Dungan people

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Dungan people
Хуэйзў (回族)
東干族
Dungan-Girls.JPG
Teenage Dungan girls posing for a photoshoot in traditional costume in Sortobe, Kazakhstan.
Total population
175,782
Regions with significant populations
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan (2021 census)76,573 [1]
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan (2019 census)74,409 [2]
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia (2021 census)3,028 [3]
∟ Flag of Altai Krai.svg  Altai Krai 207 (2010) [4]
∟ Flag of Penza Oblast.svg  Penza Oblast 53 (2010) [4]
∟ Flag of Moscow, Russia.svg  Moscow 43 (2010) [4]
∟ Flag of Saint Petersburg.svg  Saint Petersburg 500 (2018) [4]
∟ Flag of Lipetsk Oblast.svg  Lipetsk Oblast 41 (2010) [4]
∟ Flag of Saratov Oblast.svg  Saratov Oblast 760 (2010) [4]
Flag of Tajikistan.svg  Tajikistan 6,000[ citation needed ]
Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia 5,300[ citation needed ]
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 1,900[ citation needed ]
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 133 [5]
Languages
Dungan or Mandarin Chinese
Secondary languages:
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Hui, Han

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] In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui because Dungans are descendants of historical Hui groups that migrated to Central Asia.

Contents

In the censuses of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans (enumerated separately from Chinese) are found in Kazakhstan (36,900 according to the 1999 census), Kyrgyzstan (58,409 according to the 2009 census) and Russia (801 according to the 2002 census). [8] [9] [3]

History

Migration from China

The gate of the Dungan mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. The upper text on the sign is a partially Uyghurized rendering of the mosque's Kyrgyz name into the Uyghur Arabic alphabet: Isiq-kol oblasttiq Qaraqol sharindaghi Ibrahim Haji atindaghi borborduq masjid. The lower text is Kyrgyz in the Cyrillic script: Ysyk-Kol oblasttyk Karakol shaaryndagy Ibrakhim Ajy atyndagy borborduk mechit--Central Mosque in the name of Ibrahim Hajji in the city of Karakol, an oblast of Ysyk-Kol. Karakol-Dungan-Mosque-Gate-4.jpg
The gate of the Dungan mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. The upper text on the sign is a partially Uyghurized rendering of the mosque's Kyrgyz name into the Uyghur Arabic alphabet: Isiq-köl oblasttiq Qaraqol sharindaghi Ibrahim Haji atindaghi borborduq mäsjid. The lower text is Kyrgyz in the Cyrillic script: Ysyk-Köl oblasttyk Karakol shaaryndagy Ibrakhim Ajy atyndagy borborduk mechit—Central Mosque in the name of Ibrahim Hajji in the city of Karakol, an oblast of Ysyk-Köl.

In the Ferghana Valley, the first Dungans to appear in Central Asia originated from Kuldja and Kashgar, as slaves captured by raiders; they mostly served in private wealthy households. After the Russians conquered Central Asia in the late 19th century and abolished slavery, most female Dungan slaves remained where they had originally been held captive. Russian ethnographer Vlaidimir Petrovich Nalivkin and his wife said that "women slaves almost all remained in place, because they either were married to workers and servants of their former owners or they were too young to begin an independent life". [10] Dungan women slaves were of low status and not regarded highly in Bukhara. [11]

Turkic Muslim slave-raiders from Khoqand did not distinguish between Hui Muslim and Han Chinese, enslaving Hui Muslims in violation of Islamic law. [12] [13] During the Afaqi Khoja revolts Turkic Muslim Khoja Jahangir Khoja led an invasion of Kashgar from the Kokand Khanate and Jahangir's forces captured several hundred Dungan Chinese Muslims (Tungan or Hui) who were taken to Kokand. Tajiks bought two Chinese slaves from Shaanxi; they were enslaved for a year before being returned by the Tajik Beg Ku-bu-te to China. [14] All Dungans captured, both merchants and the 300 soldiers Janhangir captured in Kashgar, had their queues cut off when brought to Kokand and Central Asia as prisoners. [15] [16] [ clarification needed ] Many of the captives became slaves. Accounts of these slaves in Central Asia increased. [17] [18] The queues were removed from Dungan Chinese Muslim prisoners and then sold or given away. Some of them escaped to Russian territory where they were repatriated back to China and the accounts of their captures were recorded in Chinese records. [19] [20] The Russians record an incident where they rescued these Chinese Muslim merchants who escaped, after they were sold by Jahangir's Army in Central Asia and sent them back to China. [21]

