This picture is of one of the local Hui men. The area where we live is the "autonomous region" for the Hui ethnic minority group. The Hui, descendants of Persian traders on the Silk Road, are ethnically Muslim. Many of the students we teach are also Hui. Usually the younger people don't wear the traditional dress, but when walking around our town, one can see many older men wearing the traditional hats and women wearing the traditional head scarves.
