Linxia City, once known as Hezhou, is a county-level city in the province of Gansu, China and the capital of the multi-ethnic Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the valley of the Daxia River, 150 km (93 mi) southwest of the provincial capital Lanzhou.
A view of the city from the northern loess plateau escarpment depicting a Taoist Wanshou Guan temple
Worshippers leaving a small mosque in Linxia City, on foot, by truck and bus
Hua Si Gongbei (Ma Laichi's mausoleum)
Qianheyan Mosque, Linxia City
Xiao'erjing, often shortened to Xiaojing, is the practice of writing Sinitic languages—such as the Lanyin Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin and Northeastern Mandarin dialects—or the Dungan language using the Perso-Arabic script. It is used on occasion by many ethnic minorities who adhere to Islam in China—mostly the Hui, but also the Dongxiang and the Salar—and formerly by their Dungan descendants in Central Asia. Orthography reforms introduced the Latin script and later the Cyrillic script to the Dungan language, which continue to be used today.
Pages from a Book titled "Questions and Answers on the Faith in Islam", Published in Xining, which includes a Xiao'erjing–Hanji transliteration chart, as well a paragraph that includes Arabic loanwords
