Searching For My Hakka Roots

The Salt Merchant's Granddaughter from China to America and the Search for My Hakka Roots. My unexpected, surprising discoveries of my own family's more than 100 years-old clan books (zhu pu) in old Chinese (printed copy), covering 18 generations back to the Ming Dynasty (1454) in Fujian and hidden stories and over 2000 long-lost relatives.

Saturday, April 26, 2025

My mom passed away at age 94.

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My mom was a daughter of the fourth and the last generation of the salt merchant from her family. She was the last one to die of five siblin...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Til Death Do Us Part? Not really!

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When we carefully look around, till death do us a part? We find connections between life and death everywhere. The Chinese care about their ...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

My mom was released from the hospital while her sister JuMing (举铭)died at home.

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My mom turned 91 this past March and she has been free from taking any pills since her dementia. Her blood pressure was fine since she didn’...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Reborn - Chongxi, or Jianxi (冲喜, 见喜)

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"Chongxi', or "Jianxi" is a kind of folk belief behavior in Asian countries such as China and India. Let marriage chase t...
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