Taishanese people
| Total population | |
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| (Estimated: 8 - 9 million) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (Guangdong, Macau, Hong Kong) North America (Canada, United States) | |
| Languages | |
| Taishanese and Cantonese (parent tongues), Mandarin | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Chinese folk religions (including Taoism, Confucianism, ancestral worship and others) and Mahayana Buddhism. Minority: Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Han Chinese |
 Ruishi Diaolou 瑞石樓 |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Sze Yap Cantonese (Chinese: ; Sze Yap: Hlei Yip Gong Ong Ngin; Cantonese: Sei Yap Gwong Dong Yan; Mandarin: Sìyì guǎngdōng rén) are a Han Chinese group coming from a region in Guangdong Province in China called Sze Yap (), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, and Enping. Now Heshan has been added to this historic region, and the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen administers all five of these county-level cities, which is sometimes informally called Ng Yap. Their ancestors are said to have arrived from what is today central China about less than a thousand years ago and migrated into Guangdong around the Tang Dynasty rule period, and thus Taishanese as a dialect of Yue Chinese has linguistically preserved many characteristics of Middle Chinese.
Although Taishanese is considered to be one of the Cantonese groups of the Yue Chinese family, it has also retained an identity that distinguishes themselves from other Cantonese groups. Among the Han Chinese, Taishanese are a source for most of the famous international Chinese celebrities and have produced the largest numbers of Chinese actors and singers than any city/region in mainland China. Among Asian Americans, Taishanese are influential in politics and were the first Americans of Asian descent to be elected as Governors, Mayors, U.S congress, including the first international actress and actor of Asian descent, and the America's first ace in World War II also have an Taishanese origin.
Despite their small population size, Taishanese people have produced a number of famous academics. Sze yup or Jiangmen is considered the home of Chinese Academician town: The total of academicians is 31 people, a city with over 20 is considered extremely rare in China.
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