Looking for a Malaysian ANCESTOR's home in Anxi, Fujian | EP6, S2 

i'm from indonesia. same case as well. mine from zhong san, never been there.

Zhong San in what province? Th'ng Soa (Hokkian)?

@@sumamihardja6083 keknya zhong san do provinsi guang dong klo ga salah.

Very glad that Yan managed to locate your ancestral home, Uncle Lim. She really did an outstanding job tracking the place down. Hopefully, you will get a chance to visit the house in person one of these days. 👍

Yes, Yan did a fantastic job in locating the ancestral house and the accompanying video on U tube and Bilibili.

Thank you so much :)

then go back

or maybe i'm being a little dramatic, it's hard to tell racists on the internet, i'm sure someone will feel sorry to your little heart if this is mistaken (but i don't think so~@@loopydoo just stop saying shiit like this to other people K?????

​@suzyEvermore Their comment is ignorant but I won't say racist. They obviously don't take into account the why some can't just up and leave to go to their ancestors homeland but that's where educating them comes in. I'm sure your yourself don't have full knowledge of other cultures and are just as prone to make stupid comments like the rest of us.

that's a great title!

Man that's a good story

哎，文革10年真是给这个民族太多创伤了。不过福建广东的宗族观念是最浓厚的，起码族谱保存得非常好，可以让我们知道自己从哪里来。

@@yunguihe-nw2fd同意，虽然中国的历史书里对文革的描述极少，但是也用到了 十年浩劫 这么严重的词汇。 浩劫 这个词真的很重了。另外我的初中语文老师，有两位都是家里曾经很有钱的，包括我的一位同学，他们也都对当年的痛苦有着很深的记忆。讲述给了我们。对整个国家都是一次教训

Armenia is SYRIa!!!

​​@@ahmed_obeid_bin_daghr Armenia borders Turkey in the West, Georgia in the North, Azerbaijan in the East n Iran, in the South. And Syria is south of Turkey.

I think all East Asian cultures like Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese have a history of keeping clan genealogy records.

There was an Armenian settlement in Penang Island of Malaysia. Look for Armenian Street.

​@@jon_nomad nah....prior to the 18th century, commoners in most of countries in the world didn't have surnames. china was an exception. china had extensive geneology recording tradition for everyone for 3000 years. due to early sinofication, korean and vietnamese had similar tradition for over 1000 yrs. as for japan, most of average japanese were not allowed to have a surname. surnames were reserved for nobilities & powerful. only after meiji restoration period in mid 19th century, for the purpose of modernization reform, japanese govt began to assign surnames to japanese commoners.

That must have been such a moving experience, despite it being such a short visit. I'm sure it was a welcome surprise for your elderly relatives as well!

@oo Our Lim ancestors arrived in Penang in the mid 1880s. How about yours? Only the orang asal are indigenous to Malaysia.

Great, I happened to do the same: travel half a cross the world to find them, meet them, getting to know them, returning the bones to the ancestral grave, receiving the key to the ancestral village, meeting my sister, wonderful experience.

I need to travel to Africa and trace my ancestry route... hmmmm I believe that they are called Hommosapian and left Africa approximately about a million years ago.. hmmmm.. yeah.. hmmmm.. Wish me luck.... 🤞🙏.. hmmmm..

Fun fact: mainland southeast Asia (Laos) are the ancestral homeland of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thai, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Malaysians, Indonesians, Filipinos...

@@oneviwatara9384 you got me...

@@peaceleader7315 There are also millions of ethnic Lao people living in eastern Central Asia countries particularly in Uzbekistan they came from southern China during the tang dynasty.

Hello! I am not Chinese but I have a grandfather who was a Chinese he used to be a hopia maker and sells it upon the market and streets, he settled in the Philippines and had children with my grandmother. Before my father was born, He already has a wife and children left in China. In fact, before he died he was planming to go back at China to visit his Son that he left long time ago. Hearing your grandmother story makes me cry. This is so wrong, I am a woman also and I don't want this kind of things happen to me. Even though you are not the true family left by my grandfather, I would like to apologize for what happened to your father and grandmother. I am crying now knowing that what my ancestor did make other people suffers 😭😭 I am so sorry.

@@pinelilsisterstudio7195 There's no need for you to apologize for what someone else did. Anyway, it was so long ago and times were very difficult. Perhaps they had their own issues. But we, the third generation of Lim in Malaysia are doing well. We now are into the fifth generation. I hope you're doing well and I wish you all the best..

