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When we talk about Taiwan in a narrow sense, we essentially mean the island of Taiwan, Taiwan Province, and the Taiwan region. The so-called Taiwan Island refers to China's largest island with an area of about 35,800 square kilometers, and Taiwan Province is composed of Taiwan Island, the Penghu Islands and the surrounding affiliated islands (about 36,000 square kilometers). The Taiwan region refers to the areas under the actual control of the Taiwan authorities: Kinmen and Matsu are administratively subordinate to Fujian Province, and the Dongsha Islands are administratively subordinate to Guangdong Province.
The corresponding concept of "Taiwanese" also has a variety of meanings in use: 1. various nationalities or ethnic groups residing or born on the main island of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Islands; 2. It does not necessarily refer specifically to the people of Taiwan Island and Penghu Islands, but also includes those who hold Chinese nationality in the Kinmen and Matsu areas; 3. Han Chinese and Taiwanese ethnic minorities whose ancestors moved to the main island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands before Taiwan became a Japanese colony (during the period of Taiwan's Japanese occupation); 4. The name given to the people of Taiwan in the areas under the effective jurisdiction of the administrative authorities of the Taiwan region (Kinmen and Matsu) other than the main island of Taiwan.
As of 2019, the population of Taiwan is 23.6 million people. Of these, 98 percent are Han immigrants from Chinese mainland, and the other 2 percent are indigenous people who settled in Taiwan before the Han Chinese moved to Taiwan. Taiwan's aboriginal ethnic groups can be roughly divided into two categories: most of the Pingpu ethnic groups who lived in the western plains and had earlier contact with the outside world have merged with the Han residents in Taiwan; The peoples who lived in the mountains or in the eastern plains were able to maintain their customs and languages. The Han residents of Taiwan are divided into two groups, the provincial and the non-provincial, in fact, the local and the non-provincial people are from Chinese mainland, but there is a difference in the time of migration to Taiwan.
The so-called people of Taiwan Province refer to the Han residents who have moved into Taiwan since the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The ethnic groups in this province are divided into two groups: Hokkien people naturally migrated from the southern region of Fujian, and they account for about 70% of the total population of Taiwan; The Hakka people mainly moved in from eastern Guangdong, accounting for about 14% of Taiwan's total population.
Of course, the Hokkien people can be subdivided into different groups such as Zhangzhou and Quanzhou according to their specific ancestral hometown. The so-called people from other provinces in Taiwan refer to those who migrated to Taiwan from the provinces of Chinese mainland with the Kuomintang regime after 1945, and their descendants now account for about 14% of Taiwan's total population. Taiwanese people are known as "He Luolang". "Heluo" refers to the Central Plains. Nowadays, many Fujianese and Taiwanese worship the same distant ancestor - Chen Yuanguang, the "Holy King of Kaizhang". In 657 AD, Chen Yuanguang was born in Gushi, Gwangju (present-day Gushi, Henan). During the reign of Tang Gaozong, Chen Yuanguang entered Fujian with his father Chen Zheng to quell the rebellion of the local Shanyue tribe. In the 14th year of entering Fujian, Chen Yuanguang wrote a letter asking the imperial court to set up prefectures and counties, and two years later, Wu Zetian approved the establishment of Zhangzhou between Quanzhou and Chaozhou, and Chen Yuanguang was appointed as the first assassin in the history of Zhangzhou.
During Chen Yuanguang's tenure as the Assassin of Zhangzhou, he used both grace and power to the Shanyue people and mainly appeased, thus promoting the integration of the Central Plains culture and the Minyue culture. Chen Yuanguang, as the first assassin in the history of Zhangzhou, carried out the earliest large-scale development and construction of Zhangzhou. Chen Yuanguang's descendants have migrated to Taiwan many times. Today, the number one surname in Taiwan is Chen. In 1953, Taiwan's official household registration statistics showed that among the 100 surnames with more than 500 households at that time, 63 surnames, including Chen, Huang, Qiu, Song, and Lin, recorded that their ancestors came from "Gwangju Gushi" in Henan.
