Where is the ancestral home of Hainan people?

It should be said that some Hainanese ancestors came from Fujian, but not from Fujian, because the national origin of Hainanese is more complicated. Nearly 3 million people in Hainan are not users of Hainan dialect (Minnan dialect). Although many records in these people's genealogy are from Fujian, as we all know, genealogy is easy to forge, such as most Lingao people.

The genealogy of Danzhou people and even Li people also records that their ancestors came from Fujian, but they have nothing to do with Fujian in language and culture. Ethnologists have also confirmed from language, culture and unearthed cultural relics that the ancestors of Lingao people were a branch of the ancient Baiyue Ouyue which landed in Hainan 2,500 years ago.

Danzhou people may be Cantonese-speaking residents of Guangdong and Guangxi who came with Mrs. Xian.

Even people who speak Hainan dialect can't say for sure that their ancestors were from Fujian, because

Compared with other languages, Hainan dialect is a strong language in Hainan, and it is normal for Hainan dialect to assimilate other languages. In fact, this phenomenon also occurs among some non-Hainan dialect users. For example, some villages there spoke Lingao dialect decades ago, and now they all speak Hainan dialect. Only some old people still speak their mother tongue, and once the language is assimilated, it will lose its national characteristics.

Hainan also has a small number of Hakka and Miao people.

In addition, a small number of Hainanese ancestors came from abroad, mainly from neighboring Southeast Asia, and some Persian businessmen who stayed in Hainan to avoid the wind and waves. However, due to the small number, they quickly integrated into the local major ethnic groups, and some still retained their own national characteristics. For example, the Hui people Song and Yuan in Sanya moved from Vietnam to occupy the city.

However, due to the mutual marriage and integration of Hainan people in the long historical process, today's Hainan people have been formed, so for Hainan people, these people may be their ancestors.