Question 1: It is said that the origin of Taiwanese female singer Cai Qin is very interesting, her grandfather was the founder who fired the first shot at the Huguang Governor's Palace on the night of the Wuchang Uprising, wasn't it?
Q&A: Yes. It's little known, but it's interesting. The famous Taiwanese female singer Cai Qin, her grandfather, that is, her grandfather, named Cai Hanqing, is known as "Cai Yi cannon". Cai Hanqing was a Hubei Xiantao, at the time of the Wuchang Uprising, Cai Hanqing was a grassroots officer in the eighth standard of the South Lake Artillery of the Wuchang New Army, Cai Hanqing was pregnant with anti-Qing ideology, the night of the Outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Cai Hanqing led his troops to resolutely participate in the uprising, he led his troops to push the mountain cannons up the high ground, and fired three cannons at the Huguang Governor's Palace. Because Rui Li was the supreme commander of the Hubei region at that time, he slipped away, and the Qing army was leaderless and collapsed at a touch, so the three cannons fired by Cai Qin's grandfather Cai Hanqing played a very crucial role in the success of the Wuchang Uprising. Because these three cannons were well played, Li Yuanhong later promoted Cai Hanqing several levels. However, although Cai Hanqing made great contributions during the Wuchang Uprising, Cai Hanqing did not do much later during the Republic of China. One of Cai Hanqing's sons, named Cai Shijun, studied the navy during the Kuomintang era, and later went to Taiwan with the Kuomintang, and later Cai Shijun became a captain of the ocean transportation industry and gave birth to Cai Qin in Taiwan.
Cai Qin and her grandfather: Cai Hanqing, a hero of the Wuchang Uprising
Question 2: From the 1970s to the 1990s, Taiwan became the center of the Chinese music scene, a small Taiwan island, born such as Zhang Yusheng, Qi Qin, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Xiao Worm, Chen Sheng, Cai Qin, Little Tigers, Meng Tingwei... A whole bunch of other music benchmarks, and even the music scene that Chinese mainland since the 1990s, is, to some extent, imitating these Taiwanese. So the question is, why Taiwan? Why isn't the Music Center Chinese mainland?
Q&A: The economic base determines the superstructure. The boom of Taiwan's recording industry in the 1970s and 1990s was the inevitable result of Taiwan's economic boom as one of the "Four Asian Tigers" at that time. To put it more clearly, it is not because there are no talents in the mainland, nor because the Taiwanese people are talented, but because the Taiwanese economy took off early, so the music scene of others developed early. In the 1960s-1990s, Taiwan was one of the famous Asian tigers at that time, the economy took off, the people became rich, and naturally a desire for cultural works sprouted, so the Chinese record industry in Taiwan, with the rise of the people's needs, soon rose, under the inspiration of fame and fortune, some Taiwanese people with musical talent, seeing that it was profitable to make music, would naturally dig up their talents and write good works desperately, which is why from the end of the 1970s, all the way to the 1990s, Taiwan's Chinese songs, especially love songs, sang in the two places of the Taiwan Straits, accompanied our entire first half of life, but in fact, if you look at its essence, in fact, the prosperity of Taiwan's record industry is the inevitable result of a wave of wealth brought about by the transfer of intensive industries from the international to Taiwan. By the way, this truth also explains the prosperity of the Hong Kong music scene during the same period.
Question 3: Taiwanese speak Chinese, why do they have a unique Taiwanese accent?
Q&A: In fact, before 1945, there was no "Chinese" in Taiwan, and there was no "Mandarin", and during the 50 years of Japanese colonial rule from 1896 to 1945, Taiwanese mainly spoke Japanese and Hokkien, and a small number of people spoke Hakka. After Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang took over Taiwan and began to use the old Beijing dialect as a model to teach Taiwanese to speak Chinese, but the Taiwanese themselves have a Hokkien accent, plus, the Kuomintang relocated to Taiwan from all over the world, so the unique Chinese accent of the Taiwanese we hear today is actually the result of the "old Beijing accent + Hokkien accent + Five Lakes Four Sea Mouth Accent + 70 years of closed evolution", of which, the latter point, crucial, 70 years of closed evolution. From 1950 to 2020, for a full seventy years, Taiwan and the mainland basically did not have language and cultural exchanges, so Taiwan's Chinese has a history of seventy years, and it has developed and evolved in a very closed state, so this closed development naturally evolved a unique accent.
