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“The Escalon Man significantly provides human skeletal evidence of the Austronesians whose amazing navigation feat based on indigenous knowledge of astronomy using wooden outriggered boats in coming and going led to the peopling of the Philippines, Island Southeast Asia, all the way to Polynesia,” he added.
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Agriculturist

Results from radiocarbon and mitochondrial DNA analyses, according to the researchers, “indicated that the Escalon Man belongs to the haplogroup E1a1a, which is known to be the marker of Austronesian-speaking agriculturist populations that originated in Taiwan and spread southward through the Philippines to the Western Pacific, since about 4000 BP.”

They said this type is less diverse in the Philippines and in the Sulawesi Islands, which suggests its movement during the postglacial period.

The study also indicated that the Escalon Man is taller than the Aeta, Mamanwa and Negrito people who arrived in the country during the late Paleolithic area, which is about 50,000 to 10,000 years ago.

It also noted that the Escalon Man is a farmer and not a hunter-gatherer and theorized it to be the ancestors of Mindanao groups, notably the Manobo.

As efforts began to save Cantonese at Stanford, the language remained under threat worldwide.

It is being swamped by Mandarin, the official language of more than 1 billion people in China and Taiwan — as different from Cantonese as Spanish is from French.
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Mandarin’s four tones are enough to flummox English speakers. For example, depending on the inflection, "ma" can mean "mother," "numb," "horse" or "yell at."

With nine tones, Cantonese is even more challenging to learn. Scholars say it is closer to ancient Chinese than Mandarin is — a Tang Dynasty poem would sound more like the original if read in Cantonese.

Old Mandarin or Early Mandarin was the speech of northern China during the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (12th to 14th centuries).

It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese dialect group, which has over 80 million native speakers.[1] While the term Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety, it is often used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese

Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally considered by a society to be the most "correct" or otherwise superior.

Northern Chinese are a mix of early Han, Turkic peoples, Mongols, Koreans, Tibetans and some other mostly nomadic tribes which disappeared into the Han melting pot.

Southern Chinese were not nomadic, lived in a more mountainous region, and were mostly involved in rice cultivation.
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Stronger alcohol drinking culture: The Chinese from Northeast China (Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning) especially like to drink a lot alcoholic drinks like the Russians or the Koreans do.

Heavier and more robust food: Compared to Chinese food from Southern China, Chinese food from Northern China tends to be greasier, heavier on the stomach, saltier, and more robust in flavour. More meats and less vegetables are featured on Northern Chinese food.
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Stronger tea drinking culture: Southern Chinese people, especially Chinese people from Chaozhou region of China and Fujian region of China, tend to drink a lot more tea than Northern Chinese people. Chinese statistic said that Chinese people from Chaozhou region of China consume the most tea per capita compared to the other Chinese from other regions of China.

Lighter and more delicate food: As opposed to Northern Chinese food, Southern Chinese food tends to be less greasy, lighter on the stomach, less salty, and more delicate in flavour. More vegetables are featured on Southern Chinese food because vegetables could grow better in Southern China than in Northern China.

It has been noted that Cantonese culture is traditionally marked by a "culture of distance from Confucius" (Jyutping: Jyun5 jyu4 man4 faa3; Traditional Chinese: 遠儒文化, literally "culture of distance from Confucius"),[49] which may be related to Lingnan historically being a fringe region of the Chinese Empire and influence from Tang dynasty (who placed greater emphasis on Taoism and Buddhism than Confucianism): While Confucian philosophy still has its deep influence on Cantonese culture, Confucius Temples are harder to find in Lingnan than Buddhist or Taoist ones.

Hemudu Culture: Ancient farmers who enjoyed peace and bounty

Stretching along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Hemudu Culture dates back to the Neolithic Period 7,000 years ago. The culture gained its name from where it was first discovered - Hemudu in Yuyao, East China's Zhejiang Province.

In the documents recorded and preserved in the Hemudu Cultural Site Museum in Zhejiang, archaeologists described the culture as "ancestors who knew how to enjoy their lives."

Archaeologists believe that the people of Hemudu lived a rather peaceful and comfortable life as no signs of fierce conflicts or lack of food were found during the excavation.

"These ancestors from 7,000 years ago already knew how to live an exquisite life along the Yangtze River," researchers wrote in the Hemudu Culture Catalog collected in the museum in Yuyao.

"They were a group who desired sun and sky, without worrying about food or war."
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It overturned the traditional view of "Yellow River Centralism," the idea that ancient Chinese civilization mainly radiated out from its center around the Yellow River. Instead, a large and mature culture was discovered along another major river, opening a window to the Neolithic history of southern China.

It has been noted that Cantonese culture is traditionally marked by a "culture of distance from Confucius" (Jyutping: Jyun5 jyu4 man4 faa3; Traditional Chinese: 遠儒文化, literally "culture of distance from Confucius"),[49] which may be related to Lingnan historically being a fringe region of the Chinese Empire and influence from Tang dynasty (who placed greater emphasis on Taoism and Buddhism than Confucianism): While Confucian philosophy still has its deep influence on Cantonese culture, Confucius Temples are harder to find in Lingnan than Buddhist or Taoist ones.

The Han also said their language was "animal shrieking"

China’s version of TikTok reportedly judges Cantonese ‘unrecognizable’