Taishan County or, more correctly these days, Taishan City (台山 Pinyin: Táishān) is located 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong and 100 kilometres south-west of Guangzhou. In Cantonese, it is known as Toishan, and occasionally as Toisan or Toisaan. It lies along the coastline of Guangdong Province in the southwest corner of the Pearl River Delta, and has an area of 3,286 km2 with a population of about 1 million. It is the homeland of some 1.3 million expatriate Chinese in over eighty countries.
Taishan was founded as Xinning District (新寧縣), and was variously known as Sunning, Sinning, Hsinning or Hsînnîng.
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Over the last three years, the Taishan Tan Association has revised their clan register, and has produced a seven kilogram two volume 1,920 page book set, which was published in Chinese in September 2009. This covers most of the Tan clan lineages originating from Tan Tian Lin, the original Tan ancestor for Taishan City, Guangdong Province in China. It can still be purchased directly from the Association. |
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