3 ай бұрын
3 ай бұрын
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@febbystrange Күн бұрын
can you tell me the name of the restaurant of your first visit? and the one you had peking duck… looks so good
@haleyhaley6257 9 күн бұрын
Thank you for this, I will be traveling here to meet my in laws and see my husbands city and I’m so excited ❤
@lucasjiang5127 10 күн бұрын
I speak a little fuzhonese, and my grandma who taught me fuzhonese told me to forget fuzhonese and learn madarin and I told her no I do not want to learn mandarin, but I need up being forced to so you can hear mandarin and fuzhonese words when I talk
@HelloDaisy 12 күн бұрын
Thank you for making this video♡ i miss travelling back to fuzhou
@thomashom7514 13 күн бұрын
It looks like a small town rather than a village. It is still considered new if it was built in the 1950s. My ancestral village building in kaiping, Guangdong is over 150 years old.
@graceanimalrehabcenterinc.2832 16 күн бұрын
I was born in Fuzhou of small village. I came to US as a young child. Now, I am in my fifty and my mother is gone, I very much missed my culture and food. Thank God there is Fuzhou people that own a Chinese buffet cooked me some Fuzhou food. I totally agree that parents' don't teach their children their homeland language when they are born in America or go there in young age. My mother talk to me Fuzhou so I can speak some, plus other Chinese dialogues. We need to preserve our language and culture. Thank you for doing this.
@qiujicai198 20 күн бұрын
WOW...love this..i had a student tenant once from Fuzhou. Never did ask him much as he was busy studying and we were busy with our jobs, Only when i met my wife's friend whose ancestors were from Fuzhou did i noticed her culture were a little different from ours. They love the noodles made with red wine. I had a chance to taste the fuzhounese sausage. It was really tasty. I am a hokkien mself and never visited Fujian myself. Perhaps one day we will visit our ancestors' village in Xiamen.
@NathanWilhome 21 күн бұрын
all very sweet ~ Thank You!! Good for our heart(s)
@idofdm7625 27 күн бұрын
It's really stories of all over sea Chinese, individual story may vary, life were sure hard in China for many generations before and we all span out to all over the world but our roots are deep and our drive resolute! Not forgetting where you're from ground us even if we manage to achieve our individual accomplishment all over the world! We're all Chinese and we all share same heritage even many generations apart and may not understand each other dialect!
@prettypurple7175 28 күн бұрын
USED TO CALL FOO-CHOW//////
@prettypurple7175 28 күн бұрын
Fuzhou City in China Main Results   Sanfang Qixiang  Pingtan Island  Matsu Islands    鼓山  西禅寺   story 3 of 10 Get there 22h 25m from Vancouver     Weather averages 27° / 19°C High / low • May Fuzhou, the capital of southeastern China's Fujian province, is a sprawling industrial and transportation hub. Its downtown includes the "3 Lanes and 7 Alleys" quarter of preserved Ming and Qing dynasty buildings. The mountaintop Yushan Scenic Area features the restored 10th-century White Pagoda. West Lake Park, dating to 282 A.D., is an urban green area with bridges and pavilions.
@prettypurple7175 28 күн бұрын
CHINA IS SUCH A HUGE COUNTRY. WHICH PROVINCE; CITY; TOWN; VILLAGE.
@qake2021 28 күн бұрын
👏👏👏 西湖👍👍👍
@qake2021 28 күн бұрын
👍Found your family village 长柄村 on Google map. 👏👏👏
@AAA-vu3dq 29 күн бұрын
Great document - thanks! I am Fuzhounese in Singapore. My dad was from the Gan’Jia village, literally Sugarcane village. I feel nostalgic when you showed the red yeast wine chicken. We grew up eating this yummy dish with mee’sua. Plus Fuzhou fishballs (with minced meat in them) as well as Yan dumplings. Yan, according to my mom, is pork, pressed down and spread out so thinly to dry on wicker trays. Upon drying, they are smeared with flour and is so thin and translucent. They are trimmed into oblong pieces, whilst the leftovers can be used as just strips to flavour and thicken soups. The rectangular Yan is further cut into smaller pieces to wrap more meat and made into Yan dumplings. And of course this comment wouldn’t be complete about my mom, who was a local Fujian girl, learnt how to make Fuzhou red yeast wine and lees… the indispensable ingredients for hearty bowlfuls of the renowned Fuzhou dish mentioned earlier… the Fuzhou red yeast wine chicken broth with mee’sua - including lots and lots of love, then, more love. Shalom, memories from a Fuzhounese descendant in Singapore
@user-fx6kh7ux1m Ай бұрын
Grace: May I suggest you are very lucky your parents are proud enough of their heritage to speak the Fuzhou dialect at home, so that you and your brother can also speak it. Your trip to your ancestral village has more meaning to you than the children of Chinese parents who choose not to speak to their children their own tongue. I see many many case here in Australia: Chinese parents speaking only English to their children. Many, I suppose, are not proud to be Chinese.
