The Donggan ethnic group specifically refers to the Hui ethnic group in which areas are they distributed?

The Dungan people are currently scattered in the Moscow District and Tanosh Prefecture of Kyrgyzstan and Zhambul Prefecture of Kazakhstan. The Dungan people mainly believe in Islam and are ethnic members of many Soviet Union countries. However, they With a population of about 120,000, they are only a minority in various Central Asian countries.

The main ethnic group that forms the Donggan people in Central Asia is the Hui people who immigrated from China in the 19th century. They are mainly composed of two parts. Part of them were the remnants of the uprising that entered the Qihe region of Russia after the failure of the Hui people's uprising during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. The time was 1878, and there were more than 3,000 people at that time. There are also a few Han people among them, such as Li Keku. The other part was those who gradually moved into Russia after the Russian government returned the Ili area to the Qing Dynasty from 1882 to 1884. More than 10,000 people immigrated from these two parts, and they are the source of the emerging Donggan ethnic group in Central Asia. During this period, some Hui people from Gansu also moved there one after another to escape persecution by the Qing court. In the development process of the Dungan people for more than a hundred years, some local ethnic groups, such as the Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, and Russians, have also been incorporated, but they only account for a very small part.