Lǎo huáqiáo chángcháng shuō, zìjǐ de gēn zài Tángshān.
Old overseas Chinese often say that their roots are in China.
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history
The city, a centre of coal and steel, was rebuilt after the 唐山大地震 of 1976. The overseas sense comes from Cantonese and Fujianese emigrants, who called China 'the Tang hills' after the Tang dynasty, and their quarter abroad 唐人街, Chinatown.