@hayashi62 Ай бұрын
Raining all day! Which month were you in Taipei? Subscribed 😊
@saichung7138 Ай бұрын
In the bad old days as far as several centuries ago due to war and famine in China. Many people along the coastal provinces migrated to overseas mainly Southeast Asia. my forefather was one of them from Zhong San Canton. He went to Singapore and my father was borne there and so was I. My hunch is, with the development of a more affluent and stronger China as we have seen in recent decades. I think more ethnic Chinese living overseas will pay homage to their ancestry land ! Enjoyed viewing your video. Thanks.
@CarolsCurrentObsession Ай бұрын
The Batou Springs area looks like straight out of Cdrama land! ❤ and those little snow ducks really are Fei Chang hen ke ai!!
@CarolsCurrentObsession Ай бұрын
Oh I loved this so very much! My family comes from Idaho, USA, and before that, from Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. I just love that you were able to visit your hometown and that so many buildings were still there to see and recapture memories with! Our family histories are so important , aren’t they? They give us a root, and help us to see the shoulders we stood on in order to be where we are today. I often think of my pioneer ancestors and I am filled with gratitude and awe for the hardships they lived through and the efforts they put forth so that I can be standing where I am now. I feel like we have a debt to pay to those ancestors, and we should try to honor their efforts by living good lives and being good people, so that our own children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren can be also live better happy lives. I don’t mean by money, because while that’s useful , I think family happiness is more important. Thank you for this wonderful video ~ I hope your children and grandchildren will appreciate your efforts as well! What a lovely village and family that you came from. God bless you! ❤❤❤
@user-tb7co8fj1j Ай бұрын
wow feels like travelling to Fuzhow...i am 4th generation of Fuzhow from Indonesia.
@user-fx6kh7ux1m Ай бұрын
Now spelt in Pinyin as: Fuzhou. Used to be spelt: Foochow. These are exonyms, in Mandarin, in that that's not how they refer to themselves in the Fuzhou dialect. In the Fujian (Hokkien) areas further south, who speak the Minnan dialect, we refer to Fuzhou as: Hockchew.
@williamlim5458 Ай бұрын
Greeting from a 5th generation Fuzhouness in Malaysia
@Mh419 Ай бұрын
Hi Grace, thank you so much for sharing your story. My dad immigrated from Fuzhou to the US in the 90s and I visited when I was 2. I don’t really know much about my Chinese heritage but I’d love to be able to visit with him someday to explore my story.
@kevinyang8881 Ай бұрын
好样的 长柄年轻人 👍👍👍
@dionisiocabus9030 Ай бұрын
I love Chinese people. There's a lot of Chinese-Filipinos whose great grandparents were from Fujian, China. I myself is a Filipino with around 1/8% Chinese blood but I hate how China treats its neighbor countries. I just hope and pray that China will be nicer to its neighbors because after all most its own people are living all over the East and Southeast Asia.
@user-fx6kh7ux1m Ай бұрын
You have a very misinformed view of the Chinese, mostly propagated by the West. For example, if you think China is being aggressive to Taiwan, then you are taking the view that Taiwan is an independent country. Taiwan is part of China, deliberately kept apart by the Americans. Over the last 70 or so years, because of their separation, the Chinese in Taiwan developed a local identity - considering themselves Taiwanese. If you speak Taiwanese, you are speaking the Hokkien dialect. Your Chinese ancestor probably came from Jinjiang (Chin Kang locally) would be speaking close to Taiwanese.
@Anonymous------ 26 күн бұрын
You should learn about the history of China's first transoceanic ships which were also the world's first, they aided many countries, including the Philippines. At the time, China was the only country with ships capable of sailing on huge areas of open sea; if you don't believe this, check into how Ming Dynasty China had massive sail ships sailing all over the South China Sea when no other countries could; Europeans hadn't learned to build transoceanic ships until China taught them!! This is widely documented and supported by international historians. Wherever Chinese ships went to, the ship men never invaded any local people; they brought Chinese goods to exchange with the locals. Some sailors stayed behind and did not return to China, instead settling down among the locals; perhaps this is how your Chinese ancestors landed in the Philippines. Don't be fooled by the Philippines and U$A governments; what they accuse China of is false.