I suspect that both this comment and the answers miss an important point : that in those days, first marriages were invariably arranged marriages forced upon often very young men who did not want the spouse. That he left immediately after the marriage without his wife supports this. My own grandfather was coerced by his own father into a political marriage with a powerful family, but his wife was intellectually handicapped. He was told that if he agreed, his father would not object to any subsequent wives that my grandfather took. He then had a son with this woman who was also handicapped, but had his own arranged marriage with a beautiful, bright, intelligent young woman who spent the rest of her life angry and resentful, looking after first her subnormal husband, then her handicapped son (a cousin whom I met and who at age 30 was unable to live independently). This was a story of generational tragedy in the old system. My grandfather became politically powerful, and had to hide this handicapped first wife from view. My grandmother was his second wife whom he chose, and who was known as his wife by the world. So don’t be too harsh on these ancestors without knowing the full story, as they were living in a world of vastly changing morality and culture.

他们的祖籍地都是中国福建安溪，所以会很想帮他们寻找。是一段很棒的故事。 祝福她旅行顺利

中国永远都是你的家

可以回故土玩一玩，现在真的比以前好太多了

You are not the only one who got emotional. I am sure a lot of Oversea Chinese will get emotional watching this video and all the future videos about the Middle Kingdom.

Best way is to visit your ancestors graves as the ancestorsvillage name is written on top on chinese type of graves.

how exciting! Best of luck on your upcoming visit to your recently discovered relatives :)

How do you go about doing the search? Any tips?

​@@khenghoe6859 You'd better know the names of your loved ones, or where you came from in China, like your grandparents' or grandmothers' names, which can be searched through a huge family tree

Hi Beel p, my ancestral home is in Fenjie Village in Wanning County!

@@TheAIHQ Watch out for the impending Cultural Revolution called CR 2.0 to be initiated by an idiot called Xi JinPing. Good luck to all my cousins in Longgunzhen Wanning & Nanning Quangxi.

​@@TheAIHQ If you can know more details, it is easier to find, Wanning Hainan does have a boundary village, now there is a boundary island, the famous scenic spots are nearby 中文海南省万宁市分界村

Europe is a big place. There were vastly different systems in different times in different parts of Europe.

I think there is one particular China drama based on this kind of ancestory story. Starring by very famous beautiful well-established Taiwanese actress Ruby Lin in the Fujian Mandarin drama, 'Da Ci Tang' 《 大祠堂 》, but mind you the story plot is so distressing and so dramatic, and most probably the script writter did research some of the true life stories and they made into the drama like sort of grand compilation? Anyway I'm not sure whether it is based on true story / biography of certain people or not but Ruby Lin is such a great actress since her legendary 'My Fair Princess' drama based on the adaption of Taiwanese love story novel and she was actually being chosen by the legendary novel writer Chiung Yao as the actress for the character of Princess Mingzhu (a.k.a. Princess Zi Wei)! Malaysian Mandarin too, I think there is quite numerous dramas based on this type of stories too. The Iron Lady, starred by Yeo Yann Yann, another great actress from Malaysia. Destiny In Her Hands, starred by great actors from Malaysia and Singapore, one of them is Singaporean actress Jeanette Aw. Age Of Glory, starred by Malaysian actress Debbie Goh. The Descendant, starred by Malaysian actress Debbie Goh. I remember this type of stories is really popular during the early 90s to early 2000s, and the stories are kinda so melancholic torturing distressing and all sorts of revenging stuffs and the dramas really become the hot topics among the local Mandarin drama audiences to talk about and also among us were used to be students LOL

