Jimmy's Journey in Toishan - Discovering His Roots
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2014
- In November 2013, Jimmy Chan visited his homeland in Taishan for the first time to discover his roots. This is his documented journey.
Fun fact: Using a small camcorder, Jimmy asked passerby to film him during the majority of his commentaries throughout this documentary. It is thanks to these kind strangers that Jimmy was able to make this documentary! - Zábava
Only my grandpa was born in DuanFen , TaiShan. Followed Dr Sun Yet-Sen ‘s work in USA and later settled down in Guangzhou. He was one of the 40 high rankings inducted into the Sun Yet-Den memorial in GuangZhou . I still speaks fluent TaiShanese . The last time I I visited this place was in November 1989 . Glad to came across your channel. I am age 74 in 2022 . Thank you my brother . Happy 2022 .
谢谢你的分享，看到你的视频心情久久不能平静，倍感幸运遇上和感恩有你的爱心，那金良村是我的故乡、永康永胜这是我的母校，我在此学校由小学到初中毕业，离开这遍土地四十多年，很是怀念小时候的一切，再次谢谢你的拍摄和祝福老乡你平安吉祥🙏。
Thanks Jimmy, great documentary. I was borned in 1949 in 台山, left for HK then went to the US in 1965. I have not returned to 台山 yet.
My grandfather is also from Taishan . My mother too . She and grandma used to tell us about Taishan/Sinning .
I hoped to go back . We are now in Malaysia since the late 19th century and we are third generation.
Great video . Thank you for postin👍👍👍👍
Hi Jimmy... nice to watch your documentary about your roots. Our ancestors came from Hoisan, Canton. We are in the quest to trace our chinese heritage whom our great grandfather migrated to the Philippines around 1890's. awesome documentary though...
I really love it when the community comes together to help you.
Very cool how the buildings have that circa 1920s look. Well done and thank you for sharing Jimmy.
Just discovered your video. Amazing! I am from Toisan but immigrated to Canada in 1958 at age 10. My family's home is in Dai Gong, Lung Pang. My husband and I will be visiting the village for the first time in April. My brother has been back three times and he and my s-i-l will be travelling with us and acting as our guide. We have our family home back from the government when the gov't re-classified our family as "overseas Chinese ". I am looking forward to seeing the house where I was born. This video is preparing me for the trip! Thanks! Sue-On Choy Hillman
hi, my mother was a Choi from Kei Liang Tun, Ai Kong, Toishan. Toishan dialect is extraordinarily difficult to understand. Dad was from Hoiping - much easier. when Ken Hom dropped into Hoiping for a TV cooking segment, I was startled to hear words from a distant past.
how did it go?
Very interesting! I’m an ABC but my father was born in Toishan. Your Cantonese is very good, Jimmy. Unfortunately, mine is not as good as it once was. My sons and grandkids don’t speak any Chinese at all. It’s hard to keep up with the Cantonese dialect here where there aren’t many Chinese who speak it.
You speak fluent "Hoishan wah"...good to see you found your root and know your "mother land"
What is actually the dialect , Cantonese or Hakka? I thought this is Hakka district.
Yes, I do ! Thank you !!!
@@jimmychanproduction most ABC or close to ABC they all speak Hoishan Talk. is not that they are good at learning but they just all speak it. if u get into the harder words thay just like as stupid as u can think.
Daniel Voon Toishan dialect is the dialect of Cantonese..not Hakka
@daniel voon this is thoi san dialect, part of Guangdong
My grandparents are also from Taishan. Plese keep in touch with me. This video is very meaningful for me. NK Chew, Malaysia.
Thank you for such a great video jimmy. Im 28 in australia and searching for my info about my sze yap ancestry and wanted to know my roots. You now inspired me to also find my ancestors there. All i know is they were some big rich merchant owned alot of properties and my grandma mothers brother was a general in the army. Gonna be on a mission to find info on them.
I can hear they spoke the dialect of Taishan which is also my home town
What an amazing journey this was. Thanks for sharing.
You are very welcome !!! Thank you !!!
My grandpa were also from Kaiping. I remember the first time I visited his village. So very happy for you to rediscover your roots. Kaiping is changing very fast. My advise is to visit as soon as possible if you want to see or meet people who can share their memories and recollections of your grandparents. Many of the older folk with memories of our grandparents are dying. Their children don't know as much and the original villages are going to be redeveloped soon. The diaolous is basically for protection from bandits. Not really revolutionaries. This part of China was kind of like wild wild west. There was also the Punti-Hakka wars .
Hi!! Can you share where you got all this info from? Would love to learn more about my family’s villages in Toisan!
I was fortunate to take my children and husband to KaiPing and see the house I lived until the age of 1 before immigrating to the States with my parents. Hopefully we’ll be able to go back, but my parents are getting older so not sure if we’ll have this opportunity soon. Thank you for sharing your journey.
I can relate to your discoveries - thank you - very touching -
Very touching !
Thanks for sharing this! This is my countryside 那金 in Taishan too.
Very touching!!
My father was a Gin from Taishan Village Canton China. Gin king toon was his name, many went to California and Australia.
Greetings from Wisconsin, USA .
我媽媽係台山三八嘅⋯⋯您好⋯⋯Thanks for shearing 🙏🙏
Interesting video.
Great job 👍
nice! im going to have to find my fathers roots soon.
