Love the dramatic intertitles (and the One Piece gag). I thought I had a decent general knowledge about the peoples of China but I'd never heard of the Teochow before, or realised they're so prominent among the diaspora - super fascinating to learn about them. A superbly informative, visually appealing and amusing video (I chortled several times). Funnily enough, I thought it was a convincing AI voice at first (and decided to give it 30 seconds in case the content was decent) but the "let's talk about it bruh" convinced me of the human behind Soppy Frog Productions. Subscribed.
@@soppyfrogproductions6276 BTW I don't mean to imply that you have a robotic voice, you have an excellent delivery, but you have a remarkably consistent tone, which is a rarity in YT creators :)
Sorry, if you've never heard of Chaozhou/ Teochew before, you don't really have a decent general knowledge of China or SE Asia. Well, you learn something new everyday!
I am Singaporean Teochew. When i visited Thailand some years back, I could not find an item i wanted to buy from a kitchen sundries shop, and I could not speak Thai. I decided to try Teochew instead, and the shopkeeper understood me perfectly, and looked for the item i was looking for , which I bought.
Same thing happened to my parents, who can't speak English or Thai. They initially spoke Teochew among themselves but then to their surprise the shop owner responded.
I am teochew from Canada and it was great to be able to chat with local Thai in teochew in the Bangkok Chinatown area. You also get better price then other foriengers .
I am TeoChew from Thailand. I can communicate with Vietnamese TeoChew, TeoChew from Hong Kong or Malaysia, TeoChew from The Mainland and also even some Fukienese from Taiwan.
As a Khmer, (both my parents are Khmer but my mother has Chinese surname), I am proud of the contributions of the Teochew to Chinese-Cambodian culture, and Cambodian culture in general. I notice that, unlike the Teochew from other Southeast Asian countries (who seem to emphasise how "pure" they are) I love how the Teochew in Cambodia created their own identity that not only embraces their ancient heritage as Teochew, but also celebrate how they adapted their culture in Cambodia (which the ancient Chinese proverb referred to "Cambodia the rich and noble"), like a marriage of two great civilisations🙏🏼
@@asherouk7308 I too married the local beauty. She’s extremely smart and beautiful in every way. I wouldn’t miss celebrating with her and her kins on every local cultural holidays. I know what you mean. Any other way to live, we’d missed out the best and rich in others…that’s true intelligence.
My family is 100% Teochew, born in KL Malaysia, now in Australia. My parents are from a small village Autou 45mins north of Shantou or Swatow. We have a large mansion with 6 side villas on both sides. The village is close to the Hanjiang river, with 30m high sand dikes to prevent flooding. Visited my village 4 times, brought my children there to connect them to their roots and ancestors. My village relatives have done well, from bicycles in 90s to now driving cars. God Bless China.
@@dthomas99 being 100% Tèo chew is extremely rare nowadays. Tèo chew folks went everywhere on earth. We don’t fear anything or anyplace. In America, in my early years, I went almost 20 years without seeing another teo chew nang. I deeply love and respect the Hainan women on my mother side. If we can find what’s best for ourselves, that’s the only thing that really matters.
100% means your 1st cousins married each other 🤣 so good onya Malaysian chinese were the poor endentured coolies that slaved away in the tin mines... in fact teowchew are at the bottom of the chinese diaspora
@@ww3937 Due to Japanese savage occupation of China, many Teochew people went to neighboring countries penniless to save themselves from starvation. I’m sure you remember the Japanese invasion of Malaysia? How did they treat the local Malay? How the British-malay treated them Chinese refugees …I’m sure you’d remember that too. I hope you are not one who worship everything British? When you got nothing, you start from the bottom. That’s not new to you, I hope. Many poor Chinese were sold, fooled by opium addicted Chinese officials to sign those indentured laborer contracts. I hope you knew that too. That’s the outcome of the opium wars by the British. Many Chinese were heavily addicted to opium. It’s easy to look down on people in their most difficult times. Many Teochew folks stood up over time. Some even became business leaders in their respective countries or cities. Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m glad your family were doing well in Malaysia. I will continue to wish you the best. Chinese history of humiliation are not new to anyone. I’m surprised that some had already forgotten them.
@@parttimethinker7611 Just love your story . Please share more . We just love to know about other people , and their roots and how they face it or live with it , proudly too .
@@jasonkurtrix357The current one? My friend that I am referring to has a sister in law that is a distant relative of the Thai king who is Thai not Chinese descendant at all.
Thank you so much for putting this presentation together! I have been researching more about my heritage. My family is from the Shantou province, but migrated to Cambodia during the China-Japan war in the 1930’s. Then immigrated to the U.S after the Vietnamese War. This presentation helps me to identify my heritage, culture and be able to pass it down to my kids.
It would be better , if you're complete , together with your family and the generations after that . - Try visiting your ancestral hometown , Practice paying respect to the ancestors . Imbibe the filial tradition, That give more "-ums-" to the motivation .
Teo chew nang are a fearless group of people. Extremely capable, intelligent, quite interesting folks. Most left China due to starvation during the Japanese invasion of China. They succeeded because their words are their bonds. When you arrive in a new country with no money. However you still have your words. the Teo Chew nang are assets everywhere they’re. It’s up to the hosting country to welcome them. Either China to welcome them back or not they’re excellent representative of Chinese’s best everywhere.
4th generation Singaporean Teochew here. Most overseas Teochews left China way way before the Japanese invasion. 😊 In fact, we Teochews along with other Chinese immigrants in Singapore, were a major contributor to Sun Yat Sen’s overseas fundraising efforts to overthrow the Qing dynasty.
I am a teochew (singaporean)living in Northern Ireland. I have been to jieyang China and it is one of the most memorable trip. My children would not be able to speak teochew but they do know where their ancestor come from. Like many children nowadays, they are teochew singaporean-Irish-Scottish.
Did you bring your children to your ancestral hometown ? I don't know about your culture , But if you still have some ancestral burial plots or memorials , It would be good to pay respect to them too . - I'm just saying that, because chinese culture in general do pay homage to ancestors . Just to share , We did , to our grandfather and grandmother cemetery , and to the 1st generation , the original settler and its a very old house (more like a hut) but treated /maintain like a shrine or temple , and i'm of the 23rd generation.
I’m a Teo Chew Khmer American living in California. So happy to be more informed of my roots. My grandparents migrated to Cambodia in the early 1900s and my parents married because they were family friends of the Teo Chew community. Thanks for your hard work to help me understand my rich cultural heritage.
You are going to be more complete , When you pay a visit to Our ancestral hometown , Pay respect to the past elders . Bring your whole family learn your roots , And past it on , The knowledge of your ancestry . There's this black american lady , She brought her siblings , her whole family of 3 generation , to china , to Shenzhen China . I just can't recall the video , its a very moving video , her story . She's black woman , with a chinese grandfather on her mother side . She is just a remarkable story teller , i heard she was even on TED Talk . When i recall , i will post it here for you if you are interested to know .
Hey, that Teochew Opera performer is Ling Goh, my master in Traditional Teochew Puppet and Opera. She is from Penang, Malaysia. She just reopened her art centre recently. 2025 February the 2nd, there will be a massive Chinese New Year celebration on Penang Island, called Miao Hui 庙会. All Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Hainan, Fuzhou, etc. people will celebrate together. She will be performing under my stage, those who are interested, do come to Penang on that day.
Yes a lot of Vietnamese Teochew followed the same path. A lot of Teochew people live in Ha Tien Vietnam after grandparents left China during China’s civil war and then left Vietnam during civil war there too. We escape communism twice and now we are escaping communism again by leaving California to Texas.
Great content! I'm Teochew as well. My father used to own a business. If you are Teochew and need help starting a business, he would loan you the merchandise to sell it first and pay later. but if someone is not honest, there won't be a second chance and the whole Teochew community would abandon you. Many Teochew speak many different dialects and Teochew dialect is difficult to learn. Teochew can speak Cantonese, mandarin, but Cantonese and Mandarin speaking people having a hard time learning Teochew😩
That part about business and money is so true. Friends, family, relatives and even people who came from the same village in the old country would form a sort of credit society to lend money to each other. But here in Australia, it is technically 'illegal' to conduct such lending practices. 'illegal' I must emphasise.😅😂
The Teochew can speak Cantonese and Mandarin only because they have learned them; else a Teochew cannot speak Cantonese or Mandarin. In Malaysia(Malaya) and Singapore, where the Chinese diaspora are made up of Hokkians, Teochews, Cantonese, Hakkas, Hainanese etc. So older Malaysians/Singaporeans like myself, can speak/understand several southern Chinese dialects and Malay - no big deal, for us then, as our classmates and people we deal with speak those various dialects.
Lmao , the truth fact is despite is also categorize under teochew , Jieyang people are never seeing the rest of teochew tribe as our own because jieyang native teochew pronouns are different from the rest of teochew and some conservatives Jieyang people still discourage Jieyang women to marry outside Jieyang .