Question 4: In addition to the different accents, the Chinese of Taiwanese people is also very different, that is: the tone is softer, that is, a little taunting, soft and sticky, and even a little feminine, such as "not like this", soft and soft, what is going on?
Q&A: Taiwanese people speak Chinese, and indeed their tone is more boring. There must be a reason for this phenomenon, and this matter is a complex cause, which cannot be summarized in one or two sentences. However, one of the more recognized views in the academic circles is that there is a very important reason, that is, it is influenced by the soft language of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Around 1949, among the "people from other provinces" who followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan, only the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui regions accounted for 30 percent, and we all know that the language of the Jiangnan region has a relatively soft tone, and what is important is that many of these "new Taiwanese" from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions around 1949 are in high positions, not military officers, or government officials, so in the process of promoting Chinese in the following decades, the pronunciation of Taiwanese people will subconsciously imitate these high-level people in society, so for a long time. When Taiwanese speak Chinese, they will be influenced by the "soft language" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and gradually become softer. This is one of the recognized reasons. There is also a Hokkien language, although the Hokkien language is not "soft", but the Hokkien tone words are many, so the integration into the Chinese also inadvertently makes Taiwan's Chinese become "soft". There may be omissions, and netizens are welcome to add.
Question 5: Among the KMT's relocation personnel, which provinces have the most people?
Q&A: Around 1949, among the people who moved to Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, and Hebei accounted for the vast majority of those whose origins were from these provinces.
Question 6: Before the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan, what was the blood composition of the Taiwanese people?
Q&A: About 74% of the Fujian people in southern Fujian are of Fujian ancestry. 18% Hakka ancestry. 8% are Indigenous. Among them, the blood of Fujian people is mainly based on the blood of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
Question 7: How many Kuomintang military and political personnel and some businessmen moved to Taiwan?
Q&A: After Japan's surrender, Taiwan had a population of 6 million, and the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan, bringing 2 million people, and the new 2 million people were called "people from other provinces." Around 1950, people from other provinces accounted for 25% of Taiwan's total population, but due to the large population base in this province, faster and more fertility, and geometric changes, by 1990, the proportion of people who moved to Taiwan and their descendants declined, accounting for only 13% of Taiwan's total population.
Question 8: Is the Hokkien language spoken by Taiwanese, also known as Taiwanese, the same as the Hokkien language spoken by the people in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, Fujian?
Q&A: They can understand each other, but the accent is also different, Taiwan's Hokkien (Taiwanese) mixed with some words and accents of Taiwan's aborigines, some words and accents of Dutch, and some words and accents of Japanese, so there are still some words and accents in Taiwan's Hokkien and Fujian's Fujian.
Question 9: What percentage of Taiwanese are descendants of military and political personnel of the Nationalist government around 1949?
Q&A: In 1990, Taiwan's "Household Census Office of the Executive Yuan" conducted a survey, and the proportion found out at that time was 13%, that is, 13 out of every 100 Taiwanese were descendants of the people who moved to Taiwan around 1949.
Question 10: Who are the celebrities in Taiwan who are the descendants of people who moved from the mainland to Taiwan around 1949?
Q&A: Many, Zhang Aijia, Yu Chengqing, Li Zongsheng, Long Yingtai, Lin Qingxia, Li An, Gou Taiming, Jay Chou, Bai Xianyong, Qin Han, Zhu Lilun, Hong Xiuzhu, Gao Jinsumei, Han Hanyu, Zhao Shaokang, Zhang Dachun, Wang Zuxian, Hu Huizhong, Cai Kangyong, Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhang Yusheng, Teresa Teng Lijun, Ren Xianqi, Cai Qin, Qi Qin, Qi Yu, Li Ao, are all, and cannot be completely enumerated.