The Hui people have a strong, brave, well-exercised, and fearless national character. Advocating martial arts is a distinctive feature of the Hui people's history and culture, and over the past few hundred years, this characteristic has gradually evolved into one of the Hui people's national sports traditions and humanistic spirit, and is still maintained and carried forward by the Hui people in many areas. Since ancient times, most of the places where the Hui people live have martial customs. For example, since the Tang Dynasty, Xi'an, where the Hui people settled, has not stopped martial arts customs, and in the past, regardless of the old and young, the practice of martial arts was very strong. The southern Hui people are also good at martial arts and are good at martial arts, maintaining the characteristics of the Hui people. The Hui people in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other places are even more fond of martial arts, which have been passed down from generation to generation.

Legend has it that the Prophet Muhammad was a martial artist and skilled in swordsmanship. The book "The Sword of Muhammad" has been widely disseminated among the Hui people, and there are many practitioners who imitate it. Muhammad also gave the warrior Khalid the name "Sword of Allah". Because the Hui people strictly abide by the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, the Hui people believe that practicing martial arts and self-defense is "Sunnaiti" and is a holy act.

In the 14th year of Xuanzong Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty, the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out in history. Under the support of the king of Guangping County and the famous general Guo Ziyi, Tang Suzong ascended the throne in present-day Lingwu, Ningxia. The following year, in the second year of the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty (757 AD), the Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the "Uighurs" (the ancient Chinese ethnic minority living in present-day Xinjiang was the predecessor of the Uyghurs) to jointly counterattack the rebels of the "Anshi Rebellion". The "Uighur" army assisted ** in defeating some rebels in the "Anshi Rebellion", and the main credit was to assist Guo Ziyi in recovering Luoyang after Shi Siming was killed in the first year of Baoying.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Hui people, together with other fraternal ethnic groups, made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of the sports system of the Chinese nation, and the contributions of the Hui people were mainly in martial arts, wrestling and a series of related sports. Because of this, compared with the Ming Dynasty's widely rumored "Hui Hui Treasure", the Qing Dynasty's understanding of the Hui people seems to be more in-depth, with a well-known Qianlong "Middle Earth Hui people, sex and fist bravery, Haqi surname, every more will plant" evaluation. These eight characters came from the mouth of Qianlong, representing the general views of the Manchu and Han dynasties and the opposition at that time, and can be said to be a social consensus.

The reason why the Hui people are good at martial arts can also be traced back to the ancestors of the Hui people in the formative period, among which there are a large number of Central and Western Asian people who belong to the army, and the Hui people of the Yuan Dynasty were incorporated into the "Tanma Red Army", stationed in all parts of the country in order to meet the needs of the war, forming the distribution characteristics of "large dispersion and small concentration", and often practiced archery on horseback and made guns and sticks. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, among the peasant uprising troops led by Zhu Yuanzhang, there were a number of brave and warlike Hui generals.

There are many times of war and chaos in history, coupled with the oppression of the Han people by the Hui people, the Hui people feel that their strength is weak, so they have developed the customs of martial arts, aggressiveness, and unity, and take martial arts training as an important means to resist various oppressions, thus forming the custom of the Hui people to love martial arts. There are many types of martial arts of the Hui people, and they were once called the "Kunlun School" in history, and they are one of the four major martial arts schools in China.

The Hui people like to practice Chaquan, Black Tiger Chaquan, Elastic Leg, Hua Boxing, Hong Boxing, Cannon Boxing, Baji Boxing, Xinyi Liuhe Boxing, Hui Hui Eighteen Elbows, Yellow Eagle Frame Boxing, Hexagonal Style, Twenty-four Style, Old Frame Boxing, etc. Among them, the ten ways to check the boxing, the ten trips to spring the legs, the eighteen elbows of the return, and the seven-style boxing of the soup bottle, all of which are unique to the Hui people, are called the so-called "Huihui boxing".

In addition, such as the Tongjian Split Shake Boxing, Kanto Boxing, and the Hui Eighteen Elbows, Soup Bottle Seven Boxing, which were widely circulated in the late Ming Dynasty, the founders are all Hui. These boxing techniques are popular in the boxing world because of their unique strength, rich techniques and unique style, and are loved by people of all ethnic groups. The history of boxing of the Hui people can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Hui martial arts sprouted in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and gradually developed through the continuous enrichment of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In addition to practicing knives, guns, swords, halberds, sticks, whips, hammers, hooks, shovels, axes and other general equipment, the Hui practice of pole whips, suo lai crutches, dragon claw hooks, five tigers and sheep sticks, Ali swords, cha knives, cha guns, etc., are rare in Han martial arts, with obvious national characteristics. The pole whip, also known as the Western Regions whip, is tied to a rope on the eyebrow stick, and a steel dart is tied at the end of the rope, and the dart weighs about 750 grams. According to the oral tradition of martial artists, this kind of pole whip and five tiger flock sheep sticks are related to the Hui horse herding sheep, which are derived from the horse whip and the sheep herding stick. Ali sword, double-pointed and double-edged, the tip is wider than the handle, and the sword body is engraved with Arabic characters on both sides. It is rumored that the original name of this sword was "Zul Fikar", and it was the weapon used by the fourth caliph Ali. The dragon claw hook, shaped like a dragon's claw, is transformed from the hook of the Hui butcher turning over beef and mutton.

For a long time, there is a saying in Islam that the Hui people have three treasures, which are not easy to show. What are the three treasures? Six-fold fist of mind, seven-style fist of soup bottle, eighteen cubits. Xinyi Liuhe Quan was created by the martial artist Ji Ji Ke in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and now it is scorned at home and abroad, and there is not much to say. "Learn eighteen cubits, and you will be able to do it all over the world. "Of course, it's an exaggeration, but it's a set of vicious combat techniques that are known for their short hands (elbows). This elbow can be practiced alone or in one go. Soup bottle seven-style boxing, also known as soup bottle boxing, seven-style boxing. Seven-style boxing, who was introduced into the Central Plains, there is no way to verify. Some people say that when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, people from the Western Regions were introduced, and the soup bottles unearthed in the Tang Dynasty were used as evidence, and there were pictures of people from the Western Regions fighting with seven-style fists. Perhaps, during the Tang Dynasty, people's minds were open-minded, and it was not possible for people from the Western Regions to be introduced! What is remembered is that Jin Xiaoting, a person from the Western Regions, was transmitted to the Kaifeng area. Later, it generally bloomed in the Central Plains, and when it spread to the Zhoukou area, it was extremely developed. In addition to the heart fist, it has become the second ruthless punch.