The Dungan in the former Soviet republics are Hui who fled China in the aftermath of the Hui Minorities' War (also known as the "Dungan Rebellion") in the 19th century. According to Rimsky-Korsakoff (1992), three separate groups of the Hui people fled to the Russian Empire across the Tian Shan mountains during the exceptionally severe winter of 1877/78 after the end of the Hui Minorities' War:

  1. The first group, of some 1000 people, originally from Turpan in Xinjiang, led by Ma Daren (馬大人, 'the Great Man Ma'), also known as Ma Da-lao-ye (馬大老爺, 'the Great Master Ma'), reached Osh in Southern Kyrgyzstan.
  2. The second group, originally from Didaozhou (狄道州) in Gansu, led by ahong Ma Yusuf (馬郁素夫), [22] also known as Ah Ye Laoren (阿爺老人, 'the Old Man O'Granpa'), were settled in the spring of 1878 in the village of Yrdyk (Russian : Ирдык or Ырдык) some 15 km from Karakol in Eastern Kyrgyzstan. They numbered 1130 on arrival.
  3. The third group, originally from Shaanxi, led by Bai Yanhu (白彦虎; also spelt Bo Yanhu; often called by his followers "虎大人", 'The Great Man Hu (Tiger)', 1829(?)-1882), one of the leaders of the rebellion, were settled in the village of Karakunuz (now Masanchi), in modern Zhambyl Province of Kazakhstan. It is 8 km north of the city Tokmak in northwestern Kyrgyzstan [ relevant? ]. This group numbered 3314 on arrival. Bai Yanhu's name in other romanizations was Bo-yan-hu or Pai Yen-hu; other names included Boyan-akhun (Akhund or Imam Boyan) and Muhammad Ayyub. [23]

The next wave of immigration followed in the early 1880s. In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), which required the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the Upper Ili basin (the Kulja area), the Dungan (Hui) and Taranchi (Uyghur) people of the region were allowed to opt to move to the Russian side of the border. Many chose to do so; according to Russian statistics, 4,682 Hui moved to the Russian Empire under the treaty. They migrated in many small groups between 1881 and 1883, settling in the village of Sokuluk some 30 km west of Bishkek, as well as in a number of locations between the Chinese border and Sokuluk, in southeastern Kazakhstan and in northern Kyrgyzstan.

Name

42°55′40″N75°18′00″E / 42.92778°N 75.30000°E / 42.92778; 75.30000 (Masanchi) ) Korday District, Jambyl Region of Kazakhstan (8 km north of Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan)
Dungan people
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 東干族
Simplified Chinese 东干族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Dōnggānzú
Spring 1878. 3314 people from Shaanxi, led by Bai Yanhu (白彦虎).7,000, current mayor: Iskhar Yusupovich Lou
Sortobe (Kazakh : Sortobe; Russian : Шортюбе, Shortyube; Dungan : Щёртюбе; Chinese :新渠, Xinqu)( 42°52′00″N75°15′15″E / 42.86667°N 75.25417°E / 42.86667; 75.25417 (Sortobe) ) Korday District, Jambyl Region. On the northern bank of the river Chu opposite and a few km downstream from Tokmok; south of Masanchi (Karakunuz)(Karakunuz group)9,000
Zhalpak-tobe, (Kazakh : Жалпак-тобе; Chinese :加爾帕克秋白, Jiaerpakeqiubai) Jambyl District, Jambyl Region; near Grodekovo, south of Taraz 3,000
Kyrgyzstan – total 50,000 (Ma Tang (2003)
Yrdyk (Kyrgyz : Ырдык; Dungan : Эрдэх; Chinese :二道溝, Erdaogou)( 42°27′30″N78°18′0″E / 42.45833°N 78.30000°E / 42.45833; 78.30000 (Yrdyk) ) Jeti-Ögüz District of Issyk-Kul Region; 15 km south-west from Karakol.Spring 1878. 1130 people, originally from Didaozhou (狄道州) in Gansu, led by Ma Yusu (馬郁素), a.k.a. Ah Yelaoren (阿爺老人).2,800
Sokuluk (Kyrgyz : Сокулук; Dungan: Сохўлў; Chinese :梢葫蘆, Saohulu); may also include adjacent Aleksandrovka (Александровка) Sokuluk District of Chüy Region; 30 km west of Bishkek Some of those 4,628 Hui people who arrived in 1881–1883 from the Ili Basin (Xinjiang) .12,000
Milyanfan (Kyrgyz : Милянфан; Dungan : Милёнчуан; Chinese :米糧川, Miliangchuan) Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region. Southern bank of the Chu River, some 60 km west of Tokmok and about as much north-east of Bishkek.(Karakunuz group (?))10,000
Ivanovka village (Kyrgyz : Ивановка; Chinese :伊萬諾夫卡) Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region. Southern bank of the Chu River, some 30 km west of Tokmok.(Karakunuz group (?))1,500
Dungan community of Osh (Kyrgyz : Ош; Chinese :奥什 or 敖什, Aoshe) Osh Region Spring 1878, 1000 people, originally from Turpan in Xinjiang, led by Ma Daren, also known as Ma Da-lao-ye (馬大老爺)800

