The ancestors of Cantonese people are Baiyue people?

On Qin dynasty, "take the land of Baiyue in the south", "collect herbs" and "all say peach, plum and winter fruit". In pre-Qin ancient books, the indigenous tribes in southeastern China are often referred to as "Yue". As Mr. Lv Simian pointed out, "from Yue Yue, south of the Yangtze River".

In fact, there are many tribes in this vast area, so the indigenous people in different areas have different names, or wuyue (southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang), Fujian and Vietnam (Fujian), Yangyue (Jiangxi and Hunan), South Vietnam (Guangdong) or xi 'ou (western Guangxi).

The "hundred" of "Baiyue" is the majority, which is an approximate number, not an exact number. "Baiyue" is a general term for the tribes (countries) in the north of Central Plains to the ancient tribes (countries) in the south of Vietnam.

The Central Plains people in the north recorded the "Baiyue" in the south in words from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Family" written by Qin Dynasty (292- 235 BC) records: "Yang, a native of Hannan. On the occasion of Baiyue. " "Yang" means "Yangzhou" and is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province. "Han", that is, "Hanshui", originated at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains and flowed southeast into the Yangtze River. In other words, the south of the Han River and the south of the Yangtze River are all places of "hundred jumps".

Extended data:

Ancient Baiyue tribes were distributed in the vast areas from the Yangtze River, the Pearl River and the Red River to the Mekong River basin. The international academic circles believe that Baiyue has many kinship relations with modern Han nationality (the ancient Yue people merged and moved south to the Central Plains), Li nationality, Jing nationality, Gaoshan nationality, Shui nationality, Zhuang nationality, Dong nationality and She nationality.

There are about 4155,000 descendants of Baiyue, including 255 million Han people, accounting for 6 1.3% of the total population of Baiyue descendants.

Among them, there are about 6,543.8+6,543.8+0.5 million people belonging to the Han family, 77 million people belonging to the Wu family, 60 million people belonging to the Guangfu family and 3 million people belonging to the Pinghua family in China, which have a deep historical kinship with the ancient Baiyue tribe:

The Jing nationality, which is distributed in China and Vietnam, belongs to the Mon-Khmer language family with a population of about 80 million, and has a deep historical blood relationship with the ancient Baiyue tribe:

The Gaoshan people who live in Taiwan Province Island belong to the Austronesian language family in Taiwan Province, and have a deep historical blood relationship with the ancient Baiyue tribe.

Some scholars believe that Baiyue, as the main ethnic group in the south, has been in contact with many foreign ethnic groups for a long time and has had some gene exchanges.

Zhejiang and Fujian were once the main political centers of Baiyue, so a considerable proportion of the genetic markers of the characteristics of the Yue nationality were preserved in the modern Han population in this area. Taking the mutation ratio of M 1 19 as an example, Shanghai and Zhejiang are both about 26%, which is the highest among the Han nationality in China, followed by Guangdong 20%, Anhui 18%, Liaoning and Hubei 17%, Jiangsu 16% and Jiangxi.

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