Bihou () or Pei Hou, is a village located in Hexin Residential Community in
Taicheng Subdistrict,
Taishan City, in
Guangdong Province
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
, southern
China
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. The village is located at latitude 22.2489234°N and longitude 112.7630542°E, 11 meters above sea level, off Guishui Road ().
Rice,
fish,
banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...
s,
pawpaw and pig feed are grown around the village.
History
Bihou was founded in the 18th century by Tan Gong Chang (), one of the many descendants of the viscounts of the feudal
State of Tan (1046BC-684BC) in present-day
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...
.
All of its inhabitants are still of one
patrilineage
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritanc ...
with the
clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship
and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, meaning ...
name of
Tan (), and have family in
Taicheng and
Yangjiang. Expatriate family members have settled in Australia and the United States.
On March 3, 1941, Japanese troops attacked the village as part of the assault on the neighboring Taicheng Township. Bullet holes are still visible in the fabric of the now-defunct village clan school, and through one of the neighboring palm trees.
Education
The children of Bihou and a dozen other villages attend the Chengxi Kaizhi Primary School ().
Culture
The village hosts the Bihou Village Cultural Building, () which was opened some years ago, when it was reported in the local media.
The village hosted a celebration of the
Double Ninth Festival, which included a parade, song, and dance, and was largely meant to celebrate the elderly. As part of the festival, the village's married women donned
qipaos, performed a
lion dance, and partook in a number of other traditions for an audience of the village elders.
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Taishan, Guangdong