HanChinese who came to Taiwan before 1945, often having experienced Japanese rule, and their descendants, in contrast to settlers from mainland China following the Chinese Civil War (waishengren).
Origin
From Mandarin , literally "original province people" (from the point of view that Taiwan was a province of the Republic of China).
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