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Salar

The "Salar Ethnic Group," with a population of 87,690, mainly live in the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County in eastern Qinghai Province. There is also a sparse distribution in Gansu, Xinjiang and some other counties in Qinghai province.

The Salar people have their own language which belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic language family. most of them can speak Chinese. The language of the Salar people has no written form and Han character is widely used in daily life. All the Salar people believe in Islam. The ancestors of the Salar people were the Samarkand people who migrated from central Asia to China during the Yuan Dynasty (1271AD-1368AD). They entered into the eastern Qinghai Province and settled down in the Dunhua area. The continuous integration of the Samarkand people with Tibetans, Huis, Hans, and Mongolians finally gave birth to the present Salar ethnic group.

The Salar people call themselves "Salar'er". Han people usually call them "Sala", "Salacu", "Salahui", etc. After the founding of the PRC, Xinhua satar autonomous county was established in 1954. Satar people got the right to be the master of their own land. The Salar people take agriculture as their mainstay. In addition, some Salar people also take up animal husbandry and horticulture.

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