We don't really have a record of how much migrations our ancestors'
have done.
And i'm sure quite a fair chunk of them would often migrated
south to escape the constant invasions from the north.
But yes, i'd probably have much in common with the Southerners
over the Northerners.
However, my point is some of us would most likely have some
traces of those 3 tribes, especially the Mongols. Considering the
stringent control of marriage for the Manchu, maybe not too much of
those.
It would depend on your ancestry particularly if there are
families Clans formation
particulary dialect groups such as the Teochew has its own
formation of names being carry forward in a string of chinese poem
and it is always the male that carry the name...These occured
during the Song Dynasty when the invasion by Mongol while the
chinese fled south inview of war and seperation they came up
with poem as a source to identify family clans.
I would figure the mongol would have taken the woman as wives
and slaved. But woman does not carry sir names. Yuen
Dynasty only lasted 2 consecutive generation.
Further to add it also depend on when ur great or
grandparent sail down to SG, if it was done at the end of
Manchu it reduce chances of displacement from
War II. and communist intergration.
So don't be surprise for most Singaporean pretty much origin
from the south...some of the traddition that singaporean practice
can be trace for a rather long period of time in history.