Holy shit so interesting! My mum’s ancestral family is Teochow and Cantonese. Father side is Fujianese. Left China in 1800s to Vietnam to UK England! Yes Southern Chinese near the sea and their adventurous spirit love seeking their fortune abroad.🤭
Hey bro, your content is amazingly accurate and broad, very impressed and thankful for making this video. I'm Cambodian-born Teochew and went to Canada then back to China Suzhou now. Most Chinese outside of China refer to themselves as Tang 唐人 as opposed to Han 汉人 in mainland. We also refer to mainland/motherland as Mountain of Tang 唐山, without knowing that there is a city of the same name. The movie of Bruce Lee, 唐山大兄, reflects exactly that.
Thank bro! Me too Cambodia Teochew went to NZ after pol pot and now in Australia. Hoping one day visiting my ancestral land and live there for awhile and also Cambodia as well to revisiting my childhood memory.
@@SueC2558 ,, so happy to read of your desire to visit your ancestral hometown . - I'm a old man, i always encourage people to visit their ancestral hometown . I feel so blessed that i was able to do mine , And the story i share with many people . I don't know how some received my story telling , But many dozens have said , My eyes glow , when i narrate my story of visit my ancestral hometown , Pay respect to my grandparents cemetery and to the original settler site , a hut , treated and maintain like a shrine/temple . We pay our respect to the 1st generation , from us the 23 rd generation and i did a repeat , being my son to do the same , paying respect , gaining a understanding of the chinese culture of filial duty .
I am of mixed Hokkien/Teochew lineage in Malaysia. You captured much of our heritage accurately. Your observations rekindled much of the memories of things told to me by grandparents. I am now 70 yrs of age and would want to set foot on my ancestral land at least once
@@tengmengcheng1596 You should seriously consider doing that while (with respect) you can move around freely and eat anything effortlessly. My mother is 77 and she loves coming to China for the experience and learning about our cultural root. It is also a great pleasure to see our Chinese people doing very well in recent years no matter to whom we're comparing to. China is no longer the backward poor people that look up to Taiwanese/Japanese/Korean/European/American, we are standing tall today and we're very open to welcome and help other people around the world. It's a good time to be in mainland China, tourist or resident alike.
Thank you very much! I love your video. Very happy to learn something about my birth place Swatow! I love the City, it is so beautiful! Unfortunately, I visited only one day! Growing up in Hong Kong, worked and studied in Sydney, worked and retired in America! Glad I can still speak fluent Chiu Chau dialect! I love my original birth place!
Thank you for giving such a comprehensive history of the Teochew people. I am proud to be first generation Teochew born in Singapore. My late parents migrated from Swatow to Singapore almost 70 years ago.
@@MichalBatNoach , You're a adult , Which one would you choose as primary ? - I met a half ukranian , half russian , full soviet , and i ask him to choose , He answered , he's a jew . I didn't ask further . Daym , I was tempted to say , thats worse than a bastard , But not going to mess with a 6'4" strongly built arm wrestler . We became friends too . Going to missed his humor , No matter how strong a body has been developed and nurtured , Just 1 stroke , he never recovered .
I'm Teochew 100% and my family tree from granddad shows that we are 3rd generation in Thailand and 27th generation from the first one who moved from Hokkian to Teochew.
@@kingwong8290 The equation is one among many mathematical formulas. But it is definitely wrong to equate a generation of human life simply to one hundred years as you did here (27 generations = 2700 years!). As is generally known and accepted, the average lifespan for modern human beings is much higher than that of past generations with the help of modern medicines, access to healthcare and education, better nutrition and lifestyle.
Mr. Lee’s grandfather was 30 years old when Mr. Lee’s father was born. Mr. Lee was born when his father was 30 years old. At 30 years old Mr. Lee himself had a son who was the 4th generation and a great grandson to Mr. Lee’s grandfather. In the example above, it takes 30 years to produce a generation.
@@kingwong8290 Why 2700 years? In the old days, typical Teochew people would get marry once they reached 15 year olds (call cug huê hng or 出花園) , therefore 27 generations may just means less than 500 years.
3rd gen Cambodian Teochew here. We still speak Teochew at home, but it's true that the dialect and tone have diverged a bit from other regions, we also speak slower here. Currently also trying to learn more Teochew words from Teochew community built app/social media.
10:18 I love the image of the Teochew as a people with "shallow roots" to understand why they were later among the groups that migrated to other parts! Great video
It's amazing that after nomaded through so many countries in so many generations, this group of people can still keep their culture; and they can still identify themselves back to their ancient root. This certainly can be an interesting anthropology subject.
Teochew from Singapore here. Been to Chaozhou numerous times. Seeing quite some changes recent years. Relatively cheaper there compared to most Chinese cities. Hotel stays are dirt cheap, will recommend folks to visit the place. Food is fantastic.
Many ethnic Chinese can speak or understand Teochew or hakka, it's usually spoken within their own group gaginang, outside they speak the more common Chinese dialects canto or Mandarin
I'm sure that they have their reasons. In USA, it's better to hang out with the rest of the Asian community then getting too hung up over our Teochew heritage. No use standing separate from the rest.
Wow that's the same place my ancestors came out from! Probably the same boat that takes my great grandfather! No machine right? Just a wooden boat? He went the same route roughly around 1939 I believe. But mine did not stay in Singapore because he heard of good fortune in Borneo!
I am Teochew here, from Penang Malaysia, gaginang pasiboh siang kang 😅🤭🤭 i am teaching both my son of teochew dialect, most of people shocked when not mandarin that served as mainstream over here
They are here, in Singapore. I'm proudly 3 Gen 海外潮人 Teochew. I still go back to my hometown often. There's a village where my grandma was from, where everyone shared the same surname as me.
I am in Singapore, my mother is Teochew while my father is Hokkien/Fujian. Your surname Ang is like my paternal grandmother's... I met my granduncle before, lol, imagine if we were related.
I am Chinese oversea, and according to my mom, my ancestor came from Jie-yang. Now I am domicile in Jakarta, Indonesia, I hope someday I could visit my ancestor homeland
Teochews in Singapore set up many clans association such as The Ngee Ann Kongsi at Tank Rd, Teochew Poit Ip HUAY Kuan at Tank Rd, & Chui Huay Lim Club at Leng Kee Rd, Teochew Lee Clan Association, etc
I am a 45 year old Singaporean Teo Chew whose hometown is Jieyang ( my father is literally born in Jieyang. I am the last person in my family who can speak this language fluently but the sad fact that both my sons only speaks English and failed his Chinese in school.
Don't despair . They might have a change of heart , Maybe when they have a sense of their ancestral hometown . Its roots , Its culture , Its significance . - Who knows , Singapore might not exist in 50 yrs, but the teo chow people , its culture , its spirit lives forever . - My first visit to my ancestral hometown was when i was 34 , And it changed me forever . Even though, there's nobody related like 1st , 2nd or even 3rd cousins around. Paying respect to my grandparents, first time, And also paying respect to the 1st settlers house/ hut , its like our shrine, was a life changer. I would encourage everyone to do a visit to their ancestral hometown , even has success with a Romanian kid , and also Irish family . The irish youngster follow my advice , involve his dad and grands and the whole 3 generation make a trip to ireland . I was so happy for them .
Singapore has become very westernised (like in Hong Kong where 100% must have a Western name to elevate their status). I have many Singapore friends/relatives who can no longer speak their parents' dialect. Many are losing their Chineseness; some even are not proud of their heritage. They all, increasingly must have a Western name, like William, Vincent, Albert etc. Some parents don't even bother to give them a Chinese name. Some disdainfully refer to the recently arrived Chinese from southern China as "China Kerh" (a corruption of China Kheh)[I don't like the current Malay spelling Cina for China, because some idiot after Merdeka decided to adopt the Dutch Romanisation in Indonesia].
This is a very nuanced history of the southern Chinese area Chaozhou. It’s very complicated. The multiple origins of the people, the diversity of the languages as well as the mixing with other languages. very nice job. Very responsible. No simple truths here.
I'm the one of teochew decent. So proud and happily inherited thousands years of my ancestors! East or West, North or South we are proudly "Kar Kee Nang" We work hard and ambitious! Never kneel down to the destiny. ❤❤❤❤
Same here, proud Teochew nang from Singapore. We speak Teochew in our family, switch to Hokkien when we speak to our in laws (whom are Hokkiens) Mandarin and English in our day to day lives with others. But we don’t forget our dialect..
I am a teochew speaker born and raised in Indonesian West Borneo, now living in the Netherlands.. I am 47 now and friends of my generation speak teochew. Unfortunately the next generation kids speak it poorly or don't speak it at all.
Canadian born Teochew here. Growing up, I wasn't sure what to tell others since I spoke an uncommon dialect that wasn't Mandarin or Cantonese, while my parents could speak both of those, as well as Vietnamese, but as I get older, I've come to understand how much pride it is to tell others that I'm Teochew and the amazing history and impact Ga Gi Nang have, as well as speak it much more at home and with my girlfriend's family (also Teochew). Thanks for the awesome video. :D
Thanks for your informative video. I'm a Singapore born teochew who has never visited my motherland. Your video has enlighten me to many things i do not know.
