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[llazzara]

My father said that I am the 28th generation descendants of the Ming Dynasty. My maiden name is Gee which is the same Chinese character as the Zhu family. I was born in Burma and there is historical information of the southern Ming dynasty in Burma. My father says that the Gee Association in NYC has imperial documents linking them to the Ming Dynasty; they have yet to go through any of the documentation since it is a huge undertaking. Can any of this be true?

[xng]

My father said that I am the 28th generation descendants of the Ming Dynasty. My maiden name is Gee which is the same Chinese character as the Zhu family. I was born in Burma and there is historical information of the southern Ming dynasty in Burma. My father says that the Gee Association in NYC has imperial documents linking them to the Ming Dynasty; they have yet to go through any of the documentation since it is a huge undertaking. Can any of this be true?

朱 is pronounced as Zu in mandarin and hokkien.

So where does this Gee comes from ? I think you mean ChÜ(german Ü) in cantonese

However, they did flee to Burma.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Prince_of_Gui

Edited by xng, 12 July 2012 - 01:52 AM.

[norenxaq]

Hello:

please post your lineage, once you know it

thank-you

[Andy Lau]

In taishanese, this surname would be pronounced as gee. I think it would be pronounced as gee as well in hakka, but not sure. One thing I know is that there are some taishanese who immigrated to Burma, like one of my dad's uncle. In Taishan, there are many people who are song and ming descendants.

Perhaps you're taishanese or hakka. Do you know what chinese dialect you speak?

The reason why Taishanese and hakka share almost the same vocabulary is because we descended from central plains to southern china almost about the same period and preserved the chinese spoken during the song and tang dynasty period.

Edited by Andy Lau, 18 July 2012 - 01:12 AM.

[SinoSamoan]

Thanks. Very interested about the Ming dynastic admixture among the Taishan Chinese, would this mainly derive from the brief Southern Ming offshoot? I was reading recently that at the end of the Ming dynasty, the extended Ming family numbered around 80,000. Also, would it be safe to say that the Southern Ming were also descended from Zhu Di, the Yongle emperor. Would you have more information about how the Southern Ming admixture spread among Taishan Chinese?