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Historic Kaiping diaolou watchtower in Zili Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site built by returning overseas Chinese in the early 20th century
Practical Guide Roots Trip Planning Wuyi Heritage

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There

Plan Your Wuyi Roots Trip: Visas, Routes, and Getting There The Five Counties (五邑, Wǔyì) of Wuyi — Taishan (台山), Kaiping (开平), Xinhui (新会), Enping (恩平), and Heshan (鹤山) — sent over two million people overseas between 1840 and 1940, creating one of the largest sustained migrations in modern history. Today, an estimated 1.3 million…
July 13, 20260Comments

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The historic gateway of Zhuji Lane in Nanxiong, Guangdong — the narrow alley through which 33 surnames including Zhou migrated south during the Southern Song Dynasty.
Chinese Surnames Surname History Wuyi Diaspora

The Zhou Surname: Three Thousand Years from China’s Longest Dynasty to the Wuyi Diaspora

The Longest Dynasty The Zhou (周) Dynasty ruled China for nearly eight hundred years — longer than the Roman Empire, longer than any European royal house, longer than most civilizations last at all. From 1046 BCE to 256 BCE, the Zhou kings held the Mandate of Heaven (天命, Tiānmìng), the divine right to rule that…
July 10, 20260Comments

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Migration History Museums

Inside the Taishan Overseas Chinese Museum: What 150 Years of Qiaopi Letters Reveal About Love and Distance

Between 1840 and 1949, the Wuyi region sent over two million people overseas — and for a century, the only thread connecting them to home was paper. The qiaopi (侨批, qiáopī) — remittance letter — doubled as financial transaction and intimate family document: a few silver dollars folded inside a few sentences. Money and love…
July 4, 20260Comments

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Contemporary Huang clan members participating in ancestral veneration ceremonies at a restored ancestral hall in Taishan, part of the ongoing roots-searching tourism movement reconnecting diaspora descendants with their villages of origin
Chinese Surnames Surname Histories Wuyi Diaspora

The Huang Surname: Four Thousand Years from Ancient Kingdom to America’s Largest Chinese Clan

For four thousand years, the character 黄 (Huáng) has traveled across the Chinese-speaking world — carved into ancestral tablets in Henan, inked onto qiaopi letters bound for Gold Mountain (金山, Jīnshān), engraved on association plaques in San Francisco, and typed into DNA test profiles by descendants who have never spoken a word of Taishanese. The…
July 1, 20260Comments

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