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Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais) are Chinese descendants in Thailand.Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and the second largest overseas Chinese community [4] in the world with a population of approximately 7–10 million people, accounting for 11–14 percent of the total population of the country as of 2012.
Sculpture depicting the Prince disguised as Chao Ngo, at King Rama II Memorial Park. Sang Thong (Thai: สังข์ทอง, 'golden conch'), The Prince of the Golden Conch Shell [1] or Phra Sang Thong [2] is a Southeast Asian folktale inspired from the Paññāsa Jātaka, this wisdom book it is a canonical collection of ancient tales told in Thailand.
Wats became centers of Thai education and culture, while during this period the Chinese first began to settle in Thailand and soon began to establish control over the country's economic life. [ 142 ] The Chinese were not obliged to register for corvée duty, so they were free to move about the kingdom at will and engage in commerce.
Xianluo (Chinese: 暹羅) was the Chinese name for the Ayutthaya Kingdom, merged from Suphannaphum city-state, centered in modern-day Suphan Buri; and Lavo city-state, centered in modern-day Lop Buri. To the Thai, the name of their country has mostly been Mueang Thai. [1] The country's designation as Siam by Westerners likely came from the ...
A royal monument of King Taksin the Great. Taksin was born on 17 April 1734, in Ayutthaya. [clarification needed] Taksin had Chinese Teochew, Tai-Chinese and Mon ancestry.His father, Yong Saetae (Thai: หยง แซ่แต้; Chinese: 鄭鏞 Zhèng Yōng), who worked as a tax-collector, [7] was of ethnic Teochew descent from Chenghai District, Shantou, Guangdong, China.
The history of Chinese immigration to Thailand dates back many centuries, and the specific Chinese ethnic groups which made their way to Thailand are numerous, although there is a greater concentration of Chinese from the southern provinces due to their geographic proximity to Thailand. The Chinese are part of the greater Sino-Tibetan ethnicity ...
Chinese creation myths are symbolic narratives about the origins of the universe, earth, and life. Myths in China vary from culture to culture. Myths in China vary from culture to culture. In Chinese mythology , the term " cosmogonic myth " or " origin myth " is more accurate than " creation myth ", since very few stories involve a creator ...
It is a Thai version of the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, and an important part of the Thai literary canon. King Rama VI was the first person to shed light first on the Ramayana studies in Thailand, by tracing the sources of the Ramakien , comparing it with the Sanskrit Valmiki Ramayana .