Where are the main branches of the Hui people in Shanghai?

There are about 50,000 Hui compatriots in Shanghai, scattered in the whole city 12 district and 10 county? , mainly distributed in Pudong New Area.

, Jing 'an, Luwan, Minhang, Zhabei, Heather, Baoshan and other districts. Refer to the following contents for details.

1. Hui people in Shanghai are mainly distributed in Pudong New Area, Jing 'an, Luwan, Minhang, Zhabei, Heather and Baoshan, including about 7,000 in Pudong New Area, 2,400 in Jing 'an, 2,700 in Luwan, 2,800 in Minhang, 3,900 in Zhabei and 3,000 in Heather.

2. The time when Hui ancestors and Hui people moved to Shanghai can be roughly divided into three stages:?

(1) In Song Dynasty, Hui ancestors stopped in Shanghai.

Since the Northern Song Dynasty, Shanghai Qinglong Town has become an important port for foreign trade along the southeast coast of China, where foreigners gather. Arabs and Persians who are good at business keep coming here. Mi Fei, a great painter and calligrapher in Song Dynasty, is said to be a Muslim. Yuan Feng of the Northern Song Dynasty served as the town supervisor of Qinglong Town. According to local records, at that time, there were thousands of fireworks in Qinglong Town, and the market was prosperous. "There were many merchants and boats" ("Yao". The official position "No.44" was the only place in ancient Shanghai with international contacts. There is no doubt that these ancestors of the Hui nationality, Arab and Persian businessmen, also stayed here and conducted some religious activities.

(2) From Yuan Dynasty to the middle of Ming Dynasty, the Hui ancestors settled in Shanghai and the Hui people formed?

In the Yuan Dynasty, from Songjiang, there were traces of Hui ancestors' settlement in Shanghai. Songjiang has been an important coastal defense town since the Yuan Dynasty, with Guhuating County Port adjacent to Qingpu, which is the waterway for ships from overseas countries to enter China. ? In A.D. 1295, when Nasu Latin, a Muslim from the Western Regions, was guarding Songjiang, he founded the first mosque in Shanghai. This mosque, once called "Worship Temple", is a famous Islamic temple in the south of the Yangtze River, and Muslims from the western regions have settled around this mosque. After settling in Songjiang, officials from the western regions and soldiers from their hometowns moved to the surrounding areas one after another, and settled in Qingpu County, Nanhui, Shanghai, Jiading and other places. They got married and had children in their place of residence and became Hui residents in Shanghai.

(3) The late Ming Dynasty to the middle Qing Dynasty was the development period of Hui people in Shanghai?

In the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1573), there was a Buddhist temple (also known as Hui Hui Temple) in Qingpu County, Shanghai. Changzhou magistrate Ma Hualong wrote an inscription for the temple. In the middle of Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, Muslims in Qibao Town, Shanghai County built a mosque in Wangjiachang, Nanjie Street. It is said that there are "Hui Hui graves" in Qibao and Zhuqu townships, indicating that the Hui population expanded to towns.