Muslim Travel Guide China 2026: Yuxi Fuxian Lake, Najiaying Mosque and Yunnan Halal Food
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Summary: Muslim Travel Guide China 2026: Yuxi Fuxian Lake, Najiaying Mosque and Yunnan Halal Food is presented here as a clear English travel account for Muslim readers, beginning with this scene: Mosques in Beijing have been closed since the outbreak of the epidemic. I have not participated in collective gatherings for a long time. I miss going to the mosque to pray. Then I learned from my friends in. The article keeps the original place names, food details, photographs, and cultural context while focusing on Yunnan Travel, Najiaying Mosque, Halal Food.
Mosques in Beijing have been closed since the outbreak of the epidemic. I have not participated in collective gatherings for a long time. I miss going to the mosque to pray. Then I learned from my friends in Yunnan that the mosques in Yunnan have been opened normally, so I booked a flight ticket in only five minutes and decided to fly to Yunnan, hoping to attend a prayer in Yunnan.
I have been to Yunnan three times, including Kunming, Dali, Shangri-La and Xishuangbanna. Please see the Yunnan Halal Food Map for a guide. There are more important destinations to visit during this trip to Yunnan. One is the Memorial Hall of Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan, the other is the Shadian Grand Mosque, and the last one is the Burmese Rohingya Muslim Quarter in Ruili.
My itinerary: Beijing → Kunming → Yuxi → Mengzi → Shadian → Kunming → Ruili → Beijing.
During the epidemic, domestic air tickets were as low as cabbage prices. The round-trip air ticket from Beijing to Kunming only cost 550 yuan. My trip to Yunnan lasted for 6 days and cost less than 2,000 yuan in total. This was unimaginable in the past, because June is the peak tourist season in Yunnan, and all consumer prices will rise.
It takes about three hours to fly from Beijing to Kunming. Because Yunnan is mountainous, transportation between places is not very convenient. Kunming is often used as a transfer station before setting off for the destination. My first destination is Yuxi, because Yuxi is close to Kunming. Yuxi has a very beautiful Fuxian Lake, which is the largest water storage lake and the largest plateau deep-water lake in my country. It is known as the back garden of Kunming.
Fuxian Lake Guanglong Wetland Park
Fuxian Lake is only more than 50 kilometers away from Kunming. Learning from the past, I recommend renting a car and driving around Yunnan after arriving in Kunming. This can save a lot of time on the road. Take the bus to Kunming South Railway Station, which costs 25 yuan per person and takes about an hour.
Fuxian Lake is very huge and has many scenic spots. When visiting for the first time, I recommend staying near Moon Bay Wetland Park to enjoy the natural scenery and to eat conveniently. There is the only halal restaurant here, Mulan Pavilion.
, is a local flavor restaurant opened by Yuxi Hui Muslims.
Muslim Mulan Pavilion Hotel
The owners of Mulange are all local Hui Muslims in Yuxi. They also have a halal restaurant called Xiyuan Restaurant in Chengjiang City, Yuxi.
, has been in business for more than 20 years. There were originally three halal restaurants near Moon Bay Wetland Park. The other two have closed down. Now this one is the only one left because the house was bought by the owner himself. Although the epidemic has had a great impact on the tourism industry, this restaurant can still persist.
Select dishes
The rules of restaurants in Yunnan are to order based on the ingredients. Which ingredients you want to eat can be cooked by the kitchen. You can also choose the method. The ingredients look fresh and you can eat with confidence. Now is the season for fungi in Yunnan. The lady boss specifically told me that these fungi are wild fungi picked from the mountains and recommended that I eat a kind of mushroom called Gushu mushroom.
The main fish of Fuxian Lake is Kanglang fish
One of Fuxian Lake's specialty delicacies is stone pot fish. You must choose the fish before eating. This fish is called mandarin fish, which is a specialty of Fuxian Lake. The fish is relatively large and I can't finish it by myself. The boss lady very thoughtfully suggested that I divide one fish into two portions. She cooked it for me. Half of it will be made as stone pot fish and the other half will be braised in braise tomorrow. I think this suggestion is great.
