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 :)
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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!
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.
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😩
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.🤭
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.
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
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Teochew Opera (潮剧) is well-known and has been passed down for several centuries for a few key reasons: Cultural Significance: Teochew opera is a significant part of the cultural identity of the Teochew people, both in China and in overseas communities. It is a form of storytelling that combines music, singing, and drama, deeply rooted in Confucian values and local folk traditions. This has allowed it to resonate with Teochew people across generations, making them eager to preserve it. Strong Overseas Diaspora: Teochew people who migrated overseas brought their cultural traditions with them, including Teochew opera. In places like Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Teochew communities established opera troupes and preserved this art form as a connection to their heritage.
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.
Many friends are Teo Chew. They are hospitality people. However Hokkien said, "they are proud" that is not the case. I also like the accent of Teo Chew and softer in tone. Unfortunate, the younger generations already lost integrity of Teo Chew of being humble.
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.
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
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'm a Cambodian born teo chew, but left at age 5 due to pol pot genocide. My grandparents on both sides fled China to Cambodia due economic reasons. My father became a wealthy business man in Cambodia but lost everything when pot pot took power. But lucky my family all survived his murderous regime and settled in Australia as refugees. China should offer all the Chinese diaspora a right to return, just like Israel does for Jews.
@@sting114 Most of thePol pot gang are Teochews,the dominant ethnic Chinese group .Kieu Sanphan is also Teochew. Well in colonial time, rich Chinese sent them sons to study in France and be informatived by Karl Max ideology.😂
@@tatleongchan3689how are you able to tell they were Teochew? By their surname? Was Kaing Guek Eav, aka Comrade Duch, who ran the infamous Tuol Sleng also Teochew? It wasn’t just influences from their time in France, but China also promoted communism in Cambodia and promoted Chinese solidarity and identity in Cambodia. I read from a U.S. source that there was a local sporting event where Cambodians of Chinese ancestry showed up waving Chinese flags. And Chinese officials were also in Cambodia during the regime and directly involved. They not only turned their backs on ethnic Chinese in Cambodia that they earlier sought solidarity with but later blamed ethnic Chinese for the corruption in Cambodia.
@@d.c.3534 Are you even Chinese? I had lots of relatives in Cambodia.Some survived the holocaust. There are Teochew associations in Phnom Penh and in the provinces. Some of the old members there are survivors of the war. They can witness the ethnicities of the Khmer Rouge leaders and their gangs.Teochew is the dominant Chinese ethnic group since the French era. Estimated 70% of Chinese in Cambodia before,during Pol pot era are Teochews. The rich landowners, rich suppliers to those who are small retailers were mainly Teochews. They controlled the commerce of Cambodia. The rich Chinese then who sent their children to France and got doctrinised were Teochews. The other ethnic Chinese were and now workers of these Teochew Bosses. Teochews who were doctrinised in communism during the pre1970 of course hold political positions in Khmer Rouge. They were also in the rank and file of the army. Communist China was not sympathetic to bourgeois Chinese from cities when they were persecuted after Cambodia fall to communists. It is not ethnicity that China is concerned. It is the concept that exploiters of poor people should be punished. Lands, businesses of exploiting class in China were consfiscated and landowners were punished. The Khmer Rouge did the same thing but they did not touch the Chinese who are mainly Teochews in the Khmer Rouge. Of course, just before Cambodia fell, the leftist Cambodian Chinese all gang up with the Khmer Rouge. So you cannot say China don't sympathise with leftist Cambodian Chinese. I am not PRC citizen and sympathise with ROC.OK
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.
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..
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
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.
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 would love to know all your information sources if you can provide a list! My son is half Hakka (from me) - i appreciate another thing I can show him about his roots.
I'm a teochew, considered 3rd gen in Singapore. Both my parents are teochews, and ancestors from Jieyang. My siblings and cousins speak fluent teochew but not the younger generations. From where i grew up in a kampung in Singapore long ago, it was made up of main teochews and hokkien. There are many many teochews in Singapore and business man too. Gaginang translated 自己人 meaning own people. Kacheng angang meaning bumps red red 😂
After ,1979 most young Teochew stop speaking Teochew but speak Mandarin. Teochew spoken in Singapore is heavily polluted by Hokien which was the Lingua Franca in pre 1979 days Words like dampo，anjua, an-n eh( 诏安话）, Siang, dolor, Jia png as opposed to jia poong etc. But it's glad that there is an amateur Teochew opera group 南华 that spread inheritance of Teochew language.
