What are Malays like in Malaysia?

Malays are a relatively extensive ethnic group living in Southeast Asia. Studying the development history of Malays is of great help to understand the culture of Malays today. Starting with the origin, development, distribution and differences of Malay, this paper gradually introduces all aspects of Malay. It is worth seeing. Malays (Malay: Melayu), also known as witches and Malays, are a nation in Southeast Asia. Malays are one of the aborigines in Southeast Asia. Compared with the nations all over the world, Malay is a very young nation.

Most Malays believe in Islam, mainly distributed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, southern Thailand and the Philippines in Southeast Asia. Malays in the Philippines believe in Catholicism because of Spanish colonization.

The Malay name comes from Melayu. According to some historians, it may have come from an ancient country on Sumatra, which was founded by Indians about 1500 years ago-the end of Romanian (Malay is also Melayu[ 1]). Luoyu site is located near Shuangxi Merayus [3], a tributary of the upper reaches of a river [2] on Sumatra Island. Later, Luo Yu was annexed by Sanfo Qi, another famous ancient country on Sumatra.

Another way of saying it is that the noun Melayu comes from a word pronounced Malaya[4] in Indian Sanskrit. This Sanskrit word means mountain or high place.

The origin of Malays Where did Malays come from? Historians have no definite conclusion. But there are two main theories, one is from Yunnan, China, and the other is from Malay Archipelago.

Yunnan origin theory

The main supporters of Yunnan origin theory are R.H. Geldern, J.H. Kern, J. R Foster, J. R Logan, Slamet Muljana and Asmah Haji Omar.

The basis of Yunnan origin theory is as follows:

The ancient axe found in Malay Archipelago is similar to some areas in Central Asia, indicating that Central Asian residents immigrated to Malay Archipelago.

Malay customs are similar to Assam (Assam is the area between India and Myanmar).

Malay is similar to Cambodian, and Cambodians are thought to come from Yunnan. They went south along the Mekong River to Cambodia.

The origin theory of Yunnan is accepted by the general public, and Malaysian middle school history textbooks all introduce that Malays originated in Yunnan. According to this theory, the ancestors of Malays migrated from Yunnan to the Malay Archipelago in two batches in different ages. The ancestors of these two groups of Malays were called Primitive Malays (Malay: Melayu Proto) and Mixed Malays (Malay: Melayu Deutro) respectively.

Malay costumes Malay men's and women's costumes are colorful.

Malays have their traditional clothes, called dresses. Dresses are worn on formal occasions and grand festivals. At present, the most popular dress is "Buddy" (batik). Badi clothing worn by men is called Malaysia's national costume. Buddy has exquisite designs, various patterns and unique styles, and some knitting techniques are quite fine. Buddy is a long-sleeved shirt with a symmetrical pattern, but one with an asymmetrical pattern is not the real Buddy. Buddy is made of batik cloth and silk with different textures, but most of them are wide, big, thin and cold. "Buddies" have long sleeves and short sleeves, and those who attend dinner wear long sleeves. Traditional Malay women's dresses are divided into tops and sarongs (tube skirts), which are as wide as robes and have long sleeves. The apron is very wide, usually as long as the ankle. When Malay women wear traditional clothes, they wear a thin and gorgeous scarf over their shoulders or chests. Their dress code forbids topless and bare arms. The modeling and design features of Malay costumes have strong national feelings.

Malaysians prefer bright colors such as red and orange. They think black is a negative color. Therefore, Malay clothing always gives you a happy and unrestrained feeling, showing tropical customs everywhere.

People who have been to Malaysia remember it vividly. Teams of Malay women dressed in colorful sarongs are like bunches of flowers blooming in spring, dressing up small towns in Malaysia.

Primitive Malays and Mixed Malays Primitive Malays and Mixed Malays are also called Austronesian Language Family (Malay: Indonesian [5]), and their culture is Neolithic. Austronesian language family is actually the last people to move into Malay archipelago. Before that, there were Australians (English: Australoid), Duolun people in Li Ni (English: Negrito) and melanesians (English: Melanesoid).

The following is an introduction to these two groups of immigrants:

Primitive Malays

According to unearthed cultural relics, primitive Malays lived in the Malay archipelago in 2500 BC. They have agricultural skills.

Mixed-race Malay

They existed in the Malay archipelago from 65438 BC to 0500 BC. Most of them live by the sea and have developed fisheries.

On the origin of Malay archipelago

The Origin of Malay Archipelago is supported by J Crawford, K Himmli, Sutan Takdir Ali Chabanne and Goris Clough.

The following is the origin of the Malay archipelago.

Malays and Javanese have a high culture in the19th century. This achievement can only be achieved by the continuous development of local ancient culture. In this way, Malays don't come from anywhere. But born and raised.