In the early days, in order to make a living, people in coastal areas of my country "went to the south of the ocean" might travel across the ocean to live overseas, forming an immigration phenomenon of "where there is water, there are Chinese people."
Now, the number of overseas Chinese has exceeded 10 million. The ideological tradition of overseas Chinese loving their homes, judging their ancestors, and tracing their roots is in line with the land of China. However, due to the separation of mountains and rivers, long migration, and inconvenient communication, many overseas Chinese have lost contact with their relatives in their hometowns and are rushing on the road to seeking roots and asking for their ancestors.
Toutiao Search for People has now established a "Chinese Root Search" service to help Chinese people at home and abroad realize their wish to find relatives. Recently, Mr. Zhang Zanzhong from Meizhou, Guangdong contacted Toutiao to search for people and asked Chinese roots to find the grandfather Zhang Yueqiu of Malaysia .
Now organize Mr. Zhang Yueqiu’s information as follows. I hope you can help forward it and help them reunite through love relay.
Name: Zhang Yueqiu
Hometown: Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province
Hometown kinship information: son Zhang Jinyi and grandson Zhang Zanzhong
Overseas once contacted address: Door sign 5X and 6X of Makou Street, Semir, Malaysia
Overseas Relative Information: cousin Zhang Lanren
The following is the story of looking for relatives:
Zhang Yueqiu, ancestral home Dapu, Guangdong, Hakka , got married in his hometown, and had a pair of children with his wife.
Zhang Yueqiu's son Zhang Jinyi
When his children were 17 or 8 years old, Zhang Yueqiu followed his cousin Zhang Lanren to make a living in Southeast Asia, and worked in a pharmacy called " Dasheng Company " in Johor, Malaysia.
In the 1970s, Zhang Yueqiu sent letters and money to his family and said that he wanted to come back to build a house. But not long after, Zhang Yueqiu said that she suddenly fell ill and could not come back. When his children received his news again, it was the obituary of Zhang Yueqiu's death in Malaysia.
"The obituary was sent to us by his cousin Zhang Lanren." There are several photos of Zhang Yueqiu's cemetery. Apart from thousands of mountains and rivers, the children of the Zhang family were unable to go abroad to attend the funeral, but everyone was very pleased to see that their father's funeral was properly handled.
Later, in addition to the letters sent by Zhang Yueqiu before his death, all the photos, letters and other information sent by his cousin Zhang Lanren were destroyed by the flood, which also led to the loss of contact between the relatives of the two countries.
"Zhang Lanren got married in Malaysia, but we don't know the names of his descendants." Zhang Zanzhong always hopes to find his cousin's descendants, because only by finding them can you know the address of his grandfather Zhang Yueqiu's cemetery. "I really want to go to Malaysia for my father to worship his grandfather."
Zhang Yueqiu's letter to his son
If you can provide more clues about Zhang Yueqiu and his relatives in Malaysia, please contact us. Toutiao Search for People Chinese and Chinese is a free public welfare project for Chinese at home and abroad. It was released together with Malaysia's " China News " and Guanhuo News Network as media partners. If you have relatives in your family who are separated overseas, or you are an overseas Chinese and want to find Chinese relatives, you can also contact us through the Facebook fan page (name: headline personal), email ([email protected]), WeChat official account (name: headline search), and Weibo (@headline search).
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