Ethnic groups in South Vietnam

Most of the residents in South Vietnam are indigenous people belonging to the Vietnamese people, and there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Central Plains. These Central Plains immigrants include hundreds of thousands of soldiers who settled in Lingnan during the Qin Dynasty,15,000 unmarried women who sewed clothes for soldiers, and criminal officials, prisoners, mother-in-law and businessmen who were forced to emigrate during the Qin Dynasty. Baiyue people in South Vietnam are divided into branches such as South Vietnam, Xi 'ou and Luoyue. Nanyue nationality is distributed in northern, eastern and central Guangdong, and there is also a small distribution in eastern Guangxi, which was developed by Maba people living in northern Guangdong in the Paleolithic period. Xi 'ou people are distributed in most parts of Guangxi and western Guangdong, mainly in the Jiang Xun basin in the middle reaches of Xijiang River and the Gui Jiang basin south of Lingqu River. As early as the Qin Dynasty, Yi Zeng, the tribal leader of Ou, resisted tenaciously and was killed by Qin Jun. Xu Wang, the descendant of Feng Yi of Zhao Tuo, the state of South Vietnam, ruled Xi 'ou. By the time Nanyue was destroyed by the Han Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Xi 'ou people had surrendered to the Han Dynasty in Guilin alone. Luoyue people are distributed in western and southern Guangxi, northern Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, Hainan Island and southwestern Guizhou, among which they mainly live in Zuojiang and Youjiang basins in Guangxi, Red River Delta in Vietnam and Beipanjiang and Nanpanjiang basins in Guizhou. Luo Yue's name comes from the fact that most of the fields they cultivate are fields between hillsides, which are called "Luotian" locally. Before the founding of Nanyue State, Zhao Tuo led troops to conquer Anyang, the leader of Luoyue people, and defeated him.