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Historical story: The first surname in Lingnan
The surname Chen ranks first in the list of the top ten surnames in Guangdong Province and is the largest surname in Lingnan. Guangdong Chen's talents have emerged from every node of Lingnan's cultural development, and almost all scholars and famous courtiers have been produced.
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Historical story: As many as 60 people called emperors
In Chinese history, li claimed the title of emperor as many as 60 people, and successively established the regimes of Dacheng, Xiliang, Liang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang, Southern Tang, Dashu, Western Xia, and Dashun.
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Historical story: Guangdong has the most Huang surnames in the country
Guangdong is the province with the largest number of Huang ethnic groups, accounting for 19% of the national total. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the Huang clan entered Guangdong from Jiangnan to the Song Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, Huang Huaguan, the ninth son of the Duke of Qiaoshan of the Huang clan in the southeast, served as Zuo Yushi and Guangzhou Assassin History, and his descendants spread all over Fujian and Guangdong.
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Historical Story: Zhujie Lane is named after The ancestors of the Zhang clan
There is still the former residence of Zhang Chang in Zhujie Lane, Zhang Chang is a direct descendant of Zhang Jiuling, it is said that during the Tang Jingzong Bao calendar, the "Jingzong Lane" Xiaoyi gateman Zhang Chang VII was in the same hall, and the imperial court heard that his filial piety specially gave the Zhujie Ring, in order to avoid the Jingzong Temple, Jingzong Lane was renamed "Zhujie Lane".
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Historical story: There have been many famous people in modern times
It is the largest surname in the Xijiang River Basin and one of the most representative surnames in the Cantonese-speaking area. Most of the famous liang characters in Modern Chinese history are from Guangdong, such as Liang Qichao and Liang Jingguo.
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Historical story: The Shang Dynasty Bigan was the ancestor of the Lin surname
The surname Lin came from the Shang Dynasty's Bigan, and according to legend, after Bigan was dissected by the King of Lu, his pregnant wife fled to the Changlin Stone Chamber in Henan to give birth to a son. King Wu of Zhou gave him the surname Lin (林) and the name Jian (健). Lin Jian thus became the ancestor of the Lin clan.
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Historical story: Liu Guangchuan gave birth to 14 sons ding xingwang
Liu Kaiqi was revered as the ancestor of Liu Kaiqi into Guangdong, and his son Liu Guangchuan had 14 sons, 86 grandchildren, and 360 great-grandchildren, and the people flourished, so after the Ming and Qing dynasties, Liu Kaiqi's descendants and grandchildren migrated to the interior and overseas.
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Historical story: Most of them are descendants of Wu Ba
At a young age, Wu Ba was a prominent figure in Meng Yong and led troops to garrison Xunyang (浈陽, in present-day Yingde, Guangdong). Wu Ba recruited displaced people to carry out pioneering and reclamation. People were grateful for his merits and named the mountain he was stationed on Mount Wu in honor of his pioneering work.
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Historical Story: The Southern Migration of The Culture of Zhaoqi Guangfu Province
According to legend, in 1131 AD, Luo Gui moved south from Nanxiong Zhujie Lane with a total of 97 families with 36 surnames to Gangzhou (now Xinhui), bringing advanced Central Plains culture, and Luo Gui became a southern migrant of Zhaoqi Guangfu culture.
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Historical story: Yang Yunxian you died at the age of 92
Guangdong Meizhou Yang Hakka by the 64th Yang Yunxiu Kaiji. Yang Yunxiu was sent by the jinshi official Bai Duyu to stab Chaoyang, built a room in Shuinanli, Meizhou, and built a house, and died at the age of 92 in Ren Xianyou. The third son, Yang Sicong, was a Song Dynasty ruler and jumeizhou city.
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Historical story: Zhou Dunyi's descendants moved to Lingnan
Among the Zhou family, the descendants of zhou Dunyi, a famous philosopher and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, have the largest population. In the first year of the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song (1068), Zhou Dunyi went south to Guangdong and served as an official for four years. His descendants also followed the footsteps of their ancestors and successively moved to Lingnan to settle down.
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Historical story: The proportion of the first surname in Cantonese is the lowest
Wang is the largest surname in China today, but the distribution of Wang is uneven between the north and south, and the proportion of Wang surnames in Guangdong is the lowest among all provinces in the country.
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Historical Story: Milestones in the Integration of the Han and Slang Nationalities
1600 years ago, the marriage of the Northern Yan royal clan and the Baiyue chieftain became a milestone in the integration of the Han and slang ethnic groups. The Feng family was descended from the Northern Yan royal family in Longcheng (present-day Chaoyang, Liaoning). The wife of Feng Bao, the ancestor of the Feng clan, was known as the "first person of the heroes of the Scarf", lady Xian of the slang clan.
