Understand the history of China and how Malaysian Chinese came.

Chinese in Malaysia refers to the descendants of immigrants who migrated to Malaysia from Chinese mainland, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces during the hundreds of years from Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China. Chinese in Malaysia is the second largest ethnic group in China, with a total population of 74 1 000 (according to the 20 16 census), accounting for about 23.4% of the total population in Malaysia.

The immigration history of Chinese in Malaysia can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were frequent commercial activities and cultural exchanges between China and the Malay Archipelago, and there was a clear record of China people settling in the Yuan Dynasty.

Zheng He made many stops in Malacca (called Malaga in the Ming Dynasty) when he went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, and later built Malacca, Dagang (now Indonesia) and Surabaya (now Indonesia) into the base camp of his fleet. Until now, there are still a lot of relics related to Zheng He in Malacca. Some Chinese began to settle in Malacca because of intermarriage with local people, and were gradually influenced by Malay culture and multiplied.

At this time, Chinese began to form settlements in Malacca and became an important ethnic group in Malacca. After the decline of the Ming Dynasty, due to the inconvenient transportation and the closed-door policy of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of these China people who were intermarried began to alienate their motherland. Under the condition of blending with local culture, they gradually formed a new nation-Nyonya Baba. Nyaingyakan's mother tongue has gradually changed from dialect (mainly Minnan) to a native Minnan language mixed with dialect and Malay, but it still retains various Chinese customs and rituals.

After the Second Opium War, China people began to emigrate to various parts of Malaysia on a large scale. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was defeated and China and Britain signed the Beijing Treaty. The Qing court allowed foreign businessmen to recruit Han Chinese to work as cheap laborers abroad. At that time, British colonists needed a lot of human resources to develop Malaya Peninsula, and a large number of China laborers (or coolies) were imported from China to Malaya Peninsula to become miners and planters. After the use of steamboats, the number of overseas Chinese from the south rose sharply. At this time, the number of immigrants in China has greatly exceeded that of early Nyonya, so they were called "new guests" by early settlers. During this period, the male-female ratio of Chinese population in Malay Peninsula was seriously unbalanced. This is because the workers have a strong sense of hometown of overseas Chinese. Most of them don't intend to help the old and bring the young to settle in Malaya, but hope to earn enough money to return to their hometown.

By 1929, the Great Depression began to sweep the world. At this time, overseas Chinese women began to immigrate to Malaya in large numbers, and the proportion structure of male and female population tended to be balanced. After World War II, as the world entered the Cold War era, British Malaya was in the period of rebellion in Malaysia, immigration regulations were tightened, and the immigration tide from China to Malaysia gradually decreased or even stopped. Since then, Chinese have participated in the Malayan independence movement and the Malaysian founding movement, and they have flourished in the local area.