Chinese Girlfriends: North vs South!

[Goujian]

could you translate?

Generally the guide is that the redder the color, the prettier the girls in a province/municipality/autonomous region.

[Tchek]

I can't say much for Vietnam but they do have a north/south/central difference.

I've got a friend who went to Vietnam north to south and raved all day long about the superiority of Hanoi women over those from Ho Chi Minh

[Goujian]

I've got a friend who went to Vietnam north to south and raved all day long about the superiority of Hanoi women over those from Ho Chi Minh

True though. I know some people from Hanoi and dayum their women are better looking than most of the Vietnamese here in the US and at HCMC.

[StonyArabia]

Northern Chinese are taller and stronger. I have seen northern Chinese they can be very big people, southern Chinese and Vietnamese are smaller usually. I think Vietnam is extension of southern China, though I heard they have some Indian admixture to at minor levels.

[Anthony PV]

Northern Chinese are taller and stronger. I have seen northern Chinese they can be very big people, southern Chinese and Vietnamese are smaller usually. I think Vietnam is extension of southern China, though I heard they have some Indian admixture to at minor levels.

Northerners may be stronger and taller than Southerners... But it's also Northerners who were stomped flat by the hooves of Mongol invaders while Southerners managed to resist them and eventually to kick them out of China... There's also a difference between Northern martial arts and Southern martial arts: the first focus mainly on kicks and wide movements while the second focus mainly on hand-work and infighting. The Chinese refer to this dichotomy with the saying 'Northern Foot, Southern Fist'. I guess the taller Northerners favored kicking while the shorter Southerners were forced to rely on punching...

Among South-East Asians, I think it's the Cambodians and not the Vietnamese who have the most Indian admixture... From the few Cambodians I met in real-life, their phenotype is a peculiar mix of Indian and Chinese traits...

[zhaoyun]

Northerners may be stronger and taller than Southerners... But it's also Northerners who were stomped flat by the hooves of Mongol invaders while Southerners managed to resist them and eventually to kick them out of China... There's also a difference between Northern martial arts and Southern martial arts: the first focus mainly on kicks and wide movements while the second focus mainly on hand-work and infighting. The Chinese refer to this dichotomy with the saying 'Northern Foot, Southern Fist'. I guess the taller Northerners favored kicking while the shorter Southerners were forced to rely on punching...

Among South-East Asians, I think it's the Cambodians and not the Vietnamese who have the most Indian admixture... From the few Cambodians I met in real-life, their phenotype is a peculiar mix of Indian and Chinese traits...

Well, many peoples including Middle Easterners, Russians, etc were stomped by the Mongols. Throughout history, China had at several times also conquered the Mongols, so there was always a tit for tat. The Southerners have an advantage which is their topography, mountainous with many waterways, something the Mongols were not accustomed to, as they are from the wide open steppes. The Southern Chinese were also great naval navigators.

You're right about the martial arts differences though.

[Tchek]

Yeah in Okinawa it was the main difference between Naha-te from Naha, a Karate style focusing on wide low postures, low kicks and punches, and Shuri-te from Shuri, a style focusing on high-kicks, high stance. Naha used to be inhabited by southern Asians and Shuri by northern Asians.

[Kawaiine]

[Goujian]

Hong Kong is in red

[Kawaiine]

Hong Kong is in red

i can see that

why is hk red?