How was Chinatown established?

The appearance of Chinatown is the first result of China's overseas trade development. It is said that as early as the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7 13-756), Fujian sailors settled in local villages in northern Kalimantan, Indonesia. Although we are not sure when the earliest Chinatown appeared, according to conclusive historical records, at least in the early Ming Dynasty (14th century), Chinatown appeared in Java and Sumatra in Southeast Asia. With the development of China's overseas trade and overseas immigrants, by the middle of17th century, Chinatowns of different scales had appeared in the main ports of Southeast Asia and Japan. Customs have been passed down to this day, and even some of them are not found in China. The economic scale is also growing, and its influence is increasing.

China people gather in Chinatown, first of all, because immigrants can help each other and exchange nostalgia in foreign countries, which is also a convenient arrangement managed by the local government. /kloc-The Chinatown before the 0/9th century was mainly in Japan and Southeast Asia. Local rulers usually divided the land into boundaries, so that Chinese businessmen and Chinese workers who could contribute to the local industrial and commercial prosperity could live together, manage themselves and jointly govern China with China.

Basically, there are Chinatowns in places where Chinese live in concentrated communities, such as North American countries, Singapore and Malaysia, Australia and Belgium. , but mainly concentrated in big cities. Not every city has about 20 million overseas Cantonese, which are roughly distributed as follows:

Asia: about15.8 million (including southeast Asia14.8 million), mainly distributed in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam and other countries;

Europe: about 500 thousand, mainly distributed in France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries;

North America: about 2 million, mainly distributed in the United States and Canada;

South America: about 500,000, mainly distributed in Brazil, Argentina and Central American countries; Oceania: about 300,000, mainly distributed in Australia and New Zealand; Africa: About 45,000, mainly distributed in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and other countries.

In addition, there are about100000 compatriots in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.