Friday, December 31, 2010

Fu Lin符璘石刻



Click to see Chinese article

Dear Sun Hoo clansman,

>
> The attachment is all in Chinese, I am sorry it is not come in English, we
> will get volunteer to translate it for the sake of the wholly English
> educated clansman.
>
> Fu Lin
符璘 is the loyal general of Tang dynasty in 8th centuary, there is a
> stone tablet carving describing a warfare in Jun county, historians are
> disputing whether the scripts do refer to Fu Lin, this stone carving is
> situated in a hill at northern Henan according to the archives.
>
> There is another piece believe to be in Shanxi, the stone charactor is from

> one of the great calligrapher, Liu Gongquan 柳公权, I have tried to seek

> assistance from China clansmen to find out where exactly about it.
>
> Anyway, Fu Lin is the ancestor of all Hainanese Fu clan. There were 5
> important known migrant figures, that is Fu Yuansheng
符元生 of Tang era, Fu
> Meng
符盟 of Song era, Fu Youchen符有辰 of Song era, Fu Zhu 符渚 of Song
> era, Fu Daben
符大本 of Yuan era, all are the offsprings of Fu Lin!
>
> Thus Fu Lin is the important figure in Fu clan, he was bestowed with a title
> of Lord Yiyang for his contribution to the country, we believe this is the
> reason for all branches of Hainanese Fu clan is using the name of "Hall of
> Yiyang"
义阳堂" to memorise the ancestor.
>
So Fu clan is famous in Tang dynasty.
FuClanHhJx


Hainan songs:

To learn a language or culture, it is easier to start listening to the song.

I find several YouTube posting of Hainan songs. You may click the followings and enjoy listening to them. SuukeeMei from Malaysia is particularly talented and champions the use and speaking of Hainan dialect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyMiqM5Fk38&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

海南歌曲Suukee Suukee You can access to her 24 YouTube video files there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjxMxcK-Jyo&feature=related

《 海南话 》www.suukeemai.com suukeemai 24 videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Bapt9Hlk4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

海南话《摇篮曲》

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9HxIrlJVc&feature=related

2005年之《 家在马来西亚》 you know more about suukeemai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndu1DziRkI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

海南小品 《琼香茶店》 with caption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zwMyvTp480&feature=related

海南《恭喜发财》


Others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmS5ug_Lyk0&feature=related

黃明志 - 史上第一首海南RAP SuukeeSuukee by Namewee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3rMdfuKLk&NR=1

海南伯父 (高飞) 57 VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lipaDFn6zQ&feature=related

海南話拼音語音教程(t) a little boring, but very useful and thorough.


Thursday, December 30, 2010

Foo (符) population in USA


Best estimate29 December 2010
Sun-Hoo Foo

US population has increased from 281,421,906 in 2000 to 308,745,538 in 2010. From the Genealogy Data: the most frequent occurring Surnames from Census 2000 are as follow: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/#panel-1


Name
Number Of Occurrences
Smith
2,376,206
Johnson
1,857,160
Williams
1,534,042
Brown
1,380,145
Jones
1,362,755
Miller
1,127,803
Davis
1,072,335
Garcia
858,289
Rodriguez
804,240
Wilson
783,051

From the 2000 US census, they are 4,040,966 last name with the frequency occurrence listed in the table shown below. 65% of the last name has only one occurrence!!! One of the reason why there are so many last names is because women might combine their last name with their spouse's, and that becomes a unique one of a c kind last name.
Last Names by Frequency of Occurrence and Number of People: 2000

Last Names
People with these Names
Frequency of Occurrence
Number
Cumulative Number
Cumulative Proportion (percent)
Number
Cumulative Number
Cumulative Proportion (percent)
1,000,000+
7
7
0.0
10,710,446
10,710,446
4.0
100,000-999,999
268
275
0.0
60,091,601
70,802,047
26.2
10,000-99,999
3,012
3,287
0.1
77,657,334
148,459,381
55.0
1,000-9,999
20,369
23,656
0.4
58,264,607
206,723,988
76.6
100-999
128,015
151,671
2.4
35,397,085
242,121,073
89.8
50-99
105,609
257,280
4.1
7,358,924
249,479,997
92.5
25-49
166,059
423,339
6.8
5,772,510
255,252,507
94.6
10-24
331,518
754,857
12.1
5,092,320
260,344,827
96.5
5-9
395,600
1,150,457
18.4
2,568,209
262,913,036
97.5
2-4
1,056,992
2,207,449
35.3
2,808,085
265,721,121
98.5
1
4,040,966
6,248,415
100.0
4,040,966
269,762,087
100.0

And I look at Chinese last name符, which can be spelled as Foo, Fou, Pou, Fu.etc.
Name          Rank  count prop 100k    Cum pop    % White % Black %  API %        2 race    %Hispanic
POU
21651
1122
0.42
75849.23
30.93
21.3
9.98
(S) (S)
35.74
FOO
20995
1167
0.43
75567.03
6.6
2.14
80.29
0 9.85
1.11
FU
5658
5624
2.08
61573.76
1.9
(S)
94.13
(S) 2.03
1.65
Fu (May be 符,傅, 富,阜 etc) ranges 5658 with 5624 occurrences, Foo (符,傅 etc.) ranges 20995 with 1167 occurrences Pou ranges 21651 with 1122 occurrence. However most of them are list as Hispanic, white or black., and only 10% is API.
For Fu and Foo, most of them are Asian pacific islander (API) or 2 races.( 94%+2%, 80%+10%), and I presume most of them are Chinese. Other符 may spells differently if they are from e.g. Thailand , Indonesia.. etc. But they are the minority
Therefore , the population of符in America is much less than 6791, likely around 2000 to 3000 ( since the population of 傅 is expected to be more than符).