Wholegrain
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You must be good in Chinese character. I go and look up 閩 and 蠻, and indeed, records indicate that we are called barbarians by ancient Han. And it could be that 閩 = 蠻. Thanks for your help. I am still not aware of that until just now.
Many Southern Chinese did not went Vietnam and are not aware of our historical connections. And many vietnamese did not know how deeply they are related S Chinese.
If these people are aware, policy makers would be it difficult to make us fight.
Once S Chinese set foot in Vietnam like I did, they will realize that they are seeing their own tribe everywhere. I cannot say that when I go to Shanghai and Beijing. I think S Chinese and Vietnam should communicate with one another more.
The pure descendants of the min yue people are the Tanka
Taiwan: A New History - Google Books
Fuzhou Tanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tanka people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many modern Fujian and Guangdong people are descended from Northern Chinese who moved south hundreds of years ago.
Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, And the Structures of Kinship in ... - Hugh R. Clark - Google Books
Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, And the Structures of Kinship in ... - Hugh R. Clark - Google Books
Some Fujianese families claim descent from famous people like Guo Ziyi. In Quanzhou there are even many people descended from Arabs and Persians like the Ding, Guo and Xia clans. They are certainly not brothers to the Vietnamese!
CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS vii. SE. China ? Encyclopaedia Iranica
During the Jin dynasty many northerners fled south.
A History of Chinese Civilization - Jacques Gernet - Google Books
In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Beginning of ... - Charles Holcombe - Google Books
Cantonese still call themselves people of Tang after the Tang dynasty because alot of their ancestors were northerners who fled to Guangdong during that period.
Remember the saying in Taiwan, "mainland grandfather no mainland grandmother" 有唐山公無唐山媽
You are from Sngapore, it is possible you could have maternal ancestors from an Indonesian ethnic group whom your male ancestors from Fujian married if you are a Straits Chinese and not from recent migrants.
I am descended from southern Chinese and I could have Miao or Yao minority women ancestors in the maternal line. But I do not care.