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.
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 women known for her beauty. My mother and sister sure pretty. That is what I heard. Now I am enlightened by this video about this dialect group.
Yes we are both men n women are sexy smart smooth sincere savvy sassy sensational swag sexual Chinese. My 4 older brother n me are very handsome big eye. My foster dad n mom my foster older sister were very good looking people too and my adopt family beg my parents to adopt me I m not sure why. Its long story.
Teochews have pretty sharp features, smaller faces compared to the folks from the north, hence, looks tend to be more pronounced. And yes, have been long well regarded to be pretty faces.
@@vennsim71 im proud to be Chinese then i go Chinatown in USA why it seem they all have flat fat face flat noses small slantt eye with no line nor eyelashes just narrow opening eye so boring strange weird annoying eye to me and everybody except Chinese themselves thin lip round face. Yuck. My extend family not like that at all may be few exception I guess. I wonder is it my family only because my adopt family good looking too or most Teo Chew Chinese look good or what? I saw vids about people in Teo Chew people they have small slantt eye too may not as bad as rest of Han Chinese. Bet Taibet Chinese not like that. Wonder how about Mongolian and Manchurian Chinese have smalll slantt eye too probably not? I m small due malnutrition from Vietnam war n child abuses long story. Were all tall slim sexy good looking Chinese not westernized looking Chinese Asians now they make rest of Asian embarrass as hell.
@@DeliriousBaoMy former friend’s husband was Chinese Thai of Teochew and he was not that great looking to me. His sisters were okay looking too. Just like any ethnicity, there are good and bad looking people.
Wow. Not this group. But learned a lot. It’s like a college education. Thanks so much. May I ask what video editing app you use to do your video. It is so good. Can you do some video editing videos so I can learn from you. Thanks so much again for this great content.
I, unfortunately, prob wont make an editing tutorial video just because it’s not necessarily what I’m passionate about. I love history, which is what I enjoy making content on. But if you have any specific questions about editing, feel free to message me and I’m happy to discuss with you!
Teochew people are not Cantonese. We do not identify as Cantonese, do not speak Cantonese, and do not follow Cantonese customs. The only reason the TeoSua region is in Guangdong and not Fujian is because of divisive politics by successive Central Governments.
read some history can or not, since tang already under the region what has become canton today. Based on your logic, your are not chinese but teochew only? dont so kiasu la. In every where oversea if teochew is not populate enough sure lump into canton association one la.
I love teochew opera from Hong Kong especially 60s & 70s. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore adopt their styles or learn fr them. It's normal since Cantonese are majority in Hong Kong, they get some influence. After all to live peacefully u need to be open minded
I am a Teochew descent from Teochew parents.My mom from Malaysia & dad from Swatow,China.Yes we Teochew are not Canto but from Canton province,unique to say!
It would be better as a whole if China at least waved visa requirements to the Chinese Diaspora if not give dual citizenship to at least make the diaspora feel needed and loved especially for the younger generations that are feeling more distant to China and China can also copy Israel in how it treats its diaspora. How can the Diaspora especially the young ones feel close to China if every time they need to go there that they need to apply for a short term visa? this is a mistake, a soft power mistake, with China's aging population they should be attracting the diaspora back to help the motherland; me as a Chinese Filipino who loves China feels disappointed that China hasn't thought this thru! it is saddening especially with the younger generations being anglophones and pro west and identify less and less with being Chinese, shame on China if they continue to turn a blind eye to the diaspora!
Oh yes, bring the diaspora back to the motherland roots. As China is so fantastic, it makes sense to be part of her greatness. For those Chinese so brainwashed and fancy everything Western is cool, wake up and feel proud of the greatest Chinese civilization. Love China.
They could but they will not do it. It will cause trouble for SEA countries especially Vietnam, which have sizeable Hoa Chinese community yet have beef with China since middle age.
@@brainwashington1332Wrong, if asked if they are on the side of China or their country, they would be able to say both and that they want peace and cooperation between China and that country. zas of now, they must say that they are on the side of the other country.