Stone pot that can spray steam
First, I watched the waiter open the steam stone pot, and steam came out of the pot. Then he put half of the fish in the pot and started cooking it. He closed the lid and the fish was cooked in less than ten minutes.
After eating the fish, put Guzhu mushrooms in the pot
The boss lady was afraid that I wouldn't understand, so she wrote the name of the mushroom on the note. She said that the mushroom must be boiled for five minutes longer, otherwise it will be poisonous. She suggested not to add water for dipping when eating, just eat it in vain, and you can taste the fragrance of the mushroom.
Braised potato rice in copper pot
Another specialty food of Fuxian Lake, braised potato rice in a copper pot, is like fried rice, but with much richer ingredients. When the copper pot is served, be careful not to touch it with your hands, as you may get burned.
After eating and drinking, the landlady asked me where I planned to go. I had no idea where to go. She suggested that I go to Guanglong Wetland Park, which is about 8 kilometers away from Moon Bay. It is a newly developed niche attraction. She showed me a video of the beautiful scenery on Douyin. I immediately decided to go. The landlady also lent me her husband’s mountain bike. It was really convenient to ride along Fuxian Lake to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
There are several wetland parks in Fuxian Lake. Guanglong National Wetland Park is a government-developed project and is free to the public. The entire park is simply a sea of flowers.
As soon as you enter the park entrance, you see a large field of lavender, and you can smell the fragrance of flowers everywhere.
Fuxian Lake is really big. Standing on the shore, you feel like you are facing the sea.
During the epidemic, there were few tourists. I saw few tourists in the entire park. I only saw gardeners repairing flowers and plants.
Thank you very much to the proprietress for providing the information, which allows me to enjoy such beautiful and moving scenery for free.
The scenery of Moon Bay Wetland Park is not as beautiful as Guanglong Wetland Park. Moon Bay is a park supporting the hotel. You need to pay an admission fee of 30 yuan to enter the park, but you can use the ticket to consume goods of equivalent value in the park, which is considered free of charge.
Artificial beach at Moon Bay Wetland Park
After visiting Fuxian Lake, you can take a bus to Chengjiang City to go to Yuxi City. The boss of Mulange just wanted to deliver meals to the children who were studying in Chengjiang, so he drove me to Chengjiang Passenger Terminal and asked me to take a bus to Yuxi City in one hour. The reason I want to go to Yuxi is to visit the grave of Baba Ma Fuchu in Daying Village in Yuxi, and then go to Najiaying.
The next day, the boss lady braised my other half of the mandarin fish and gave me a bowl of soup. The braised mandarin fish was also very fragrant.
Arrive at Yuxi Station in the evening
Leaving Fuxian Lake, it takes about 2 hours to take a bus from Chengjiang Passenger Terminal to Yuxi City.
Yuxi City Mosque
The Yuxi City Mosque was first built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. After several expansions, it was moved here in 2000 and reached its current scale.
During the Hui uprising in the Qing Dynasty, there was a mosque in Yuxi that was later destroyed due to the failure of the uprising.
After praying at the mosque in the city, I saw a halal Japanese restaurant 300 meters away. Since there are no halal Japanese restaurants in Beijing now, and the original Hefengzhiyan also changed its owner, I decided to try it in Yuxi.
Muxuewu Japanese Food Store
The environment of the restaurant is very beautiful, the waiter wears a headscarf and looks very young.
After asking, I learned that the clerk was a Hui from Daying, Yuxi. I was going to Daying Mosque the next day.
I chose three sushi combinations, which cost 27 yuan in total. This price would have to be doubled to get it in Beijing.
I ordered another bowl of Japanese ramen at the bottom. The last time I had halal Japanese ramen was during the halal trip in Hokkaido, Japan.
Daying Mosque
Starting from Yuxi City, you can take a taxi to Daying Village in about half an hour, or you can take a bus for about an hour.
Daying Village is a Hui village, and Daying Mosque is also an Arabic school. When I arrived, students were in class.
