唐宋时期,东西交通大开,各民族交往密切,文化交流更加频繁,来华的穆斯林商人、贡使、学者、宗教人士等遍布中国主要城市。元朝,因蒙古人西征东来中国的中亚、西亚穆斯林,随元朝统一全国的战争分散在全国各地,或经商,或驻屯,其中的大部分娶妻生子,落居中国。这些人与唐宋时期入居的回回先民一道,在全国各地建立了一个个星罗棋布的定居 During the Tang and Song dynasties, traffic between the east and the west opened with close contacts and exchanges of cultures. More and more Chinese Muslim businessmen, tribesmen, scholars and religious figures were found in major cities in China. During the Yuan Dynasty, Muslims in Central Asia and Western Asia headed eastwards to China because of the Mongols, scattered throughout the country with the Yuan Dynasty in a nationwide war, or engaged in business or garrison. Most of them married and lived in China. Together with the Hui people who lived in the Tang and Song dynasties, these people established settlements all over the country