Distribution range of Minnan people

Including Minnan people in a narrow sense and some residents of Pingyang and Cangnan in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang: During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many local residents moved to Zhejiang from Minnan, and the language used was Minnan dialect in southern Zhejiang influenced by Wenzhou dialect of Wu dialect. It also includes Hakkas from southern Fujian and other places, and Pingpu people, the indigenous descendants of the ancient Fujian and Vietnamese people in Taiwan Province Province. Hakka people in southern Fujian are mainly distributed in four counties: western Nanjing, Zhao 'an, Pinghe and Xiao Yun. There are also a large number of Malays who have been transformed into Minnan people: Ga Nyangnya (or native Chinese/overseas Chinese) refers to/kloc-descendants of China Ming Dynasty who began to settle in Manraja (Malacca), Mamboboyi and Sri Lanka (Indonesia, Singapore) at the beginning of the 5th century, mostly from south-central Fujian, China. Baba Nyangnya also includes a few Tang people who settled here during the Tang and Song Dynasties. Generally speaking, Baba Nyangnya refers to the descendants of ancient China immigrants. The culture of these descendants of Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties was influenced to some extent by local Malays or other non-Chinese ethnic groups. The man's name is Baba, and the woman's name is Niangjiao. Before the 1960s, Babaniaya was a Bumipute in Malaysia. Today, Babaniaya's position in the Malaysian Constitution is no different from that of1a "newcomer" who arrived in the late 9th century. Babanyangnya is a unique Malay culture, which refers to the descendants of China and Malays. It is said that when Zheng He went to the West, China people and local Malay women combined to form a special ethnic group. Baba Nyonya Culture-China Traditional Culture

These Baba people mainly immigrated to Southeast Asia around the Ming Dynasty in China. Most of them come from Fujian, China, a few from Guangdong and Hakka, and many of them are mixed with Malays. Some Baba cultures have the color of China traditional culture. Babanyangra's family attaches great importance to some traditional festivals in China. As descendants or younger generations, they have to kneel and kowtow, offer tea and wish peace during the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the anniversary of the death of ancestors, ancestors are worshipped, and the offerings are also exquisite. There are three sacrifices, three meals and eighty-two bowls of vegetables. Residents in southern Fujian: including Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Xiamen ruled by China, xinluo district and zhangping city in Longyan City, Fujian Province, and residents in Putian and Xianyou in central Fujian Province: Puxian dialect in this area belongs to Minnan dialect, but it is influenced by Fuzhou dialect because of its proximity to Fuzhou. Puxian dialect still has a lot in common with Minnan dialect in other places. Putian is the hometown of many Fujian immigrants. Meizhou Island in Putian is also the hometown of Mazu, a famous sea god in Fujian and Taiwan.

Because Minnan people and Fuzhou people are both in Fujian province, there are also population exchanges between Fujian and eastern Fujian. Fuzhou people, that is, Fujian people, also have some elements of Minnan people, but the Minnan people who entered Fuzhou were assimilated by a large number of Fuzhou people. The relationship between Fujian people and Minnan people is still very close. There was no such thing as clan in ancient times, but most of the people who moved south were in Xijiang and Fujian. Fuzhou is the political center of Fujian, and Fujian people in eastern Fujian are influenced by Wu Yue people who moved south. Minnan people in Guangdong are Minnan people who migrated from Fujian to Guangdong, including those who migrated from Putian, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Fujian to eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The aborigines in Chaoshan area are also different from those who moved to eastern Guangdong from Putian, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Fujian, so Chaoshan people are Minnan people in Guangdong.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, the sea ban was implemented, but Guangzhou was still able to conduct limited trade, which made Minnan people who were engaged in trade in Quanzhou Port, the world's largest port in the Song, Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, go south to Guangzhou and Guangdong coastal areas. In the Ming Dynasty, the southern Fujian moved to Guangzhou, the west coast of Guangdong, Chaoshan and other places, but it was also assimilated by Guangfu dialect, also known as standard Cantonese, mainly in nearby Guangfu area. There are also a large number of Minnan immigrants from Fujian in the coastal areas of western Guangdong and eastern Guangdong. Many of them intermarried with local people in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and a large number of Minnan people went south to Guangdong, especially Putian, which made Fuzhou people go south to Putian. So far, Putian dialect has become a dialect mixed with Fuzhou dialect in southern Fujian. In addition, there are Minnan people from Putian to Meizhou, such as Ceng Xianzi. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Fujian Putian, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and chaozhou people moved to the present Hainan Island because of fleeing wars and natural disasters and overpopulation along the coast of southern Fujian. At present, most of the Han people in Hainan are descendants of Minnan people, who speak Minnan dialect and Hainan dialect.