00:00Grandpas and grandmas went to Southeast Asia back then.
00:02How to send the life-saving box back?
00:04Qiao Pi
00:05The movie that will be released in Malaysia soon
00:07Love Letters to Grandma
00:08The male and female leads in the play
00:09I'll do anything to send it back to my hometown.
00:11Those are the ones that have changed countless times
00:13The Fate of Chinese Families
00:15Although this movie
00:17For many people, it was their first time.
00:18Recognizing this new term
00:20However, in many people's memories
00:22Traces of Qiao Pi still remain.
00:25We are third-generation Chinese Malaysians
00:27Like that day, several times my grandparents
00:29They often wrote letters back to China.
00:30So you can see
00:31Those knots were all exactly the same.
00:33The letter was very old.
00:34The paper was very old.
00:35It might be that Grandma sent it back to China.
00:38writing letters back and forth
00:39Dad and his family cherish it very much
00:40Put it in that wooden box
00:42When I was a child
00:43My grandfather held my hand.
00:46Go to that kind of herbal medicine shop
00:47Not going to buy medicinal herbs
00:49He went to ask someone to write a letter for him.
00:51I'll send 30 or 50 yuan back to my hometown.
00:54Their era
00:56It really is money earned through hard work.
00:58And then, all for the sake of helping the host country...
01:01So I sent the money back.
01:03Then each question was followed by back and forth.
01:05It can't be accomplished overnight.
01:06It's been a very, very long time.
01:08Then I received a letter.
01:09The letter they spoke of
01:11It's basically just adding books and remittance slips.
01:14Qiao Pi (a type of online commentator) in two forms
01:15Qiao is an overseas Chinese
01:16In Fujian and Chaozhou dialects, "批呢" is pronounced "龟".
01:20It is the meaning of a letter.
01:21What about the 19th century?
01:22Large numbers of Chinese went to Southeast Asia to make a living.
01:24People came to Malaya to mine.
01:26Cut off trade and do hard labor
01:27What happens after you make money?
01:29The most important thing is to send money back to my hometown in China.
01:32adoptive parents, wife and children
01:34But what about that era?
01:35No bank transfer
01:37Even with transaction fees, they are still very high.
01:39So Qiao Pi
01:40This was the cross-border remittance system for Chinese people back then.
01:43And that's how it came to be.
01:45The Chinese laborers would hand over the money to the Qiao Bureau.
01:47Write another letter home
01:49Let the smugglers be responsible for sending the money and letters back to China.
01:52But aren't you curious?
01:53These sent-out money...
01:55Will the money be embezzled or the perpetrator abscond with it?
01:58The answer is no.
02:00Qiao approved this business
02:01The most important foundation is just one word.
02:04letter
02:04This letter is more than just a letter.
02:07Or is it trust that becomes a letter?
02:09You mentioned the case of someone running away with the money.
02:11It has almost never happened.
02:12Why?
02:13It even appeared in China
02:15It's possible that three generations in the family have been affected.
02:16They were smugglers and foot carriers.
02:19They felt this was a very meaningful job.
02:23When these fellow villagers who worked hard overseas to earn money and sent it back home...
02:27Give the money to build up your hometown
02:29Hand it over to your own relatives.
02:31This money could be a lifesaver at any time.
02:34And what's interesting is...
02:35What about the money sent back from Southeast Asia back then?
02:37Not Thai baht, not Malaysian ringgit
02:39All are Hong Kong dollars
02:40This was also perfectly captured in the movie.
02:43At that time, all foreign exchange
02:45Including remittances from overseas Chinese
02:47There is only one port of entry into mainland China.
02:49Hong Kong
02:50So in the movie
02:52The money that the male protagonist Zheng Wusheng sent back to Xie Nanzhi
02:55Why wasn't it sent in Thai baht?
02:57Instead, it's Hong Kong dollars.
02:58That's the reason.
02:59However, by the late 1970s
03:01With China's reform and opening up and the improvement of its banking system
03:04It has witnessed countless overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia
03:07Qiao Pi's story of crossing the ocean and taking root
03:10It gradually faded from the historical stage.
03:13Having learned about Qiao Pi's background
03:15Don't you also particularly admire the perseverance of those who were first sent to Southeast Asia?
03:18Do you still have any of Qiao Pi's artifacts from back then in your home?
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