A good example of Henghwa speaking Hokchia person is Indonesia Mayapada Group Chairman Mr.Tahir or Ang Tjoen Ming.His family is from the border town of Xincuo 新厝鎮. The whole town speak Henghwa despite politically under Hokchia county administration. 東張, 一都, 鏡洋鎮 all have large communities of Henghwa descendants. Are there Hokchia speaking towns in Putian county?
I m third generation heng hwa in Malaysia, my grandparents, father and myself were trained as barber. Eventhough my father join the banking industry after senior high school, and I became a journalist after college.
Henghwa dialect is a mix of south and eastern Fujian dialect due to its location. I am Hockchia who also speak Hokkien, I understand their dialect easily.
Very good video love it very much, I'm a Hinghwa my parent are born in putien, my great grandparent originally from Henan then migrate to putien, later on my grandparent came to Malaya with my parent to look for better opportunities and after working very hard for many years and save enough they wanted to go back China a couple of times but couldn't, finally settled in Kuala Lumpur and started a bicycle shop, that is where all my brothers and sisters are born here,.. Malaysia is a beautiful country,... I'm over 60 years old now hope when the pandemic is over, really which can go putien and visit some of the relatives,. Anyway thank you so much for create this beautiful video,.. Very useful information for my children and grandchildren.
Hope you and your children/grandchildren still speak the language! I hope you have an abundance of health and joy to finally visit Putien. Putien now is a hub for fake shoe manufacturing, though controlled by the government but there is still a lot of underground work going.
Admire this lady for taking the effort to research and put together a video on the history of the various cultural sub-group of the migrant Chinese to South-East Asia. Thanks for the effort.
I am a pure breed henghua, my grandpa from my mother side used to own a bicycle shop back in kuching. Not until 4 years back I went back to my mum hometown with her where she left at the age of 6 or 7 and had never been back since, it is great to learn where the root were
My grandparents from Putian, Heng hua people ...came to Malaysia 1910s...he operated a bicycle shop in Bentong Pahang. He started out pulling rickshaws, also done tin mining.....by the end of his life he was multi multi millionaire, owning string of shoplots in town,started a town movie cinema in 1970s, had alot of plantation land producing rubber ,even a rubber smokehouse...
Wow I am also from Pahang. Is the movie cinema still in Bentong? Hope it is not demolished yet.. I'd pay a ticket to watch movie if the cinema is still operating!
My grandfather and all his siblings owned a bicycle business here in Indonesia. I was so surprised when I read that most Henghwa also own bicycle business.. and finally got explanation here ❤
I think I am the last generation of pure Heng Hwa lang in Singapore as my parents are both Heng Hwa born in Singapore 😀😀😀 Proud of my dialect n thank you for your video. Will share with my children.❤️❤️❤️
Me too! Both my parents are Henghwa. In fact, both my maternal and paternal grandparents are from the same Putien village. But sadly, I don't understand the dialect as its lost through the generations as they settled mostly among the Singaporean Hokkien communities
Hi my name is Adrian Yew(姚) , My granddad born in Hanjiang Putian and sail to Malaysia in 1930's and then back again 1947 after 2nd world war. He work as bicycle repair and 1950 he joined with fellow Putian started bicycle shop in KL and on his own in 1956 in Jalan Pahang .My Dad came in later 1952 with my grandma. Bicycle is still carry on from my uncle. 🙏🏻
My grandparents were originated from Putian. They lived & settled down in Dengkil, Selangor. Not a huge number but there was a decent Henghwa community there too!
Hi Yeeven, I really enjoy your informative and helpful explanation of the different regions and people in "old" China. I'm from Sweden by the way 😀. I enjoy every video, thank You 🤗
@@FearlessPassport Thank you for your response 🤗 I would like to learn mandarin as well, but I think it's a good start to learn more about the country, China...👍 My name is Kenth by the way... But "Kenth" was already taken when I signed up to RUclips 😉
I'm a 3rd generation in Malaysia. My grandparents came in the 1930's from Putian. They setttled down in JB. My mum's family are also from Putian, making me a pure Henghwa. Yes, I do speak fluent Henghwa. Sadly, my son can't speak a word. Most of my family were into the transportation business, tyre and auto spare parts and my dad operated a bicycle shop before he married my mum. This young lady was quite spot on in this video about the Henghwas. Keep it up.
So proud to watch ur video. I can proudly say my father's is 福州& my mom's is 莆田。It is so very true, mom's side grand father was a founder of my hometown (Tanjung Malim) well known bicycle shop. IIRC, my mom told me before, her grandpa(my great-grandfather) was actually settled in Ampang, KL. Perhaps that's the time my grandfather founded the bicycle business & bring it to Tanjung Malim, Perak until now it's already the 4th generation running the shop...
Thanks for covering this topic.. my maternal grandfather is from Putian, and maternal grandmother is from Xianyou. And yes, they are Henghwa people. This video gives me better understanding on my root. Salam from a Chinese Indonesian... And when you said most Henghwa people only come to earn better living and planning to go back to motherland later it's so truee... That's what my grandfather always told me, too bad he died early in Indonesia...
I am from Putian and now working in U.S. The middle school and high school I attended back in Putian/Xianyou were built and continuously supported by oversea Chinese, particularly Chinese Indonesian. I really appreciate the great support from Henghwa people around the world so I was able to get my degree in U.S. I believe they went through difficult times and understand the importance of education. Currently, there are several scholarships funded by oversea Henghwa people from around the world.
👍👍👍 Your description about the main occupation and trade of the HengHua people are accurate; and those vocations are what they do in Kuching. I am impressed that you know where the HengHua people are located in Kuching ie at Bintawa and Sungei Apong areas. How did you know ? My congratulations for another interesting and informative vlog. 💐 Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.