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Historical story: The descendants served as the leader of the thirteen merchants
In 1757, the Qing government announced that only Guangzhou would be left with "one mouth of trade", and Pan Zhencheng became the leader of the thirteen lines of merchants through three years of hard work. By the 1780s, the Pan family's commercial and trade business had reached its peak, and Pan Zhencheng also spread the world under the name of "Pan Qiguan".
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Historical Story: One of the richest people in a thousand years
In 1834, the personal assets of Wu Bingjian, a merchant of Jardine Matheson, were equivalent to the financial revenue of the Qing government for half a year, and he was "the richest businessman in the world" that year. In 2001, the Wall Street Journal named Wu Bingjian, the only Chinese among the 50 richest people in the world in the millennia, to be among the best in the world.
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Historical Story: Reading is as important as three meals a day
Zeng Zi, a famous Chinese thinker and disciple of Confucius, famously said that one of the "Three Provinces and My Body" was "Passing on the Unaccustomed", asking him to reflect on whether he reviewed and thought about the knowledge imparted by the teacher, and Zeng Guofan also regarded "reading" as the first of the "Eight Books" of family style.
Historical Story: Revered as the "Originator of Hakka Literature"
According to legend, during the Southern Dynasty, Cheng Min, the "originator of Hakka culture", in order to escape the "Wuhu Chaohua" war, moved with more than 100 ethnic groups to dongpi village in pingyuan County, Meizhou City, to flourish, teaching the people to read and learn etiquette, and spreading the culture of the Central Plains.
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Historical Story: Songtang Village is known as "Hanlin Village"
In Songtang Village, Xiqiao Town, Nanhai, at least 15 jinshi came out in the Ming and Qing dynasties, 4 of whom entered the Hanlin Courtyard. Because of its hundreds of years of kejia won the title of "Hanlin Village". The ancient architecture in the village has also become a model of traditional Lingnan rural culture and has been rated as a famous historical and cultural village in China.
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Historical Story: The first family to study abroad in modern China
In 1850, Rong Hong was admitted to Yale University and was regarded as "the first Chinese person to study in the United States", and in 1855, Rong Hong returned to China, prompting the Qing court to send 120 young children to study in the United States, all of whom became the leaders of China's diplomacy, railway, telegraph and other industries. Influenced by it, many descendants of the Rong clan went overseas, becoming the first family to study abroad in modern China.
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Historical Story: "The First Man of Cantonese Cuisine"
Jiang Kongyin is also praised by the Guangdong and Hong Kong food industry as "the first person of Cantonese cuisine". He learned from the farmers in his hometown and pioneered the "Taishi Cuisine", of which classic Cantonese dishes such as "Taishi Snake Soup" and "Lychee Mushroom" are still famous today. Later, the decline of the Jiang family, the "Taishidi" chefs dispersed, but invisibly contributed to the spread of Cantonese cuisine.
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Historical Story: Great emphasis on cultivating talents
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the He family settled in Shawan, the He family paid great attention to cultivating talents within the clan, and formed a tradition of focusing on music, and during the Republic of China period, He Liutang, He He Nian, and He Shaoxia were born.
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Historical Story: "Pioneers of Industry and Commerce in Modern China"
As a pioneer of industry and commerce in modern China, Tang Tingshu combined big compradors, Western bureaucrats and national capitalists to create many Chinese firsts: presided over the construction of China's first domestic railway; founded the first cement factory in modern China; and opened the first insurance company run by Chinese.
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Historical story: Yue Fei's granddaughter-in-law moved to Meizhou
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Qiu Wenxing (Qiu Chuangzhao), the great-granddaughter-in-law of the national hero Yue Fei, followed Wen Tianxiang to resist the Yuan, collected the remnants after the defeat of the army, and moved his family to Meizhou Grotto capital (present-day Jiaoling County, Meizhou), and his father Qiu Menglong was the ancestor of the Qiu clan of Jiaoling County.
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Historical story: Cai Tingkai, a famous anti-Japanese general
Cai Tingkai became the commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army. He led the Nineteenth Route Army to rise up against the Japanese army after the "128 Incident", so that the Japanese army's conspiracy to occupy Shanghai could not succeed. Cai Tingkai and others established the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy in Guangzhou. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as vice chairman of the National Defense Commission and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Historical Story: All children must work as farmers
The most prominent tradition of the Fang family is "farming and reading heirloom", all the children in the family must work as farmers, and when the autumn harvest is over, they return to private schools to study. If the descendants disobeyed, their fields would be confiscated by the elders of the clan and turned into public land for the ancestral hall.
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Historical Story: Cheng Shin Shing The Great of Thonburi, Thailand
Zheng Xin lost his father at a young age and was adopted as an adopted son by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chao Phraya Chokri. In April 1766, the Siamese capital of Ayutthaya was captured. Zheng Xin recovered the capital that had been captured six months earlier. Because the Emperor of Thailand was dead, Zheng Xin was proclaimed king. Under his rule, the Thonburi dynasty became the largest dynasty in Thai history.
Source: Nanfang Daily, Nanfang +, Meizhou Information Harbor