Immigrants from Bai Di

Southeast Asia is the "second hometown" of many China people, and the relations between Southeast Asian countries and China are constant.

Due to historical reasons, overseas Chinese have become the most special existence in the international world. They travel overseas with the blood of China people. Because of the large number of China people, China culture has spread to all corners of the world, and the mystery of the eastern world from far away to close at hand has led generations of foreign adventurers to China, a paradise on earth.

In the Tang Dynasty, "all nations came to Korea" became common. At that time, people shuttled between land and sea with the calmness and confidence of the Tang Empire, bringing the confidence of the Tang people to the world.

In the Ming Dynasty, "Zheng He's voyages to the West" directly exported China culture to other countries, and Xuanwei went overseas and popularized Nanyang, which was beyond the reach of China dynasties.

While many countries envy China for its vast territory and rich resources, China has also deepened its understanding of them. Because of the prosperity of China, with the deepening of China's position as an international leader, ordinary China people have also learned a lot of overseas anecdotes and customs.

It is against this background that when China, a rich country, turns into a year-round war, people are displaced and life is really difficult to maintain. They looked at their neighbors with life and death. At that time, Nanyang, not far away, became the home of many people who fled to China, so the relationship between Southeast Asian countries and China was intertwined in history. We are only separated by a strip of water, and we are related by blood. More importantly, our civilization is very high.

Looking through the classics to find the roots, Nanyang's historical records can be traced back to the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. The ten countries in Southwest China described by Sima Qian include Yi, Ran, Migration, Qiong, Bo, Kun, Dian and Yue. Although the southwestern countries at that time were not the same as Southeast Asia now, the Vietnamese now claim to be ".

Ban Gu also recorded in Geography of Han Dynasty that the maritime trade of merchants in Han Dynasty once spread all over the South China Sea countries and the whole Indian Ocean. As early as when Zhang Qian opened the Silk Road, China had trade with Myanmar, Viet Nam and other countries. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, thousands of scholars and officials fled to Vietnam because Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty. The intersection of China and Southeast Asia in the Western Han Dynasty is the earliest recorded history in the world.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the five lakes devastated the Central Plains, and more people from the Central Plains moved to Southeast Asia. In the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao attacked Guangzhou again, and war broke out in Guangzhou, and Guangzhou people fled to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Mongolian fighters marched south and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, and a large number of adherents of the Song Dynasty were also in trouble here.

In the fragmentary fragments of China's history, our relationship with Southeast Asia was complicated for a long time, and China really started the road of "going down to Southeast Asia" from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. During this period, China's domestic background has become more and more complicated, and there are more and more intersections with overseas countries. Some frictions have arisen, and war is inevitable. No matter the war at home or abroad, ordinary people have been greatly affected, so the fleeing people and the declining nobles have fled overseas. Due to the geographical proximity between Southeast Asia and China, Southeast Asia has become the most suitable destination for immigrants and a pure land for China people to take refuge.

This migration activity of China people is called "Lower South Asia" in history. "Going to South Asia" has also become the most special part of China in the past.

Although the history of "going to Nanyang" can be traced back to Han Dynasty, its characteristics and great development still refer to the period from Ming Dynasty to Republic of China.

The main immigrants of "Lower Nanyang" are people from the southeast coastal areas, including Cantonese and Fujian people. First of all, calling Southeast Asia "Nanyang" is a common name in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Under this heading, we can see that neighboring countries were defined with China as the center. Because at that time, China was still a powerful place, and the rulers thought they were "heavenly kings". "Nanyang" mainly includes Malay Archipelago, Philippine Archipelago, Indonesian Archipelago, Indochina Peninsula and Malay Peninsula. Including Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/5th century, Chinese communities have appeared in Java, Sumatra and other places. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the government promulgated the sea ban policy many times, but due to the prosperity of overseas trade, the population going to Southeast Asia continued to increase. Later, due to the active anti-Qing movement of Han people in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of refugees and peasant troops scattered by the Qing soldiers, as well as the remnants of the Ming army who failed in the anti-Qing movement and the Ming adherents who were unwilling to grovel fled to Southeast Asia, which set off a climax of immigration to Southeast Asia.

During the crisis of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shangchuan, commander-in-chief and deputy commander of Gao, Lei and Lian, led more than 3,000 families of soldiers and more than 50 warships to immigrate to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, so this place was called "Ming Township".

After the overthrow of the Ming regime, Li Yong was forced into exile in Myanmar. At that time, relatives of officials and soldiers still followed him. Some of them fled to Siam, and some settled in remote areas of Myanmar. It is said that most of Jia Gui and Jia Min in northern Myanmar today are descendants of these officers and men.

Although many people fled to Southeast Asia in batches because of the unbearable war at this time, according to a survey conducted by China Pacific Society 1935 on the reasons for refugees going abroad, 69.95% of them went abroad because of "economic oppression". At that time, more people really couldn't live in their hometown, so they tried their best to find a way. They didn't lose hope in life, but still went to Southeast Asia with a childlike heart to look for opportunities to turn the tables against the wind. They are eager to have a fair and pure soil for them to take root. They can strive to support their dream of starting from scratch and strive for a peaceful and peaceful living environment for themselves and their families.

Humiliated in modern times, Europe was forced to go abroad. When China was still a feudal society, it took the lead in establishing capitalism, entered the industrial age and began its colonial journey. After the British and Dutch colonized Nanyang, they stepped up the opening of commercial ports in Southeast Asia, which accelerated the development of the whole Nanyang. They tried to integrate the Far East into the whole world colonial trade system. In the process of construction and development, the demand for labor is amazing.