The position of the Kazakhstan villages within the administrative division of Jambyl Region, and the total population of each village can be found at the provincial statistics office web site. [38]

Besides the traditionally Dungan villages, many Dungan people live in the nearby cities, such as Bishkek, Tokmok, Karakol.

Soviet rule

Vanakhun's museum E8016-Milyanfan-museum.jpg
Vanakhun's museum
Tungan generals of Tunganistan, in Hotan. Tungani General, Khotan.jpg
Tungan generals of Tunganistan, in Hotan.

During World War II, some Dungans served in the Red Army, one of them who was Vanakhun Mansuza  [ ru ] (Cyrillic Dungan: мансуза ванахун; traditional Chinese :曼苏茲(or子)·王阿洪; simplified Chinese :曼蘇茲·王阿洪; pinyin :Mànsūzī·Wángāhóng) a Dungan war "hero" who led a "mortar battery". [39]

Reportedly, Dungans were "strongly anti-Japanese". [40] During the 1930s, a White Russian driver for Nazi German agent Georg Vasel in Xinjiang was afraid to meet Hui general Ma Zhongying, saying: "You know how the Tungans hate the Russians." Vasel passed the Russian driver off as a German. [41]

Present day

In Milyanfan village, Chuy Region of Kyrgyzstan E8042-Milyanfan-house.jpg
In Milyanfan village, Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan

As Ding (2005) notes, "[t]he Dungan people derive from China's Hui people, and now live mainly in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Their population is about 110,000. This people have now developed a separate ethnicity outside China, yet they have close relations with the Hui people in culture, ethnic characteristics and ethnic identity." Today the Dungans play a role as cultural "shuttles" and economic mediators between Central Asia and the Chinese world. [42] Husei Daurov, the president of the Dungan center, [43] has succeeded in transforming cultural exchanges into commercial partnerships. [42]

In February 2020, a conflict broke out between ethnic Kazakhs and Dungans in the Korday area in Kazakhstan on the border to Kyrgyzstan. According to official Kazakh sources, 10 people were killed and many more were wounded. In the altercation, cars and homes were burned and rifles were fired. 600 people fled across the border to Kyrgyzstan. [44] [45]

Language

The Dungan language, which the Dungan people call the "Hui language" (Хуэйзў йүян/回族語言 or Huejzw jyian), is similar to the Zhongyuan dialect of Mandarin Chinese, which is widely spoken in the south of Gansu and the west of Guanzhong in Shaanxi in China.

Like other varieties of Chinese, Dungan is tonal. There are two main dialects, one with four tones and the other, considered standard, with three tones in the final position in words and four tones in the non-final position.

Some Dungan vocabulary may sound old-fashioned to Chinese people. For example, they refer to a President as an "Emperor" (Хуаңды/皇帝, huan'g-di) and call government offices yamen (ямын/衙門, ya-min), a term for mandarins' offices in ancient China. Their language also contains many loanwords from Russian, Arabic, Persian and Turkic. Since the 1940s, the language has been written in Cyrillic script, though the language has historically also used Chinese characters and Xiao'erjing (Arabic script used for Chinese), though these are now considered obsolete.

Dungan people are generally multilingual. In addition to Dungan Chinese, more than two-thirds of the Dungan speak Russian and a small proportion can speak Kyrgyz or other languages belonging to the titular nationalities of the countries where they live. [46]

Culture

Many restaurants in Bishkek advertise "Dungan cuisine" (Dunganskaia kukhnia) E7869-Dordoy-Bazaar.jpg
Many restaurants in Bishkek advertise "Dungan cuisine" (Дунганская кухня)
Dungan mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan Dungan mosque in Karakol.jpg
Dungan mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan

Nineteenth century explorer Henry Lansdell noted that the Dungan people abstained from spirits and opium, neither smoked nor took snuff and

"are of middle height, and inclined to be stout. They have high and prominent foreheads, thick and arched eyebrows, eyes rather sunken, fairly prominent cheek-bones, face oval, mouth of average size, lips thick, teeth normal, chin round, ears small and compressed, hair black and smooth, beard scanty and rough, skin smooth, neck strong, and extremities of average proportions. The characteristics of the Dungans are kindness, industry, and hospitality.