Daying Mosque was built during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1821-1850). It was the center of Islamic scripture education in Yunnan in the late Qing Dynasty. Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan both set up their offices here.
The purpose of my trip to Daying Mosque is to visit the Memorial Hall of Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan. I have collected a copy of "Montserge" co-authored by the two sages.
"Montserge"
"Montsergue" is a work co-authored by the sages Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan. The original work was written in Arabic and is a grammar and morphology textbook for Arabic language learning in Jingtang. Professor Lin Zhongming once brought this book to Egypt. Professors from Al-Azhar University admired the book very much when they saw it. They admired the Chinese Muslim scholars for their profound knowledge of Arabic. Professor Ma Jian also used this book as a main reference when editing Arabic grammar textbooks at Peking University.
The memorial hall is usually not open. I went to the principal's office to see Principal Suo and explained my purpose. The principal opened the door of the memorial hall specially for me.
Ma Dexin (1794-1874), named Fuchu, was born in Dali, Yunnan. He studied Arabic with his father since he was a child, and then went to Xi'an to study Confucian classics under Zhou Liangjun, who was the fourth disciple of Hu Dengzhou. In 1841 He went on pilgrimage to Mecca and visited Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Istanbul, Rhode Island, Aden, Singapore and other places. He returned to China eight years later and set up tents in Jianshui, Huilong, Yuxi Camp and other places.
Ma Fuchu was the successor and promoter of the Sinicization of Islam. He supplemented the academic theories of Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi and other predecessors, and combined Islamic philosophy with traditional Confucianism.
Ma Dexin, together with Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Zhu, is known as China's "four major classics scholars and translators and annotators".
Ma Lianyuan, courtesy name Zhiben, was born in Daying, Yuxi, Yunnan, in the 21st year of Daoguang (1841). His ancestors were Bukhara people in Central Asia, descendants of Sai Dianchi and Fansi Ding. Ma Lianyuan also went to Mecca for pilgrimage. He was Ma Fuchu's successor and the most influential Confucian classics master in Yunnan. He and his descendants made outstanding contributions to the Confucian classics education in Yunnan. The Yunnan School was differentiated from the Shaanxi School and also belonged to the Hu Dengzhou teaching system. It had the characteristics of both the Shaanxi School and the Shandong School, and its scope of influence was limited to the Yunnan-Guizhou region.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Ma Lianyuan fled to India to avoid sectarian disputes. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), he returned to life in Kanpur, India, at the age of 63. The tombstone built for him by Muslims in India is still there today.
In the back hill of Daying Village is the Muslim Cemetery, which can be reached by tricycle in 10 minutes from the entrance of the village. The cemetery of Ma Fuchu is buried here.
Ma Fuchu's representative works include "Sidian Yaohui" and "Dahua Zonggui". The first five volumes of his translation of "Baoming Zhenjing Direct Interpretation" are the earliest translations of verses of the Quran in China.
"Zhenquan Yaolu", "Guide Yaoyan" and "Tianfang Xingli Annotation" are introductions and annotations to the ancestors Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi and Ma Zhu.
Ma Fuchu once followed Ma Rulong to the Qing Dynasty and was named "Second Rank Burke" and "General Hui Tutor in Southern Yunnan" by the Qing court. However, after he decided to retreat to the mountains and concentrate on academics, he was brutally murdered by the Qing court in 1874 at the age of 80.
Coming back from the Muslim Cemetery, I found a snack bar at the entrance of Daying Village and had a bowl of rolled noodles before heading to my next destination, Najiaying.
Yunnan people eat a lot of various kinds of rice noodles for breakfast. This is the first time I tried this rolled rice noodle. It tastes good and costs 6 yuan a bowl.
Najiaying is also a Hui village under Yuxi City. You need to return to Yuxi City South Bus Terminal and take a bus for about two hours to arrive. If you drive by yourself, it only takes an hour to drive from Daying to Najiaying. This is why I think you should rent a car when traveling in Yunnan. Otherwise, you can only go back to the city and transfer.
The Najiaying Mosque is very spectacular and one of the largest in Yunnan. This new-style mosque was built in 2004 and there is a women's mosque next to it.
