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.

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...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

My Oldest Uncle Guan, Ju -Jin Passed Away at age 93

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My oldest uncle Guan, Ju Jin (官举晶, #10 in boys) was born on January 16th, 1927, passed away on November 19th at 3:58 PM 2020, two months sho...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

My Father Passed Away from Melanoma at age 87

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Wen-Jian Han's obituary      This past summer, my father’s nose kept bleeding. The doctors were afraid of doing a biopsy since he w a...
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