Thank you Sylvester :) I just read it from several articles on the internet. Honestly I am not someone who knows a lot about Henghua too, just happened that I have a few friends who are also Henghua and I gather information around from internet and have someone to proofread the script. Thank you again for watching!
I am a decent if hengwha. My father came from fuxing Town. It is near to Putian. We went there 7 years ago. Met a few relatives. We were running bicycle shops in kedah and now nephew runs a motor cycle repair shop.
I also have a dear friend whose father owns a sports motor shop in KL, another one motorcycle and car shop in Sarawak. Another one owns a bicycle shop in Seremban hahaha..
We should add that the most famous Henghwa was Ong Boon Hua, aka Chin Peng, the freedom fighter against Japanese and British imperialism and leader of the Malayan Communist Party. His father owned a spare parts shop in Setiawan, Perak. He and his forces offered the only resistance against the Japanese after the surrender of the British forces. He was a hero among the Malayan nationalists. Sadly he died in exile in Thailand in 2017. Thankfully, his ashes were interred back in Setiawan alongside his parents' grave. Another famous Henghwa who should also be mentioned is the Christian evangelist John Sung宋尚节 (1901-1944) who was instrumental in establishing many Henghwa churches in SE Asia. He was one of the first Chinese to gain a PhD in the west.
I’m Heng Hwa and my dad business is bicycle. My uncle open spare parts shop… and I know most of the old spare parts and bicycle shops owner are Heng hwa as well.
Another super cool video! 👍 You are so FEARLESS digging up so much information about a people that I haven't heard about. The Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia deserve respect and admiration for the hard work they put in. It has not been an easy life for them. I look forward to your next video, and next and next ... 😀 They are professional quality and are not to be seen anywhere else 👏 Thank you so much 🙏
My parent from my father's side is Heng Hwa. I was told when I was a kid. My grandparents came from Hanjiang which is sub of Putian. My cousin's business was making bicycle. From Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. But I heard my mother's side is not really Heng Hwa but a region in the border between Heng Hwa and Hok Jia probably ? I'm not quite sure. But my father's side was not in bicycle but traditional Indonesian fabric (batik). Nice to find your channel. Informative.
@teddybear 1968 Thank you for your interest in your Henghwa heritage and culture. You were born and bred in the trobled years of Suharto's anti Chinese culture years. If you know Chinese you will understand more of your ethnicity. Putian (Henghwa)Daerah has a very long border with Hokchia Daerah. On the extreme south of the border is Xincuo新厝鎮 town (totally speaks Henghwa). As you go north, the towns of Yuxi 漁溪, 東張（about half speaks Henghwa) Yidu 一都 which have borders with Putian's Hangjiang urban district have large numbers of villages that speak Henghwa. The inner towns of ShangJing,上迳，鏡洋 also have villages that speak Henghwa. Many people in Hokchia Daerah have the identity of Hokchia but ethnically they are Henghwa.Maybe the government shifted these Henghwa villages into the territory of Hokchia like what happened to Xincuo in 1956.😌 Please note that residents of border villages speak a Dialect of mix Henghwa and Hokchia.l-like a Spanish Creole in Central and South America.
2020 population survey: Henghwa is only 26,702 strong in Singapore only. Yet a superich tycoon, Ng Teng Hong is Henghwa. He sponsored a hospital also. There is also a Shanghai group but they are actually Ningbo and Wenzhounese （ there are less than 5000 actual Shanghainese in Singapore) according to late Mr.Ma Jun 馬駿 sub editor of Zaobao. He was the committee member of 上海公會.
I'm Indonesian Chinese live in Bandung. My patriarch ancestors came from Hokchia / Fuqing 福清, China. But my grandma speak Hinghoa / Xinghua 兴华 dialects, not understand Mandarin at all. But now I just understand common Hokkian dialects, and off course I'm more fluent speak in Putonghua Mandarin. Sadly no more Hinghoa speaker left in my hometown.
@Khe lung kwee Many Hokchia towns bordering Henghwa Daerah have villages that speak Henghwa.Eg Xincuo 新厝鎮（totally speak Henghwa), Dongzhang東張鎮, Yidu一都鎮。Their identify is Hokchia but ethnically there are Henghwa.
@ Khe lung kwee...shalom 🙏 mo tanya apakah di Bandung ada resto hinghua?... suka ke sana blm pernah ketemu,kl di jkt selain putien ada jg mie henghua di sunter, muara karang (udah tutup)..tq 🙏
I am a Hing Hwa lang. I am also an old Taoist/Buddhist. My grandfather home town is in Putian. There is a road named after my grandfather in Putian. I am very PROUD of BEING a HING HWA person. Yes, we were the "bicycle people" & then to "radio & electrical" people. But now. we do not speak Hing Hwa dialect since the passing of my "ah Ma" (grandmother) in the 80' Hing Hwa greeting: Ho boh ? sei mar? thanks for the video.
I am Hainanese in Malaysia. My ancestors were probably Heng Hwa people before they migrated to Hainan Island from Putian at the end of Northern Song dynasty which was more than 900 years ago. I read before that some Hainanese will even go to Putian yearly during tombs cleaning festival to pay respect to their ancestors.
I m.from.Malacca, I have a classmate who is a Heng hua. There is a community of Henghua in.malacca .They are mainly fisherman , bicycle and motorcycles industry. I learnt to speak only one phrase "" Lu Khok Lo Xia Ma"" meaning You go back and eat rice. The language is very different from normal Hokkein
my wife's grandparents n family moved to take refuge in Malacca during the japanese invasion. Only her parents returned to singapore after the war. Could be one reason many heng hua in Malacca. My FIL was a barber, one BIL owns a bicycle shop
In Sarawak: Sibu Sg Merah and Kuching Pending,Sg Apong,Bintawa, quite a numbers. Mainly fishermen or seafood business. ......and of course bicycle and motorcycle business. In Johor, Kota Tinggi - Motorcycle shop.
