In the early days, in order to make a living, the people in China's coastal areas "went down to Nanyang" or crossed the heavy ocean to live overseas, forming an immigration phenomenon of "where there is water, there are Chinese".
Today, the number of overseas Chinese has exceeded 10 million. The ideological tradition of overseas Chinese people who love their families, remember their ancestors and trace their roots is in the same vein as the land of China. However, due to the separation of mountains and rivers, the long migration, and the inconvenience of communication, many overseas Chinese have lost contact with their relatives in their hometown and are on the road to find their roots and ancestors.
Headline Searchers now set up the "Chinese Roots Search" service to help Chinese people at home and abroad realize their wishes to find relatives. Recently, Grandma Chen Qiaozhu from Fujian Province contacted the headline searcher and asked for help from the Chinese Root-Seeking Public Welfare Project to find her sister Chen Qiaoyun and her relatives in Thailand.
Ms. Chen Qiaoyun's information is now sorted out as follows, and I hope that you will help forward it and help them reunite through the relay of love.
Name: Chen Qiaoyun
Date of birth: about 85 years old
Ancestral home: Yangshan Village, Phosphorus Town, Xiangqiao District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province
Hometown relative information: sister Chen Qiaozhu
Overseas relative information: father Chen Xbo; ex-husband Liu Wenhong, cousin Chen Ximao, yi sister Zheng Yujiao
Overseas contact address: Bangkok, Thailand Sattu Bali Road door number 53-7/X, Isharabo Road 17 card 965/XX
Here are the stories of the search for relatives:
Due to historical factors such as trade, labor, and immigration, Thailand currently has tens of millions of Chinese people, a considerable part of which are from China's Chaoshan region, and Thailand has become the country with the highest concentration of overseas Chaoshan people.
Originally from Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and now living in Longyan, Fujian Province, Grandma Chen Qiaozhu, who is 90 years old, has many relatives far away in Thailand.
In the 1930s, when the Japanese invaded Chaozhou, Chen Qiaozhu's parents decided to go to Nanyang to join relatives who were doing business in Bangkok, Thailand.
At that time, due to the limitation of the number of passengers carried by the "red-headed ship" (author's note, the ocean-going merchant ship in the Chaoshan region, named for the paint paint on the bow), and the Chaoshan people had the ideological tradition of "leaving one to worship the ancestors in the hometown". Therefore, the parents temporarily entrusted the eldest daughter Chen Qiaoyun to the relatives in the hometown, and first took the second daughter Chen Qiaozhu to Thailand, hoping to make proper arrangements and then come back to pick up the eldest daughter.
Soon, the Chaoshan region suffered a great famine. Caught between internal and external troubles, Chen Qiaozhu, who remained in his hometown, followed the tide of fleeing people to the Longyan area of Fujian Province. Later, Chen Qiaozhu met her husband here, the two married and started a family, and she also settled in Longyan.
In 1950, accompanied by her husband, Chen Qiaozhu returned to his hometown in Chaozhou and contacted his parents and sister in Thailand through his relatives in his hometown. Chen's father and mother wanted the eldest daughter to come to Thailand to reunite, but because they already had a family, Chen Qiaozhu gave up.
In the 1970s, Chen Qiaozhu wrote letters to his parents and sister continuously, and his relatives also sent jewelry, money and medicines to Chen Qiaozhu from Thailand.
In 1989, Chen Qiaozhu flew to Thailand to visit relatives, and his brother, sister and others personally went to the airport to greet him.
"My parents have a younger brother and a younger sister in Thailand, so our family is also a big family in Thailand." Chen Qiaozhu recalled visiting relatives in Thailand, she remembered that her sister's family opened a pharmacy, her adopted younger siblings sold cloth, several nieces and nephews were successful in their studies, and they went to the United States to study.
Chen Qiaozhu's sister Chen Qiaoyun's family (3 sons and 2 daughters)
On the third day of Chen Qiaozhu's arrival in Bangkok, her mother traveled west with a crane, and before her death, she also fulfilled her wish to see her eldest daughter. Because she had to take care of her mother's affairs, Chen Qiaozhu stayed in Bangkok for more than a month.
Chen Qiaozhu (second from left) and her brother-in-law (third from left) and sister (fourth from left) at their mother's festival
After returning home after visiting relatives, Chen Qiaozhu and her younger siblings in Bangkok still maintained correspondence. Later, due to the political turmoil in Thailand and the inconvenience of communication, Chen Qiaozhu's letters sent to Thailand no longer received a reply.
In recent years, Chen Qiaozhu's grandson has asked Thai Chinese friends to help inquire about the address on the letter, but they have not found the whereabouts of their relatives, "Grandma is old, her legs cannot walk, we hope to quickly help her find the missing Thai relatives!" ”
Chen Qiaozhu's correspondence with her thai siblings
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