潮州 literally means ‘the tidal wave state’. They are known for having a strong communal bond and family value which forms a safety net for them to go all-in whenever they spot an opportunity however young or risky.
im teochew-hakka chinese in malaysia - teochew on my dad’s side! i was never exactly close with my father’s side nor do i speak the dialect. i prefer my hakka side way more. but all my grandparents has passed except my paternal grandmother, shes slowly declining and can barely speak mandarin. yet i dont know how to speak teochew with her.. and in general i dont know anything about my teochew side as im not close w my father either. despite not liking the dialect (no offense) i’d love to learn more about my culture :[ the only thing i know is my surname traces back to shandong region (which makes sense to teochew migration)
Love your story . But as a hakka nin myself , All hakka will say this ,, , You are also 100% bonafide hakka nin . Welcome brother . - My wife isn't a hakka , But she identified as hakka first , Same with all m cousins wives , including my my auntie from my uncle. And the in-laws who married or stay married with us ,, They are hakka too . We are inclusive , only the divorced are expelled .
Chaoshan area have native before Han Chinese arrived, remember their genetic are still blend in our modern teochew people, fujian settler are only a part of teochew people, there are still many2 immigrant from central plain during turbulence when central plain attacked by Northern barbarian...modern teochew DNA prove it...we're actually melting pot
@@vanveakrin276 thats not true at all, maybe part of modern teochew dna can be trace from putian Fujian province, but modern teochew share some similar genetic with hakka,cantonese ,she ethnic group and as far as Henan province around taihang mountain region.
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
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.
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 .
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 !!!!!!!!
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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.
Proud to e Teochew living in Singapore and Taiwan. Love this video to help us understand our heritage.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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 .
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!
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.
“Gaginang” - greetings to all my TeoChew breathrens around the world from Seattle, USA.
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😩
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? 😢
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.🤭
I never know the history of my family’s people. Thank you for making this video
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.
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
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.
As a half teochew, i see this as an absolute win
Indonesian teochew here ! Even after generations we are all still ga gi nang
Amen to that 😊
I’m 1/2 Teochow and 1/2 Cantonese. Grandparents migrated to Vietnam in the 1910s.
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 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.
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
Proud to be Teochew! 😁
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.
Wow, the batam teochew you said was spot on, good job 👍🏻
Thank you for helping me learn my roots. Great video and keep up the good work!
Hello gaginang, from Saigon Cholon ❤
My dad is teo chew from cholon Saigon !
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.
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.
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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.
Great Video Braa 😁🤩🤩🤩
Proud to be a teochew..
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!!!
Excellent video mate
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
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
I can confirm. My Teochew ancestors were wealthy, as well as highly educated in ancient China, and having official positions in palace.
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
100% Teochew in Australia. Grandfather went to Singapore from Jieyang.
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
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.
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 .
My grandparents are from TeoChow and I was born in Vietnam speaking only Cantonese at home
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
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.
Very weel done documentary
@@MrDebmey thank you!🙏
Every people group are unique. Interesting on the Teochew.
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
Very informative! ❤ But the Transformers-like sound when transitioning time periods juxtaposed with the injected memes reminds me of college lol
瓦浪，awesome video!
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
MAKE 潮州 GREAT AGAIN - just bought land in my ancestral village of 普宁 😁
老乡好❤
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.
Teochew Opera (潮剧) is well-known and has been passed down for several centuries for a few key reasons:
Cultural Significance: Teochew opera is a significant part of the cultural identity of the Teochew people, both in China and in overseas communities. It is a form of storytelling that combines music, singing, and drama, deeply rooted in Confucian values and local folk traditions. This has allowed it to resonate with Teochew people across generations, making them eager to preserve it.
Strong Overseas Diaspora: Teochew people who migrated overseas brought their cultural traditions with them, including Teochew opera. In places like Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Teochew communities established opera troupes and preserved this art form as a connection to their heritage.
Yet u spoke mandarin to your kids and tell them to forget their roots as teochew but be Beijing by speaking beijing dialect instead
👏Good job on the research! I'm M'sian Teochew.
Interesting, as a Khmer in Cambodia. I was always wondering about Chinese in Cambodia.
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.
Many friends are Teo Chew. They are hospitality people. However Hokkien said, "they are proud" that is not the case. I also like the accent of Teo Chew and softer in tone. Unfortunate, the younger generations already lost integrity of Teo Chew of being humble.
