二十世纪上半叶,照相机在中国老百姓眼中还是一件十分稀罕的舶来品,照相更是一种难得的奢望。只有很少一部分中国人,才有机会进入照相机的镜头。如此看来,二十世纪三十年代留存至今的陕甘宁回族人的一批老照片,就显得格外珍贵。翻看这些老照片,就像揭开了历史的帷幕,使我们一窥近百年前回族人的生活百态。1936年,美国传教士毕敬士深入回族聚居的陕甘宁地区,沿途拍摄了大量以回族为主要对象的珍贵照 The first half of the twentieth century, the camera in the eyes of ordinary people in China is still a very rare imported goods, photography is a rare luxury. Only a very small percentage of Chinese have the chance to get into the camera. In this sense, a batch of old photos of Hui, Shan-Gansu-Ningh people still living in the 1930s is extremely precious. Looking at these old photos is just like unveiling the curtain of history and giving us a glimpse of the lives of the Hui people nearly a century ago. In 1936, the American missionary Bi Jingshi went deep into the Gansu-Ningxia region inhabited by Hui people and shot a large number of precious photographs with the Hui people as the main target