The key for Shantou downfall during 1990 was when Shantou was primarily used as a port for smuggling good into China. Shantou like Xiamen, Shenzhen, were designated as Special Administrative Region. But the Shantou people used it primarily for smuggling good like automobile and steel into China during the 1990’s. A crackdown was made during the 90’s and astonishingly during the crackdown, the smuggler in Shantou actually murdered the central government official sent to investigate the smuggling activity. This greatly angered the central government and issued a decree to close Shantou. After that incident, most central government policy was skewed away from Shantou. There are definitely other reasons why Shenzhen outpaced Shantou like its proximity to HK. But most older Shantou people remember the incident.
My GP and siblings in Sydney speak Cantonese even though their grandparents are Hokkians, because her mum grew up in Saigon where I believe Cantonese is the dominant Chinese dialect.
I've heard those ancestors who were upper class from ancient china are always rich in modern day. And also heard that they are always guaranteed to have maintained the family generational heritage stuff like an heirloom? Things like Ancient scroll, silk robe, vase, pottery, or painting from the era? Do you still have any of those?
@@MichalBatNoachhmm.. I feel sorry for your family history.. We actually have a parallel cases! where my father is still rich from inheritance but not that much.. since my grandmother is the 1st child and as asian, she didn't get most of the wealth because she isn't the only child have 11 younger siblings!! the difference is I do experienced that spoiling a little bit until 2008 when I also 8yrs old.. long story short of why.. well my father is basically your fantasy movies of a perfect husband.. he got a blind spot by this weaknesses.. His thinking got clouded by his wife.. that eventually ruined his long run of plan, she does sucked most of our office funds and add insult to injury.. cheated on him (I also met her lover! 3x! one in hotel..🤮) which I and our babysitter told my dad about it man that shit ruined him.. and he become eventually depressed and jobless for 10 years! Thank god he snapped out of it when all of his leftovers of wealth is being used to cope instead of getting back to business depleted..
@@MichalBatNoach well firstly, I feel sorry for that! we actually have parallel of similarities! but mine is I still can experienced that a little until 2008 when I was 8. Similar stuff basically he is movie like perfect husband that being used too..
he got a lot of kickstart potential with the inheritance but too bad he got a wrong wife and wrecked his life because he didn't have life struggle when young. Thus most of his Younger friend that used to be very poor in the 80s now are 100x wealthier than him now (which he is understandably ashamed and pissed of the condition) glad I can turn that condition up by moving out from the old country since his last connection are hopeless and garbage for us anyway he will be following me soon on the new country since he felt betrayed by his so Called best friend who he used to help when they're broke but they forgot his kindness and distanced away from us when they hear the news.. hard lesson do not trust your friend too much and give them moolah it'll never ends well
Traced our Teochew roots to RUNAN (如南）in Henan. We still have the signboard with the word 如南 hanging above our doorway. Signifying our surname 袁 comes from RUNAN. Ancestors making our way to Jieyang over the centuries. My DNA report also shows almost 40% Northern Han and 30% Southern Han. Almost pure Chinese with no Northern Minority blood. That’s really interesting to know when listening to this channel about Teochew. Thank you.
Wow interesting. My paternal grandfather's family was also from Jieyang and after doing patrilineage DNA tests we are able to trace our ancestry back to many neolithic Shandong samples; signboard hanging above my family home was Yanling which is today Changzhou in Jiangsu province. Most likely they travelled from Shandong to Jiangnan region and perhaps Fujian before arriving in Teochew region.
16:48 This is Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the current PM of Thailand and the daughter of the former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. Her family is Hakka from the 丘 family.
There were 1,241 billionaires with wealth above 5 billions RMB in China 2023, 54 of them are Tiaochew descents, include Pony MA (the founder of Tencent), LI Ka-shing, WANG Lai-sheng(the founder of Luxshare), LIN Bin (the co-fonder of Xiaomi), CHEN Kai-xuan (the founder of Liby), LI Dong-sheng (the founder of TCL) etc.
Over 1,000 billionaires in China. Wow, that's a lot of money. Can I count on you blessed brothers and sisters to make sure there is no more hungry comrades in the motherland. Make sure there is never a hungry soul in the motherland. Never. Peace and love to you
I am a mixed Teochew Hokkien Singaporean who is studying Japanese language in Sendai. I was told that Japanese Kanji words contains pronunciation that sounds similar to Teochew, Hokkien and Cantonese.
Cantonese negative, Teochew yes, because Japan sent 3000 of their talented young students to Tang Dynasty to learn about Tang Chinese culture. A great part of Japanese cultures were adopted from Tang Dynasty.
@@MaseraSteve2 Many Korean words, borrowed from Chinese, are pronounced roughly the same way as Hokkien. I noticed that over 40 years ago, when I visited Korea on business. Since Fujian, where we Hokkians(more correct than Hokkien!) come from is so far away from Korea, I hypothesised that they must have pronounced them like the Tang people in Chang'an (now Xi'an). Therefore by extension, the forebears of the Hokkians and the Teochews must have come from (the North, i.e. Henan) where they spoke largely like the people of Chang'an. So the Korean word for island is "doh" or "toh", not like "tao" in Mandarin, those with surname Lin, pronounce it as Lim (like us Hokkians and Teochews) - sometimes as "Im" (with the initial L dropped, as in Yi for Lee, when the L is dropped), and Hyundai is like the Hokkian for "hyan tai" (i.e. the present generation = modern). Not bad for one illiterate in Chinese.
and teochew is considered the region with most traditional customs among all Han Chinese, every decade they hold ceremony for the army that fought the mongolians 800 years ago
I remember growing up in Cambodia where my parents preferred doing business with other teochew people just because of their trustworthiness. I think that’s what makes us so different. We use our words as our bonds and children raised in teochew families are taught this since young.
Too bad those kind of bonds have been eroding in my home country indonesia. No more Loyalty since gen X which is my father generation. It's hard to build business and wealth since people have become selfish that I hated the community in my home country and I moved to another country to build wealth for my family
Our ancestor left and split to two group one to bangkok one to klang.. we kept in touch with our bangkok kin.. as time goes by the letter from bangkok kin turn from chinese to thai language..
All Teochew and Fujian and Cantonese and Thai and Vietnamese have the closest DNA. Of course the people who move and conquer Thailand became Thai, the people who still live in the original land Nanyue or Nam Viet became Southern Chinese today. All the people live in Northern Vietnam and today Vietnam became the remaining Yue/Viet people. That’s why you don’t have much Teochew or Cantonese in Vietnam left because either we became Viet or left to the USA and mixed into Vietnamese community because we once Baiyue people.
Always speak teochew all my life with parents and siblings , taken for granted and only at this age online medias open up the eyes and mind how such dialects from a tribe in China has a long history, tiociu from pontianak borneo
14:30 I have to correct you there. The Teochew spoken in Batam is very similar to the Teochew spoken in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. In fact they are so close, a Teochew from Pontianak would thought the Batamese are Pontianakians. I know this because I am a Teochew from Pontianak.
@@h12vcl70 Yes. He was from Tenghai or Chenghai( Mandarin) or 澄海 District of Shantou prefecture. There is a kind of mesuem in Chenghai to Cormemorates him. Very nice tourist spot.
Teochew is also called chiuchao in Cantonese. I'm a different Chinese subgroup minority known as Toi-san the largest minority group of Chinese migrated to the USA during the mid 19th century after California's gold rush. Many Chinese in USA's. Chinese communities are Toi-san descent. If some say the are Teochew , they immigrated in the later 20th century . My Toi-san family have been here in the USA 6 generations. I'm a 4th generation Toi-san relative in my family Toi-san in Mandarin is called Tai-shan
@@tatleongchan3689 ,, Just for humor and fun , , They are the best covert agent from china . Ha ha ha . Ever heard of any teochew person caught on espionage charges ? The answer is zero in that occupied land called MEI KOUK. .
@@tatleongchan3689most of the teochew in usa that I know are not refugees. Word from the local in my country, There are clusters of upper class chinese Indonesian from jakarta who happen to be a teochew they all moved to washington, cali , new york and boston. All migration started around the 1970-90's Hard to find though.. different lifestyle. Meanwhile, you can find some in Santa clara, my grandmother's youngest sister who moved there from jakarta also since 1979, and started their family there. But not because of the economic factors, as their parents were a millionaire in the 1950s. Live in the USA for them sadly weren't lavish though.. since she got bad luck in choosing a partner, turns out her husband was a slacker and the result is.. well.. my grandmother disowned him out of shame since y'now typical chinese saving face/reputation kind of stuff
@@MaseraSteve2 Mas keturunan Indonesia ya? I had met a Cambodian Teochew in Frisco Chinatown. She spoke perfect Cantonese and she told me that most American Teochews who came from Cambofia,( Teochew is the dominant ethnic group,,), Laos and Vietnam to USA were refugees. Also, many 2 Nd generation Teochews in USA can't speak Teochew but can speak the dominant CANTONESE dialect. Well, in New York where there are Foochow enclaves this is the same. in Jakarta most young Chinese speak Betawi -ngomong Apa? Only older Chinese speak Hakka or some Hokien. I don't know there are many Chinese Indonesians who migrate to US. In Netherlands which was the jajahan master I met some. Most are Hakkas.