They engage in husbandry, horticulture, and trade. In domestic life parental authority is very strong. After the birth of a child the mother does not get up for fifteen days, and, without any particular feast, the child receives its name in the presence of a mullah the day succeeding that of its birth. Circumcision takes place on the eighth, ninth, or tenth day. When a girl is married she receives a dower. In sickness they have recourse to medicine and doctors, but never to exorcisms.

After death, the mullah and the aged assemble to recite prayers; the corpse is wrapped in white linen and then buried, but never burned. On returning from the interment the mullah and the elders partake of bread and meat. To saints they erect monuments like little mosques, for others simple hillocks. The widow may re-marry after 90 days, and on the third anniversary of the death a feast takes place." [47]

The Dungan are primarily farmers, growing rice and vegetables such as sugar beet. Many also raise dairy cattle. In addition, some are involved in opium production. The Dungan tend to be endogamous [ citation needed ].

The Dungan are well known for their hospitality and hold many ceremonies and banquets to preserve their culture. They have elaborate and colorful observances of birthdays, weddings, and funerals. In addition, schools have museums to preserve other parts of their culture, such as embroidery, traditional clothing, silver jewelry, paper cuts of animals and flowers and tools[ citation needed ].

The Dungan still practice elements of Chinese culture, in cuisine and attire, up to 1948 they also practiced foot binding until the practice was banned by the Soviet government, and later the Chinese government. [48] The conservative Shaanxi Dungan cling more tightly to Chinese customs than the Gansu Dungan. [49]

The Dungans have retained Chinese traditions which have disappeared in modern China. Traditional marriage practices are still widespread with matchmakers, the marriages conducted by the Dungan are similar to Chinese marriages in the 19th century, hairstyles worn by women and attire date back to the Qing dynasty. [50]

Shaanxi female attire is still Chinese, though the rest of the Dungans dress in western attire. Chopsticks are used by Dungans. [51] The cuisine of the Dungan resembles northwestern Chinese cuisine. [52] [53] However, being Muslims they do not consume pork, one of the most popular meats in Chinese cuisine, and meat is procured in accordance to being halal.

Around the late 19th century the bride price was between 240 and 400 rubles for Dungan women. Dungans have been known to take other women such as Kirghiz and Tatars as brides willingly, or kidnap Kirghiz girls. [54] Shaanxi Dungans are even conservative when marrying with other Dungans; they want only other Shaanxi Dungans marrying their daughters, while their sons are allowed to marry Gansu Dungan, Kirghiz, and Kazakh women. As recently as 1962, inter-ethnic marriage was reported to be anathema among Dungans. [55]

Identity

During the Qing dynasty, the term Zhongyuanren (中原人; 'A person from the Central Plains of China ') was synonymous with being mainstream Chinese, especially referring to Han Chinese and Hui Muslims in Xinjiang or Central Asia.

For religious reasons, while Hui people do not consider themselves Han and are not Han Chinese, they consider themselves part of the wider Chinese race and refer to themselves as Zhongyuanren. [56] The Dungan people, descendants of Hui who fled to Central Asia, called themselves Zhongyuanren in addition to the standard labels Lao Huihui and Huizi. [57]

Zhongyuanren was used generally by Turkic Muslims to refer to Han and Hui Chinese people. When Central Asian invaders from Kokand invaded Kashgar, in a letter the Kokandi commander criticizes the Kashgari Turkic Muslim Ishaq for allegedly not behaving like a Turkic-origin Muslim and wanting to be a Zhongyuanren. [58] [59]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Dungan: Хуэйзў (回族), romanized: Huizu, Xiao'erjing: حُوِ ظُ; simplified Chinese :东干族; traditional Chinese :東干族; pinyin :Dōnggān zú, [tʊ́ŋkán tsǔ] , Xiao'erjing: دْوقًا ظُ; Russian: Дунгане, Dungane; Kyrgyz: Дуңгандар, Duñgandar, دۇنغاندار; Kazakh: Дүңгендер, Düñgender, دٷڭگەندەر

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