自古以来,随着中国与周边国家的交往,就有中国人移居国外。因此,华侨是一个久远的历史现象。史学界一般认为华侨正式形成于唐代。 南洋一带(今东南亚地区)历史上一直是华侨的主要分布地区。唐代移居该地的华侨已很常见,元朝时他们的足迹已遍布南洋各地。到明朝时期,特别是明中期南洋一带华侨激增。当时,菲律宾吕宋岛的马尼拉,印度尼西亚爪哇岛的雅加达、新村(今格雷西),苏门答腊岛东部的旧港都是华侨的主要聚居地区。其他的华侨聚居点还有泰国的曼谷,菲 Since ancient times, with the exchanges between China and its neighboring countries, Chinese have emigrated. Therefore, overseas Chinese is a long historical phenomenon. Historians generally believe that overseas Chinese formally formed in the Tang Dynasty. The Southeast Asian region (now Southeast Asia) has historically been the major distribution area for overseas Chinese. The overseas Chinese who emigrated to the area in the Tang Dynasty have been very common. Their footprints have spread all over the Southeast Asia during the Yuan Dynasty. To the Ming Dynasty, especially in the mid-Ming and Qing Dynasties overseas Chinese surge. At that time, Manila in the Philippines, Jakarta in Indonesia, New Village (now Greci), and the old port in the east of Sumatra were all the major enclaves of overseas Chinese. Other overseas Chinese settlements in Thailand, Bangkok, Philippines