12 Facts About Han Taiwanese

Major waves of Han immigration occurred since the 17th century to the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, with the exception of the Japanese colonial period.

Han Taiwanese mainly speak three languages of Chinese: Mandarin, Hokkien and Hakka.

The 1926 census counted 3,116,400 and 586,300 Han Taiwanese people originating from the Hok-kien and Kwang-tung provinces during the Ming or Qing dynasty.

Around 800,000 people, the vast majority being Han Taiwanese, immigrated to Taiwan after the end of the World War II, when Republic of China took over Taiwan, with the biggest wave taking place around the founding of the People's Republic of China on the mainland in 1949.

Unlike pre-World War II, when Han Taiwanese immigrants were predominantly of Hok-kien and Hakka origins, post-World War II Han Taiwanese people came from all over mainland China.

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In Taiwan, the Han Taiwanese people came into contact with the Austronesians, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese.

Hoklo Han Taiwanese has replaced Pazeh and driven it to near extinction.

In Taiwan, the prevalence of alcohol dependence among the Han Taiwanese is 10 times lower than that of Austronesians, which is related to genetic, physical, psychological, social, environmental, and cultural factors.

Languages used by Han Taiwanese include Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Mindong, Puxian, and other Han languages spoken by some post-World War II immigrants or immigrants from mainland China since the 1990s.

Population analyses of Han Taiwanese based on the short tandem repeat sequences on the Y chromosome, which is specific to males, shows high haplotype diversity in most surname groups.

One of the earliest written records of Han Taiwanese Hakka is A Tragic Ballad about Hakka Sailing to Taiwan, a work written in the Raoping dialect about the life and struggle of Hakka immigrants to Taiwan under the Ching rule.

Taiwanese architecture refers to a style of buildings constructed by the Han people, and is a branch of Chinese architecture.