Great video as im teochew too living in Australia and Taiwan.
Proud 3rd gen Teochew from Thailand!!! Thai gaginang wya??🇹🇭💗🗣️🗣️
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.
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.
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
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'm a Cambodian born teo chew, but left at age 5 due to pol pot genocide. My grandparents on both sides fled China to Cambodia due economic reasons. My father became a wealthy business man in Cambodia but lost everything when pot pot took power. But lucky my family all survived his murderous regime and settled in Australia as refugees. China should offer all the Chinese diaspora a right to return, just like Israel does for Jews.
Pol pot and all his henchmen have Chinese blood
@@sting114most cambodians in phnom penh have partial Chinese genetics
@@sting114 Most of thePol pot gang are Teochews,the dominant ethnic Chinese group .Kieu Sanphan is also Teochew. Well in colonial time, rich Chinese sent them sons to study in France and be informatived by Karl Max ideology.😂
@@tatleongchan3689how are you able to tell they were Teochew? By their surname? Was Kaing Guek Eav, aka Comrade Duch, who ran the infamous Tuol Sleng also Teochew? It wasn’t just influences from their time in France, but China also promoted communism in Cambodia and promoted Chinese solidarity and identity in Cambodia. I read from a U.S. source that there was a local sporting event where Cambodians of Chinese ancestry showed up waving Chinese flags. And Chinese officials were also in Cambodia during the regime and directly involved. They not only turned their backs on ethnic Chinese in Cambodia that they earlier sought solidarity with but later blamed ethnic Chinese for the corruption in Cambodia.
@@d.c.3534 Are you even Chinese? I had lots of relatives in Cambodia.Some survived the holocaust. There are Teochew associations in Phnom Penh and in the provinces. Some of the old members there are survivors of the war. They can witness the ethnicities
of the Khmer Rouge leaders and their gangs.Teochew is the dominant Chinese ethnic group since the French era.
Estimated 70% of Chinese in Cambodia before,during
Pol pot era are Teochews.
The rich landowners, rich suppliers to those who are small retailers were mainly Teochews. They controlled the commerce of Cambodia. The rich Chinese then who sent their children to France and got doctrinised were Teochews. The other ethnic Chinese were and now workers of these Teochew
Bosses. Teochews who were doctrinised in communism during the pre1970 of course hold political positions in Khmer Rouge. They were also in the rank and file of the army. Communist China was not sympathetic to bourgeois Chinese from cities when they were persecuted after
Cambodia fall to communists. It is not ethnicity that China is concerned. It is the concept that exploiters of poor people should be punished.
Lands, businesses of exploiting class in China were consfiscated and landowners were punished.
The Khmer Rouge did the same thing but they did not touch the Chinese who are mainly Teochews in the Khmer Rouge. Of course, just before Cambodia fell, the leftist Cambodian Chinese all gang up with the Khmer Rouge. So you cannot say China don't sympathise with leftist Cambodian Chinese. I am not PRC citizen and sympathise with ROC.OK
Haiyaa teochew nang.
I love teochew cuisine.
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!
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. 😂😂😂
Michael Chang (89 French Open winner) is rumored to be Teochew with his parents from Taiwan.
You should do a deep dive into the history of Sriracha :)
I am the 14th generation of Teochew descendent
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!
My great great grandpa is Teochew, he sailed directly from China to find better opportunity in a new land just like Alexander Hamilton
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.
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.
Yep, proud to be here, you see the comments
I would love to know all your information sources if you can provide a list! My son is half Hakka (from me) - i appreciate another thing I can show him about his roots.
I'm a teochew, considered 3rd gen in Singapore. Both my parents are teochews, and ancestors from Jieyang. My siblings and cousins speak fluent teochew but not the younger generations. From where i grew up in a kampung in Singapore long ago, it was made up of main teochews and hokkien.
There are many many teochews in Singapore and business man too.
Gaginang translated 自己人 meaning own people. Kacheng angang meaning bumps red red 😂
After ,1979 most young Teochew stop speaking Teochew but speak Mandarin. Teochew spoken in Singapore is heavily polluted by Hokien which was the Lingua Franca in pre 1979 days Words like dampo，anjua, an-n eh( 诏安话）, Siang, dolor, Jia png as opposed to jia poong etc. But it's glad that there is an amateur Teochew opera group 南华 that spread inheritance of Teochew language.
