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.
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.
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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.