@@tatleongchan3689 Iya betul, saya generasi ke 4, cuma orang tua dulu sibuk bahasa teochew saya jadinya ga lengkap hanya 50% saja indonesianya lebih fasih mirip yg jakarta karena dijaga pembantu. I've heard my grandmother's experience in the 1980s in the USA she said Most Chinese in san Francisco cannot speak Mandarin or teochew only Cantonese. Netherland punya turunan chinese jajahan master? Ha? Belum pernah dengar sejarahnya. Bukannya orang Chinese itu statusnya agak tinggi kelas 2 di Indonesia dipercayakan perdagangan atau bisnis sama orang belanda? Kita blasteran teochew hakka cuma yg nonjol itu teochew nya. Punya juga relasi Hakka full di jakarta ntah siapanya kakek buyut saya yg teochew dari shantou/swatou pindah ke Singkawang. Matanya mereka yg hakka pada sipit semua. Aneh aja yang di Kalimantan matanya keluarga kita enggak sipit begitu mirip muka jepang/ hongkong lah kita punya agak lonjong dari muka kakek. Oh ya Bahasa inggris nya om paten juga ya 😅
Thats not really true. I am Cam-Viet Teochew but I can understand other diasporas teochew well. Even the mainland one but their accent is a bit more thick. Sometimes there are just different words but it doesnt usually impede communication too much
I grew up in Boston and now live in Los Angeles. There are a lot of Cantonese oversea Chinese that went to Southeast Asia, Canada, USA, Europe in modern history. When I visited Thailand a few years ago, my tourist guide and a translator was also a Teochew Chinese Thai. There is a Teochew restaurant in the Chinatown in Boston. FYI, I see a lot of comments left by Teochew worldwide calling themselves gaginang, which in Mandarin is 自己人 zijiren, or “our own selves”. Gagi (ziji) = selves, Nang (ren) = people.
My mother was born in Teochew, and migrated to Singapore to join her father in the 1940s. I've lived in Cambodia, and visiting Thailand and Vietnam, my ability to speak Teochew gave an advantage beyond speaking the local language. This documentary helps pin my experience.
Thank you for sharing. As a Singaporean Teochew, I am ashamed to say I speak limited Teochew, often mixed with Hokkien, due to the intermixing of the two dialect groups and languages. And even more unfortunately, my kids are unable to understand the language at all. I do hope to go back to the lands my great grandparents came from in escape from poverty and famine. I do know that there are some contacts with relations living in Swatow and I would like to visit them.
I guess around 70% of Cambodian Chinese are of Teochew (TEA-CHIV ទៀជីវ)descent, and many Teochew words has been injected into Khmer language as well, for example: JAB-HUOY = Chab-huoy, JAB- CHHAY = Chab-chhay, KUOY-TIAU = Kuy-teav, TANG-HUNG = Taing-hun, KU-CHHAY-KUOY = Nom-Ku-chhay, CHHONG-TE = Chhong-te, JONG-PHOW = Chong-phov, THAU-KE = Thao-ke etc…etc…
A bit pedantic of me but, 14:30 Indonesian is technically a standardized register/form of Malay, but I get what you're saying. Kalimantan has a lot of different local languages and dialects which influence the Teochew spoken there. 15:08 Vietnamese and Chinese have the same name order. However, the family term goes before the name in Vietnamese so yes cô Wang.
Teochew and Hokkian almost similar. Imo Teochew are more refine this can shown in the opera where their costumes are more elaborate than Hokkian casual style.
I heard and read that hokkien are one of the poorest tribes in mainland ancient china to the point of the woman breaking usual chinese tradition of cutting hair short and working a male only job to support the family
F--k! Why must we use the mangled version of his actual name: Tan Hock Eng - a very typical Hokkien name in Malaysia, spelt our way, surname 1st. Not the screwed up Hock Tan. Hock Eng come together. This is not the Anglo-Saxon: given name, middle name & surname. If we were to follow this screwed up format, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore would have been: Kuan Lee!
The two richest subsects of the Min language group are the Foochow and the Teochew, usually Hokkiens were mainly farmers or labourers which the British liked and was sent to Singapore and Malaysia, whereas the Teochew were merchants and the Foochow are (stereotypically) very inclusive and only traded within the group to keep money inside the community.
The so-called(badly) Foochow, or Hockchew, are a relative minority in Singapore & Malaysia(mainly in Sitiawan, Yong Peng & Sibu). I didn't realise until my old age that Fuzhou is the capital of the Fujian Province, whose people were much better educated (like Robert Kuok's family) than the majority of the Minnan speaking Hokkians who left for Malaya/Singapore in the early 1900s - majority illiterate or with only rudimentary education. So many of them started off as laborers etc. But some ended up building a fortune, like Lim Goh Tong (Genting), often 1 or 2 generations later; one has to start somewhere.
Love the dramatic intertitles (and the One Piece gag). I thought I had a decent general knowledge about the peoples of China but I'd never heard of the Teochow before, or realised they're so prominent among the diaspora - super fascinating to learn about them. A superbly informative, visually appealing and amusing video (I chortled several times). Funnily enough, I thought it was a convincing AI voice at first (and decided to give it 30 seconds in case the content was decent) but the "let's talk about it bruh" convinced me of the human behind Soppy Frog Productions. Subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words brother. Glad you stuck around to listen further. It is indeed my voice.
@@soppyfrogproductions6276 BTW I don't mean to imply that you have a robotic voice, you have an excellent delivery, but you have a remarkably consistent tone, which is a rarity in YT creators :)
@@johnnzboy 🙏😄
You may have never heard about them before this video but chances are you met them first lol
Sorry, if you've never heard of Chaozhou/ Teochew before, you don't really have a decent general knowledge of China or SE Asia. Well, you learn something new everyday!
I am Singaporean Teochew.
When i visited Thailand some years back, I could not find an item i wanted to buy from a kitchen sundries shop, and I could not speak Thai. I decided to try Teochew instead, and the shopkeeper understood me perfectly, and looked for the item i was looking for , which I bought.
Same thing happened to my parents, who can't speak English or Thai. They initially spoke Teochew among themselves but then to their surprise the shop owner responded.
I am teochew from Canada and it was great to be able to chat with local Thai in teochew in the Bangkok Chinatown area. You also get better price then other foriengers .
I am TeoChew from Thailand. I can communicate with Vietnamese TeoChew, TeoChew from Hong Kong or Malaysia, TeoChew from The Mainland and also even some Fukienese from Taiwan.
I'm 7th generation Chinese-Cambodian. I now live in New Zealand. Still all my sibblings' children speak Tiaochew.
Great, never forget your root and be always proud of it.
Same here, 3rd gen, I can speak Teochew, but now living in Suzhou my daughter never hear one word of it...... gosh it's gonna end on me. :)
As a Khmer, (both my parents are Khmer but my mother has Chinese surname), I am proud of the contributions of the Teochew to Chinese-Cambodian culture, and Cambodian culture in general. I notice that, unlike the Teochew from other Southeast Asian countries (who seem to emphasise how "pure" they are) I love how the Teochew in Cambodia created their own identity that not only embraces their ancient heritage as Teochew, but also celebrate how they adapted their culture in Cambodia (which the ancient Chinese proverb referred to "Cambodia the rich and noble"), like a marriage of two great civilisations🙏🏼
@@porinly6157 awesome
@@asherouk7308 I too married the local beauty. She’s extremely smart and beautiful in every way. I wouldn’t miss celebrating with her and her kins on every local cultural holidays. I know what you mean. Any other way to live, we’d missed out the best and rich in others…that’s true intelligence.
My family is 100% Teochew, born in KL Malaysia, now in Australia. My parents are from a small village Autou 45mins north of Shantou or Swatow. We have a large mansion with 6 side villas on both sides. The village is close to the Hanjiang river, with 30m high sand dikes to prevent flooding. Visited my village 4 times, brought my children there to connect them to their roots and ancestors. My village relatives have done well, from bicycles in 90s to now driving cars. God Bless China.
@@dthomas99 being 100% Tèo chew is extremely rare nowadays. Tèo chew folks went everywhere on earth. We don’t fear anything or anyplace. In America, in my early years, I went almost 20 years without seeing another teo chew nang. I deeply love and respect the Hainan women on my mother side. If we can find what’s best for ourselves, that’s the only thing that really matters.
100% means your 1st cousins married each other 🤣 so good onya Malaysian chinese were the poor endentured coolies that slaved away in the tin mines... in fact teowchew are at the bottom of the chinese diaspora
@@ww3937 Due to Japanese savage occupation of China, many Teochew people went to neighboring countries penniless to save themselves from starvation. I’m sure you remember the Japanese invasion of Malaysia? How did they treat the local Malay? How the British-malay treated them Chinese refugees …I’m sure you’d remember that too. I hope you are not one who worship everything British? When you got nothing, you start from the bottom. That’s not new to you, I hope. Many poor Chinese were sold, fooled by opium addicted Chinese officials to sign those indentured laborer contracts. I hope you knew that too. That’s the outcome of the opium wars by the British. Many Chinese were heavily addicted to opium. It’s easy to look down on people in their most difficult times. Many Teochew folks stood up over time. Some even became business leaders in their respective countries or cities. Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m glad your family were doing well in Malaysia. I will continue to wish you the best. Chinese history of humiliation are not new to anyone. I’m surprised that some had already forgotten them.