These 63 surnames totaled 670512 households, accounting for 80.9% of the total number of 828804 households in Taiwan that year. This means that out of every 5 Taiwanese residents, 4 families have ancestors from Gushi. The so-called Taiwanese people are mainly composed of these people. After the Nationalist Government recovered Taiwan in 1945, some residents and officers and soldiers from various provinces of Chinese mainland came to Taiwan. After the Kuomintang regime retreated to Taiwan in 1949, it brought a large number of people to Taiwan: among these people were government officials and their families who voluntarily followed the Kuomintang regime to Taiwan, and there were also a considerable number of military and civilian men who were coerced or even forcibly conscripted.
In 1946, Taiwan's population was about 6.1 million, and by 1950 it had swelled to 7.45 million. The vast majority of these additions were new residents who came to Taiwan with the Kuomintang regime. The Kuomintang government called these new residents "Honored Citizens" (short for Honored Nationals). During this period, in order to solve the housing problem of the veterans, the government began to build houses or arrange dormitories for them. Veterans are mostly grouped in a certain range according to their military branches, occupations, places of origin, and so on. This kind of place where the honored people live is called "military villages" in Taiwan. At its peak, the number of military villages in Taiwan reached 879.
Taoyuan City has the largest number of military villages with 80, followed by Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and other metropolitan counties and cities. Nowadays, many well-known figures in Taiwan's political, business, and performing arts circles have military village backgrounds: political figures who have come out of military villages include Song Chuyu and Zhu Lilun...... The business celebrities who came out of the military village include Zou Kailian, Chen Qili, and Guo Taiming...... The entertainers who came out of the military village include Li Liqun, Liu Dekai, Hu Huizhong, Teresa Teng, Lin Qingxia, Ren Xianqi, Jiao Enjun, Ma Jingtao, Zhao Wenxuan, Zhou Yumin...... As the most prosperous city on the island, Taipei has gathered people from all over the mainland since its liberation in 1945.
Today, Taipei, as the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan, has become an area inhabited by these so-called "provincial people" who have migrated from the mainland. Today, the descendants of immigrants from other provinces in Taiwan have multiplied to the third and fourth generations. Walking south from Taipei into the Taozhumiao area is the Hakka settlement. Further south from the Taozhumiao area into the south-central part of Taiwan is the settlement of the Hokkien people. People from other provinces, Hakka people, and Hokkien people are actually ancestors from Chinese mainland. In fact, Taiwan's aborigines have to go back all the way back to Chinese mainland.
In order to pursue Taiwan independence, the DPP authorities have forgotten their ancestors, and Tsai Ing-wen has even unashamedly said that Taiwanese belong to the Austronesian nation. It's a lie. Even though the Taiwanese are from the Austronesian people, the ancestors of the Austronesian people are also from Pingtan in Fujian.
According to the results of anthropologists' research, the earliest origin of the so-called Austronesian people is in Zhangping, Fujian Province, and now in Pingtan in Fujian, there is also a museum of Austronesian peoples, which can be easily detected from genes, that is, the local aborigines of dozens of countries in the South Pacific Ocean in the world are from Fujian, that is to say, they are the same ancestor as the Hokkien people.
From the above, it can be concluded that Taiwanese are Chinese for the following reasons:
1. Historical origins: Taiwan has been an inalienable part of China's territory since ancient times. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu had jurisdiction over Taiwan. The Yuan Dynasty set up the Penghu Inspection Department in Taiwan to strengthen its jurisdiction over Taiwan. Since then, the central government has exercised sovereignty and jurisdiction over Taiwan.
2. Legal basis: From a legal point of view, the United Nations and the international community generally abide by the one-China principle and recognize Taiwan as a part of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government representing the whole of China.
3. National culture: Taiwan compatriots and mainland compatriots have the same roots, the same culture, and the same species. Taiwan's folk customs, religion, language, writing, and art have all left a deep imprint on the Chinese nation.
4. Blood and family affection: Most of the Taiwan compatriots' ancestral homes are in the mainland, and the compatriots on both sides of the strait are connected by blood and have a deep affection that is constantly severed.
To sum up, Taiwanese are Chinese, which is a fully confirmed and irrefutable fact based on historical, legal, cultural, blood and other factors. (Some of the above are from the Internet)