PRE-COLONIAL TRADE

CONTACTS AND INFLUENCES

Chinese Influences and Relations

Indian Civilizations Relations and

Influences

Japanese Influences and Relations

CHINESE INFLUENCES
AND RELATIONS
New Stone Age Chinese started to establish trade contacts with
the people in some areas of the Southeast Asian region including
the early Filipinos

10th century A.D. Filipino-Chinese relations began

Trade relations between the Philippines and China only flourished
during the Tang Dynasty, which was around 618 to 907 A.D.

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CHINESE INFLUENCES
AND RELATIONS
Professor H. Otley Beyer (Father of Philippine Anthropology)
noted that the products manufactured during the Tang Dynasty
were brought by Arab merchants who also had a strong trade
relation with the Chinese.
Such historical finding is evident in the unearthed Tang Dynasty
wares discovered in Cagayan de Sulu, Jolo, Cebu, Bohol, Mindanao,
Manila, etc.

CHINESE INFLUENCES
AND RELATIONS
Trade was conducted on a whole sale basis in which Tondo
became the main trading center during that time.

Wholesale trading was used in internal trade transactions.

Jade, coins, scales, mirrors, and porcelain wares were most
common trade products.
The quality of the porcelain ware made during the Sung Dynasty
was high as compared to the porcelain ware produced during
the Yuan Dynasty.

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CHINESE INFLUENCES
AND RELATIONS
Production of gunpowder
Use of tin, silver, lead, gongs, and porcelain
Proliferation of blacksmithing and goldsmithing professions in the
country
Method of artificial incubation of eggs, which can be likened to duck
culture around Pateros and Taguig
Improvement of Filipino culinary art: the natives were taught to roast
pigs (lechon), brew tea for drinking and cook several Chinese dishes
like pancit
Use of firecrackers on New Years eve

INDIAN CIVILIZATIONS
RELATIONS
Orang Dampuans

Men from Champa (an Indianized kingdom in Indochina)

They began their trade relations with the people in Sulu
(Buranuns) between 900 and 1,200 A.D.

Orang Bandjar

They focused their interest to Buranuns abundant supply of

pearls.
To further strengthen the trade relations between the two
groups, they offered their beautiful princesses as brides to the
most powerful native rulers.

Beating of gongs that signal the start of a festival

Collection of tong (percentage fee) by the owner of a gambling joint

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INDIAN CIVILIZATIONS
INFLUENCES
The term Bathala was based on the Sanskrit word
Bhattara, which means Great Lord.

Bathala refers to the supreme being of the Tagalogs during the

pre-colonial period
Sanskrit refers to the sacred/holy language of Hinduism, Jainism
and Mahayana Buddhism

Some original Filipino fables and epics were influenced by

Indian literature such as the story of monkey and the turtle,
the tale of the race between the deer and the snail, and the
anecdote of the hawk and the hen of the Visayas region.

INDIAN CIVILIZATIONS
INFLUENCES
Giving fresh flower garland to the visitor.
Giving of a bigay kaya or dowry and rendering personal
household services by the groom to his brides family before
marriage.
A number of superstitious beliefs such as seeing a cat cleaning
its face would indicate that there is a visitor and a girl who eats
twin bananas would give birth to twins.

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JAPANESE INFLUENCES
AND RELATIONS
Filipino-Japanese relations began as early as 654 A.D.
Some traders settled permanently in Cagayan, Lingayen, and
Manila because according to them the Philippines was a great
place to live.
The Japanese traders were the ones who introduced leathermaking, manufacture of tools and weapons, and artificial
breeding of ducks and fish.

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