Thanks for yours, my grandparents spoke henghua,but my siblings generation only know we are from the henghua root but no people to speak to,so the next generation might not even know the dialect at all!
I used to live in medium city in East Java, all your stories about ethnic groups are exactly fit your description, maybe you forgot that Henghwa lang do open barbershops and Cantonese open laundry shops. There are 4 Chinese herbal medicine shops, too. I am not sure what ethnic group they come from.
Love this video, Yeeven Yoon. I am a Henghua from Kuching. Looking forward to connecting with all the Henghuas and Friends of the Henghuas from around the world.
Thank you for the great videos. Through your videos, I learned about many dialects with Han Chinese for the first time. You are a very good historian and keep up the good work!!!
Great work. I really appreciate it. 多谢。 Terima kasih. A whole lot of interesting content, and you are a good presenter of information. Thank You for your work to create this video and your upload of it to RUclips.
love your programme is Fantastic. will tell my Foochow friends ( relatives ,former classmates ) to watch your programme. Do you know the two most Foochow Surname are Lau and Wong. During my secondary school in Sarikei . sarawak . 36 percent of my classmates are Lau and Wong..25 percent of my classmates went overseas to study and none came back Can you do research on Wenzhounese living in Singapore . They are very good businessman.
Back in Sarawak, our henghua people can speak Foochow, while other dialect do find that is very impossible to learn Foochow if not your mother tongue 😜
@@FearlessPassport back in my hostel, we Sarawakian speak Foochow, when we outing with friends in Moscow's china town, we speak bahasa😜, chances that outlander Chinese can understand what we talk is slim😁
I'm Hakka but a good multi-generational family friend of mine whose family now runs ACE Hardware Indonesia (KAWAN LAMA GROUP) is Hing Hua... A long journey from a humble but successful store in Glodok...
I'm Henghua nang, and both my parents were also pure Henghua Nang (兴化人) from China Poh Lian (莆田) Or Le O (下西坡). My siblings and I speak pure Hing Hua (兴化) dialect as my parents were very strict with us in learning it. However, I often hear other Hing Hua folks speak the same dialect with a different pronunciation that sounds a bit off, not exactly like the pure Hing Hua dialect that I know and speak. This is because they speak the dialect mixed with Hock Jiew (福州) and Xiang Yu (仙游) accents.
Wow it surprises me to know the bicycle / parts comes from Kobe japan as i know all along it's china the Bycicle / part came from. Even more it's well-known that the best Bycicle is China's one that they ( my people) say : buy the RRT one. Rrt is short for republic rakyat tiongkok ( people's Republic of China in indonesian)
Nowadays most parts could be from China due to the competitive prices. In our grandfather days, most parts are still imported from Japan, including cars.. RRC was still struggling at that era.
During the postwar years of the 1950s, most of the bicycles imported into Malaya actually came from Britain because the British imposed tariffs on othe countries' bicycles. So the main brands were British, like Rayleigh, Hercules, BSA, Humber, etc. In North Malaysia, they were imported, especially into Penang which was then a free port, mainly their main agent which was a Henghwa company and distributed to other Henghwa outfits. As most were connected by the dialect and often family ties, they would take the goods on extended credit terms.
You failed to mention their stone work and woodworking ability.Especially ancient woodworking techniques which makes the woodworkers desirable for restoration work.Many in Fuzhou.
I can't tell the difference btw the Hockchia, Hockchew, Foochow n Henghua dialects but after listening to the Henghua speakers I'm sure the Hokkiens, Teochews n Hainanese will be able to understand at least 70-80% what they r talking abt.
@Huitribe Wong Are u sure. 70-80%? Henghwa dialect is an independent dialect and has very little similarly with the Dialects you mentioned. They are mutually unintelligible without previous exposure.
@@laurencechan470 I suspect a lot also depends on how well you can speak and understand your own dialect because if you are not fluent in you own, you would not understand words from another dialect even if they were similar to yours since even those words in your own dialect might be incomprehensible to you.
Henghua meehoon or beehoon or rice vermicelli is very very good. in general henghua food is quite distinct from Cantonese food. my wife's family is henghua.
To be honest I don't think my work is anything fancy haha, just read up and summarise everything together. I do have a friend helping me with the proofreading. He also own a discord community. discord.gg/CrUezZeMfJ
My apoh is hinghua her surname is Nio but my granpa is hakka sing fam, so because my grandma already pass away since I was just 1 year old, I didn't get any memory about hinghua culture, my mom told even my grandma learnt to speak hakka, because my akung is very strong hakkanese background
Preseving Chinese culture and language is critical to indo Chinese descendants. Without Chinese ethnical identity, when you are massly discriminated again in the future similar to the terrible indicent in 1998, Chinese goverment and people cannot help you. Remember 1998 is not too far from today.
Very interesting. I also read or seen video somewhere that the teochew forebearers also originated from the town of pu tian.... dont know if this is true...
My great grandfather-hakka, work in mining industry.. If I have chance to go bicycle shop (traditional type) I wanna ask whether they r heng hwa nang 😉
A good example of Henghwa speaking Hokchia person is Indonesia Mayapada Group Chairman Mr.Tahir or Ang Tjoen Ming.His family is from the border town of Xincuo 新厝鎮. The whole town speak Henghwa despite politically under Hokchia county administration. 東張, 一都, 鏡洋鎮 all have large communities of Henghwa descendants. Are there Hokchia speaking towns in Putian county?
