0921 #85 Renai Town Devastated
Renai Township in Nantou County is one of the worst hit areas in the rampage of Typhoon Sinlaku. All roads in the town are damaged. Nanfeng residents fled their homes during the typhoon last week. Today they rushed back, only to see that their homes were destroyed by winds and rains. Even the gas station and offices of the Farmer's Association are buried by mudslides. The sight is unbearable.
Road closures and evacuations disrupt central Taiwan
Over 270 tourists and workers were evacuated from the Lushan hot springs area over the past three days. Yesterday 30 holdouts who refused to leave still remained. But landslide fears and rising water levels led authorities to enact forced evacuation measures today. Those who refused will be punished severely.In Nantou County a landslide beside Renai Township's Cingjing清境 Farm put 11 people in two households in danger. They were all saved. Farmers on an industrial road were trapped by landslides. And floods destroyed a road beside Mingjhu 名竹Bridge, a 200-meter embankment and several plots of farmland.A landslide struck Provincial Highway No. 6 between Miaoli's Gongguan and Dahu. It occurred in the morning near the south entrance of the Chuhuangkeng 出磺坑Tunnel. The road was closed for almost
0724 #26 Jingcui Bridge Damage
Typhoon season is arriving in Taiwan. In the past several weeks, torrential rain has triggered fear in Nantou Countys Renai Township. The areas Jingcui Bridge remains damaged from last years typhoon with the county government only recently contracting out repair work.
Cold air mass keeps cloud cover low at Nantou’s Dalun Mountain, creating beautiful scene
The recent spell of cold and dry weather is creating a beautiful scene in Dalun Mountain in Nantou’s Lugu Township with a sea of clouds appearing to drift by. The scene is especially stunning at night with the lights of the city illuminating the clouds in many different colors. And recently, a meteor shower made this night time view even more fantastic.Dalun Mountain, which stands at a height of 1,600 meters above sea level, is in Nantou’s Lugu Township.Clouds drift at a low altitude forming a “sea of clouds” which appear like white cotton candy. When night comes, the clouds are illuminated by the lights of the city, with the reflected light creating a colorful scene that is both beautiful and intoxicating.Lin Jian-hsingPhotographer The recent cold front has led the cloud layer to be below 1,300 meters so here at Dalun Mountain, it appears to be a sea of clouds or a waterfall.This night time scene does not only include colorful lights and a sea of clouds but also an annual Geminid meteor shower lighting up the night sky. Lin Jian-hsingPhotographerOn Dec. 14th, when the weather was quite clear, one could see more hundreds of different meteors in the sky. The recent spell of cold weather has turned this location into a fantasy world with layers of visible clouds, beautiful lights, and even meteors flashing by in the night sky.
Hui people | Wikipedia audio article
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Hui people
00:01:54 1 Definition
00:02:02 1.1 Ancestry
00:04:09 1.2 Genetics
00:05:04 1.3 Huihui, and Hui
00:09:41 1.4 Related terms
00:13:44 1.4.1 Zhongyuan ren
00:14:44 1.4.2 Pusuman
00:15:16 1.4.3 Muslim Chinese
00:16:13 1.5 In other countries
00:16:22 1.5.1 Dungan
00:19:10 1.5.2 Panthay
00:19:47 1.6 Official
00:20:14 1.7 Non-Muslims
00:22:30 2 History
00:22:39 2.1 Origins
00:24:56 2.1.1 Converted Han
00:27:04 2.2 Tang dynasty
00:27:50 2.3 Song dynasty
00:29:24 2.4 Yuan Dynasty
00:30:40 2.5 Ming Dynasty
00:34:41 2.6 Qing Dynasty
00:35:33 2.6.1 Muslim revolts
00:40:44 2.6.2 Religious allowances
00:41:52 2.7 Republic of China
00:50:06 2.8 Current situation
00:53:14 2.8.1 Tensions between Hui and Uyghurs
00:55:40 2.8.2 Tibetan-Muslim sectarian violence
00:57:14 2.9 Sects of Islam
00:58:14 3 Relations with other religions
00:59:38 4 Culture
00:59:47 4.1 Sects
00:59:55 4.2 Mosques
01:00:23 4.3 Foot binding
01:00:59 4.4 Cultural practices
01:02:30 4.5 Names
01:03:21 4.5.1 Surnames
01:03:57 4.6 Literature
01:04:50 4.7 Language
01:05:35 4.8 Marriage
01:06:08 4.8.1 Outside marriage
01:09:16 4.9 Education
01:10:10 4.10 Military service
01:15:15 4.11 Politics
01:16:27 5 Outside mainland China
01:18:23 6 Ethnic tensions
01:21:04 7 Notable Hui people
01:26:08 8 Related group names
01:26:30 9 See also
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The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2011 census, China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some may practise other religions. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
Their culture has distinct differences that developed from the practice of Islam. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China, and have given rise to their own variation of Chinese cuisine. Traditional Hui clothing differs from that of the Han primarily in that some men wear white caps (taqiyah) and some women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures. However, since the industrialization and modernization of China, most of the young Hui people wear the same clothes as mainstream fashion trends.
The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The government defines the Hui people to include all historically Muslim communities not included in China's other ethnic groups. The Hui predominantly speak Chinese, while maintaining some Persian and Arabic phrases. In fact, the Hui ethnic group is unique among Chinese ethnic minorities in that it associates with no non-Sinitic language.The Hui people are more concentrated in Northwestern China (Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), but communities exist across the country, e.g. Beijing,Xi'an Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Hainan and Yunnan.