The so-called Chinese Jews refer to our compatriots in which province?

Jews known as China refer to our compatriots in Kaifeng, Henan Province.

One of the most famous Jews in China, Kaifeng Jew, moved from the Islamic area in northwest China to Henan Province in China during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Kyle Poirot, a famous Italian traveler in Yuan Dynasty, and Ibn Baituta, a Moroccan envoy, came to China respectively. Both of them mentioned the existence of Chinese Jews in their travel notes.

The earliest official records of Chinese Jews in the modern west can be traced back to the documents of Jesuit missionaries in Beijing in the17th century. 1605, a young Chinese Jew met Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary, and told him that the Jewish community in China believed in monotheism.

It is said that when the Jews saw the Christian portrait of the son of the Virgin Mary, he mistakenly thought it was a painting depicting the characters of Rebekah, Esau or Jacob in the Hebrew Bible. He also told Matteo Ricci that he came from Kaifeng, where a large number of Jews lived.

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From the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, Jews lived in a relatively isolated community, mainly in Kaifeng. When People's Republic of China (PRC) was established 1949.

Almost all Chinese Jews have given up their religious and cultural beliefs. However, at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 20th century, some international Jewish organizations began to help Chinese Jews restore their traditions.

/kloc-In the 20th century and early 20th century, as China opened its trading ports to the west and ceded its semi-colony, many Jews immigrated to commercial centers such as Shanghai and Hongkong in China. Then thousands of Jews came to China to escape the Russian Revolution and the Nazi Holocaust.

In the first two thousand years after AD, Jews fled their homes all over Eurasia, with Central Asia being the most concentrated. By the 9th century, a large number of Jewish businessmen came to China through various channels.

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