Hanging out: Malaysian Chinese Musuem

Hello everybody! Ah Wong is back again...

After so long time staying in campus, it was time for me to be with family... Today my family and I went to Malaysian Chinese Musuem at Wisma Huazong in Serdang, Selangor. It was nice for me, as I was able to read and recall back our Chinese ancestry history in Malaysia.

Certainly, there required us to pay for an entrance ticket fee before entering into the museum. The museum ticket fee is RM20 for adults, while RM5 is for children and students from all education levels. Here's the picture shows that the price of entrance tickets.

After purchasing so museum ticket we went in the museum, the first part of the museum which we were going to was the early history of Chinese in the South East Asia, Nanyang (南洋). One of the earliest Chinese man reached to Malay Peninsula was Zheng He (郑和), whom he was a diplomat, mariner and fleet admiral of Ming Dynasty of China. His arrival to the then Malay Peninsula had foster a good relationship of Ming Dynasty and Malacca Sultanate. Besides of this, his voyage also made more and more Chinese merchants to do business in Malay Peninsula as well as staying in that region. Those Chinese merchants who were staying in the region tend to marry with the local Malay origin women and later forming a unique descendants in Malaysia known as Baba Nyonya or "Peranakan Cina". The picture below shows the intermarriage of a Sultan from Malacca Sultanate with a princess from China who was known as Hang Li Poh, it is also part of the baba nyonya history.

Intermarrige Malay and Chinese

Apart from that, fast forwarding to the post-opium war history in China. Opium war occurred in China had caused political instability of Manchu Qing dynasty of China in the mid of 19th century. Many Chinese, especially from the south-eastern China provinces of Guangdong and Fujian had opted to migrated to Nanyang (South East Asia, specifically Malaysia and Singapore at that time) to seek for a better life. They whom was most of our Malaysian Chinese ancestors willing to sacrifice anything in order to reach here, Nanyang, Some even sold their sibling or children to Nanyang in order for them to have a better life. However, life at here initially wasn't that good, a lot of Chinese migrants from China at that time were forced to be coolies in order to settle their travelling debt. As soon as many Chinese came in Malaya and Singapore at that time, the bad influence had also bringing in such as Gambling spots and opium stores. Fortunately, they were all disappeared in this era. So, this is a brief story of how the mass migration of Chinese forefathers from China to Nanyang (Malaysia and Singapore) in the 19th century.

Contract of Selling Person to Nanyang

Contract of Selling Person to Nanyang part 2

Opium store's opium addict

On top of that, after many years of our ancestors settling in Nanyang, more and more of them became as businessmen and living peacefully there. The peaceful moment lasted until the tumultuous era which were Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Communist Insurgency in Federated Malaya. These two incidents had caused many casualties of Chinese and the latter ones was increasing the Malays hatred towards Chinese. Fortunately, the establishment of Malaysian Chinese Association at that time proved that not all Chinese were communist and that political party also co-operated with UMNO and MIC to bring the then Federated Malaya towards independence on 31st of August 1957. Then, there were some noticeable Chinese from MCA who were used to be the finance minister in Malaysia who were Tun H.S. Lee and Tun Tan Siew Sin. These two had been involved in making Malaysian its own Ringgit Currency. Chinese in Malaysia had contributed to Malaysia's economy as well as involving in local politics.

Japanese Occupation in Malaya

Communist Insurgency in Federated Malaya

MCA was establish by Tun Tan Cheng Lock

Chinese Political Parties in Malaysia

Singapore state in Malaysia before 8th of August 1965.

RM1 bank note in 1967

After reading through the Chinese ancestry history in Malaysia, I am grateful that we are now we are living peacefully with everything in this nation. They indeed had sacrificed a lot to contribute to the establishment of this nation as well as defending the Chinese well-being as well as benefit here for a long time...

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