River State The Hui Foot Indoor Culture,

Hezhou, another name is Linxia Hui autonomous region. There are so many nationalities in this region. Among these nationalities, the population of Hui nationality is the largest. So Hezhou became one famous place of China in which Hui nationalities gather and live. As we known, Hui nationalities like trading. With the development of economy in this place, more and more people need increase their message and improve their life lever. So, they hoped to change their substance. But there are a lot of high mountains around Hezhou, people only can drive horses and mules to transport substance and culture between this region and outside. Gradually some special people who drove mules in order to earn money and lived on this mode had been appeared. Sometimes they drove together; sometimes they drove only by themselves. They generally drove together because in this way they can assure their life safe by helping each other when they faced dangers.Why were there so many driving-man of Hui nationalities in this place? We can find some reasons from special geography environment, far-reaching culture contexts and particular history conditions. To backward their history, special geography environment caused Hezhou be a traffic-hinge of communicating between eastward and westward. Reciprocating Muslims traveling merchant and Muslims army corps, handicraftsman had been forced to eastward they lived there and left there many trace which difficult to erase. Along with the abroad mingle among all kinds of race, came into being Hui nationalities of China, from then on, the ancestors of Hui nationalities brought there series trade traditions on which Hezhou Hui nationalities had the best mode to live.The driving-man accumulated a lot of precious experience in their driving life in long time, formed lots of unique convention. Among all, the prominent convention is the organization and maintaining mule team and so on during the long-distance traffic, they also are the mains constitutes of driving-man custom. In folklore system, they belong to the traffic custom of the substance and production custom. So studying the...