
Siyi location in Guangdong
'Sze Yup', 'Sze Yap' or 'Seiyap' (
Chinese characters: ;
Cantonese Yale: ''Sei3 yap1'') are the four counties of
Xinhui,
Taishan,
Kaiping and
Enping in the
Pearl River Delta, in southern
Guangdong Province,
China. Today these are four of the five county-level cities of the
Jiangmen prefecture administered from the city of
Jiangmen.
The area gave rise to the
Sze Yup dialects (四邑話) of Cantonese. Although Sze Yup and
Standard Cantonese are both dialects of
Cantonese, they are mutually unintelligible.
[1] Therefore Sze Yup emigrants have kept their identity, even among other Cantonese emigrants.
In the 19th century, many people from Sze Yup emigrated to
Hong Kong,
Southeast Asia,
Australasia,
North America and
South America. The
Punti-Hakka Clan Wars also erupted in these counties during this time.
[2]
External links
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[1] See Yup Society temple in
South Melbourne, Victoria
References
1.
2. Punti-Hakka Clan Wars and Taishan County