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NOO!!!!! , DO YOU KNOW MR. LI KASHING , MR PONY MA etc.? THEY ARE BOTH TEOCHEWS , AND IF YOU DO NOT , SEARCH GOOGLE PLEASE !!!!!!!!
@@parttimethinker7611
Just love your story .
Please share more .
We just love to know about other people , and their roots and how they face it or live with it , proudly too .
I am Thai Chinese, a teochew proud gaginang
I heard many Teochews immigrated to Thailand? Many many years ago, a Thai tour guide told us 'she was Teochew'.
Many Thai Chinese are of teochew ancestry. But I wonder what the big deal is?
gagioang
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj Thai king is teochew descendants.
@@jasonkurtrix357The current one? My friend that I am referring to has a sister in law that is a distant relative of the Thai king who is Thai not Chinese descendant at all.
Thank you so much for putting this presentation together! I have been researching more about my heritage. My family is from the Shantou province, but migrated to Cambodia during the China-Japan war in the 1930’s. Then immigrated to the U.S after the Vietnamese War. This presentation helps me to identify my heritage, culture and be able to pass it down to my kids.
It would be better , if you're complete , together with your family and the generations after that .
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Try visiting your ancestral hometown ,
Practice paying respect to the ancestors .
Imbibe the filial tradition,
That give more "-ums-" to the motivation .
Teo chew nang are a fearless group of people. Extremely capable, intelligent, quite interesting folks. Most left China due to starvation during the Japanese invasion of China. They succeeded because their words are their bonds. When you arrive in a new country with no money. However you still have your words. the Teo Chew nang are assets everywhere they’re. It’s up to the hosting country to welcome them. Either China to welcome them back or not they’re excellent representative of Chinese’s best everywhere.
I can assure you that most didn't flee during the Japanese Invasion. Mine for one left a little after the end of the central plains war
You are the best shining example of a proud people , a descendant of teochew nang.
Be proud , share your story.
4th generation Singaporean Teochew here. Most overseas Teochews left China way way before the Japanese invasion. 😊 In fact, we Teochews along with other Chinese immigrants in Singapore, were a major contributor to Sun Yat Sen’s overseas fundraising efforts to overthrow the Qing dynasty.
@@mynahlu977 tung nang khen si.
@@parttimethinker7611I know the "tung nang" but not the last part.. mine is so fragmented. My parents did not teach me well
I am a teochew (singaporean)living in Northern Ireland. I have been to jieyang China and it is one of the most memorable trip. My children would not be able to speak teochew but they do know where their ancestor come from. Like many children nowadays, they are teochew singaporean-Irish-Scottish.
Then teach them
Did you bring your children to your ancestral hometown ?
I don't know about your culture ,
But if you still have some ancestral burial plots or memorials ,
It would be good to pay respect to them too .
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I'm just saying that, because chinese culture in general do pay homage to ancestors .
Just to share ,
We did , to our grandfather and grandmother cemetery , and to the 1st generation , the original settler and its a very old house (more like a hut) but treated /maintain like a shrine or temple , and i'm of the 23rd generation.
I'm in North East England flat to know I'm not the only Brit Teochew 😅 and I'm a Tan to lol
I’m a Teo Chew Khmer American living in California. So happy to be more informed of my roots. My grandparents migrated to Cambodia in the early 1900s and my parents married because they were family friends of the Teo Chew community. Thanks for your hard work to help me understand my rich cultural heritage.
You are going to be more complete ,
When you pay a visit to Our ancestral hometown ,
Pay respect to the past elders .
Bring your whole family learn your roots ,
And past it on ,
The knowledge of your ancestry .
There's this black american lady ,
She brought her siblings , her whole family of 3 generation , to china , to Shenzhen China .
I just can't recall the video , its a very moving video , her story .
She's black woman , with a chinese grandfather on her mother side .
She is just a remarkable story teller , i heard she was even on TED Talk .
When i recall , i will post it here for you if you are interested to know .
Proud Teochew male original from Vietnam then we migrated to San Francisco California and now living in Dallas Fort Worth Texas.
Hey, that Teochew Opera performer is Ling Goh, my master in Traditional Teochew Puppet and Opera. She is from Penang, Malaysia. She just reopened her art centre recently. 2025 February the 2nd, there will be a massive Chinese New Year celebration on Penang Island, called Miao Hui 庙会. All Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Hainan, Fuzhou, etc. people will celebrate together. She will be performing under my stage, those who are interested, do come to Penang on that day.
Thank you for the info. Hopefully I can go. Where can I see the details 庙会？
Can you please provide more information? I am interested.
I’m Teochew living in America! I knew my grandparents were in Guangdong. Moved to Vietnam, Malaysia, and now in America due to wars.
You came to America to fight in our wars? 😢
Yes a lot of Vietnamese Teochew followed the same path. A lot of Teochew people live in Ha Tien Vietnam after grandparents left China during China’s civil war and then left Vietnam during civil war there too. We escape communism twice and now we are escaping communism again by leaving California to Texas.
Indonesian teochew here ! Even after generations we are all still ga gi nang
Amen to that 😊
ga gi nang 什么意思？
Proud to e Teochew living in Singapore and Taiwan. Love this video to help us understand our heritage.
Great content!
I'm Teochew as well.
My father used to own a business. If you are Teochew and need help starting a business, he would loan you the merchandise to sell it first and pay later. but if someone is not honest, there won't be a second chance and the whole Teochew community would abandon you.
Many Teochew speak many different dialects and Teochew dialect is difficult to learn.
Teochew can speak Cantonese, mandarin, but Cantonese and Mandarin speaking people having a hard time learning Teochew😩
That part about business and money is so true. Friends, family, relatives and even people who came from the same village in the old country would form a sort of credit society to lend money to each other. But here in Australia, it is technically 'illegal' to conduct such lending practices. 'illegal' I must emphasise.😅😂
The Teochew can speak Cantonese and Mandarin only because they have learned them; else a Teochew cannot speak Cantonese or Mandarin. In Malaysia(Malaya) and Singapore, where the Chinese diaspora are made up of Hokkians, Teochews, Cantonese, Hakkas, Hainanese etc. So older Malaysians/Singaporeans like myself, can speak/understand several southern Chinese dialects and Malay - no big deal, for us then, as our classmates and people we deal with speak those various dialects.
“Gaginang” - greetings to all my TeoChew breathrens around the world from Seattle, USA.
I’ve never met gaginang in Seattle
In seattle too! Sometimes I go to lams seafood market to listen to old ladies speak teochew very loudly on their phones
Lmao , the truth fact is despite is also categorize under teochew , Jieyang people are never seeing the rest of teochew tribe as our own because jieyang native teochew pronouns are different from the rest of teochew and some conservatives Jieyang people still discourage Jieyang women to marry outside Jieyang .
I never know the history of my family’s people. Thank you for making this video
Holy shit so interesting! My mum’s ancestral family is Teochow and Cantonese. Father side is Fujianese. Left China in 1800s to Vietnam to UK England!
Yes Southern Chinese near the sea and their adventurous spirit love seeking their fortune abroad.🤭
Hey bro, your content is amazingly accurate and broad, very impressed and thankful for making this video. I'm Cambodian-born Teochew and went to Canada then back to China Suzhou now. Most Chinese outside of China refer to themselves as Tang 唐人 as opposed to Han 汉人 in mainland. We also refer to mainland/motherland as Mountain of Tang 唐山, without knowing that there is a city of the same name. The movie of Bruce Lee, 唐山大兄, reflects exactly that.
Thank bro! Me too Cambodia Teochew went to NZ after pol pot and now in Australia. Hoping one day visiting my ancestral land and live there for awhile and also Cambodia as well to revisiting my childhood memory.
@@SueC2558 ,,
so happy to read of your desire to visit your ancestral hometown .
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I'm a old man, i always encourage people to visit their ancestral hometown .
I feel so blessed that i was able to do mine ,
And the story i share with many people .
I don't know how some received my story telling ,
But many dozens have said ,
My eyes glow , when i narrate my story of visit my ancestral hometown ,
Pay respect to my grandparents cemetery and to the original settler site , a hut , treated and maintain like a shrine/temple .
We pay our respect to the 1st generation , from us the 23 rd generation and i did a repeat , being my son to do the same , paying respect , gaining a understanding of the chinese culture of filial duty .
You are right. We Hokkians & Teochews in Malaysia referred to ourselves as:"T'ng Lang" & "T'ng Nang" respectively.
I am of mixed Hokkien/Teochew lineage in Malaysia. You captured much of our heritage accurately. Your observations rekindled much of the memories of things told to me by grandparents. I am now 70 yrs of age and would want to set foot on my ancestral land at least once
@@tengmengcheng1596 You should seriously consider doing that while (with respect) you can move around freely and eat anything effortlessly. My mother is 77 and she loves coming to China for the experience and learning about our cultural root. It is also a great pleasure to see our Chinese people doing very well in recent years no matter to whom we're comparing to. China is no longer the backward poor people that look up to Taiwanese/Japanese/Korean/European/American, we are standing tall today and we're very open to welcome and help other people around the world. It's a good time to be in mainland China, tourist or resident alike.
Thank you very much! I love your video. Very happy to learn something about my birth place Swatow! I love the City, it is so beautiful! Unfortunately, I visited only one day! Growing up in Hong Kong, worked and studied in Sydney, worked and retired in America! Glad I can still speak fluent Chiu Chau dialect! I love my original birth place!
