30/04/2026
The Legendary Chaoshan
Chapter I: The thread
May 16-17, 2026
Just 450 km from us — close enough for a weekend, far enough to feel like a different world.
We are invited by the local culture bureau to trace the cultural roots of the people whose sense of family built dynasties across the world.
This is where the "Jews of China" —
Li Ka-shing (Hong Kong)
CK Hutchison Holdings, once Asia's richest man.
Ma Huateng (Pony Ma) (Shenzhen)
Founder of Tencent (QQ, WeChat).
And countless other titans across the world who share the same root —
learned their first lesson:
Family comes first. Second. Always.
And then there is the wisdom that flowed here for two thousand years.
Confucius — not as dusty text, but as living currents.
A belief that learning shapes character, character shapes destiny, and a cultivated mind can move mountains.
That current never stopped.
It ran through scholars. It ran through merchants who left these shores with nothing but a name and a dream.
From this soil, ideas didn't stay in books.
They built empires.
