Fuzhou Tanka people on their boats in Min River, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, 1910.
Regions with significant populations
The lower course of Min River and the coast of Fuzhou, Fujian Province in China
Languages
Fuzhounese and Standard Chinese (second language)
Religion
Roman Catholic and Taoism
Fuzhou Tanka (Fuzhou dialect: 曲蹄; Foochow Romanized: Kuóh-dà̤Kuóh-dà̤ⓘ; Simplified Chinese: 福州疍民 Hók-ciŭ Dáng-mìng; 江妹仔 Gĕ̤ng-muói-giāng; 曲蹄婆 Kuóh-dà̤-bò̤), or Boat People, are from Fujian, China. A branch of the Tanka people, they traditionally lived on sampans in the lower course of Min River and the coast of Fuzhou in Fujian Province most of their lives and have been officially recognized as Han Chinese since 1955.[1]
^Jian-min Li (李健民), Origin and Migration of Mindong's Fishermen (闽东疍民的由来及历史变迁) Archived 2010-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, Journal of Ningde Teachers' College, 2009 Vol. 2, pp.38–44 (in Chinese)
the inner history ... in 1875[excessive quote] The FuzhouTanka have different surnames than the Tanka of Guangdong. Qing records indicate that "Weng, Ou...
in Fujian, such as Hoklo people, Fuzhounese people, Putian people and FuzhouTanka. The Hakka, a Han Chinese people with their own distinct identity, live...
classified as Uzbek Sherpa people – classified as Tibetan Tanka people, including FuzhouTanka Tebbu people Tuvans – classified as Mongols Waxiang people...
of America's central Appalachia. In China, Tanka in Guangdong (Cantonese: 疍家, "boat people"), FuzhouTanka in Fujian (Fuzhounese: 曲蹄, [kʰuo˥ lɛ˥˧]), si-min...
the former outcast community of France and Spain Tanka (danhu) ('boat people') in Guangdong, FuzhouTanka in Fujian, si-min ('small people') and mianhu in...
dialects in Min Chinese. The Fuzhou dialect of Min Dong, is spoken by the Fuzhou people who are native to the city of Fuzhou. The dialect of Puxian Min...
distinguish themselves from other groups of Hainan such as the Cantonese, the Tanka, the Hlai, etc. Most Hainan Han people were originally fishers from nearby...
style of China's Fujian Province, most notably from the provincial capital, Fuzhou. "Fujian cuisine" in this article refers to the cuisines of Min Chinese...
The She people (Chinese: 畲; She Chinese: [sa˦]; Cantonese: [sɛː˩], Fuzhou: [sia˥]) are an ethnic group in China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups...
Hui-hsiang wrote his theory of the Fujian Tanka as descendants of the Bai Yue. He claimed that Guangdong and Fujian Tanka are definitely descended from the old...
people Shanghainese Wenzhounese Other Han Chinese subgroups Minh Hương Tanka Peranakan Benteng Chinese Sino-Native Malaysian Sino-Dusun Sino-Kadazan...
married Tanka women since Han Chinese women would not have relations with them. Some of the Tanka's descendants became Macanese people. Some Tanka children...
in some ethnolinguistic branches of the Han Chinese, such as Pinghua and Tanka people, there is a "coherent genetic structure" found in the entirety of...
Territories while the Tanka and Hakka lived both in the New Territories and Hong Kong Island. British reports on Hong Kong described the Tanka and Hoklo living...
Kong/Guangdong. The Fuzhou population of NYC is becoming increasingly concentrated in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, also known as Little Fuzhou, which is causing...
literally speaking, the language was most widely used until the Cantonese and Tanka immigrants from the zone of Pearl River - capital district of Province of...
Beijing Capital Airlines, Urumqi Airlines, Suparna Airlines, GX Airlines, Fuzhou Airlines and parent company Grand China Air are also parts of the program...
generally believed to be an early phonetic rendering of the Cantonese (or Tanka Cantonese) phrase hēung góng. The name translates as "fragrant harbour"...
(Saikwan; "West Gate") stretched beyond and the boats of fishers, traders, and Tanka ("boat people") almost entirely concealed the riverbank for about 4 mi (6 km)...
University Sanya University Demographics Hainanese Li Miao Zhuang Utsul Tanka Lingao people [zh] Mainland People [zh] Buildings and structures Crown of...
pre-Tang times, the population included Baiyue peoples (Zhuang, Yao, Hmong, Tanka, and She) but very few Han Chinese aside from imperial Chinese soldiers...
by the Chinese government because of their Islamic religion. There is a Tanka community that live at Sanya Bay. The Li people mainly reside in the nine...
University Sanya University Demographics Hainanese Li Miao Zhuang Utsul Tanka Lingao people [zh] Mainland People [zh] Buildings and structures Crown of...
University Sanya University Demographics Hainanese Li Miao Zhuang Utsul Tanka Lingao people [zh] Mainland People [zh] Buildings and structures Crown of...
(traditional instrumental music) and Hakka folk songs (客家山歌). The outcast Tanka people traditionally live on boats throughout the coasts and rivers of Guangdong...
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