当然有，在莆田仙游县枫亭镇因为和泉州惠安县交界，所以他们也会说接近泉州的闽南话，而在福清和莆田交界的新厝，他们就会说莆田兴化话，在往北边过去就只会说福清话了，语言在两个地界的交接点，往往会产生很奇妙的变化，口音上会介乎两个语言之间。
太好了，这个视频很清楚的讲出兴化在中国的地理位质。兴化，蒲田，福清，仙遊的口音为什么会不同。我爸是福请人，妈妈是浦田人，说的是兴化话。我的大伯是家族里第一个下南洋十火拉人力车的。因常被白人说他格子小，没拉快就常踢他的背。他就转去煮食店打工，有一点儲蓄就做脚车修理，渐渐的有了自己的脚车行，感恩大伯的劳苦，也把我们的父亲帶來南洋一起打拼，今天我们也在南洋落地生根，开枝散叶，又发展到海外。一开始所说的兴化話也失去了口音了，可到新加坡的兴化式浦回会馆找到有正乡音的吧?
@@ongsinhong1057 福清是属于福州的县级市，因此大部分是说偏福清口音的福州话，只有新厝靠近莆田，所以说的是兴化话（莆田话），兴化是旧时的称呼，现在都叫莆田市，它管有莆田和仙游两个地方，莆田又在福州和泉州之间，所以靠近福州福清的北边就会说福州话，靠近泉州的南边就会说闽南话，
@@jsry9583 對不起 讓我翻譯一下 . 我是 問 莆田市境內有沒有說福清話的 鎮 街道 鄉村. 就好像福清境內有講莆田話的新厝鎮 部分講的一都鎮,東張鎮等等你是答非所問 牛頭不對馬嘴.
仙遊縣楓亭鎮沒有和惠安縣交界 只和 泉港區的界山鎮交界. 界山鎮是百分百的莆田頤裔鎮.
新厝往北走不只是講福清話 漁溪鎮 東張鎮 一都鎮都有大量講莆田話的鄉村. 新加坡福清市東張鎮同鄉會的會員超過一半是講莆田話的. 新加坡福清市上迳鎮玉嶼同鄉會鄉親說玉嶼村附近有許多莆田裔村子.
海外同鄉不是每個都對祖籍的民俗情況無知的.
福清會館 興安會館 福州會館 時常組團回祖籍交流. 我希望 有識之士能回答我問的 在莆田市境內有沒有講福清話的鎮和 鄉村
@@laurencechan470 基本靠近福清一代的人他们都能跟莆田人方言交流
I'm Henghua! Extremely proud to be able to speak the dialect of my heritage.
Very rare to have Henghuanese speaking the language now :) You must be proud!
Need to learn from you, Nicholas
@@FearlessPassport very very proud
@@PohTedAng I'm also learning
most henghua under 40s are not fluent anymore, it's diluted into hokkien. Be proud but make sure it doesn't end with you.
I m third generation heng hwa in Malaysia, my grandparents, father and myself were trained as barber. Eventhough my father join the banking industry after senior high school, and I became a journalist after college.
Singaporean Heng Hua here, so glad that im still able to speak heng hua and thanks for making such informative and wholesome vids🎉🎉
Really like your intro of “Heng Hwa” it help me understand my root better of past history.
Thank you for watching Lin :)
Second generation of xinghua in Kota Kinabalu Sabah! I still speak everyday fluently with my mom.
I too still talk Putian with hokkien accent 😆 to my China cousin and my uncle
Henghwa dialect is a mix of south and eastern Fujian dialect due to its location. I am Hockchia who also speak Hokkien, I understand their dialect easily.
During ROC time Fujian was separate to north , south and west, Heng Hwa was belong to southern Fujian .
Very good video love it very much, I'm a Hinghwa my parent are born in putien, my great grandparent originally from Henan then migrate to putien, later on my grandparent came to Malaya with my parent to look for better opportunities and after working very hard for many years and save enough they wanted to go back China a couple of times but couldn't, finally settled in Kuala Lumpur and started a bicycle shop, that is where all my brothers and sisters are born here,.. Malaysia is a beautiful country,... I'm over 60 years old now hope when the pandemic is over, really which can go putien and visit some of the relatives,. Anyway thank you so much for create this beautiful video,.. Very useful information for my children and grandchildren.
Hope you and your children/grandchildren still speak the language! I hope you have an abundance of health and joy to finally visit Putien. Putien now is a hub for fake shoe manufacturing, though controlled by the government but there is still a lot of underground work going.
Admire this lady for taking the effort to research and put together a video on the history of the various cultural sub-group of the migrant Chinese to South-East Asia. Thanks for the effort.
I should thank you for the support and time in watching :)
I am a pure breed henghua, my grandpa from my mother side used to own a bicycle shop back in kuching. Not until 4 years back I went back to my mum hometown with her where she left at the age of 6 or 7 and had never been back since, it is great to learn where the root were
I am a Henghua from Kuching also, Alan Hong
My grandparents from Putian, Heng hua people ...came to Malaysia 1910s...he operated a bicycle shop in Bentong Pahang. He started out pulling rickshaws, also done tin mining.....by the end of his life he was multi multi millionaire, owning string of shoplots in town,started a town movie cinema in 1970s, had alot of plantation land producing rubber ,even a rubber smokehouse...
Wow I am also from Pahang. Is the movie cinema still in Bentong? Hope it is not demolished yet.. I'd pay a ticket to watch movie if the cinema is still operating!
