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Dungan [a] is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin. [6] Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang also sometimes refer to Hui Muslims as Dungans. [ 7 ]
History [ edit ] According to historians, Sokuluk started its existence in the early 1880s, as a place of settlement of many of the Dungan people who moved to the Russian Empire from the Kulja (Yining) area between 1881 and 1883, after Russia agreed to withdraw its troops from Kulja pursuant to the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) .
The Dungan soldiers of the Ürümqi garrison rebelled on June 26, 1864, soon after learning about the Kucha revolt. The two Dungan leaders were Tuo Ming (a.k.a. Tuo Delin), a New Teaching ahong from Gansu, and Suo Huanzhang, an officer who also had close ties to Hui religious leaders. Large parts of the city were destroyed, the tea warehouses ...
In China, to write texts in their native Chinese language, the Huizu used either hieroglyphs or a modified Arabic script called Xiao'erjing.At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the first Cyrillic records of Dungan dialects in the Russian Empire were made by V. I. Tsibuzgin, a teacher at the Russian-Dungan school in the village of Karakunuz, and his assistant, Zhebur Matsivang.
Shivaza founded Soviet Dungan literature and authored many textbooks in the Dungan language, helping improve literacy among the Dungan people, who were largely illiterate after fleeing the Qing dynasty. [3] His first book, "The Morning Star", was published in 1931 and is the first printed book in the history of the Dungan people.
Dungan may refer to: Dungan people, a group of Muslim people of Hui origin Dungan language; Dungan, sometimes used to refer to Hui Chinese people generally; Dungan Mountains in Sibi District, Pakistan; Donegan, an Irish surname, sometimes spelled Dungan
Bai Yanhu (Chinese: 白彥虎, Dungan: Биянхў; 1830–1882), also known as Mohammed Ayub (مُحَمَّد بَىْيًاحُو), [1] was a Hui military commander and rebel from Shaanxi, China. He was known for leading a group of Hui people across the vast lands of northwestern China to Kyrgyzstan under Russian rule.
The Dungan Revolt by the Hui from the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, broke out due to a pricing dispute over bamboo poles which a Han merchant was selling to a Hui. It lasted from 1862 to 1877. The failure of the revolt led to the flight of many Dungan people into Imperial Russia.