Shangying Village in Henan Province is also called “Taiwan Village.” More than 300 years ago, soldiers of the Gaoshan ethnic minority, known as the “aborigines of Taiwan,” left their home turf to make a living on the mainland and eventually settled in Shangying.
In August 2005, with the help of Wu Tianxi, a businesswoman who hails from Taiwan but resides on the mainland, the Gaoshan people in Shangying Village were reunited with their “ancestral kin” after more than three centuries.
“They were born and raised in Henan, but their ancestors were originally from Taiwan. I was born and raised in