The living conditions of the Hui Muslims in Najiaying look good. I saw that several houses have been equipped with elevators.
Najiaying has produced many famous scholars, such as Naxun (1911-1989), who went to Al-Azhar University for further study and translated the entire book "One Thousand and One Nights". In 1947, he returned to China and served as the editor-in-chief of "Islamic Duo Bao". In his later years, he was elected as a director of the Chinese Translators Association.
Nazhong (1910-2008) was a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a famous translator. He presided over the translation of "History of Arab Islamic Culture" and "History of Islamic Academic Thought". He served as acting principal of Kunming Mingde Middle School and honorary president of Kunming Islamic College.
One kilometer away from the new mosque is the Ancient City Mosque, which retains the traditional architectural style.
The ancient city mosque was built around 1370 by Nasuru and his son. Najiaying has been a place for the production of guns and ammunition since ancient times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was transformed and has now become a base for the production of knives. There are kitchen knife shops everywhere in the streets.
The ancient city mosque has a very simple appearance and is a traditional Chinese style architectural structure.
The window grilles above the main entrance of the main hall are very eye-catching. They are painted with various flowers, plants and buildings, but there are no animal images.
This is the same as the "Four Nothings" picture on the large screen wall in front of the Niujie Mosque.
There are many snack shops on both sides of the street in front of the Najiaying Mosque. They are all local specialties and the prices are cheap.
A cup of these fried potatoes only cost 1 yuan. The little girl in the headscarf looked at me and looked at me like I had never seen the world, so she kept snickering.
A cup of bayberry juice costs one yuan. There are six or seven big bayberries at the bottom of the cup. It is sour, sweet, and ice-cold.
Chadian milk, which costs one yuan a bag, is a local specialty dairy product recommended by my friends in Yunnan that I must try.
Quraysh ice cream costs two yuan a ball. The food in Najiaying can be said to be of high quality and low price. I heard that there is a morning market in the morning with more types of food. However, I have to continue the next journey, so I can only leave some regrets. My Yunnan halal journey has just begun. The next issue will continue to tell about my Shading halal journey.
Summary: Muslim Travel Guide China 2026: Yuxi Fuxian Lake, Najiaying Mosque and Yunnan Halal Food is presented here as a clear English travel account for Muslim readers, beginning with this scene: Mosques in Beijing have been closed since the outbreak of the epidemic. I have not participated in collective gatherings for a long time. I miss going to the mosque to pray. Then I learned from my friends in. The article keeps the original place names, food details, photographs, and cultural context while focusing on Yunnan Travel, Najiaying Mosque, Halal Food.
Mosques in Beijing have been closed since the outbreak of the epidemic. I have not participated in collective gatherings for a long time. I miss going to the mosque to pray. Then I learned from my friends in Yunnan that the mosques in Yunnan have been opened normally, so I booked a flight ticket in only five minutes and decided to fly to Yunnan, hoping to attend a prayer in Yunnan.
I have been to Yunnan three times, including Kunming, Dali, Shangri-La and Xishuangbanna. Please see the Yunnan Halal Food Map for a guide. There are more important destinations to visit during this trip to Yunnan. One is the Memorial Hall of Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan, the other is the Shadian Grand Mosque, and the last one is the Burmese Rohingya Muslim Quarter in Ruili.
My itinerary: Beijing → Kunming → Yuxi → Mengzi → Shadian → Kunming → Ruili → Beijing.
During the epidemic, domestic air tickets were as low as cabbage prices. The round-trip air ticket from Beijing to Kunming only cost 550 yuan. My trip to Yunnan lasted for 6 days and cost less than 2,000 yuan in total. This was unimaginable in the past, because June is the peak tourist season in Yunnan, and all consumer prices will rise.
It takes about three hours to fly from Beijing to Kunming. Because Yunnan is mountainous, transportation between places is not very convenient. Kunming is often used as a transfer station before setting off for the destination. My first destination is Yuxi, because Yuxi is close to Kunming. Yuxi has a very beautiful Fuxian Lake, which is the largest water storage lake and the largest plateau deep-water lake in my country. It is known as the back garden of Kunming.