My grandfather and all his siblings owned a bicycle business here in Indonesia. I was so surprised when I read that most Henghwa also own bicycle business.. and finally got explanation here ❤
LIEM SWIE KING ADALAH LEGENDARIS INDONESIA DARI KUDUS JAWA TENGAH, SALAM SEHAT PAK LIEM DAN KELUARGA,
I think I am the last generation of pure Heng Hwa lang in Singapore as my parents are both Heng Hwa born in Singapore 😀😀😀 Proud of my dialect n thank you for your video. Will share with my children.❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much Jay and hope you share the language to your children too!
Me too! Both my parents are Henghwa. In fact, both my maternal and paternal grandparents are from the same Putien village. But sadly, I don't understand the dialect as its lost through the generations as they settled mostly among the Singaporean Hokkien communities
Me too.
Ka ye nang
Hi my name is Adrian Yew(姚) , My granddad born in Hanjiang Putian and sail to Malaysia in 1930's and then back again 1947 after 2nd world war. He work as bicycle repair and 1950 he joined with fellow Putian started bicycle shop in KL and on his own in 1956 in Jalan Pahang .My Dad came in later 1952 with my grandma. Bicycle is still carry on from my uncle. 🙏🏻
Is the bicycle shop still operating now in Jalan Pahang? Can I have the location please？
Your channel was pushed to me. I like it immediately. Subscribed and will share your channel. I hope it grows well.
Appreciate it, Free Citizen. Thanks for your time and support!
Yes you are right. Liem swie king's father used to sell bicycle in kudus
So interesting to know! Bicycle to badminton 😍
My grandparents were originated from Putian. They lived & settled down in Dengkil, Selangor. Not a huge number but there was a decent Henghwa community there too!
Is there any henghua restaurant that you'd recommend except the Putien restaurant?
Hi Yeeven, I really enjoy your informative and helpful explanation of the different regions and people in "old" China.
I'm from Sweden by the way 😀.
I enjoy every video, thank You 🤗
Thank you Kentharon, all the way from Sweden! I'm so humbled to have you :) spending so much time in watching！
@@FearlessPassport Thank you for your response 🤗
I would like to learn mandarin as well, but I think it's a good start to learn more about the country, China...👍
My name is Kenth by the way... But "Kenth" was already taken when I signed up to RUclips 😉
I'm a 3rd generation in Malaysia. My grandparents came in the 1930's from Putian. They setttled down in JB. My mum's family are also from Putian, making me a pure Henghwa. Yes, I do speak fluent Henghwa. Sadly, my son can't speak a word. Most of my family were into the transportation business, tyre and auto spare parts and my dad operated a bicycle shop before he married my mum. This young lady was quite spot on in this video about the Henghwas. Keep it up.
Hi Mr. Jameschua. Your family name sampe with me. Chua/chai
Thank you for sharing about 'Heng Hwa', learnt a lot about my past & root.
Thank you for watching Mavis :）
Heng Hwa aka Pu Xian nang here to say Hi! My dad & mom are also Heng Hwa nang... combination of motorbike & bicycle family. 👍🏼
I am proud to be a Henghua nang!
So proud to watch ur video. I can proudly say my father's is 福州& my mom's is 莆田。It is so very true, mom's side grand father was a founder of my hometown (Tanjung Malim) well known bicycle shop. IIRC, my mom told me before, her grandpa(my great-grandfather) was actually settled in Ampang, KL. Perhaps that's the time my grandfather founded the bicycle business & bring it to Tanjung Malim, Perak until now it's already the 4th generation running the shop...
Tajung malin Sarawak
@@tiongtiong1363 no，it's in perak，near the border Of Selangor
Hope you have a good bicycle business! Heng Hong Huat!
Thanks for covering this topic.. my maternal grandfather is from Putian, and maternal grandmother is from Xianyou. And yes, they are Henghwa people. This video gives me better understanding on my root. Salam from a Chinese Indonesian... And when you said most Henghwa people only come to earn better living and planning to go back to motherland later it's so truee... That's what my grandfather always told me, too bad he died early in Indonesia...
I guess most of the early settlers wish to go back someday..but it's alright, still they provide a better life for you now.
I am from Putian and now working in U.S. The middle school and high school I attended back in Putian/Xianyou were built and continuously supported by oversea Chinese, particularly Chinese Indonesian. I really appreciate the great support from Henghwa people around the world so I was able to get my degree in U.S. I believe they went through difficult times and understand the importance of education. Currently, there are several scholarships funded by oversea Henghwa people from around the world.
👍👍👍 Your description about the main occupation and trade of the HengHua people are accurate; and those vocations are what they do in Kuching.
I am impressed that you know where the HengHua people are located in Kuching ie at Bintawa and Sungei Apong areas. How did you know ?
My congratulations for another interesting and informative vlog. 💐
Blessings from Kuching, Malaysia.
Thank you Sylvester :) I just read it from several articles on the internet. Honestly I am not someone who knows a lot about Henghua too, just happened that I have a few friends who are also Henghua and I gather information around from internet and have someone to proofread the script. Thank you again for watching!
年纪轻轻却能详细讲述每个华人籍贯的文化生活由来，妳真棒！中文发音如此准确，相信妳也能讲一口流利的中文
我会说中文哦，粤语和客家也是。
请问妳是大马人或印尼人？
this girl is doing something extraordinary
I am a decent if hengwha. My father came from fuxing Town. It is near to Putian. We went there 7 years ago. Met a few relatives. We were running bicycle shops in kedah and now nephew runs a motor cycle repair shop.
I also have a dear friend whose father owns a sports motor shop in KL, another one motorcycle and car shop in Sarawak. Another one owns a bicycle shop in Seremban hahaha..
They were probably from Jiangdou, a Henghwa speaking village in Fuqing county.
Thank you, Yeeven. I learn a lot of you about chinese people. I am surprise how little I know.
