Stories from Deli

Life in Overseas Chinese Farm

The Chinese Complex of Returned Indonesian Overseas ChineseZhuang Gongwu At first glance, you might think that the couple in the photo are foreigners. In fact, they are Chinese, but their identities are a bit special: they were born in Indonesia, grew up in Indonesia, and returned to China in the 1960s. They are Indonesian overseas…
Life in Overseas Chinese Farm in Hainan

In the 1960s and 1960s, tens of thousands of Indonesian overseas Chinese were affected by the anti-Chinese anti-Chinese anti-Chinese wave set off by the right-wing forces in Indonesia, and they embarked on the road to return. Among them, several batches of more than 2,000 Indonesian returned overseas Chinese were assigned to Settled at Xinglong Overseas…
Chinese Society in Medan from 1950 to 1960

Teacher Zhang Liukun, the author of an article, vividly introduces the conditions of the overseas Chinese society in Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s, and analyzes the reasons for the exclusion of Chinese in power in Indonesia. The author Zhang Liukun, a returned overseas Chinese from Aceh, returned to China in August 1960. He was…
Medan municipality

The settlement of Europeans in the sixties of the last century on the place where now the city of Medan coincides with the time when attention was first devoted to it the question of decentralization in the Netherlands Indies. The Kampong Medan then still belonged to the area of the Residentie Riouw and Onderoboorigheid. In…
Kota China on the banks of Deli

The posthumous works of Mr. Shalihong, a senior in the Indian Chinese literary world If someone asks whether there was a “China Town” in Medan hundreds of years ago, the answer may not be known, or it is just a rumor! In 1823 AD, there was a British archaeologist, John Anderson who visited the east…
The history of Deli Tobacco and the blood and sweat of Chinese contract coolies

The posthumous works of Mr. Shalihong “In the 1863s, there were only about 1,000 villagers living in the “Old Wuhan Deli Labuhan Deli” area. Among them, there were nearly 100 Jining and non-indigenous people from India, while there were only 20 or 30 Chinese. “. This is the report described by the envoys dispatched by the…
Early Chinese Schools in Medan

A brief introduction to the history of Sumatra Sumatra Island (Sumatra Island, referred to as Su Island) is the sixth largest island in the world, with an area of approximately 470,000 square kilometers (kilometers). According to archaeological findings, there are human remains on the island of Sumatra 13,000 years ago. Around the sixth century, during the Tang…
Zhenjun miao

Zhenjun miao 邙君廟 is located in Titipapan, Banludian 半露店. It is called Go Ya Kong It is managed by people from Lufeng. (hailok hong), built around 1895. The area would be around Helvetia tobacco estate owned by Deli Maatschappij. The main deity is Zhenjun or 噗囧人 (The true man of Wu) A wooden tablet, donated…
Qingyin chansi

Qingyin chansi 消音禪寺 is located at Jalan Jos. Sudarso in Pulo Brayan. It is called Vihara Avalokites Wara. Cordinates: 3.624255,98.6696621 The place has been refurbished in 1970s, the original temple is called Guanyin-gong 觀音宮. The origin of the temple goes back to the 1880s. It is now managed by Henghua people. Main deities are Shakyamuni,…
Hou Tu

后土 When I am the places of worship for the Chinese I must not forget the graves. I have to start with that with recalling that in the spiritual life of the Chinese ancestor worship occupies an important place; from in the earliest times it was a worship service and it still is today always…