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===Alcohol metabolism===
In Taiwan, the prevalence of alcohol dependence among Hans is 10 times lower than that of Austronesians, which is related to genetic, physical, psychological, social, environmental, and cultural factors.<ref>Huang and Chen (2012). [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878331712000228 "Alcohol Dependence in Taiwan: From Epidemiology to Biomedicine"] ''Journal of Experimental & Clinical Medicine'', 4: 108-12.</ref>


==Languages==
==Languages==

Revision as of 16:37, 19 August 2016

Han Taiwanese[1][2][3][4][5][6] or Taiwanese Hans[7][8][9][10][11] (Mandarin: 臺灣漢人[12][13]) are Taiwanese people of Han (Mandarin: 漢人) descent, the largest ethnic group in the world.[14] Hans comprise the majority of the Taiwanese population, which also includes Austronesians and other non-Han people.[15] Major waves of Han immigration occurred in the 17th to 19th centuries and between 1945 and 1949.[15] Han Taiwanese mainly speak three languages: Mandarin, Minnan and Hakka.[16]

Definition

There is no simple uniform definition of Han Taiwanese. To determine if a Taiwanese is Han, common criteria include immigration background (from continental East Asia), using a Han language as the mother tongue, and observance of traditional Han festivals. Sometimes a negative definition is employed. Thus a Han Taiwanese could be defined as a Taiwanese who does not speak any language of Austronesians or other non-Han people (e.g., Manchus, Mongols) and does not observe the feasts of those people.

Taiwanese Hans can be classified according to the times of migration or places of origin. They include the Taiwanese Minnan and Hakka people that arrived in Taiwan before the World War II and the post-WWII Han immigrants. From the view that Taiwan is one of the "provinces" of Republic of China, the former, along with the Austronesians,[17] are sometimes called benshengren (Mandarin: 本省人, literally "people of this province"), while the latter,[nb 1] along with the contemporaneous non-Han immigrants, are called waishengren (Mandarin: 外省人, literally "people from other provinces").[19] These two terms and distinctions are now less important due to intermarriages between different sub-populations of Taiwan and the rise of the Taiwanese identity.[17] In addition, there are Han Taiwanese that do not fall into the above categories, including the Puxian-speaking Hans in Wuqiu Island, Kinmen County, the Mindong-speaking in Matzu, and various recent Han immigrants from China (forming part of the so-called "New Immigrants" (Mandarin: 新住民)).

Immigration history and demographics

Taipei North Gate, a Minnan citadel gate built in 1884 during the Ching rule, now a national heritage of Taiwan.

There were two major waves of Han immigration: from the Ching Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries and from the then Republic of China's continental territory, which is now ruled by China, after World War II (1945-1949).

Demographics of Taiwan in 17th-20th centuries[20][21][22][23][24]
Year Population
1684 120,000[20]
1764 666,210[20]
1782 912,920[20]
1811 1,944,737[20]
1840 2,500,000[20]
1902 2,686,356[21]
1926 4,168,000[22][nb 2]
1944 6,269,949[23]
1956 9,367,661[24]

The 1926 census counted 3,116,400 and 586,300 Hans originating from the Hok-kien and Kwang-tung provinces of Ching Empire or Ming Empire (roughly now Fujian and Guangdong of China, respectively).

Regions of origin of Taiwanese Hans based on the 1926 census by the Japanese government[22]
Province Hok-kien Kwang-tung Others
County (州/府) Chin-chew Chang-chow Ting-chou Lung-yan Fu-chou Hinghwa Yung-chun Teo-chew Chia-ying Hui-chou
District An-hsi Tung-an San-yi
Language (dialect) Minnan (Chin-chew) Minnan (Chang-chow)/Hakka (Zhaoan) Hakka (Yongding) Minnan (Longyan)/Hakka (Yongding) Mindong (Foochow) Hinghwa Minnan (Chin-chew) Minnan (Teo-chew)/Hakka (Raoping, Dapu) Hakka (Sixian, Wuhua) Hakka (Hailu) various languages
Inhabitants (thousands) 441.6 553.1 686.7 1,319.5 42.5 16 27.2 9.3 20.5 134.8 296.9 154.6 48.9

Conflicts between Han immigrants

Under Ching Empire

Long-sek Ten (鄭用錫), a Minnan Taiwanese and author of On Reconciliation (Source of Photo: 台灣文化誌 by Kanori Ino).

There were violent ethnic conflicts (termed "分類械鬥" in government documents of the Ching Empire), which played a major role in determining the distribution of different groups of Han peoples in Taiwan. Most conflicts were between people of Chang-chow and Chin-chew origins ("漳泉械鬥", Chang-Chin conflicts) [25] and between people of Hok-kien and Kwangtung (mostly Hakka) origins ("閩粵械鬥" [Min-Yue conflicts] or "閩客械鬥" [Min-Hakka conflicts]).

