from both Chinese and Tibetan.
"Women of the Salar ethnic minority in the past suffered tremendously under religious strictures and feudal ethics. Unmarried girls were not allowed to appear in public, while married women had to hide their faces in front of strange men. They had to turn their faces sideways when answering an inquiry and make a detour should they meet a strange man coming their way. But, in recent decades, Salar women have broken away from such practices and the traditional concept of men being superior to women is slowly disappearing. Salar women are now taking an active part in all local production endeavors."(Source: China.org.cn, Chinese government-run internet information portal.)