Chinese quarter, it is the Chinese is in the area of live in a compact community of other country city. The formation of Chinese quarter, because the Chinese is emigrant and abroad,be, the minority that becomes place a group of things with common features group, in face new environment to need people in the same condition help each other, gregarious in a region, reason a kind of testimony that most Chinese quarter is overseas Chinese history. Because Tang Chao is right abroad tremendous influence, in Song Daishi, "The Tang Dynasty " all countries outside becoming southeast lake say to Chinese generation. All previous the Song Dynasty, yuan to bright, the foreign country is what China or the content issue that concern with China say " the Tang Dynasty " . Not only with " the Tang Dynasty " as " China " the generation of the ground says, and call the Chinese " Tang Ren " . Historical complex of the Chinese is very deep. Tang Chao is a powerful and prosperous dynasty on Chinese history. The overseas Chinese Chinese of overseas often says he is " Tang Ren " , the place of their inhabit a region is called " Chinese quarter " . Chinese quarter cries the earliest " big Tang Jie " . 1673, heart of Na Lan sex " miscellaneous knowledge of Lu Shui Ting " : "Japan, tang Shi only then somebody is gone to those, and settler calls ' big Tang Jie ' , today and grow 10 lis. " 1875, zhang Deyi is in " Euramerican annulus travel notes " in call Chinese quarter " Tang Ren city " , its connect English, english call Chinese quarter Chinatown. The history of Chinese quarter wants than English name Chinatown early a few centuries.