Are Malays from the interior of China?

Malays mainly come from Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi along the coast of China.

Chinese Malaysians, also known as Chinese Malaysians or Chinese Malaysians for short, are Chinese Malaysians, and most of them call themselves China or Tang people. Malaysian Chinese mainly migrated from China, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. Chinese in Malaysia used to call themselves Tang people and Chinese in ancient times. After the founding of the Republic of China, they began to call themselves China people, Chinese and overseas Chinese. After Malaysian independence, they began to call themselves China people and China people. Since modern times, the number of China people who call themselves "China people" and "overseas Chinese" has decreased a lot.