Hong Tang - West Palm Beach Resident From an Ancient Chinese City

Hong Tang West Palm Beach moved to West Palm Beach from her home in the ancient Chinese city of Wuhan. Tang graduated from college in Wuhan and moved to the United States in search of adventure and opportunity. She loves to talk about her home city’s history spanning thousands of years and cook traditional Chinese food from Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital.



Hong Tang learned from a young age the great moments in Wuhan history before she moved to West Palm Beach. It is near the site of one of the most famous battles in ancient Chinese history, the Battle of Red Cliffs in AD 208. If you visit Wuhan, you can still visit the famous Red Cliffs. Hong Tang hopes to visit the Red Cliffs herself on a trip from West Palm Beach back to her homeland one day. In AD 223, the city constructed the Yellow Crane Tower on what was then called the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River. Cui Hao, a famous Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty, visited the tower in the 8th century and his poem about the experience made the structure the most famous and celebrated building in South China. For centuries, Wuhan has been the cultural and artistic capital of Central China. It is especially known for its poetry.     When the Mongols invaded the area and took over the town, they made it a provincial capital in the 13th century, and by the beginning of the 18th century, it had become one of the most important trading towns of the country.

Hong Tang loves to tell her friends and family in West Palm Beach about the history of her hometown.

Hong Tang - From Hubei Province to West Palm Beach

Hong Tang grew up in Wuhan, Hubei Province in Central China before moving to West Palm Beach after college. Tang loved her life in the cultural capital of the area and the province’s largest city, but she wanted to create new and different opportunities for adventure in the United States. Tang worked in a spa as a masseuse before moving on to new opportunities in her adoptive community. Today, she is raising a family in South Florida and teaching her children about her homeland in China.

Hong Tang West Palm Beach

Hubei Province, like much of China, has a rich history dating back thousands of years. Hong Tang says that she is blessed to be from such a historically rich area with its own fascinating lineage. The Hubei region was the home of several sophisticated Neolithic cultures. When the Spring and Autumn Period, as referred to by historians (770-476 BC), began, the area now known as Hubei was controlled by the powerful State of Chu, a tributary state of the Zhou Dynasty. The state drew its power from its control of most of the middle and lower Yangtze River, and the State of Chu’s influence extending north to the North China Plain. During the so-called Warring States Period from 475 to 221 BC, the State of Chu became embroiled in a turf war with the upstart State of Qin. The result was the State of Chu retreating and the State of Qin setting up the first unified state in the region. Hong Tang took her people’s history to West Palm Beach, where she tells people about her land’s past.

Hong Tang is proud to be from a region that is rich in history, the likes of which can’t be seen in West Palm Beach.

Hong Tang - West Palm Beach Calligraphy Practitioner

Hong Tang lives and works in West Palm Beach. She brought her love of Chinese culture and calligraphy with her when she moved from Wu Han, China to Florida. Tang has always shown a penchant for Chinese calligraphy since her days in China before she moved. Today, she is a homemaker with a family and a love of teaching her neighbors and anyone who wants how to create beautiful messages in ancient Chinese calligraphy script.

Hong Tang West Palm Beach

As Hong Tang knew well before moving to West Palm Beach, Chinese calligraphy is all about motion and fluidity. Experts call it energy in motion, and its emphasis on sweeping, brushing strokes lends it its reputation for beauty in motion and breezy nature. Calligraphy has, over millennia, led to the development of many other art forms in China, including seal carving, ink and wash painting, and inkstones. Hong Tang grew up learning Chinese calligraphy in her home country before her move to West Palm Beach, trying to obtain the writing style of excellent pieces of writing. From elementary school to college, Tang practiced and honed her skills with the brush and the ink. Chinese calligraphy is form of calligraphy that can be found in Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing—all cultures within China’s cultural sphere.

Hong Tang West Palm Beach keeps her country’s tradition alive in West Palm Beach as she teaches the art of Chinese calligraphy to her friends and neighbors. She has also taught the practice to her children as they have grown and responded her efforts as a homemaker and child caregiver.

Hong Tang - West Palm Beach Drilling Expert

Hong Tang, an immigrant from China, has lived and worked in the West Palm Beach community for many years. She worked at a spa for most of that time. Now she is a homemaker for her small but growing family. Tang has an unusual skill that many people don’t know about in her social circles: oil drill repair. Tang studied how to repair and maintain oil drilling equipment during her time in college in China before she moved to the United States. Tang worked with these incredibly complex machines and learned much from her hands-on experience and classroom time before she immigrated to the US to pursue other opportunities.

Hong Tang West Palm Beach

Hong Tang hopes to one day find a job in the energy sector near West Palm Beach someday in which she can work with oil drilling rigs. These machines are very complex and can be used for many different applications. Drilling rigs, in addition to creating holes in the earth’s sub-surface for natural gas, oil, or water extraction, can also be used to sample sub-surface mineral deposits, test rock, soil, and groundwater physical properties, and can be used to install sub-surface structures, such as underground utilities, instrumentation, tunnels, and wells. Hong Tang took her education in oil rig drilling equipment with her to West Palm Beach, Florida.

Hong Tang has built a life for herself in West Palm Beach without getting into the energy sector as a drill machinist, but she hopes to one day use her education in a profession that will help her family grow and become prosperous.