A village with no land, and one export
On the western shore of the Pearl River estuary, roughly thirty kilometres north of Macau, sits a village that never had enough ground to feed itself. Cuiheng Village (翠亨村, Cuìhēng Cūn) held about sixty households and around ten surnames in the 1860s. The soil was thin and…
The Sun surname (孙) traces its roots to three ancient Chinese noble lineages — the Ji (姬) clan of the Zhou dynasty, the Mi (芈) clan of Chu, and the Gui (妫) clan of Qi — converging over three millennia into a single name now carried by 18 million people worldwide. Among Chinese surnames, Sun…