@dionisiocabus9030 18 күн бұрын
@@Anonymous------ but that doesn't mean China owns the entire South China Sea. They just travelled there, they don't own it.
@bleu27 Ай бұрын
Thanks for these amazing videos, Grace! It's clear how much heart and effort you put into each one, and they just keep getting better and better. - bleu
@crazygambler920 Ай бұрын
Fu-kinese took over Cantonese dominated NYC Chinatown in the late 80s. Sigh - that was the end and down fall of the Chinatown we all know.
@user-fx6kh7ux1m Ай бұрын
Fukien was a monstrous transliteration of Fujian in the olden days. If you ask a local in Xiamen(Amoy) or Quanzhou(Chuan Chew): "Excuse me, are you Fukienese?", he won't have any idea what you are talking about.
@user-cv7oo4ts2n Ай бұрын
I am so glad that you are willing to travel to your parents’ home country and made this amazing video ❤
@virgiliomateus4239 Ай бұрын
Very interesting. I just have seen a minute ago the video in wich the blogger Ryan Lin tell his story. Lin was born in a village near Fuzhou, lives in NYC and after ten years he returned to visit his family in that village, missing old times. It's amazing that his video shows two images similar to this video...
@user-sh4in7hk5p Ай бұрын
very nice video im from Ting Jiang Chang an village
@0591GG Ай бұрын
It is true that Fuzhou dialect has fewer and fewer application scenarios. I hope everyone will speak it more. I am glad that you introduced Fuzhou.
@CyndyTangerineyyyy Ай бұрын
Seems like you had lots of fun! Thank you for sharing. <3
@jozim8612 Ай бұрын
My parents are from fuzhou. Love to visit the province myself some day
@ekwietan3524 Ай бұрын
chinese, korean, japanese and so on when they came to US, got US citizenship, they can assimilated with no problem at all, but when somalians, afghans, arabs, palestinians etc came and got the same US citizenship...they want US to be like their countrys origin, they even dont want american flags rise up in their home.
@linghaantiang1832 Ай бұрын
Never can imagine Fuzhou is so much bigger than Kuala Lumpur 😅
@linghaantiang1832 Ай бұрын
An amazing story to tell !
@Tkufoy 2 ай бұрын
Thank you. A Hakka from Peru.
@santiwd5006 22 күн бұрын
Hakka people values his Hakka identity more than his Chinese identity, I have seen that in Indonesia as the museum built was called the Hakka museum in Jakarta, not called the Chinese museum or the Fujian /Guangdong museum (their source)
@wantomsoup 2 ай бұрын
great videos made my grandparents happy...... im actually like one of your third cousins.......salute to a job well done
@HelloWorld-hb7yt 2 ай бұрын
hi, I am from Ting Jiang
@susanlam7464 2 ай бұрын
I’m from a nearby village called MinAnTing, similar to your parents, I left there when I was very young. My children are around your age, but do not speak much Chinese. Your video is very inspiring, i wish to take them there someday and get them interested in finding their root!
@kentolope1252 2 ай бұрын
So awesome! I'm also from the Mawei, Fujian!
@bellango9345 2 ай бұрын
Seeing your grandparents' and mom's excitement serving you food, showing you the temple with your name, and their childhood growing up is precious ❤ Thank you and your family for sharing more about yourselves with us!! And I cannot believe your mom would sleep on a slab of rock!!! 🤯
@charleswsiu 2 ай бұрын
So many Fuzhou pioneers here. I'm also from Ma Wei District though it seems from another neighborhood because there are high-rise condos there now. My neighborhood is near the Min River.
@charleswsiu 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your nice video with us. I went on a trip to Fuzhou in November and your video brought back a lot of good memories. The new metrorail system is awesome. Don't forget to write off your trip costs as business expenses on your tax return next year.
@naturalisedhker7953 2 ай бұрын
You and your friend Tammy are probably related. If you do a DNA test, you’ll probably see you share the same great grandparent or great great grandparent.
@lillianzhang_ 2 ай бұрын
I loved hearing about your story! There must've been so many changes to the village throughout the years
@abbbayyyy 2 ай бұрын
Amazing video! thank you for sharing your family's story! Such an insightful and uplifting story that will resonate with many, including myself!
@puiyeekong2552 2 ай бұрын
What an awesome video!! So inspiring to see you follow your passion traveling and getting to connect with your roots! Keep up the awesome work! ❤❤
@josephma5039 2 ай бұрын
You might want to consider using the Chinese dialog unless you want to limit your audience to those of English speaking.
@willzheng6870 2 ай бұрын
love the video! My family on my mom's side is actually from the same village, really cool to see all the progress the village has gone through. Thanks for sharing