Lü Meng
Lü Meng was from Fupo County (富陂縣), Runan Commandery (汝南郡), which is located southeast of present-day Funan County, Anhui. His family migrated to the south of the Yangtze River when Lü Meng was young. Lü Meng lived with his brother-in-law, Deng Dang (鄧當), who served as a military officer under Sun Ce. When he was 14 or 15, he secretly followed Deng Dang to the battles against the Shanyue tribes. Deng Dang was shocked to see his teenage brother-in-law in battle, so he scolded Lü Meng and warned him to stop. Lü Meng refused to listen so Deng Dang told Lü Meng's mother about this. When she wanted to punish him, Lü Meng said: "It is difficult to survive in poverty. If we can prove ourselves through hard work, then wealth will come eventually. How can we catch the tiger cub if we don't enter the tiger's den?" Lü Meng's mother sighed and let him have his way.
Taiwanese Australians
Koxinga died soon after conquering Taiwan and founding the Kingdom of Tungning (aka 'the Kingdom of Taiwan'), and his son Zheng Jing ascended to throne to replace him. Although Zheng Cheng-gong wanted to build up his armies in Taiwan, invade China, and destroy the rival Qing, who had hijacked China, Zheng Jing was very different from his father. Instead, Zheng Jing took after his Japanese side of family (he was a quarter Japanese via his father Koxinga), and he preferred to turn Taiwan into an 'Island Nation', with an 'Island Culture' and 'Maritime Culture'. Zheng Jing intended to sail the seas, using Taiwan as a base of operations. This is significant because the Chinese have always been a 'Continental Culture'. There was never any 'Island Culture' or 'Maritime Culture' in China after the failed voyages of Zheng He, which occurred during the 1400s under the Ming Regime. The fact that Zheng Jing intended to nurture these decisively non-Chinese cultural practices into his society indicates that his Kingdom of Tungning was not truly a Chinese nation. Because the Kingdom of Tungning was hostile towards the Qing Empire, the Qing Empire elected to annex the Kingdom of Tungning, along with the rest of Taiwan island, in 1683, officially bringing Taiwan into the Chinese Domain for the first time in history.