Who is the original owner of the Penang Peranakan Museum?

Penang. It is a treasure land of the gods, Penang Nyonya.

Who was the original owner of the museum? In order to solve this problem, I went out of my way to check the information and found that the Penang Peranakans Museum is also known as the Pinang Peranakans Mansion, formerly known as "Hoi Kee Stack". Located in Georgetown, Penang, it is a verdant ancient building with a gold wire hollow balcony, with significant architectural features of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is a courtyard house with a considerable atmosphere of the times.

Its original owner was Zheng Jinggui, a wealthy Chinese man in the 19th century. According to historical records, Zheng Jinggui, formerly known as Siwen, was called Shenzhi, Zengcheng, Guangdong.

Zhongxin Zhenfu and Zhengxin Village. His father crossed the ocean to Malaysia in his early years.

Make a living. In 1841, Zheng Jinggui's mother went to Malaysia to find his father, and found his father, who was already quite prosperous when he was in Perak, and later followed his father to run industry and commerce, invest in tin mining, and became a wealthy man in tin mining. Because he is resolute in his work, and he has a bright head, he is also popular.

In addition, Zheng Jinggui is also a local gang leader, and such a person is naturally the target of the British colonial authorities. So, in 1877, he was canonized by the British colonial authorities with the title of "Kabitan" (homonym, representing governor at that time). Since then, Zheng Jinggui's life has been like a hanging.

Zheng Jinggui, who has a lot of money, has a strong sense of family and country.

An ancestral hall was established to preserve traditional Chinese rituals and customs, and a private school was built to educate children. The "Shen Family School" engraved on the marble plaque on the adjacent door was originally a private school of the Zheng family, and it is also open to local students from all origins. In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), Zheng Jinggui donated a huge amount of money in the name of his mother, Mrs. Lai, to help the disaster.

Li. reported to the imperial court to praise his righteous deeds, and gave him a plaque of "urgent justice and good righteousness" in his hometown. In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), the French colonial army invaded southern Xinjiang.

He donated a huge amount of money to support the anti-French struggle, and the imperial court rewarded him and his wife Lin with his sincere patriotism.

Mrs. was awarded the honorary title of the second grade and the third generation, and awarded her son Xiren as Langzhong and Xisheng as a member of the Langzhong.

Today, there are two streets in Penang named after Cheng Jing Gui, one being Jalan Ah Quee

Yagui Street, one is Lebuh Keng

Kwee Jinggui Street. Built in 1881, the Penang Chinese Assembly Hall was the venue for local Chinese gatherings, and Cheng Jing Kwai was its first president. At the age of 70, he bought Hoi Kee Stack.

In 1898, Cheng passed away in Penang, and later the Penang Nyonya Museum appeared.

The original owner of the Penang Peranakan Museum was Cheng Jing Kwai, a wealthy Chinese man in the 19th century. Zheng Jinggui, formerly known as Siwen, is a native of Zhengxin Village, Zhongxin Town, Zengcheng City, Guangdong.

Hello. Who is the original owner of the Penang Nyonya Museum, you asked?

There's no information on the Internet.

I searched for a long time but didn't find it.

With the popularity of the TV series "Little Nyonya", "Nyonya culture" has entered the eyes of the Chinese people, do you know what Nyonya means in the play? In fact, it refers to the female offspring born after the marriage of Chinese and Malaysians in Malaysia, the women are called Peranakan and the men are called Baba Baba . So what are the famous Nyonya and Baba in history?

Let's find out together!

There are still Nyonya and Baba in Malaysia, but I haven't found a more famous "Nyonya" in history on the Internet, and I only found one of the more famous Baba people, his name is Tan Zhen Luk, who was the founder and president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, but passed away in 1960. And some of the characters that appear in the TV series "Little Nyonya" are mostly fictional, and there is no information to prove their authenticity!

And it is worth mentioning that it refers to the Josheng Nyonya Museum in Penang, Malaysia, which is real. Although it is called a museum, it is actually the private residence of a wealthy Chinese businessman, and I have not yet found out the identity of its owner. It is said that the Chinese descendants who lived in this house were the descendants of Zheng He when he went to the West during the Ming Dynasty, and then it became the residence of Nyonya Baba, and "Little Nyonya" still restores their real living environment at that time!

The Peranakan family is generally a relatively prominent wealthy businessman in Malaysia, but they have a strong family status division. Although Peranakan was born wealthy, its status in the family is still relatively low, and they have almost no control over their own lives, and they only cook and serve their husbands and in-laws all their lives.

The origin of Nyonya

According to historical records, during the reign of Zhu Di Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He led a fleet to the Western Ocean and stopped in Malacca, Malaysia, so some of the ship's crew and merchants never got on the ship after getting off the ship and stayed in the local settlement. After that, he married a local woman and had children, so the daughter born was called "Nyonya", and the son was "Baba", they are the descendants of the Ming Dynasty people in our country!