@@JoanKSX Thank you! Nowadays, as I have been mostly bed ridden for the past three years because of a disabling disease, I prefer to watch Xianxia dramas. Some of my favourite are: An Oriental Odyssey, Ashes of Love and The Legend of White Snake. I am of Italian ancestry so everything Chinese is new for me apart from the books I've read. I went to China with a friend as a young girl in 1991. We arrived in Beijing which back then it was filled with scaffoldings but visibly a work in progress. My friend and I only knew elementary English which we spoke with a strong Italian accent. We couldn't understand a word so we flew to Chengdu because my dream was to visit Tibet - I had read many intriguing books about it. Unfortunately, in Chengdu we were told that only packaged tours were allowed in Tibet for astronomical prices so we hiked to Emei Shan. We climbed what felt like a million stairs to the top of the mountain with a sleep over midway at a monastery. I had no clue why the Chinese people on the path kept patting us on the back, we were each carrying our backpacks, each was about kg 15. At the top, we discovered there was a bus route on the other side of the mountain so most people took the bus. I was completely ignorant then but now I know Emei Shan is a mountain where people cultivated to become immortal. My friend and I were mountaineers so back in Chengdu we met a very helpful guide, he was a pioneer freelance tourist guide that could speak English and he arranged our tickets to Nepal. Nobody else spoke English then. A funny situation was when we were on the path to Emei Shan top, some merchants wanted to sell us something and they created a cross with their fingers 十, which means 10 in Chinese but we didn't know. For Italians the cross is the symbol to exorcise demons. 😜😅😁

@@luxinfinity73 Oh I see. Year 1991, hmmm quite early. I went Beijing in year 2006 as secondary school student, one of the orchestral members representing Malaysia to participate in the International Youth Music Festival which was held in Beijing back then. And Beijing government sent us 3 university students who learnt Malay language (I personally think they might only take the subject as minor LOL). They spoke so brokenly and we were kinda irritated and feel so bad for them for trying so hard, so we ended up having conversations in Mandarin and we tried our best to mimic their standard Mandarin accent (or else we would sounded much more like the Fujian Uncle Lim in this vlog video LOL Yes, most Malaysians' Mandarin sounded this way if we were talking to each other among Malaysians hahaha) since the whole orchestral members do received formal Mandarin education back in our respective vernacular national secondary schools (we were all from Chinese vernacular national schools which mean in order to enter these schools, we ought to take Mandarin formal education in our primary schools and totally scored the subject and some of us were from sort of elite schools but our education syllabus is made suited to Malaysians, not as deep and hard as China one, yet our proficiency in Mandarin is still top of South East Asia region) and the guiding students were totally shocked and asked 'How on earth y'all speak such fluent Mandarin (they called it as 'common language', literally) ?' We answered, 'We learn formally in schools,' and they continued by asking pretty silly questions e.g. Do Malaysians live on top of trees and wear leaves as clothes? Do Malaysians have proper toilet with doors? Do Malaysians eat humans? LMAO We were like, 'Are you kidding? It's 21st century, nobody doing that in Malaysia LOL', they didn't even try to use any English sentences LOL I don't really surprised that China citizens in year 1991 couldn't speak English at all. And FYI, '十' is read as 'shi' in the Hanyu Pinyin, which literally mean 'ten' =) And yes as Malaysians we know about the Christianity cross thing. We have one of the largest churches in Malaysia at Bukit Mertajam (town), Penang (state), Malaysia (our country). So we won't use '十' finger gesture as 'ten'. Instead we would show you both palms with fully stretched out all the ten fingers hahaha By the way we Malaysians always watch subbed film works, that's why we could try to mimic so many other countries people's accents =P and we love original actors' voices and mostly annoyed by dubbed unless certain film work like the ancient China custome/historical background dramas/movies. Well, welcome to Malaysia 🇲🇾 Most of us speak decent English. If somebody's English is so poor, they would also try their best to speak in their very broken English LMAO (especially of Malay race people since they are the majority race so most of them too shy to speak broken English and most of them do afraid of other people's teasing and most of them mingle in Malay community only in their comfort zone, therefore generally they are having more percentage of much lower oral English proficiency. No worries, English is a compulsory passing subject in all our important exams). English is well-versed in Malaysia since our country was part of British colonization and British brought us English-orientated schooling systems and from there we branched out to several type of schooling system e.g. Malay-orientated national schools, Chinese vernacular national schools, Tamil vernacular national schools, Buddhist private schools, Islamic private schools, English-orientated schools (school names started with 'St. -' e.g. St. Mark, St. Georges, Convent etc. but now already converting to Malay-orientated schools), independent high schools, international schools etc.