Kacheng ang ang is a myth, but lantau ang ang is a reality.😂😂😂
@@franktoh3041 I really hope it's not bleeding.
@@tatleongchan3689 You mean yours is purple?
@@franktoh3041 want to take a look?
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.
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.
Very good
The only thing you need to know about 潮州 is their meatballs are legendary
That is beyond any doubt . And many other dishes too .
Teochew women known for her beauty. My mother and sister sure pretty. That is what I heard. Now I am enlightened by this video about this dialect group.
The Teochew men are pretty good looking too. 😉
Yes we are both men n women are sexy smart smooth sincere savvy sassy sensational swag sexual Chinese. My 4 older brother n me are very handsome big eye. My foster dad n mom my foster older sister were very good looking people too and my adopt family beg my parents to adopt me I m not sure why. Its long story.
Teochews have pretty sharp features, smaller faces compared to the folks from the north, hence, looks tend to be more pronounced. And yes, have been long well regarded to be pretty faces.
@@vennsim71 im proud to be Chinese then i go Chinatown in USA why it seem they all have flat fat face flat noses small slantt eye with no line nor eyelashes just narrow opening eye so boring strange weird annoying eye to me and everybody except Chinese themselves thin lip round face. Yuck. My extend family not like that at all may be few exception I guess. I wonder is it my family only because my adopt family good looking too or most Teo Chew Chinese look good or what? I saw vids about people in Teo Chew people they have small slantt eye too may not as bad as rest of Han Chinese. Bet Taibet Chinese not like that. Wonder how about Mongolian and Manchurian Chinese have smalll slantt eye too probably not? I m small due malnutrition from Vietnam war n child abuses long story. Were all tall slim sexy good looking Chinese not westernized looking Chinese Asians now they make rest of Asian embarrass as hell.
@@DeliriousBaoMy former friend’s husband was Chinese Thai of Teochew and he was not that great looking to me. His sisters were okay looking too. Just like any ethnicity, there are good and bad looking people.
Wow. Not this group. But learned a lot. It’s like a college education. Thanks so much. May I ask what video editing app you use to do your video. It is so good. Can you do some video editing videos so I can learn from you. Thanks so much again for this great content.
I, unfortunately, prob wont make an editing tutorial video just because it’s not necessarily what I’m passionate about. I love history, which is what I enjoy making content on. But if you have any specific questions about editing, feel free to message me and I’m happy to discuss with you!
Teochew people are not Cantonese. We do not identify as Cantonese, do not speak Cantonese, and do not follow Cantonese customs. The only reason the TeoSua region is in Guangdong and not Fujian is because of divisive politics by successive Central Governments.
read some history can or not, since tang already under the region what has become canton today. Based on your logic, your are not chinese but teochew only? dont so kiasu la. In every where oversea if teochew is not populate enough sure lump into canton association one la.
I love teochew opera from Hong Kong especially 60s & 70s. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore adopt their styles or learn fr them. It's normal since Cantonese are majority in Hong Kong, they get some influence. After all to live peacefully u need to be open minded
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That was how most Chinese used to identify themselves. The concept of China or Chinese was invented during the Qing dynasty.
I am a Teochew descent from Teochew parents.My mom from Malaysia & dad from Swatow,China.Yes we Teochew are not Canto but from Canton province,unique to say!
It would be better as a whole if China at least waved visa requirements to the Chinese Diaspora if not give dual citizenship to at least make the diaspora feel needed and loved especially for the younger generations that are feeling more distant to China and China can also copy Israel in how it treats its diaspora. How can the Diaspora especially the young ones feel close to China if every time they need to go there that they need to apply for a short term visa? this is a mistake, a soft power mistake, with China's aging population they should be attracting the diaspora back to help the motherland; me as a Chinese Filipino who loves China feels disappointed that China hasn't thought this thru! it is saddening especially with the younger generations being anglophones and pro west and identify less and less with being Chinese, shame on China if they continue to turn a blind eye to the diaspora!