Wish you, as a Teochew, didn't use the Cantonese name for Teochew.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻thoroughly enjoyed your video. Hilarious but informative at the same time! Hi from a Singaporean Teochew living in Cambodia. 🙏
Thank you for helping me learn my roots. Great video and keep up the good work!
Very high quality video! Subscribed!
As a half teochew, i see this as an absolute win
thanks bra for taking the time making this video,im 100% Teochou from Vietnam.love to visit my motherland,but im broke from LA CA
Teochou??
My wife’s Teochew and I find her history fascinating! This video explains why so many of her people are scattered all over the place 👍
most early immigrants were Teochew or Hokkien etc, they migrated in large waves
Thank you for giving such a comprehensive history of the Teochew people. I am proud to be first generation Teochew born in Singapore. My late parents migrated from Swatow to Singapore almost 70 years ago.
That is correct ,
Your title is 1st generation teochew Singaporean .
Daym, I'm the 4th generation but the first generation of mixed Hokkien Teochew. 😂
@@MichalBatNoach ,
You're a adult ,
Which one would you choose as primary ?
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I met a half ukranian , half russian , full soviet , and i ask him to choose ,
He answered , he's a jew .
I didn't ask further .
Daym ,
I was tempted to say , thats worse than a bastard ,
But not going to mess with a 6'4" strongly built arm wrestler .
We became friends too .
Going to missed his humor ,
No matter how strong a body has been developed and nurtured ,
Just 1 stroke , he never recovered .
I'm Teochew 100% and my family tree from granddad shows that we are 3rd generation in Thailand and 27th generation from the first one who moved from Hokkian to Teochew.
27th
2700yrs 👀👀🤣🤣🤩🫶🏻🫰🏻🌹
@@kingwong8290 The equation is one among many mathematical formulas. But it is definitely wrong to equate a generation of human life simply to one hundred years as you did here (27 generations = 2700 years!). As is generally known and accepted, the average lifespan for modern human beings is much higher than that of past generations with the help of modern medicines, access to healthcare and education, better nutrition and lifestyle.
@@petetpk3436
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27th - 810yrs👀👀🤣🤣
Mr. Lee’s grandfather was 30 years old when Mr. Lee’s father was born.
Mr. Lee was born when his father was 30 years old. At 30 years old Mr. Lee himself had a son who was the 4th generation and a great grandson to Mr. Lee’s grandfather.
In the example above, it takes 30 years to produce a generation.
@@kingwong8290 Why 2700 years? In the old days, typical Teochew people would get marry once they reached 15 year olds (call cug huê hng or 出花園) , therefore 27 generations may just means less than 500 years.
Hello gaginang, from Saigon Cholon ❤
My dad is teo chew from cholon Saigon !
3rd gen Cambodian Teochew here. We still speak Teochew at home, but it's true that the dialect and tone have diverged a bit from other regions, we also speak slower here. Currently also trying to learn more Teochew words from Teochew community built app/social media.
Which app would you recommend ? I speak very basic Teochew
What's the name of the app? We need it. I missed the only dictionary sold in the mall book store. A help for the app name would be appreciated
Proud to be a teochew..
Thanks!
@@anhchiem9467 thank you so much, friend! Means a lot.
Great content . I am a Teochew living oversea. Great history lesson for myself . Keep it more coming ♥️
@@anhchiem9467 🙏
10:18 I love the image of the Teochew as a people with "shallow roots" to understand why they were later among the groups that migrated to other parts! Great video
Every people group are unique. Interesting on the Teochew.
It's amazing that after nomaded through so many countries in so many generations, this group of people can still keep their culture; and they can still identify themselves back to their ancient root. This certainly can be an interesting anthropology subject.
Pure Teochew living in America. Good to know where my people come from and their history. My parents never mentioned it much. 😅
Teochew from Singapore here. Been to Chaozhou numerous times. Seeing quite some changes recent years. Relatively cheaper there compared to most Chinese cities. Hotel stays are dirt cheap, will recommend folks to visit the place. Food is fantastic.
Teochew are kinda invisible in America, it's all Mandarin or Cantonese people mainly
Teochew Indonesian here!
Many ethnic Chinese can speak or understand Teochew or hakka, it's usually spoken within their own group gaginang, outside they speak the more common Chinese dialects canto or Mandarin
I'm sure that they have their reasons. In USA, it's better to hang out with the rest of the Asian community then getting too hung up over our Teochew heritage. No use standing separate from the rest.
Thanks
@@lkyeoh thank you so much!🙏🙏🙏
Wow, the batam teochew you said was spot on, good job 👍🏻
Very weel done documentary
@@MrDebmey thank you!🙏
Thank you so much for making this!
I am a overseas teochew, Indonesian, pontianak one to be precise
i was just watching a CNA documentary on how we in Singapore have pontianak princess
@@letsgoletsgoletsgoletsgoletsgo yeah, she is the melayu princess
@@XianWangTheo Arab actually father side alsagoff , motherside alkadrie
My dad is born in shantou in 1947 and came to Singapore with my grandma by boat for 5 days. He said our clan in shantou was 东峰
Wow that's the same place my ancestors came out from! Probably the same boat that takes my great grandfather! No machine right? Just a wooden boat? He went the same route roughly around 1939 I believe. But mine did not stay in Singapore because he heard of good fortune in Borneo!
I am Teochew here, from Penang Malaysia, gaginang pasiboh siang kang 😅🤭🤭 i am teaching both my son of teochew dialect, most of people shocked when not mandarin that served as mainstream over here
They are here, in Singapore. I'm proudly 3 Gen 海外潮人 Teochew. I still go back to my hometown often. There's a village where my grandma was from, where everyone shared the same surname as me.
Love your story ,
Please share more .
I am in Singapore, my mother is Teochew while my father is Hokkien/Fujian. Your surname Ang is like my paternal grandmother's...
I met my granduncle before, lol, imagine if we were related.
Small world, especially when two are from Singapore.
I am Chinese oversea, and according to my mom, my ancestor came from Jie-yang. Now I am domicile in Jakarta, Indonesia, I hope someday I could visit my ancestor homeland
Great video as im teochew too living in Australia and Taiwan.
Teochews in Singapore set up many clans association such as The Ngee Ann Kongsi at Tank Rd, Teochew Poit Ip HUAY Kuan at Tank Rd, & Chui Huay Lim Club at Leng Kee Rd, Teochew Lee Clan Association, etc
Great Video Braa 😁🤩🤩🤩
Great video on history of "gaginang" teochew people. Greeting from Sarawak to all teochew on planet earth.
Thanks for this informative video. The Teochow culture and history are so rich and it's gaining more traction now after Xi visited the region.
I am a 45 year old Singaporean Teo Chew whose hometown is Jieyang ( my father is literally born in Jieyang. I am the last person in my family who can speak this language fluently but the sad fact that both my sons only speaks English and failed his Chinese in school.
Don't despair .
They might have a change of heart ,
Maybe when they have a sense of their ancestral hometown .
Its roots ,
Its culture ,
Its significance .
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Who knows , Singapore might not exist in 50 yrs, but the teo chow people , its culture , its spirit lives forever .
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My first visit to my ancestral hometown was when i was 34 ,
And it changed me forever .
Even though, there's nobody related like 1st , 2nd or even 3rd cousins around.
Paying respect to my grandparents, first time,
And also paying respect to the 1st settlers house/ hut , its like our shrine, was a life changer.
I would encourage everyone to do a visit to their ancestral hometown , even has success with a Romanian kid , and also Irish family .
The irish youngster follow my advice , involve his dad and grands and the whole 3 generation make a trip to ireland .
I was so happy for them .
Singapore has become very westernised (like in Hong Kong where 100% must have a Western name to elevate their status). I have many Singapore friends/relatives who can no longer speak their parents' dialect. Many are losing their Chineseness; some even are not proud of their heritage. They all, increasingly must have a Western name, like William, Vincent, Albert etc. Some parents don't even bother to give them a Chinese name. Some disdainfully refer to the recently arrived Chinese from southern China as "China Kerh" (a corruption of China Kheh)[I don't like the current Malay spelling Cina for China, because some idiot after Merdeka decided to adopt the Dutch Romanisation in Indonesia].
This is a very nuanced history of the southern Chinese area Chaozhou. It’s very complicated. The multiple origins of the people, the diversity of the languages as well as the mixing with other languages. very nice job. Very responsible. No simple truths here.
Proud to be Teochew! 😁
Excellent video mate
Great video on history of "gaginang", the teochew people .I like it and proud to be a teochew.
I'm the one of teochew decent. So proud and happily inherited thousands years of my ancestors! East or West, North or South we are proudly "Kar Kee Nang"
We work hard and ambitious! Never kneel down to the destiny. ❤❤❤❤
"decent" or "descent"?
Same here, proud Teochew nang from Singapore. We speak Teochew in our family, switch to Hokkien when we speak to our in laws (whom are Hokkiens) Mandarin and English in our day to day lives with others. But we don’t forget our dialect..
Yout women happily kneel down to wealthy men. 😂
@@chinaboss6683
It's well known that throughout history, many women marry into wealth, including your women.