Trying to be a mediator, Long-sek Ten (鄭用錫, 10 June 1788 – 21 March 1858), the first Taiwanese to achieve the highest degree, Doctor (Mandarin: 進士), in the imperial examination of the Ching Empire, wrote an article On Reconciliation (勸和論).[26]

In some regions. where the majority of the population speak another language, the minority group sometimes adopted the more dominant language and lost their original language. They are called "minnanized" Hakka people (福佬客) or "hakkanized" Minnan people (客福佬).[27]

Under Republic of China

Unlike pre-WWII Han immigrants, mostly of Hok-kien and Kwangtung origins, post-WWII Hans came from all over the region now ruled by China. Their different languages, habits, ideologies and relationships with the Republic of China government sometimes led to conflicts between these two groups.

Interactions with non-Han inhabitants

In Taiwan, the Hans came into contact with the Austronesians, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese.

Hans and Austronesians

The Amis term for Hans is payrag.

According to the historian Melissa J. Brown, within the Taiwanese Minnan (Hoklo) community itself, differences in culture indicate the degree to which mixture with Austronesians took place, with most pure Hoklo Han in Northern Taiwan having almost no Austronesian admixture, which is limited to Hoklo Han in Southern Taiwan.[28] Plains aborigines who were mixed and assimilated into the Hoklo Han population at different stages were differentiated between "short-route" and "long-route".[29] The ethnic identity of assimilated Plains aboriginals in the immediate vicinity of Tainan was still known since a Taiwanese girl from an old elite Hoklo family was warned by her mother to stay away from them.[30] The insulting name "fan" was used against plains aborigines by the Taiwanese, and the Hoklo Taiwanese speech was forced upon Aborigines like the Pazeh people.[31] Hoklo Taiwanese has repalced Pazeh and driven it to near extinction.[32] Aboriginal status has been requested by plains aboriginals.[33]

Present distribution

Biological traits and relationships with other Taiwanese/Asian people

Genetic relationships

Part of the maximum-likelihood tree of 75 Asian populations:[34]

Japanese/Ryukyuan

Korean

Han Chinese (Beijing)

Han Chinese (Shanghai)

Minnan Han Taiwanese

Hakka Han Taiwanese

Han Singaporean (Minnan speaker)

Han Chinese (Guangdong)

Hmong/Yao

Alcohol metabolism

In Taiwan, the prevalence of alcohol dependence among Hans is 10 times lower than that of Austronesians, which is related to genetic, physical, psychological, social, environmental, and cultural factors.[35]

Languages

See also: Taiwanese languages, Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Minnan, and Taiwanese Hakka

The languages used by Han Taiwanese include Mandarin (entire country), Minnan (Taiwan proper and Kinmen), Hakka (Taiwan proper), Mindong (Matzu), Puxian (Wuqiu Island, Kinmen), and other Han languages spoken by some post-WWII immigrants or immigrants from China since the 1990s. The writing systems used include Han characters, Han phonetic notations such as Mandarin Phonetic Symbols for Mandarin and Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols for Minnan and Hakka, and the Latin alphabet for various romanization systems, including Tongyong Pinyin, Wade–Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II for Mandarin, POJ and Taiwanese Minnan Romanization System for Minnan, and Hakka Romanization System for Hakka.

Linguistic Diversity

Uijin Ang divided Taiwan (excluding Kinmen and Matsu) into 7 linguistic regions, including one Austronesian, five Han and one mixed.[36]

Han linguistic regions of Taiwan according to Ang (2013)[36]
Region Languages included Administrative regions included
Hakka major: Hakka (Sixian, Hailu, Dapu); minor: Minnan (Chang-chow) Taoyuan, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Taichung, Nantou County
North Min Minnan (Chin-chew, Chang-chow) New Taipei, Taipei, Ilan County, Keelung, Taoyuan
Middle Min major: Minnan (Chin-chew (coastal), Chang-chow(inland); minor: Hakka (Zhaoan, Hailu), Tsou Hsinchu County (coastal), Miaoli County (coastal), Taichung, Changhua County, Yunlin County, Chiayi County and Chiayi City, Nantou
South Min major: Minnan (mixed, Chin-chew); minor: Hakka (Sixian, Hailu) Tainan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung County
Penghu Minnan (Chin-chew, Chang-chow, mixed) Penghu

Influence of Non-Han Languages

Ever since the arrival of Han immigrants in Taiwan, their languages have undergone changes through interactions with other Han or non-Han languages. For example, one unit of land area used in Taiwanese Minnan is Kah (甲; 0.9699 acre), which comes from the Dutch word for "field", akker (akker > 阿甲 > 甲).

