When it comes to China's first overseas Chinese village, there may be many friends who are going to argue again. But in general, they cannot escape the two provinces of Guangdong and Fujian.
In the past two hundred years, many Fujian or Guangdong people have left their hometowns and gone to Nanyang, and eventually most of them have developed and grown in neighboring small countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
In the Philippines, there was once such a woman, her great-grandfather fled to Nanyang to escape the war. From her ancestors who were poor and poor, to her embarking on the political arena and becoming the president of the Philippines to find her roots, it is a legend!
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She is the former president of the Philippines, Corrazon Aquino.
The Great-Grandfather of the Philippine Female President is from Hongwei Village, Jiaomei Town, Fujian Province. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, her great-grandfather also fled to Nanyang to escape the chaos of war, slowly accumulating from the lowest level, and after several generations of diligence and hard work, he had achieved little success in the local area.
Corazon Aquino once publicly stated that he was "the daughter of a Hokkien man." The female president, affectionately known as "Mrs. Aquino" by the Filipino people, also played a major role in the process of a peaceful and democratic revolution in the world.
In fact, the "Aquino" are not unique in the history of Southeast Asia. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of Chinese from Guangdong and Fujian moved to Southeast Asia, and a close ethnic network was built in the main areas of Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand.
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At the same time, Corazon Aquino has another name: Xu Nasan. She came from the Family of Xu Huange, a prominent Filipino political family, and "Xu Huange" was a businessman who thought he had moved to the Philippines from Fujian in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, whose real name was Xu Yuhuan.
In April 1988, Corazon Aquino arrived in China by special plane. Unexpectedly, her first stop was in Fujian.
Originally, her ancestral home was Hongwei Village, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China. Externally, she has always claimed that in addition to being the head of state of the Philippines, she also has another important identity - "daughter of Hongxue Village", and this visit has another task in addition to promoting friendly relations between the Philippines and China.
She has sent envoys to Visit Hongwei Village in Fujian Province, China, many times to find her roots and ask her ancestors. Although Corazon was born in the Philippines, she has never forgotten that her ancestors once survived on the land of China.
Accompanied by the governor of Fujian Province and the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, Corazon and her two unmarried daughters and more than 10 government officials rushed to her ancestral home, Hongwei Village.
Corazon took his two daughters to the Xu family temple to burn incense and worship the ancestors, and paid homage to Corazon's great-grandfather Xu Yuhuan.
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