1957年秋季的一天,我受中央民族学院(今中央民族大学)历史系的推荐,去安定门内分司厅中国回民文化协进会参加一个编书的会,会议是为第二年成立宁夏回族自治区作准备,用一年的时间编写一本《回回民族的历史和现状》的小册子。这是中央下达的任务,回协负责组织,由白寿彝先生牵头,成立一个由几位参加过回民支队的回族领导干部和几位回族学者组 One day in the autumn of 1957, I was recommended by the Department of History of the Central University for Nationalities (now the Central University for Nationalities) to go to a book meeting of the Chinese Muslim Culture Association in the branch of Andingmen. The meeting was set up for the second year in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to prepare a year with the preparation of a booklet entitled “The History and Current Situation of Hui People”. This is the task assigned by the Central Government. The Society for Recovery is responsible for the organization. Led by Mr. Bai Shouyi, a leadership delegation consisting of several leading cadres of the Hui nationality who participated in the Muslim Detachment and several Hui scholars and scholars