Thank you for watching! I didn't know much too. I'm glad I also learned a lot from the reading :)
We should add that the most famous Henghwa was Ong Boon Hua, aka Chin Peng, the freedom fighter against Japanese and British imperialism and leader of the Malayan Communist Party. His father owned a spare parts shop in Setiawan, Perak. He and his forces offered the only resistance against the Japanese after the surrender of the British forces. He was a hero among the Malayan nationalists. Sadly he died in exile in Thailand in 2017. Thankfully, his ashes were interred back in Setiawan alongside his parents' grave.
Another famous Henghwa who should also be mentioned is the Christian evangelist John Sung宋尚节 (1901-1944) who was instrumental in establishing many Henghwa churches in SE Asia. He was one of the first Chinese to gain a PhD in the west.
Just love the Heng Hua cuisines.
I love the meehoon so much!
I’m Heng Hwa and my dad business is bicycle. My uncle open spare parts shop… and I know most of the old spare parts and bicycle shops owner are Heng hwa as well.
Yes I have 3 Heng Hua friends, and they either own motorcycle, sports motor or bicycle shop. How amazing the trade spread!
Another super cool video! 👍 You are so FEARLESS digging up so much information about a people that I haven't heard about. The Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia deserve respect and admiration for the hard work they put in. It has not been an easy life for them. I look forward to your next video, and next and next ... 😀 They are professional quality and are not to be seen anywhere else 👏 Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you Apollo :) hahaha the word Fearless just came from no where when I was backpacking. I'm not so Fearless in the reality :P
Oh ya. Barbers too. I had a friend who's father was the personal barber of a sultan in the east coast.
My parent from my father's side is Heng Hwa. I was told when I was a kid. My grandparents came from Hanjiang which is sub of Putian. My cousin's business was making bicycle. From Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. But I heard my mother's side is not really Heng Hwa but a region in the border between Heng Hwa and Hok Jia probably ? I'm not quite sure. But my father's side was not in bicycle but traditional Indonesian fabric (batik). Nice to find your channel. Informative.
@teddybear 1968 Thank you for your interest in your Henghwa heritage and
culture. You were born
and bred in the trobled years of Suharto's anti Chinese
culture years. If you know Chinese you will understand more of your ethnicity. Putian (Henghwa)Daerah has a very long border with
Hokchia Daerah. On the extreme south of the border is Xincuo新厝鎮 town (totally speaks Henghwa). As you go north, the towns of Yuxi 漁溪, 東張（about half speaks Henghwa) Yidu 一都 which have borders with Putian's Hangjiang
urban district have large numbers of villages that speak
Henghwa. The inner
towns of ShangJing,上迳，鏡洋 also have
villages that speak Henghwa. Many people in Hokchia Daerah have the identity of Hokchia but ethnically
they are Henghwa.Maybe the government shifted
these Henghwa villages into the territory of Hokchia like what happened to Xincuo in 1956.😌 Please note that residents of border
villages speak a Dialect
of mix Henghwa and
Hokchia.l-like a Spanish Creole in Central and South America.
@@laurencechan470 Seems you know a lot! My grandparents came from HangJiang. You mention it above. Thanks for your explanation.
thanks for making this content, it must have. been so much work to research this much info on Henghwa
Just some reading and summarizing the notes :) Nothing fancy really. Anyone can do the work 😆
I'm looking forward to your Lanfang Republic video!
2020 population survey: Henghwa is only 26,702 strong in Singapore only. Yet a superich tycoon, Ng Teng Hong is Henghwa. He sponsored a hospital also. There is also a Shanghai group but they are actually Ningbo and Wenzhounese （ there are less than 5000 actual Shanghainese in Singapore) according to late Mr.Ma Jun 馬駿 sub
editor of Zaobao. He was the committee member of 上海公會.
Interesting to know :) thanks for the research Laurence！
I have a Singaporean friend who speak Shanghainese with his parents since young. If you do need the contact just let me know.
I'm Indonesian Chinese live in Bandung. My patriarch ancestors came from Hokchia / Fuqing 福清, China. But my grandma speak Hinghoa / Xinghua 兴华 dialects, not understand Mandarin at all. But now I just understand common Hokkian dialects, and off course I'm more fluent speak in Putonghua Mandarin. Sadly no more Hinghoa speaker left in my hometown.
Henghwa is indeed very rare. You must be proud 🙏
@Khe lung kwee Many Hokchia towns bordering Henghwa Daerah have villages that speak Henghwa.Eg Xincuo
新厝鎮（totally speak Henghwa), Dongzhang東張鎮, Yidu一都鎮。Their identify is Hokchia but ethnically
there are Henghwa.
@ Khe lung kwee...shalom 🙏 mo tanya apakah di Bandung ada resto hinghua?... suka ke sana blm pernah ketemu,kl di jkt selain putien ada jg mie henghua di sunter, muara karang (udah tutup)..tq 🙏
I am a Hing Hwa lang.
I am also an old Taoist/Buddhist.
My grandfather home town is in Putian.
There is a road named after my grandfather in Putian.
I am very PROUD of BEING a HING HWA person.
Yes, we were the "bicycle people" & then to "radio & electrical" people.
But now. we do not speak Hing Hwa dialect since the
passing of my "ah Ma" (grandmother) in the 80'
Hing Hwa greeting:
Ho boh ?
sei mar?
thanks for the video.
Thank you so much Putianren for watching the Putien Henghua video, hahaha :)
I am Hainanese in Malaysia. My ancestors were probably Heng Hwa people before they migrated to Hainan Island from Putian at the end of Northern Song dynasty which was more than 900 years ago. I read before that some Hainanese will even go to Putian yearly during tombs cleaning festival to pay respect to their ancestors.
