What do you mean by going down to Nanyang?

Nanyang refers to the deep area of Southeast Asia (excluding northern Vietnam, etc.). ), including Sri Lanka and so on. East of the Arabian Sea belongs to Nanyang (Middle East and East Africa belong to the Western Ocean).

China people go to Nanyang for activities (business, business, work and migration), which is called "going to Nanyang" or "going to Nanyang" in history.

Small-scale period: Before Zheng He went to the Western Ocean (going to Nanyang in the early stage), it was a small-scale activity for officials and ordinary people to go to Nanyang. There was a Yuan Claw War in the Yuan Dynasty.

Flood period: the period when European powers ruled all parts of Southeast Asia, hoping to attract Chinese to develop. In addition, there have been several chaos in China, and immigrants have flooded in to seek a livelihood. During the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, China people went to Southeast Asia to do business (the Maritime Silk Road), to work, and even immigrated to Southeast Asia (the main reason at first was that the Dutch authorities who established and ruled Indonesia came to South China to recruit workers), which was huge. The Natuna Islands were founded by China people.