Loanwords in Taiwanese Hakka[37]
Source languages Han characters Romanization Meaning
Austronesian languages 馬不老 ma pu lao drunk
Dutch 石文 sak vun soap
Minnan 米粉炒 bi hun tsha fried rice vermicelli
Japanese 幫浦 phong phu pump
Mandarin 再見 tsai kian goodbye
Yehliu (野柳, Iá-Liú in Minnan), a scenic area in northern Taiwan. Its name came from the Castilian name given by the Spaniards, Punto Diablos, which means 'Cape Devils'.
Loanwords for place names in Taiwanese Han languages
Source languages Place Han characters Notes
Dutch Fort Zeelandia 熱蘭遮城
Dutch Cape Hoek 富貴角 Dutch: hoek ('cape')
Castilian Cape San Diego 三貂角 Castilian: Santiago; Dutch: St. Jago
Castilian Yehliu 野柳 [Punto] Diablos (Castilian) > 野柳 (Minnan)
Atayal Wulai 烏來
Basay Jinshan 金山 Kimpauri/Kimauri > 金包里 (Minnan) > 金山 (Japanese)
Japanese Kaohsiung 高雄 Takau (Makatto) > 打狗 (Minnan) > 高雄/たかお/Taka-O (Japanese)
Japanese Songshan 松山 松山/まつやま/Matsu-Yama (Japanese)
Japanese Guansi 關西 鹹菜 (Ham-Coi) 甕 (Hakka) > 鹹菜/かんさい/Kan-Sai (Japanese) > 關西/かんさい/Kan-Sai (Japanese)

Culture

Cuisine

Minced pork rice, a rice dish of Han Taiwanese.
Some typical foods of Han Taiwanese
Subgroup Food
Minnan 滷肉飯 (minced pork rice), 割包 (Gua-bao), 蚵仔煎 (oyster omelet), 豬血糕 (rice blood cake)
Hakka 客家小炒 (fried pork, dried tofu and squid), 薑絲大腸 (Large intestine with ginger slices), 粄條 (flat rice noodles)
post-WWII immigrants 牛肉麵 (Beef noodle soup), 燒餅 (clay oven rolls), 油條 (deep fried stick), 臭豆腐 (stinky tofu)

Religions

Manka Longshan Temple, a Taoist-Buddhist temple in Taipei.

The most popular religions of Han Taiwanese are Taoism and Buddhism. With 11,796 temples (78.4% Taoist; 19.6% Buddhist), Taiwan is the country with the highest density of temples in the world.[38]

Surnames

Han surnames in Taiwan

The ten most common Han surnames in Taiwan in 2014[39][nb 3]
Han Surname Wade–Giles Population Percentage
陳 Chen 2,605,191 11.14%
林 Lin 1,942,787 8.31%
黃 Huang 1,413,270 6.04%
張 Chang 1,234,180 5.28%
李 Li 1,200,862 5.13%
王 Wang 961,744 4.11%
吳 Wu 944,949 4.04%
劉 Liu 738,976 3.16%
蔡 Tsai 681,012 2.91%
楊 Yang 621,832 2.66%

In traditional Han society, children inherit the surname of the father. Population analyses of Han Taiwanese based on the short tandem repeat sequences on the Y chromosome, which is specific to males, shows high haplotype diversity in most surname groups. Except for rare ones, the origins of Han surnames in Taiwan are pretty heterogeneous.[13]

Han surnames used by Austronesian Taiwanese

See also: Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines

The naming customs of the Austronesian people in Taiwan have been greatly endangered by the dominant Han culture under the rule of Ching and Republic of China or Japanese culture during the Japanization period. Austronesians were often forced to have surnames in Han characters that, depending on the policies then, may or may not be related to their original surnames.

Villages

Taipei Confucius Temple

Confucian temples formed an important part of the life of early Han immigrants. Famous temples include Taiwan Confucian Temple and Taipei Confucius Temple.

Arts and Music

File:PiLiSuHuanJen.jpg
Su Huan-jen (素還真), the protagonist in Pili (TV series)
Performing arts of Han Taiwanese
Subgroup Category Notable examples Notable artists/groups
Minnan 布袋戲 (glove puppetry) Pili (TV series), Legend of the Sacred Stone 黃俊雄 (Toshio Huang)
歌仔戲 (koa-á-hì) 楊麗花 (Yang Li-hua), 明華園 (Ming Hwa Yuan)
陣頭 (Tīn-thâu) Electric-Techno Neon Gods Chio-Tian Folk Drums & Arts Troupe
Music 南管 Lâm-im, 北管 (Pak-kóan)
Hakka 客家戲 (Hakka opera) 三腳採茶戲 (three-character tea-picking drama)
post-WWII immigrants 相聲 (Crosstalk) 那一夜我們說相聲 (The Night We Became Hsiang-Sheng Comedians) 吳兆南 (Zhao-Nan Wu)

Written Records/Literature

One of the earliest written records of Taiwanese Hakka is A Tragic Ballad about Hakka Sailing to Taiwan (渡台悲歌), a work written in the Raoping dialect about the life and struggle of Hakka immigrants to Taiwan under the Ching rule.[40]

Folk literature: Tales and Legends

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ They also include some Minnan and Hakka people.[18]
  2. ^ This number was inferred from the Han population size of 3,751,600 and their proportion of ~90% in the total population.[22]
  3. ^ Numbers including all nationals who have a Han name, including many Austronesians, who were until 1990s forbidden to possess their traditional names. See Taiwanese aborigines.

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