Awaiting for your next video!!!
I m.from.Malacca, I have a classmate who is a Heng hua. There is a community of Henghua in.malacca .They are mainly fisherman , bicycle and motorcycles industry. I learnt to speak only one phrase "" Lu Khok Lo Xia Ma"" meaning You go back and eat rice. The language is very different from normal Hokkein
Its a different branch of Min language, thats why it's not that similar :)
It's "Tu ka loh siah ma" , I e. you've come back/home to dinner".
my wife's grandparents n family moved to take refuge in Malacca during the japanese invasion. Only her parents returned to singapore after the war. Could be one reason many heng hua in Malacca. My FIL was a barber, one BIL owns a bicycle shop
Keep up the good work. Young lady. And thank you. Learning so much about our history from an old man. 😂
Love what you are doing.
Keep it up.👍
Thank You ... same story as My Father n Grand Father told me ..
Great cover for Heng Hwa history
Your presentation getting better!
In Sarawak: Sibu Sg Merah and Kuching Pending,Sg Apong,Bintawa, quite a numbers. Mainly fishermen or seafood business. ......and of course bicycle and motorcycle business.
In Johor, Kota Tinggi - Motorcycle shop.
Thanks for yours, my grandparents spoke henghua,but my siblings generation only know we are from the henghua root but no people to speak to,so the next generation might not even know the dialect at all!
Perhaps try to learn a few words while you can :) It's the rare language worth preserving!
Waiting for your next video.
I used to live in medium city in East Java, all your stories about ethnic groups are exactly fit your description, maybe you forgot that Henghwa lang do open barbershops and Cantonese open laundry shops. There are 4 Chinese herbal medicine shops, too. I am not sure what ethnic group they come from.
我父亲出生在莆田，被叔叔带到印度尼西亚。我打算去我父亲的家乡莆田涵江看看。
Love this video, Yeeven Yoon. I am a Henghua from Kuching. Looking forward to connecting with all the Henghuas and Friends of the Henghuas from around the world.
Hi 👋
Thank you for the great videos. Through your videos, I learned about many dialects with Han Chinese for the first time. You are a very good historian and keep up the good work!!!
Great work.
I really appreciate it.
多谢。
Terima kasih.
A whole lot of interesting content, and you are a good presenter of information.
Thank You for your work to create this video and your upload of it to RUclips.
Jia you Fearless Passport. New subscriber.
很荣幸能在平台上 看到这部视频 虽然是两年前 我是林伯 84 岁 原居麻厘巴板 东加厘曼丹(東婆罗洲)现居雅加达 我父母是福清人 但操莆田话/兴化家乡是福建 福清 新厝 界下 塘头村 1982 年 84 年 2006 年三次回乡 如今变化很大 80 年代的农村 遍地都是稻田 如今消失 可惜！莆田/兴化/方言 我会講 祝你身体健康 平安❤
很多华人回去盖房子 把以前的稻田地从乡政府买过来 我们福州那边也是这样 已经很少稻田了
@@wuming9151 几十年过去了 80年代初期 父亲的故乡是一片缘色的稻田 现在已经不存在了 非常可惜 变成了小镇 我看了照片 非常伤心 ！ 唉！民以食为天 ！奈何 ？我是林伯 85岁印尼雅加达 头代华人 祝你健康快乐 平安长寿 ❤️
@@RayonnerRayon 林伯你是印尼华人 我小时候80年代家乡也有一个印尼人 她好像是被卖给别人当老婆 可是人很好 你们莆田离我家乡也很近 希望你在印尼享受快乐晚年
@@wuming9151 福州我也去过了 那是1982/84,年两次 从福州坐汽车（Toyota Crawn)两个小时多到我父亲的故乡 福清 板顶 下厝 塘头村 我也住在乡下 祖父的老家（已故）祝你wu,ming健康快乐 平安吉祥❤️
@@RayonnerRayon 谢谢啊 🙏
love your programme is Fantastic. will tell my Foochow friends ( relatives ,former classmates )
to watch your programme.
Do you know the two most Foochow Surname are Lau and Wong. During my secondary school in Sarikei . sarawak . 36 percent of my classmates are Lau and Wong..25 percent of my classmates went overseas to study and none came back
Can you do research on Wenzhounese living in Singapore . They are very good businessman.
Wenzhounese...I'll try！ I didn't knw much about them too hahaa
Yes, my grand grand parent owned transportation wheels stores and grandpa owned bicycle store in Indonesia too
Yee Ven. Thank you for your sharing this great research. Respect
Thank you Yeeven... Never heard about Henghwa before... See you soon
It‘s the dialect and geographical location that differentiate the people under the big umbrella of Chinese :)
Oh you added Singapore this time 👍
Hahaha yes yes :)
Thank you for the up-load.
Back in Sarawak, our henghua people can speak Foochow, while other dialect do find that is very impossible to learn Foochow if not your mother tongue 😜
Because it somewhat closely resembles Henghua right? I being a Henghua can roughly make out some Foochow too.
Yeahh somewhat it is close. You must be proud! It's like the secret among secret language if you go overseas hahaa
@@FearlessPassport back in my hostel, we Sarawakian speak Foochow, when we outing with friends in Moscow's china town, we speak bahasa😜, chances that outlander Chinese can understand what we talk is slim😁
I'm Hakka but a good multi-generational family friend of mine whose family now runs ACE Hardware Indonesia (KAWAN LAMA GROUP) is Hing Hua... A long journey from a humble but successful store in Glodok...