Oh yes, bring the diaspora back to the motherland roots. As China is so fantastic, it makes sense to be part of her greatness. For those Chinese so brainwashed and fancy everything Western is cool, wake up and feel proud of the greatest Chinese civilization. Love China.
They could but they will not do it. It will cause trouble for SEA countries especially Vietnam, which have sizeable Hoa Chinese community yet have beef with China since middle age.
That small convenience would bring more trouble to the diaspora than good, we would be suspected to having dual loyalty
@@brainwashington1332Wrong, if asked if they are on the side of China or their country, they would be able to say both and that they want peace and cooperation between China and that country. zas of now, they must say that they are on the side of the other country.
During the Ming Dynasty, Teochiu used to be part of Fujian Province.
You had me at Sriracha...
The siracha founder ?
潮州 literally means ‘the tidal wave state’. They are known for having a strong communal bond and family value which forms a safety net for them to go all-in whenever they spot an opportunity however young or risky.
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Hi would be good to do for other groups of Chinese such a Hakka, Hainan etc
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From 3rd generation Khmer-Teochew (grandfather side) and 5th generation (grandmother side). Proud to be dio jiu nang.
im teochew-hakka chinese in malaysia - teochew on my dad’s side!
i was never exactly close with my father’s side nor do i speak the dialect. i prefer my hakka side way more.
but all my grandparents has passed except my paternal grandmother, shes slowly declining and can barely speak mandarin. yet i dont know how to speak teochew with her..
and in general i dont know anything about my teochew side as im not close w my father either. despite not liking the dialect (no offense) i’d love to learn more about my culture :[
the only thing i know is my surname traces back to shandong region (which makes sense to teochew migration)
Love your story .
But as a hakka nin myself ,
All hakka will say this ,, ,
You are also 100% bonafide hakka nin .
Welcome brother .
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My wife isn't a hakka ,
But she identified as hakka first ,
Same with all m cousins wives , including my my auntie from my uncle.
And the in-laws who married or stay married with us ,,
They are hakka too .
We are inclusive , only the divorced are expelled .
Teo Chiu was originally a part of the Mother Tribe Hokien. But Teo Chiu splited away from Hokien
The correct term is Min Nan. Hokkien/Fujian is a province.
Chaoshan area have native before Han Chinese arrived, remember their genetic are still blend in our modern teochew people, fujian settler are only a part of teochew people, there are still many2 immigrant from central plain during turbulence when central plain attacked by Northern barbarian...modern teochew DNA prove it...we're actually melting pot
And that's why elderly people always said Teochew men can't married a Hokien girl but, Teochew girl can married a Hokien man.
@@vanveakrin276 thats not true at all, maybe part of modern teochew dna can be trace from putian Fujian province, but modern teochew share some similar genetic with hakka,cantonese ,she ethnic group and as far as Henan province around taihang mountain region.
看過一個科普，說的是泰國現在的泰語是以潮州華人口音為標準音的，阿瑜陀耶王朝時期（1351年至1767年），若阿瑜陀耶等於中國的北京，曼谷就是天津。當時，外國的戰船和軍人不受允許進入當時首都大城，只能停在昭皮耶河口的曼谷地區。所以當時的曼谷聚集了很多外國人的戰船、貿易船，河岸兩邊都是不同國家人的村子、市集、軍營等等。所以，可以說曼谷早期成為首都之前，就已經是個國際化的都市了，路上走來走去的都是來自世界各地的人。阿瑜陀耶時期，暹羅王國官話（暹羅語/泰語）的標準音是阿瑜陀耶口音。而位於首都南邊的曼谷市卻聚集了很多外地人，其中以華人為最多，使得曼谷地區的的口音屬於外地人說泰語的口音。阿瑜陀耶滅亡後，暹羅王國首都往南遷移到了曼谷地區。雖然曼谷剛建都時候有部分的阿瑜陀耶人也跟著來，但曼谷大多數人口還是以華人為最多（佔曼谷人口的一半），所以曼谷口音基本上就是華人說泰語的口音。後來也隨著曼谷被升級為首都的地位，曼谷口音就成為了泰國官方語言的標準口音。一个挺冷的潮州冷知识😂
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This was a very interesting read. Thank you for sharing!
I am a proud teochew in Malaysia 😂
I had met tons of Teochew in KL, IPOH,Sersmban who can't speak Teochew but wagging fluently in CANTONESE.