@@JoanKSX Thank you! I currently live in Cambodia but before getting here I lived in Nepal, India, Thailand and 😁 Malaysia (primarily Georgetown). Malaysia is very welcoming, great food, friendly and helpful people. Everybody speaks English in Malaysia and the atmosphere is very peaceful. I attended a meditation seminar there and most of the attendees were Singaporean. They spoke English and there was at least one joke in each sentence. In the South of Thailand I lived with the Chinese Taoist/Buddhist descendant and volunteered at a school occasionally where my Muslim sister was teaching. I was in Satun, near the border with Malaysia, all the people I met were loving and open but occasionally there were some sporadic episodes of intolerance. My Muslim friends in Satun welcomed me with open arms and I consider them as my own family. The same can be said of my Taoist/Buddhist friends too however they confused my veganism as a clear sign of affiliation with their religion and tried hard to convert me. I was vegan for ethical reasons like preserving the environment and for the ethical treatment of animals. Nowadays, as I can no longer provide my own food, I eat mostly vegetarian but I also had fish, ham and eggs in the past. I listen to my body needs rather than my head. In Malaysia I have always felt safe. It was safe in 1991 and it is very safe now. In Georgetown I noticed how Hindu, Christian, Muslim and the Taoist/Buddhist all live together in peaceful harmony though they do not mix. In 2003, I lived in London, UK and thoroughly enjoyed the melting pot. I felt completely at home, everybody with their own differences yet a big family. I used to buy books from an Indian woman, fish and chips from my Pakistani friends and buy ganja from my Caribbean bro 😋 at the market! It felt like Heaven and I think that's the secret for a happy existence: treat everyone with respect and never judge anyone because we are all the product of love.

Was his name Lim Goh Tong?

Thank you so much!

The genealogy here in Fujian will be counted every 50 to 100 years. If you are lucky enough to catch up, you can just write your name including your children. If you don’t catch up, you can also find the person in charge of the genealogy , add your name

我的家里也有族谱，想想若干年后我的后人能看到我的名字。温暖的故事❤

名字在族谱中，说明他们是有联系，不然不会写入族谱的。

This is also my home town but I never been there. 😭

@@kenlim9281 Is your hometown also in Longmen Town, Anxi, Fujian Province? You should go back to your hometown to have a look! I have now used vpn to reply to your message in my hometown!

Thanks for your reply.. My great grandparents from 龙门后井。some of my cousins still staying there. I'll definitely go back, hopefully by next year.

Yap Ah Loy did not discover KL but modernised it

@@tunkulailitunkushahriman3939 Who said he modernized it! Yap Ah Loy was salve trader providing labor to the Brit.

@MalaiischeIntelligenz are u even Malaysian?He became wealthy after he became a tin mining owner and brought early development to KL. U r stuck in your colonised mind

Kuala Lumpur was already exist before Yap Ah Loy came, he built the tin industry here and make Kuala Lumpur turn to a big city

@@MalaiischeIntelligez he died over a hundred years ago.

wow what a history, and happy new year! Amoy 厦门is a pretty city now, and welcome to visit china! 💗

thanks Heinrich, wish you a lot of good luck and fortune for the rabbit year!

很好找，在福建几乎是一个姓氏居住在一个村庄，只要有你爷爷奶奶或太爷的名字，基本可以找到

@@user-bp9be5mr2f 除非能基本确认到村，或者有足够的家族信息，单纯只有姓名很难，同姓氏村很多也经常有同名。而且只有大的宗族才有族谱。

@@user-mm7kr4vl4c 噢原来如此

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Ay yo Philipina Mabuhay, Salamat pogi 🎉🎉🎉 Ang ulap ai na Sa Langit

The Lim family must have been very wealthy.

Thank you for the support!❤️

欢迎回去

if you haven't already, consider writing those old stories down -- my grandmother's stories of being a very little girl in Sweden are lost to time, as are a lot of the detail we used to have in some of the stories my family still remembers. We always meant to write them down but never got around to it. My grandmother couldn't understand why we were so interested; to her they were just boring and ordinary, the memories of an old woman. But to us they were like a magic window to our past. Collect your family stories while you can, and maybe one day you'll get to share them with relatives back in China! :)

如果是在莆田很容易找到，福建广东人有很浓的宗祠文化，期待您找到，如果需要帮忙我也可以给您问问❤

Hokkien can vary greatly in China. Every city even towns can have its own variations and they aren’t necessarily fully mutually intelligible. Besides, Xiamen is basically a city of immigrants nowadays as more than half of its population is from outside the city.

你可能碰到的是不会闽南语的人，厦门有很多不是本地人，不会闽南语。你可以直接去安溪，那边基本都会

一个村的语音都可能不一样。正常

你也一样，身体健康，合家欢乐！

我有客户是惠州的。惠州经济非常好。有化工，陶瓷，密胺等等产业。