The Chinese have been known for keeping detail genealogy records. It is generally accepted that the longest continuous Chinese genealogy record belongs to descendants of Confucius. It is not uncommon, however, for families and clans to have genealogy records extend over a thousand years or more. Amazingly enough, many of these invaluable records survived...
This site is devoted to the genealogy of Chinese families from an area of Guangdong, China (中國廣東)commonly known as Siyi (四邑) or four counties. The counties are Xinhui (新會), Taishan (台山), Kaiping (開平), and Enping (恩平). The families in this area have much in common besides geographic location. The great majority trace their origin...
Lee Dong is accorded the honour of being the first southward migrating ancestor. He was the eldest son of Lee Hay (李禧) who in turn was Lee Lun’s (李聯) eldest son. Here is a little historical background. In 1126 AD (靖康元年) when the Jins (女真金人), a northern nomadic tribe who were the ancestors of...
We really can’t talk about the migration to the Pearl River Delta without going into the exodus from Nanxiong (南雄). And we can’t talk about the exodus from Nanxiong without telling the story of Wu Fei (胡妃). However, there are more than one version of the story. The first is that one of the...
Nanxiong (南雄) county lies in the northeast part of Guangdong province. It has 24 towns and a population of 440,000. Historically, Nanxiong connected Guangdong and Jiangxi which made it the key junction between northern and southern China. It was a marketplace and the central point in the exchange of goods and cultures between Central...