Amaizing
My Grandfather was wanting to go back back in 1947 but there was too much going on back in the Uk that prevented him from doing so, I hope I can make that journey for him before I die, I have to find out where the rest of my family are.
I from Taishan too. I am living in Australia Sydney now.
My Wechat is Davema80
恭贺Jimmy, 尋根成功。我看了很感动。
Thank you !!!
The 炮 樓,”cannon tower “ was not used for the Sun Yat Sin revolution. Rather was built to defend the village against bandits / robbers who were roaming the countrysides in those days.
Hello, Jimmy, I grew up in Hong Kong and my family root originate from Hoi ping( 開平）， neighbor of Toishan
Im part Quan. My grandpas house in kaiping also had the gun port holes in the walls and floor for intruders.
Wow....my Grandpa is from Toisan too.
That's very interesting to know. I have to find my roots too, I need to go to Poon Yu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong
Which village is this?
Hi jimmy , great video , I appreciate to share your journey, 抬轿 出行/// 台山听起来比任何其他语言都好听! before 1972 people always used it for travel: like marriage
我哋同一个乡下，見到我哋间祖屋，念伯我都識
When my grandfather Mah Hing-Gin was born in 1901, Taishan was known as Xin-ning! Xinning originally the western part of Xinhui that is today Taishan.
Jimmy is very similar to me. My dad was born and raised in Baisha, Taishan. My grandpa came to Canada in 1923 and worked as kitchen help in Prince Albert, SK. Eventually, after my grandpa's last visit home to Baisha, he took my grandmother and my aunt back to SK in 1947 and bought a general store in Regina that they operated. My mom flew to Regina in 1965 via Vancouver to give birth to me. Finally we returned to Vancouver in 1967 from HK. if it was for me, my dad may not have come to Canada due to doubts about his political affiliation.
Wonder if you grandparents knew the Ma(r) family in Victoria BC. They were from Baisha too.
@@shanwnt1657 My Dad might!
@@frederickma2193 my mom is probably lots older than your dad. If she were still alive, she would be a 100+. Ask your dad if he knew the Mars who used to have a travel agency
@@shanwnt1657 I don't if my dad knows any Mas; Mahs or Mars in Victoria. That's true. your mom would be quite a few years older than my dad. He was born in 1930 and just turned 90 on June 23rd. My aunt Peggy who is 10 years younger has several childhood friends her in Vancouver but she lives in Calgary and lived in Estevan when she got married after I was born in 1965. My dad has many childhood friends in Alberta and Saskatchewan that he has kept in touch with. He met some too around BC on Greyhound trips with my mom. In Princes George and Rupert for example.
I don't know if my great-grandfather was involved in sending any people from Baisha over here to Golden Mountain.
So where is the exact area? My ancestry has from toishan
Jimmy, how come you're speaking standard Cantonese ?
Wow, your birth place village. at 23.35, same as my Mother and Father :) , my last name is Chan too :)
My grandfather was also a doctor his name was Dr Chan Jick Gee memeber of Gee How Oak Tin Association Vancouver & Chan Wing Chun Vancouver he was Treasure @ these two societies
My family is toisan also
Toi Shan, Na Gum is my home town too。
Nice video.
Dr Sun Yat Sun died in 1925.
I did this in April 2000, my cousin & I took my Mum and Dad back to Gu-Jing in Sze-Yup. Relatives there didn't like me as I am a boon-tong-faan and my Mum was a Gweipoh :(
Their point of views might changed these days over there . I understand what some of those people thought of . It’s a traditional old fashioned thinking amount some older people there . Many of them have never been outside of their circles .
@@JLKB-1947 Well I won't be going back there any time soon to find out...
Hoishan wah sounds so much better than any other language
老乡 👍🏼
Was the grandpa Wong fei Hong. Medicine doctor and Kung fu master?
looks like jackie chan
既熟悉又陌生的那金圩
Are you related to Jacky Chan, there’s a bit of a resemblance.
Jacky Chan’s real last name is “ 房” not Chan if you watch Hong Kong news .
台山市三合鎮那金墟，墟同市差很多
I thought it was Jacky Chan LOL
这里不是那金吗？
你挡那种飞机返去呀！要隔离吗？
This film is 7 years old.
Chek San ah toy, you're speaking mostly Cantonese, man.
😄
Finally, I realize that you can speak Cantonese!
Jimmy: is your mom Taishanese? Or is she Cantonese-speaking?
Isn’t he said his parents speaks Taishanese?
You look like Jackie Chan
Lol taishan and Guangzhou is completely different, don't put it together. Taishan is taishan, Guangzhou is Guangzhou.
He meant Taishan, Guangdong! Not Guangzhou!
这里是那金圩，去台城必经之路，也是我小時后啊爷爷带我们一家几十人在这里影合家相两次
My mum is 95 years old and she is from Toishan.
台山那金
OMG. PM me.
Thanks Jimmy. A great journey. When I first got to know the Chinese people in NZ, I wanted to see where the families came from originally. I did work in the north of China for a while but was in Canton only briefly. Luck that you got there before the CCP Virus. Take care. The Communists are still in control, for a bit longer.
台山三合那金墟
那金烧猪，囪味，
那金圩
共剷咗
一口流利三合话
loved this video jimmy, bring back lots of memory for me, I'm now living in the u.k but my heart still in toishan, i was from guang hai...
wow, liverpool!
@@user-tt7gy7ok5h me too from toishan , now in manchester