 Many Indians gave their children to local farmers to save them from slaughter where they were raised up as Hokkiens.These have created north and south culture differences, Fuzhou and Putian northerners are stereotyped as stingy, intelligent and reserved while Hokkien southerners are stereotyped as vulgar, tolerant and friendly

Indians (as well as people from elsewhere in the Portuguese colonial empire) were among the crew of the Portuguese ships trading on the Chinese coast
beginning in the sixteenth century.For example, Galeote Pereira, one of the Portuguese smugglers captured off the Fujian coast in 1549 and exiled to Guangxi, mentions Gujarati servants among his companions.