LMAO.
@@chinaboss6683all women do that
Proud 3rd gen Teochew from Thailand!!! Thai gaginang wya??🇹🇭💗🗣️🗣️
I am a teochew speaker born and raised in Indonesian West Borneo, now living in the Netherlands.. I am 47 now and friends of my generation speak teochew. Unfortunately the next generation kids speak it poorly or don't speak it at all.
Great to hear some one from my home town, greetings from Limburg 🙂.
Very informative! ❤ But the Transformers-like sound when transitioning time periods juxtaposed with the injected memes reminds me of college lol
Canadian born Teochew here. Growing up, I wasn't sure what to tell others since I spoke an uncommon dialect that wasn't Mandarin or Cantonese, while my parents could speak both of those, as well as Vietnamese, but as I get older, I've come to understand how much pride it is to tell others that I'm Teochew and the amazing history and impact Ga Gi Nang have, as well as speak it much more at home and with my girlfriend's family (also Teochew). Thanks for the awesome video. :D
Thanks for making this video. ❤ it
👏Good job on the research! I'm M'sian Teochew.
I’m 1/2 Teochow and 1/2 Cantonese. Grandparents migrated to Vietnam in the 1910s.
Same here. Now most of us are in the US. With families/ relatives in both VN and China.
Thanks for your informative video.
I'm a Singapore born teochew who has never visited my motherland.
Your video has enlighten me to many things i do not know.
100% Teochew in Australia. Grandfather went to Singapore from Jieyang.
The key for Shantou downfall during 1990 was when Shantou was primarily used as a port for smuggling good into China. Shantou like Xiamen, Shenzhen, were designated as Special Administrative Region. But the Shantou people used it primarily for smuggling good like automobile and steel into China during the 1990’s. A crackdown was made during the 90’s and astonishingly during the crackdown, the smuggler in Shantou actually murdered the central government official sent to investigate the smuggling activity. This greatly angered the central government and issued a decree to close Shantou. After that incident, most central government policy was skewed away from Shantou. There are definitely other reasons why Shenzhen outpaced Shantou like its proximity to HK. But most older Shantou people remember the incident.
If this is true that is absolutely fascinating!
@@soppyfrogproductions6276 zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/2000年汕头迎宾馆火灾
Interesting history!
My grandparents are from TeoChow and I was born in Vietnam speaking only Cantonese at home
My GP and siblings in Sydney speak Cantonese even though their grandparents are Hokkians, because her mum grew up in Saigon where I believe Cantonese is the dominant Chinese dialect.
TeoChow?? Chew!!
I can confirm. My Teochew ancestors were wealthy, as well as highly educated in ancient China, and having official positions in palace.
I've heard those ancestors who were upper class from ancient china are always rich in modern day. And also heard that they are always guaranteed to have maintained the family generational heritage stuff like an heirloom? Things like Ancient scroll, silk robe, vase, pottery, or painting from the era? Do you still have any of those?
@@MaseraSteve2My father used to be wealthy but he lost that to his first wife. Ugh, and I didn't get to be spoiled. 😡
@@MichalBatNoachhmm.. I feel sorry for your family history.. We actually have a parallel cases! where my father is still rich from inheritance but not that much.. since my grandmother is the 1st child and as asian, she didn't get most of the wealth because she isn't the only child have 11 younger siblings!! the difference is I do experienced that spoiling a little bit until 2008 when I also 8yrs old.. long story short of why.. well my father is basically your fantasy movies of a perfect husband.. he got a blind spot by this weaknesses.. His thinking got clouded by his wife.. that eventually ruined his long run of plan, she does sucked most of our office funds and add insult to injury.. cheated on him (I also met her lover! 3x! one in hotel..🤮)
which I and our babysitter told my dad about it man that shit ruined him.. and he become eventually depressed and jobless for 10 years! Thank god he snapped out of it when all of his leftovers of wealth is being used to cope instead of getting back to business depleted..
@@MichalBatNoach well firstly, I feel sorry for that! we actually have parallel of similarities! but mine is I still can experienced that a little until 2008 when I was 8. Similar stuff basically he is movie like perfect husband that being used too..
he got a lot of kickstart potential with the inheritance but too bad he got a wrong wife and wrecked his life because he didn't have life struggle when young. Thus most of his Younger friend that used to be very poor in the 80s now are 100x wealthier than him now (which he is understandably ashamed and pissed of the condition) glad I can turn that condition up by moving out from the old country since his last connection are hopeless and garbage for us anyway he will be following me soon on the new country since he felt betrayed by his so Called best friend who he used to help when they're broke but they forgot his kindness and distanced away from us when they hear the news.. hard lesson do not trust your friend too much and give them moolah it'll never ends well
Traced our Teochew roots to RUNAN (如南）in Henan. We still have the signboard with the word 如南 hanging above our doorway. Signifying our surname 袁 comes from RUNAN. Ancestors making our way to Jieyang over the centuries. My DNA report also shows almost 40% Northern Han and 30% Southern Han. Almost pure Chinese with no Northern Minority blood. That’s really interesting to know when listening to this channel about Teochew. Thank you.
Wow interesting. My paternal grandfather's family was also from Jieyang and after doing patrilineage DNA tests we are able to trace our ancestry back to many neolithic Shandong samples; signboard hanging above my family home was Yanling which is today Changzhou in Jiangsu province. Most likely they travelled from Shandong to Jiangnan region and perhaps Fujian before arriving in Teochew region.
16:48 This is Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the current PM of Thailand and the daughter of the former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. Her family is Hakka from the 丘 family.
There were 1,241 billionaires with wealth above 5 billions RMB in China 2023, 54 of them are Tiaochew descents, include Pony MA (the founder of Tencent), LI Ka-shing, WANG Lai-sheng(the founder of Luxshare), LIN Bin (the co-fonder of Xiaomi), CHEN Kai-xuan (the founder of Liby), LI Dong-sheng (the founder of TCL) etc.
Over 1,000 billionaires in China. Wow, that's a lot of money. Can I count on you blessed brothers and sisters to make sure there is no more hungry comrades in the motherland. Make sure there is never a hungry soul in the motherland. Never. Peace and love to you
I am a mixed Teochew Hokkien Singaporean who is studying Japanese language in Sendai. I was told that Japanese Kanji words contains pronunciation that sounds similar to Teochew, Hokkien and Cantonese.
Cantonese negative, Teochew yes, because Japan sent 3000 of their talented young students to Tang Dynasty to learn about Tang Chinese culture. A great part of Japanese cultures were adopted from Tang Dynasty.
I was shocked when I heard The word "Hak Seng " on Korean drama and it means the same thing!! A student! Very fascinating influence in history!!
I am also mixed, my father Hokkien and my mother Teochew. I am from Singapore as well.
Nice to meet you, fellow mixed Teochew Hokkien Singaporean.
@@MaseraSteve2 Many Korean words, borrowed from Chinese, are pronounced roughly the same way as Hokkien. I noticed that over 40 years ago, when I visited Korea on business. Since Fujian, where we Hokkians(more correct than Hokkien!) come from is so far away from Korea, I hypothesised that they must have pronounced them like the Tang people in Chang'an (now Xi'an). Therefore by extension, the forebears of the Hokkians and the Teochews must have come from (the North, i.e. Henan) where they spoke largely like the people of Chang'an. So the Korean word for island is "doh" or "toh", not like "tao" in Mandarin, those with surname Lin, pronounce it as Lim (like us Hokkians and Teochews) - sometimes as "Im" (with the initial L dropped, as in Yi for Lee, when the L is dropped), and Hyundai is like the Hokkian for "hyan tai" (i.e. the present generation = modern).
Not bad for one illiterate in Chinese.
and teochew is considered the region with most traditional customs among all Han Chinese, every decade they hold ceremony for the army that fought the mongolians 800 years ago
I went to shantou and teoan last year. It was amazing. Everyone with Teowchew ancestry should pay a visit. The food was really yummy.
I remember growing up in Cambodia where my parents preferred doing business with other teochew people just because of their trustworthiness. I think that’s what makes us so different. We use our words as our bonds and children raised in teochew families are taught this since young.
I heard that too ,
Their Words are bonds, among teochew nang only .
With other , no such word bond .
Too bad those kind of bonds have been eroding in my home country indonesia. No more Loyalty since gen X which is my father generation. It's hard to build business and wealth since people have become selfish that I hated the community in my home country and I moved to another country to build wealth for my family
Haiyaa teochew nang.
I love teochew cuisine.
Our ancestor left and split to two group one to bangkok one to klang.. we kept in touch with our bangkok kin.. as time goes by the letter from bangkok kin turn from chinese to thai language..
Now you need a translator to communicate with your Thai relatives. 😂😂😂
All Teochew and Fujian and Cantonese and Thai and Vietnamese have the closest DNA. Of course the people who move and conquer Thailand became Thai, the people who still live in the original land Nanyue or Nam Viet became Southern Chinese today. All the people live in Northern Vietnam and today Vietnam became the remaining Yue/Viet people. That’s why you don’t have much Teochew or Cantonese in Vietnam left because either we became Viet or left to the USA and mixed into Vietnamese community because we once Baiyue people.
