Why are there so many Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore? It has something to do with Chinese ancestry

The Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore have a lot to do with their Chinese ancestry.

The main reason why there are many Chinese people there is that in the feudal society and the early Republic of China, there were constant domestic wars and the people were in dire straits. At that time, people in Fujian and Guangdong were in poverty due to war. With so many people and so little land, the people's lives were not guaranteed and it was difficult to survive. In order to survive, they maintained their families and escaped from the time. After the war, people in Fujian and Guangdong rushed to Nanyang to make a living.

Nanyang refers to the area dominated by the deeper areas of Southeast Asia (excluding northern Vietnam, etc.), and also includes Sri Lanka, etc. The area east of the Arabian Sea belongs to the Southern Ocean (the Middle East and East Africa belong to the Western Ocean).

Extended information:

The period when people went to Southeast Asia:

1. Small-scale period: Before Zheng He’s voyage to the West (in the early stage, he went to Southeast Asia), officials and Ordinary people's travel to Nanyang is a small-scale activity. During the Yuan Dynasty, there was the Yuanzhao War.

2. Flood period: During the period when European powers ruled various regions in Southeast Asia, they hoped to attract Chinese people to develop. In addition, there were several major chaos in China, and there was a flood of immigrants seeking to make a living. During the late Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chinese people went to Southeast Asia to do business (Maritime Silk Road), work, and even migrated to Southeast Asia (the main motivation at the beginning was that the Dutch authorities who established and ruled Indonesia came to South China to recruit workers). The scale was huge, and Natuna The islands were founded by the Chinese.

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