kai
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Post by kai on Mar 18, 2017 19:14:45 GMT -5
Can someone locate Yee village on map for me?  |
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Post by Henry on Mar 19, 2017 10:57:26 GMT -5
Hi Kai. The link shows the exact location of your ancestral village - you can zoom out to look at how to navigate by car from Taishan city to the village. The Chinese characters for the village name are in Simplified Chinese. Henry www.google.com/maps/place/Da+Ning,+Taishan,+Jiangmen,+Guangdong,+China/@22.0804921,112.8110304,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3401dd526a98186b:0x3e300205f7b90887!8m2!3d22.080691!4d112.806181?hl=en |
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Post by jasonwu on Mar 19, 2017 12:24:14 GMT -5
Hi Kai and Henry, The heung of Dik Hoi was actually amalgamated with the neighbouring towns of Sun Cheong and Cheung Sar to become the county city for Hoiping in 1949, so your village is now under the jurisdiction of Hoiping. Click here for the link to what I believe would be the location of your village now. As mentioned by Henry, the name of your village is displayed in Simplified Chinese. The Yee's of Hoiping's Dik Hoi and Toishan's Sam Bat are a huge clan. My aunt is a Yee from the area as well. There is an enormous, well-maintained Yee Ancestral Hall with 9 halls in Dik Hoi Town, just under 5 kilometres or 3 miles directly north from your village. Click here to take a look at those directions. If you zoom in to where I've placed the red marker, you will see the ancestral hall built scenically on the very tip of the Dik Hoi peninsula. Click here to see the Google Images for the hall. |
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Post by Henry on Mar 19, 2017 18:12:01 GMT -5
Hi Kai & Jason,
Kai - I apologize for the weird link - I really do not know how it got garbled.
Thank you Jason for your correction - it is great to have the additional expertise of a person that can read Chinese.
Is there a Taishan county gazetteer where one can find the administrative boundary changes & consolidations?
Henry
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Post by jasonwu on Mar 19, 2017 21:25:06 GMT -5
Hi Henry, A while back, I found an article called 臺山古今五百年, which translates roughly to 500 Years of Toishan; Then and Now. ( Link here) It includes all the changes in administrative boundaries beginning from the Ming Dynasty when the county was cut out of Sunwui up until 1996 when the original book was written. It even lists over 500 major villages from the Qing Dynasty period. Unfortunately, I could not find an English translation for it. I also recently purchased 3 digitally scanned Qing Dynasty chorography books of Toishan. They each include maps of the county, however, they are very text heavy and hard to skim through for people like us who were never formally educated in Chinese. You may see some clippings of the maps from these books in my thread about Nor Fu Heung. I'd love to share the information from these scans. Feel free to message me to obtain screenshots of the maps or texts! |
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Post by bertiekerter1 on May 22, 2017 22:53:59 GMT -5
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Post by ying on Aug 2, 2017 21:05:31 GMT -5
Nice informative post. I am from the Sam Bat area and read Chinese. In addition to the book
臺山古今五百年, would you post the names of the other books you bought? Thanks.
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Post by jasonwu on Aug 3, 2017 1:05:59 GMT -5
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kai
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Post by kai on Jul 6, 2024 20:45:52 GMT -5
Hi Kai and Henry, The heung of Dik Hoi was actually amalgamated with the neighbouring towns of Sun Cheong and Cheung Sar to become the county city for Hoiping in 1949, so your village is now under the jurisdiction of Hoiping. Click here for the link to what I believe would be the location of your village now. As mentioned by Henry, the name of your village is displayed in Simplified Chinese. The Yee's of Hoiping's Dik Hoi and Toishan's Sam Bat are a huge clan. My aunt is a Yee from the area as well. There is an enormous, well-maintained Yee Ancestral Hall with 9 halls in Dik Hoi Town, just under 5 kilometres or 3 miles directly north from your village. Click here to take a look at those directions. If you zoom in to where I've placed the red marker, you will see the ancestral hall built scenically on the very tip of the Dik Hoi peninsula. Click here to see the Google Images for the hall. |
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Post by kai on Jul 6, 2024 20:55:08 GMT -5
Hi Jason,
Your were very helpful 7 years ago to locate my parents village. Unfortunately, when I try to click on those links now it seems they are no longer active. Can you send me updated links.
Greatly appreciate all the information.
Thanks,
Kai
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