Hainan was once under the jurisdiction of Guangdong. Why do Hainan people speak Minnan instead of Cantonese?

Hainan, located at the southernmost tip of China, is the second largest island in China. It faces the South China Sea in the east and Bao Dao across the sea. The southeast and south are adjacent to Brunei, the Philippines and Malaysia in the South China Sea; The west is opposite to Vietnam; The north and Guangdong Province are bounded by Qiongzhou Strait. Hainan has a total land area of 35,000 square kilometers and a sea area of about 2 million square kilometers. It is shaped like an oval Sydney, with flat terrain around it, towering in the middle and dome-shaped mountain terrain.

According to statistics, the resident population of Hainan is 9.44 million, of which more than 5 million people speak Hainan dialect, while others speak 1 1 dialect. Hainan dialect belongs to the Sino-Tibetan Minnan language family, which means that most of them speak "Minnan language". Geographically, Hainan is closer to Guangdong. Why do Hainan people speak "Min dialect"? Moreover, Hainan was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province until 1988 became an independent province and special economic zone.

Everything has to start from the Sui Dynasty. In the early Sui Dynasty, the Virgin of Lingnan led the local people to surrender to the imperial court, so Sui Jun was able to enter Lingnan and Hainan returned to the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court further strengthened and consolidated the management of Hainan. During the Anshi Rebellion, many people in the north fled to more remote places such as Lingnan and Fujian to escape the war. This period also formed the Minnan language. With the development of Lingnan and Fujian, more and more northerners move south. Especially after the change of Jingkang, a large number of northern immigrants poured into these two places, which led to the continuous compression of the living environment of local people.

On the other hand, the contradiction between man and land in Fujian was very prominent as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. Not only northerners come to grab living resources, but foreigners also come to grab them. Because Quanzhou Port is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, the foreign trade here is relatively prosperous. Businessmen from around the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian countries come to Quanzhou to do business. After all, China was still very powerful at that time.

Since the local living resources have been robbed, Fujian people want to go out to make a living. No matter how difficult the living environment is, you have to live. As they are unfamiliar with Southeast Asia, Hainan Island, separated by a gorge, has become the best place to go. As a result, many Fujian people went to the eastern plain of Hainan and settled here. Over time, immigrant settlements gradually formed.

In the Ming Dynasty, Hainan Island was divided into neighboring Guangdong Province. At that time, the contradiction between Guangdong people and land was small, so there were few Cantonese people going to Hainan Island. However, the wave of Fujian people migrating to Hainan Island has not stopped, and the Central Plains Dynasty also recognized the people's move. After Fujian people came to Hainan, they lived here for a long time, which had an important influence on the local language and culture and became the main ethnic group on the island. Fujian people's Minnan dialect is gradually localized, and their "Minnan dialect" has Hainan characteristics. After hundreds of years of development, most people in Hainan speak "Min dialect" instead of Cantonese.