Fuxian Lake Guanglong Wetland Park
Fuxian Lake is only more than 50 kilometers away from Kunming. Learning from the past, I recommend renting a car and driving around Yunnan after arriving in Kunming. This can save a lot of time on the road. Take the bus to Kunming South Railway Station, which costs 25 yuan per person and takes about an hour.
Fuxian Lake is very huge and has many scenic spots. When visiting for the first time, I recommend staying near Moon Bay Wetland Park to enjoy the natural scenery and to eat conveniently. There is the only halal restaurant here, Mulan Pavilion.
, is a local flavor restaurant opened by Yuxi Hui Muslims.
Muslim Mulan Pavilion Hotel
The owners of Mulange are all local Hui Muslims in Yuxi. They also have a halal restaurant called Xiyuan Restaurant in Chengjiang City, Yuxi.
, has been in business for more than 20 years. There were originally three halal restaurants near Moon Bay Wetland Park. The other two have closed down. Now this one is the only one left because the house was bought by the owner himself. Although the epidemic has had a great impact on the tourism industry, this restaurant can still persist.
Select dishes
The rules of restaurants in Yunnan are to order based on the ingredients. Which ingredients you want to eat can be cooked by the kitchen. You can also choose the method. The ingredients look fresh and you can eat with confidence. Now is the season for fungi in Yunnan. The lady boss specifically told me that these fungi are wild fungi picked from the mountains and recommended that I eat a kind of mushroom called Gushu mushroom.
The main fish of Fuxian Lake is Kanglang fish
One of Fuxian Lake's specialty delicacies is stone pot fish. You must choose the fish before eating. This fish is called mandarin fish, which is a specialty of Fuxian Lake. The fish is relatively large and I can't finish it by myself. The boss lady very thoughtfully suggested that I divide one fish into two portions. She cooked it for me. Half of it will be made as stone pot fish and the other half will be braised in braise tomorrow. I think this suggestion is great.
Stone pot that can spray steam
First, I watched the waiter open the steam stone pot, and steam came out of the pot. Then he put half of the fish in the pot and started cooking it. He closed the lid and the fish was cooked in less than ten minutes.
After eating the fish, put Guzhu mushrooms in the pot
The boss lady was afraid that I wouldn't understand, so she wrote the name of the mushroom on the note. She said that the mushroom must be boiled for five minutes longer, otherwise it will be poisonous. She suggested not to add water for dipping when eating, just eat it in vain, and you can taste the fragrance of the mushroom.
Braised potato rice in copper pot
Another specialty food of Fuxian Lake, braised potato rice in a copper pot, is like fried rice, but with much richer ingredients. When the copper pot is served, be careful not to touch it with your hands, as you may get burned.
After eating and drinking, the landlady asked me where I planned to go. I had no idea where to go. She suggested that I go to Guanglong Wetland Park, which is about 8 kilometers away from Moon Bay. It is a newly developed niche attraction. She showed me a video of the beautiful scenery on Douyin. I immediately decided to go. The landlady also lent me her husband’s mountain bike. It was really convenient to ride along Fuxian Lake to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
There are several wetland parks in Fuxian Lake. Guanglong National Wetland Park is a government-developed project and is free to the public. The entire park is simply a sea of flowers.
As soon as you enter the park entrance, you see a large field of lavender, and you can smell the fragrance of flowers everywhere.
Fuxian Lake is really big. Standing on the shore, you feel like you are facing the sea.
During the epidemic, there were few tourists. I saw few tourists in the entire park. I only saw gardeners repairing flowers and plants.
Thank you very much to the proprietress for providing the information, which allows me to enjoy such beautiful and moving scenery for free.
The scenery of Moon Bay Wetland Park is not as beautiful as Guanglong Wetland Park. Moon Bay is a park supporting the hotel. You need to pay an admission fee of 30 yuan to enter the park, but you can use the ticket to consume goods of equivalent value in the park, which is considered free of charge.
