12-11-2022, 02:12 PM
(12-11-2022, 01:37 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: Ah Tiong took over Southern China where their ancestors used to live, similarly Malays, Thais and Vietnamese also relocated from southern China to where they are now when China’s First Emperor conquered southern China 2000 years ago, northern Chinese soldiers settled down in Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, married local Yue girls and created modern southern Chinese.
Thais should be the last group that left Southern China as IndoChina was under the Khmer Empire up to around 1000 years ago.
Interestingly ancestors of the Khmers and the Bataks in Sumatra, could also be earlier migrants from Southern China: