Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture In Gansu Province Muslim Merchants Business Activity Research

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province in central south-west, is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, is in the transition zone of the Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. It is because of this particular location, Linxia since ancient times is the multicultural convergence zone. Muslims here in the inheritance and development of Islamic culture at the same time, but also the integration of the Han, Mongolian, Tibetan cultural characteristics. Collision with diverse ethnic cultural exchanges throughout Linxia Muslims throughout the development process, but also to the culture here both inland farming culture and ethnic characteristics of nomadic culture. Linxia fellow Muslims in adhering to the traditional culture, based on its unique national spirit of wisdom and hard work for the development of Linxia has made a great contribution.For a long time, Linxia Muslim businessman in the midst of economic activity has been a broad national characteristics and cultural networks. In contacts with other cultures, the Muslim businessman here has always maintained their traditional culture, engaged in economic activity in the context of Islamic culture in all aspects of exhibit distinct characteristics. Currently, Linxia Muslim economic activity is to get a huge development, the number of its business public, many business sectors, the wide range of activities have reached an unprecedented scale. Based on the research status of Linxia Muslim merchants on the development of economic activity, combined with analysis and comparison of theory and practice characteristics of the main economic activity in the next Islamic culture and religious backgrounds under influence of Chinese traditional culture, to find out the similarities and differences, so that by learning from Linxia Muslim businessman economic activity further development is the purpose and value of this thesis lies.