Where are Chaoshan people from?

Chaoshan people are the collective name of people whose ancestral home is in Chaoshan area of Guangdong.

Chaoshan people are concentrated in Chaoshan area of Guangdong, and their ancestral homes are mainly distributed in Guangdong, Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Hainan and other places along the southern coast of China. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, a large number of Chaoshan people have emigrated, covering Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, France, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia and other countries in the world and coastal areas.

The influx of large-scale migration waves of Chaoshan ancestors occurred from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the next three migration waves occurred in the late Tang Dynasty, the late Song Dynasty and the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, among which the last two periods were the most.

Chaoshan people began to cross the sea to other countries in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Following the first migration wave of Chaozhou businessmen in Song Dynasty, there were two more migration waves in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is reported that during the period from 1782 to 1868, as many as1500,000 Chaozhou businessmen arrived in Siam by red-headed boat.

distinctive national feature

There are about140,000 residents in this area, and there are10,000 hipsters living abroad. It is one of the most famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Most people belong to the Fulao ethnic group, and they all use Minnan dialect.

They are a branch of the descendants of ancient Fujian and Vietnam who merged into the Han nationality. Their cultural characteristics are different from those of Guangfu people from South Vietnam and Hakka descendants. They have extremely rich and unique customs and habits, which have had a great influence on the indigenous culture of Southeast Asian islands. They are an important group of Guangdong customs and culture.

In the middle and late Warring States period, after Chu destroyed Yue, Yue people moved southward on a large scale, which injected fresh blood into Pan, the source of Fenghuang Mountain, and opened the Baiyue era in Chaoshan and Minnan. After Chu destroyed Yue, the descendants of Yue King dispersed, and some of them moved into Lingjiang River, Oujiang River Basin and Wuyishan area in northern Fujian to establish Ou Yue State.

The other part moved to Jiulong River and eastern Guangdong, and merged with the local Min people and She people to establish the country of Min and Yue and form the Min and Yue people. At that time, the descendants of Gou Jian, the king of Yue, had no descendants, and became king on their own, and their power expanded to eastern Guangdong.

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