马来半岛和印度尼西亚群岛的土生华人简介 Introduction for Peranakan

                              

马来半岛和印度尼西亚群岛中找到的 土生华人历史开始于明代 (1446-1459). 那时的明代公主,恒李宝来到马六甲下嫁于当时的苏丹, 曼苏尔·沙。公主的一部分随从也随她定居下来，并嫁给了当地人的马来人.第一代的土生华人就因为联婚后产生。 在土生华人中最为广泛使用的词是“巴巴”和“娘惹”，“巴巴”是指男性的土生华人，而“娘惹”是指女性的土生华人。

Peranakan is a sub-ethnic group which you can found in Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago. The history of Peranakan is started at Ming Dynasty where princess Hang Li Po married to Sultan Mansur Shah on (1446-1459). Part of the princess’s entourage settled down and married to the Malacca local’s Malay community. The cross marriages between Chinese and Malay is the first generation of Peranakan. “Baba” and “Nyonya” is term widely used in Peranakan, “Baba” is referring to a male Peranakan, and meanwhile “Nyonya” is referring to a female Peranakan.