Nanyang, where does it belong now?

Nanyang was the name of Southeast Asia in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In many historical documents of China, there are records about Nanyang. Nanyang is a general term for Southeast Asia in ancient China. In a broad sense, Nanyang includes Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia 1 1 countries. In a narrow sense, Singapore and Java, which have a large population in China, are major cities.

According to the records of historians, China had contacts with Myanmar, Viet Nam and other countries around the 1 century. In the Tang Dynasty, some people moved south to Nanyang to escape taxes and wars. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the number of people who moved to Nanyang began to increase. Because most of the early overseas Chinese moved here to escape the war and seek a livelihood, they settled down and vigorously developed farming. The economy soon prospered.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, due to more frequent foreign trade, more people moved to Nanyang. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, there were frequent wars in the mainland, and Nanyang became the best choice for Chinese people to seek survival opportunities. More overseas Chinese have crossed the ocean and where to make a living. After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Han people moved to Nanyang, which was called "Lower Nanyang" in history.

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The Influence of Nanyang on China

On the basis of Nanyang, we can mobilize the resources of the Central Plains and the sea, and then strive to set things right in the depths of the mainland and turbulent areas. These add up to a complete history of China.

A set of modern legal system and modern economic technology provided by the west, and because it is located in the trade channel between the west and the Qing Dynasty, there is still sufficient monetary capital here.

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