I'm Henghua nang, and both my parents were also pure Henghua Nang (兴化人) from China Poh Lian (莆田) Or Le O (下西坡). My siblings and I speak pure Hing Hua (兴化) dialect as my parents were very strict with us in learning it. However, I often hear other Hing Hua folks speak the same dialect with a different pronunciation that sounds a bit off, not exactly like the pure Hing Hua dialect that I know and speak. This is because they speak the dialect mixed with Hock Jiew (福州) and Xiang Yu (仙游) accents.
仙游方言 is very different from 福建闽南语, I visited 仙游 many times, can't understand what are they talking... Hahaha
Wow it surprises me to know the bicycle / parts comes from Kobe japan as i know all along it's china the Bycicle / part came from. Even more it's well-known that the best Bycicle is China's one that they ( my people) say : buy the RRT one. Rrt is short for republic rakyat tiongkok ( people's Republic of China in indonesian)
Nowadays most parts could be from China due to the competitive prices. In our grandfather days, most parts are still imported from Japan, including cars.. RRC was still struggling at that era.
During the postwar years of the 1950s, most of the bicycles imported into Malaya actually came from Britain because the British imposed tariffs on othe countries' bicycles. So the main brands were British, like Rayleigh, Hercules, BSA, Humber, etc. In North Malaysia, they were imported, especially into Penang which was then a free port, mainly their main agent which was a Henghwa company and distributed to other Henghwa outfits. As most were connected by the dialect and often family ties, they would take the goods on extended credit terms.
My grandpa is from Putian, and he literally sells bike back in the day. 😂
你的英文讲的很棒。你是一个不可多得人财
I'm henghua. Thanks for the history
You failed to mention their stone work and woodworking ability.Especially ancient woodworking techniques which makes the woodworkers desirable for restoration work.Many in Fuzhou.
My late great grandparents are henghwa from Klang.
I am Indonesian and can speak little bit and can understand hingwha language. coz I am grow up in hingwha family....
仙游人在福州支持乡音！
Loving this video...
I can't tell the difference btw the Hockchia, Hockchew, Foochow n Henghua dialects but after listening to the Henghua speakers I'm sure the Hokkiens, Teochews n Hainanese will be able to understand at least 70-80% what they r talking abt.
@Huitribe Wong Are
u sure. 70-80%? Henghwa dialect is an
independent dialect and has very little similarly with the Dialects you mentioned. They are mutually unintelligible
without previous exposure.
@@laurencechan470 I suspect a lot also depends on how well you can speak and understand your own dialect because if you are not fluent in you own, you would not understand words from another dialect even if they were similar to yours since even those words in your own dialect might be incomprehensible to you.
7:08 the photo you used to explain the Hainanese, actually is Hmong/Miao tribe traditional culture
Let me check back :)
有空要学习
I am henghwa and proud of my heritage, unfortunately don’t speak the dialect. My grandfather used to own a bicycle shop later changed to a tyre shop
I wish the business is doing well to this date!
Did they use "pon chat" to refer to puncture as well?
@@Zerpentsa6598 yes!!
Henghua meehoon or beehoon or rice vermicelli is very very good. in general henghua food is quite distinct from Cantonese food. my wife's family is henghua.
Henghwa people would call them "pee y'un", where the second syllable hoon in hokkien is pronounced as y and the o like a u.
you got do homework, in sarawak here in my memory most heng hua people selling bicycle, tyres, spare parts, besides they also plant sago trees.
Interesting to know about sago trees, I didnt know how the tree looks like.
I can see u not far from now u 1 million view oh wow
在今天的江苏省中部也有一个小城市叫兴化
How did you find out these history and migration? You should write a book. Great work.
To be honest I don't think my work is anything fancy haha, just read up and summarise everything together. I do have a friend helping me with the proofreading. He also own a discord community. discord.gg/CrUezZeMfJ
There was a lot of historical stuff lodged in the Chinese associations but unfortunately many of these have closed and their archives lost.
I from Sibu Sarawak . Henghua ..
Humble beginnings:)
HengHua Nang from Bintawa Kuching 🙋🏻♂️
Here to support Yee Ven :D
Hi Jia Yee!! Baru sempat nak reply all comment hahaha
Thank you.❤
hi yeeven.. there's a rare ethnic group in china called Sin Neng.. wonder if you could research and make a video regarding this group..
My apoh is hinghua her surname is Nio but my granpa is hakka sing fam, so because my grandma already pass away since I was just 1 year old, I didn't get any memory about hinghua culture, my mom told even my grandma learnt to speak hakka, because my akung is very strong hakkanese background
At least you speak Hakka 😍
Preseving Chinese culture and language is critical to indo Chinese descendants. Without Chinese ethnical identity, when you are massly discriminated again in the future similar to the terrible indicent in 1998, Chinese goverment and people cannot help you. Remember 1998 is not too far from today.
Very interesting.
I also read or seen video somewhere that the teochew forebearers also originated from the town of pu tian.... dont know if this is true...
Hi YeeVen, I would like to book a lesson on italki... are you a teacher on italki? P.S. I really loved this video!
I'm not a teacher but you can find more qualified tutors on italki, have fun! Don't forget to use my link to get $10 discount and free trial :)
My hakka kuku 姑姑 married a Heng Hwa man and he used to own a rickshaw business in Jakarta
Wow is the rickshaw business still going well?
@@FearlessPassport no more rickshaw in Jakarta lol
Became car business lol
Lately i found out there are numerous baba henghuas too thru inter marriage in singapore
i am heng hwa putien too.👍👍👍but cannot speak heng hwa.kiu li tong must heng hwa people.
My great grandfather-hakka, work in mining industry.. If I have chance to go bicycle shop (traditional type) I wanna ask whether they r heng hwa nang 😉
I have 2 friends, father owned motor shop, and they are Heng Hwa. So really match with the research :)