Artificial beach at Moon Bay Wetland Park
After visiting Fuxian Lake, you can take a bus to Chengjiang City to go to Yuxi City. The boss of Mulange just wanted to deliver meals to the children who were studying in Chengjiang, so he drove me to Chengjiang Passenger Terminal and asked me to take a bus to Yuxi City in one hour. The reason I want to go to Yuxi is to visit the grave of Baba Ma Fuchu in Daying Village in Yuxi, and then go to Najiaying.
The next day, the boss lady braised my other half of the mandarin fish and gave me a bowl of soup. The braised mandarin fish was also very fragrant.
Arrive at Yuxi Station in the evening
Leaving Fuxian Lake, it takes about 2 hours to take a bus from Chengjiang Passenger Terminal to Yuxi City.
Yuxi City Mosque
The Yuxi City Mosque was first built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. After several expansions, it was moved here in 2000 and reached its current scale.
During the Hui uprising in the Qing Dynasty, there was a mosque in Yuxi that was later destroyed due to the failure of the uprising.
After praying at the mosque in the city, I saw a halal Japanese restaurant 300 meters away. Since there are no halal Japanese restaurants in Beijing now, and the original Hefengzhiyan also changed its owner, I decided to try it in Yuxi.
Muxuewu Japanese Food Store
The environment of the restaurant is very beautiful, the waiter wears a headscarf and looks very young.
After asking, I learned that the clerk was a Hui from Daying, Yuxi. I was going to Daying Mosque the next day.
I chose three sushi combinations, which cost 27 yuan in total. This price would have to be doubled to get it in Beijing.
I ordered another bowl of Japanese ramen at the bottom. The last time I had halal Japanese ramen was during the halal trip in Hokkaido, Japan.
Daying Mosque
Starting from Yuxi City, you can take a taxi to Daying Village in about half an hour, or you can take a bus for about an hour.
Daying Village is a Hui village, and Daying Mosque is also an Arabic school. When I arrived, students were in class.
Daying Mosque was built during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1821-1850). It was the center of Islamic scripture education in Yunnan in the late Qing Dynasty. Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan both set up their offices here.
The purpose of my trip to Daying Mosque is to visit the Memorial Hall of Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan. I have collected a copy of "Montserge" co-authored by the two sages.
"Montserge"
"Montsergue" is a work co-authored by the sages Ma Fuchu and Ma Lianyuan. The original work was written in Arabic and is a grammar and morphology textbook for Arabic language learning in Jingtang. Professor Lin Zhongming once brought this book to Egypt. Professors from Al-Azhar University admired the book very much when they saw it. They admired the Chinese Muslim scholars for their profound knowledge of Arabic. Professor Ma Jian also used this book as a main reference when editing Arabic grammar textbooks at Peking University.
The memorial hall is usually not open. I went to the principal's office to see Principal Suo and explained my purpose. The principal opened the door of the memorial hall specially for me.
Ma Dexin (1794-1874), named Fuchu, was born in Dali, Yunnan. He studied Arabic with his father since he was a child, and then went to Xi'an to study Confucian classics under Zhou Liangjun, who was the fourth disciple of Hu Dengzhou. In 1841 He went on pilgrimage to Mecca and visited Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Istanbul, Rhode Island, Aden, Singapore and other places. He returned to China eight years later and set up tents in Jianshui, Huilong, Yuxi Camp and other places.
Ma Fuchu was the successor and promoter of the Sinicization of Islam. He supplemented the academic theories of Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi and other predecessors, and combined Islamic philosophy with traditional Confucianism.
Ma Dexin, together with Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Zhu, is known as China's "four major classics scholars and translators and annotators".
Ma Lianyuan, courtesy name Zhiben, was born in Daying, Yuxi, Yunnan, in the 21st year of Daoguang (1841). His ancestors were Bukhara people in Central Asia, descendants of Sai Dianchi and Fansi Ding. Ma Lianyuan also went to Mecca for pilgrimage. He was Ma Fuchu's successor and the most influential Confucian classics master in Yunnan. He and his descendants made outstanding contributions to the Confucian classics education in Yunnan. The Yunnan School was differentiated from the Shaanxi School and also belonged to the Hu Dengzhou teaching system. It had the characteristics of both the Shaanxi School and the Shandong School, and its scope of influence was limited to the Yunnan-Guizhou region.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Ma Lianyuan fled to India to avoid sectarian disputes. In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), he returned to life in Kanpur, India, at the age of 63. The tombstone built for him by Muslims in India is still there today.
