This paper takes an overview of the features of the concept Chinese Muslim piety from the Chinese Islamic classics written in the early modern age, and considers the relationship between Chinese Islam and Confucianism, the traditional thought of China. Chinese Muslims value piety, but in accordance with the traditional Confucianist scriptures of China, especially “The Doctrine of the Mean”. At that time, Islam replaces the Heaven expounded by Confucianism with God. I have pointed out the fact that their valuing of piety comes from a consciousness of being the people who carry on Chinese tradition. I have also submitted the hypothesis that, although ancestral rituals and religious services were performed in a manner that lacked a mortuary tablet, might not China- Arabia calligraphy have been used as a substitute for that tablet?
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