Salar people
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The Salar people are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch. They numbered 165,159 people in 2020, according to that year's national census.
Salars celebrating Novruz in China
Salar Muslim settlement, outside of Jishi Town, Xunhua, Qinghai, 1932.
A Salar Muslim with a captured fox at the market, Labrang, Xiahe County, Gansu, 1934.
Copy of the Quran brought by Salar Muslims from Samarkand in 1371. (In 2 volumes)
Ethnic minorities in China
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Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
An 8th-century Tang dynasty Chinese clay figurine of a Sogdian man (an Eastern Iranian person) wearing a distinctive cap and face veil, possibly a camel rider or even a Zoroastrian priest engaging in a ritual at a fire temple, since face veils were used to avoid contaminating the holy fire with breath or saliva; Museum of Oriental Art (Turin), Italy.
The Long-horn tribe, a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province