In the back hill of Daying Village is the Muslim Cemetery, which can be reached by tricycle in 10 minutes from the entrance of the village. The cemetery of Ma Fuchu is buried here.
Ma Fuchu's representative works include "Sidian Yaohui" and "Dahua Zonggui". The first five volumes of his translation of "Baoming Zhenjing Direct Interpretation" are the earliest translations of verses of the Quran in China.
"Zhenquan Yaolu", "Guide Yaoyan" and "Tianfang Xingli Annotation" are introductions and annotations to the ancestors Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi and Ma Zhu.
Ma Fuchu once followed Ma Rulong to the Qing Dynasty and was named "Second Rank Burke" and "General Hui Tutor in Southern Yunnan" by the Qing court. However, after he decided to retreat to the mountains and concentrate on academics, he was brutally murdered by the Qing court in 1874 at the age of 80.
Coming back from the Muslim Cemetery, I found a snack bar at the entrance of Daying Village and had a bowl of rolled noodles before heading to my next destination, Najiaying.
Yunnan people eat a lot of various kinds of rice noodles for breakfast. This is the first time I tried this rolled rice noodle. It tastes good and costs 6 yuan a bowl.
Najiaying is also a Hui village under Yuxi City. You need to return to Yuxi City South Bus Terminal and take a bus for about two hours to arrive. If you drive by yourself, it only takes an hour to drive from Daying to Najiaying. This is why I think you should rent a car when traveling in Yunnan. Otherwise, you can only go back to the city and transfer.
The Najiaying Mosque is very spectacular and one of the largest in Yunnan. This new-style mosque was built in 2004 and there is a women's mosque next to it.
The living conditions of the Hui Muslims in Najiaying look good. I saw that several houses have been equipped with elevators.
Najiaying has produced many famous scholars, such as Naxun (1911-1989), who went to Al-Azhar University for further study and translated the entire book "One Thousand and One Nights". In 1947, he returned to China and served as the editor-in-chief of "Islamic Duo Bao". In his later years, he was elected as a director of the Chinese Translators Association.
Nazhong (1910-2008) was a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a famous translator. He presided over the translation of "History of Arab Islamic Culture" and "History of Islamic Academic Thought". He served as acting principal of Kunming Mingde Middle School and honorary president of Kunming Islamic College.
One kilometer away from the new mosque is the Ancient City Mosque, which retains the traditional architectural style.
The ancient city mosque was built around 1370 by Nasuru and his son. Najiaying has been a place for the production of guns and ammunition since ancient times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was transformed and has now become a base for the production of knives. There are kitchen knife shops everywhere in the streets.
The ancient city mosque has a very simple appearance and is a traditional Chinese style architectural structure.
The window grilles above the main entrance of the main hall are very eye-catching. They are painted with various flowers, plants and buildings, but there are no animal images.
This is the same as the "Four Nothings" picture on the large screen wall in front of the Niujie Mosque.
There are many snack shops on both sides of the street in front of the Najiaying Mosque. They are all local specialties and the prices are cheap.
A cup of these fried potatoes only cost 1 yuan. The little girl in the headscarf looked at me and looked at me like I had never seen the world, so she kept snickering.
A cup of bayberry juice costs one yuan. There are six or seven big bayberries at the bottom of the cup. It is sour, sweet, and ice-cold.
Chadian milk, which costs one yuan a bag, is a local specialty dairy product recommended by my friends in Yunnan that I must try.
Quraysh ice cream costs two yuan a ball. The food in Najiaying can be said to be of high quality and low price. I heard that there is a morning market in the morning with more types of food. However, I have to continue the next journey, so I can only leave some regrets. My Yunnan halal journey has just begun. The next issue will continue to tell about my Shading halal journey.
