Together with the emergence of Yunnan Hui communities which followed the main cultural trend of China, the Hui scholars of Yunnan in the late period of the Qing Dynasty began to interpret Confucianism in a rational way.

• 与云南回族社团出现的适应华夏文化的潮流相平行，清季的回回宗教知识界中出现了以理性态度来理解儒家思想的学术探讨。