Editing Peranakan Chinese (section)

=== Chinese cultural Influence on Southeast Asian Muslims ===
Muslim Southeast Asians adopted Chinese symbols like the colour yellow for royals, including Malays, Javanese and Moros.

One Dutch mentioned "yellow Chinese belts which only the Javanese will buy."<ref>{{cite book |last=Ma |first=Debin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6xBDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22yellow+Chinese+belts+which+only+the+Javanese+will+buy.%22&pg=PA242 |title=Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900 |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-89561-3 |edition=reprint |series=The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 |location= |page=242}}</ref>

Malays and Dayaks in Borneo did not use milk or dairy probably due to Chinese influence.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Scott |first=Mrs. Samuel Bryan |year=1913 |title=Mohammedanism in Borneo: Notes for a Study of the Local Modifications of Islam and the Extent of its Influence on the native Tribes |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.104346/2015.104346.Journal-Of-The-American-Oriental-Society-Vol33_djvu.txt |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |location=Philadelphia, Pa. |volume=33 |page=330 |doi=10.2307/592838 |jstor=592838}}</ref>

Malays adopted the [[Chinese zodiac#Asian|Chinese zodiac]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Farouk Yahya |title=Malay Magic and Divination in Illuminated Manuscripts |publisher=Brill |year=2015 |isbn=978-90-04-30172-6 |pages=296–306 |chapter=Glossary |chapter-url=https://brill.com/view/book/9789004301726/B9789004301726-s011.xml}}</ref> The [[Dragon (zodiac)|Dragon]] (''Loong'') is normally equated with the [[nāga]] but it is sometimes called Big Snake (''ular besar'') while the [[Snake (zodiac)|Snake sign]] is called Second Snake (''ular sani''). This is also recorded in a 19th-century manuscript compiled by [[John Leyden]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leyden |first=John |url=http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_15936_fs001r |title=Notes and vocabularies in Malay, Thai, Burmese and other minor languages |publisher=[[The British Library]] |page=104 |chapter=Cycle of years used by the Malays |author-link=John Leyden |access-date=16 June 2022 |chapter-url=http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_15936_f103v |via=Digitised Manuscripts}}</ref>