There is still a large Teochew community in southern Vietnam. Ca Mau and Bac Lieu are the 2 cities that has the most
I am liking this before i even get through the commerical. as a third generatoin emigrant away from chaochow, this means a lot to me!!!
Chaochow? Chow!!!!
@KimLee-n4c omg chiuchow
Always speak teochew all my life with parents and siblings , taken for granted and only at this age online medias open up the eyes and mind how such dialects from a tribe in China has a long history, tiociu from pontianak borneo
14:30 I have to correct you there. The Teochew spoken in Batam is very similar to the Teochew spoken in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. In fact they are so close, a Teochew from Pontianak would thought the Batamese are Pontianakians. I know this because I am a Teochew from Pontianak.
16:50 Fun Fact, the Thai King that unite Thailand after the Myanmar Occupation, King Taksin The Great, was a Teochew Descent.
@@h12vcl70 Yes. He was from Tenghai or Chenghai( Mandarin) or 澄海 District of Shantou prefecture. There is a kind of mesuem in Chenghai to
Cormemorates him. Very nice tourist spot.
Teochew is also called chiuchao in Cantonese. I'm a different Chinese subgroup minority known as Toi-san the largest minority group of Chinese migrated to the USA during the mid 19th century after California's gold rush. Many Chinese in USA's. Chinese communities are Toi-san descent. If some say the are Teochew , they immigrated in the later 20th century . My Toi-san family have been here in the USA 6 generations. I'm a 4th generation Toi-san relative in my family
Toi-san in Mandarin is called Tai-shan
Yes. Rarely see any Teochew in USA. Perhaps they immigrated from Hongkong, Vietnam & Cambodia as refugees.
@@tatleongchan3689 ,,
Just for humor and fun , ,
They are the best covert agent from china .
Ha ha ha .
Ever heard of any teochew person caught on espionage charges ?
The answer is zero in that occupied land called MEI KOUK. .
@@tatleongchan3689most of the teochew in usa that I know are not refugees. Word from the local in my country, There are clusters of upper class chinese Indonesian from jakarta who happen to be a teochew they all moved to washington, cali , new york and boston. All migration started around the 1970-90's Hard to find though.. different lifestyle.
Meanwhile, you can find some in Santa clara, my grandmother's youngest sister who moved there from jakarta also since 1979, and started their family there. But not because of the economic factors, as their parents were a millionaire in the 1950s. Live in the USA for them sadly weren't lavish though.. since she got bad luck in choosing a partner, turns out her husband was a slacker and the result is.. well.. my grandmother disowned him out of shame since y'now typical chinese saving face/reputation kind of stuff
@@MaseraSteve2 Mas keturunan Indonesia ya?
I had met a Cambodian Teochew in Frisco Chinatown. She spoke perfect Cantonese and she told me that most American Teochews who came from Cambofia,( Teochew is the dominant ethnic group,,), Laos and Vietnam to USA were refugees. Also, many 2 Nd generation Teochews in USA can't speak Teochew but can speak the dominant
CANTONESE dialect. Well, in New York where there are Foochow enclaves this is the same. in Jakarta
most young Chinese speak Betawi -ngomong Apa? Only older Chinese speak Hakka or some Hokien. I don't know there are many Chinese Indonesians who migrate to US. In Netherlands which was the jajahan master I met some.
Most are Hakkas.
@@tatleongchan3689 Iya betul, saya generasi ke 4, cuma orang tua dulu sibuk bahasa teochew saya jadinya ga lengkap hanya 50% saja indonesianya lebih fasih mirip yg jakarta karena dijaga pembantu. I've heard my grandmother's experience in the 1980s in the USA she said Most Chinese in san Francisco cannot speak Mandarin or teochew only Cantonese. Netherland punya turunan chinese jajahan master? Ha? Belum pernah dengar sejarahnya. Bukannya orang Chinese itu statusnya agak tinggi kelas 2 di Indonesia dipercayakan perdagangan atau bisnis sama orang belanda?
Kita blasteran teochew hakka cuma yg nonjol itu teochew nya. Punya juga relasi Hakka full di jakarta ntah siapanya kakek buyut saya yg teochew dari shantou/swatou pindah ke Singkawang. Matanya mereka yg hakka pada sipit semua. Aneh aja yang di Kalimantan matanya keluarga kita enggak sipit begitu mirip muka jepang/ hongkong lah kita punya agak lonjong dari muka kakek.
Oh ya Bahasa inggris nya om paten juga ya 😅
Michael Chang (89 French Open winner) is rumored to be Teochew with his parents from Taiwan.
Thanks for the video! Love it!
瓦浪，awesome video!
Interesting..I am Chinese-Cambodian, we don't understand other Teochew spoken in other countries, not 100%.
I'm also Chinese-Cambodian. I find knowing a bit of mandarin will help in understanding tiaochew spoken by othe countries.
If you dont understand, then you are not teochew.
Thats not really true. I am Cam-Viet Teochew but I can understand other diasporas teochew well. Even the mainland one but their accent is a bit more thick.
Sometimes there are just different words but it doesnt usually impede communication too much
@@chinaboss6683I wouldn't say that!
I'm Teochew from Singapore, living in Australia. Hello Gaginang 👋 My ancestors should be from Chaoyang and Swatow
MAKE 潮州 GREAT AGAIN - just bought land in my ancestral village of 普宁 😁
老乡好❤
I grew up in Boston and now live in Los Angeles. There are a lot of Cantonese oversea Chinese that went to Southeast Asia, Canada, USA, Europe in modern history. When I visited Thailand a few years ago, my tourist guide and a translator was also a Teochew Chinese Thai. There is a Teochew restaurant in the Chinatown in Boston.
FYI, I see a lot of comments left by Teochew worldwide calling themselves gaginang, which in Mandarin is 自己人 zijiren, or “our own selves”. Gagi (ziji) = selves, Nang (ren) = people.
My mother was born in Teochew, and migrated to Singapore to join her father in the 1940s. I've lived in Cambodia, and visiting Thailand and Vietnam, my ability to speak Teochew gave an advantage beyond speaking the local language.
This documentary helps pin my experience.
Thank you for sharing. As a Singaporean Teochew, I am ashamed to say I speak limited Teochew, often mixed with Hokkien, due to the intermixing of the two dialect groups and languages. And even more unfortunately, my kids are unable to understand the language at all. I do hope to go back to the lands my great grandparents came from in escape from poverty and famine. I do know that there are some contacts with relations living in Swatow and I would like to visit them.
Interesting, as a Khmer in Cambodia. I was always wondering about Chinese in Cambodia.
I guess around 70% of Cambodian Chinese are of Teochew (TEA-CHIV ទៀជីវ)descent, and many Teochew words has been injected into Khmer language as well, for example: JAB-HUOY = Chab-huoy, JAB- CHHAY = Chab-chhay, KUOY-TIAU = Kuy-teav, TANG-HUNG = Taing-hun, KU-CHHAY-KUOY = Nom-Ku-chhay, CHHONG-TE = Chhong-te, JONG-PHOW = Chong-phov, THAU-KE = Thao-ke etc…etc…
Nice, living in the Netherlands right now. The food in the area is awesome.
Thanks for sharing❤
You should do a deep dive into the history of Sriracha :)
Yep, proud to be here, you see the comments
A bit pedantic of me but,
14:30 Indonesian is technically a standardized register/form of Malay, but I get what you're saying. Kalimantan has a lot of different local languages and dialects which influence the Teochew spoken there.
15:08 Vietnamese and Chinese have the same name order. However, the family term goes before the name in Vietnamese so yes cô Wang.
Teochew and Hokkian almost similar. Imo Teochew are more refine this can shown in the opera where their costumes are more elaborate than Hokkian casual style.
Hokkien is known as rough. That is why they don’t really have hokkien cuisine, or maybe not as common. Teochew cuisine is known.
I heard and read that hokkien are one of the poorest tribes in mainland ancient china to the point of the woman breaking usual chinese tradition of cutting hair short and working a male only job to support the family
Hock Tan, one of the highest paid CEOs in the US and CEO of the world’s 10th most valuable company is also of Teochew descent.
F--k! Why must we use the mangled version of his actual name: Tan Hock Eng - a very typical Hokkien name in Malaysia, spelt our way, surname 1st. Not the screwed up Hock Tan. Hock Eng come together. This is not the Anglo-Saxon: given name, middle name & surname. If we were to follow this screwed up format, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore would have been: Kuan Lee!
Very good
The two richest subsects of the Min language group are the Foochow and the Teochew, usually Hokkiens were mainly farmers or labourers which the British liked and was sent to Singapore and Malaysia, whereas the Teochew were merchants and the Foochow are (stereotypically) very inclusive and only traded within the group to keep money inside the community.
The so-called(badly) Foochow, or Hockchew, are a relative minority in Singapore & Malaysia(mainly in Sitiawan, Yong Peng & Sibu). I didn't realise until my old age that Fuzhou is the capital of the Fujian Province, whose people were much better educated (like Robert Kuok's family) than the majority of the Minnan speaking Hokkians who left for Malaya/Singapore in the early 1900s - majority illiterate or with only rudimentary education. So many of them started off as laborers etc. But some ended up building a fortune, like Lim Goh Tong (Genting), often 1 or 2 generations later; one has to start somewhere.