Where did Minnan dialect from Heluo dialect in ancient Central Plains come from?

Quanzhou is the birthplace of Minnan dialect, so Quanzhou dialect is the standard accent in Minnan dialect academically.

According to historical records, Minnan dialect originated from Heluo dialect in the ancient Central Plains, and it is one of the most widely spread and used dialects.

So where did Minnan dialect, which originated from Heluo dialect in ancient Central Plains, come from? Let me answer for you.

Minnan dialect, also known as Heluo dialect, has two versions:

One: Heluo dialect was originally the official language of the Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains during the Xia, Shang, Zhou and Pre-Qin periods. When the Shang Dynasty spread, it was destroyed by Xidi (Zhou). The merchants who stayed in Heluo area were forced to move to Luoyi as slave workers, and the lower class was assigned to Wei, Song, Shandong and Qi to become serfs. The remaining tenacious businessmen in the East had to retreat to Jiangnan and other places to make use of rich resources.

Two: The origin of Minnan dialect is the Yellow River and Luoshui Valley around Luoyang, the capital of ancient Central Plains, commonly known as "Heluo dialect" and "endless Heluolang". This is because in the Western Jin Dynasty, the eight surnames of Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu in the Central Plains went south to avoid war, crossed the river and settled in the south, and named the river "Jinjiang".

The Western Jin Dynasty built Jin 'an County and Jin 'an County in Fuzhou. After emigrating to Taiwan Province Province, Minnan people brought Minnan dialect to Taiwan Province Province. Unexpectedly, the place where Heluo dialect was originally spoken no longer speaks Heluo dialect.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang and his son led the troops into Fujian to suppress rebellion, and then settled in Zhangzhou, bringing the Middle Ages in the north in the 7th century. /kloc-in the 20th century, Wang Chao brothers led troops into the rebellion in Huang Chao, Fujian Province, and brought them into the Middle Ages at that time. From the above two groups of immigrants, the northern spoken language has evolved into the basis of the so-called "Minnan dialect". Mainly distributed in the Jiulong River Basin, including Zhangzhou, Longyan, xinluo district and Zhangping.

Circulation reason

Minnan, Taiwan Province Province and other places inherit this culture, which is called "Minnan dialect". In the long history of China's traditional culture, the significance of Minnan dialect lies in that our Chinese ancestors in the Central Plains avoided the language changes brought about by the ethnic integration in the Central Plains during many great migrations, and completely preserved the ancient Henan dialect in the Tang, Wei, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods, that is, the Central Plains dialect at that time.

Because Japanese mainly comes from the ancient Chinese of Han nationality in China who migrated to Japan, the languages of ethnic minorities in northern China, Malay, English and Japanese (most of Taiwan Province Province is influenced by Japanese), today Japanese people read Buddhist scriptures and sing poems, and their pronunciation is almost the same as that of Minnan people reading Buddhist scriptures in ancient Chinese, which is enough to explain why many Buddhist scriptures are transliterated or paraphrased in Putonghua, while Minnan is easy to understand. This is why many mages often lament that the loss of Chinese pronunciation in Minnan is a great loss for people who recite Buddhist scriptures.

In addition to Minnan dialect and Taiwan Province Province, Minnan dialect is also popular in China, northeastern Fujian, Chinese mainland and parts of Southeast Asian countries and regions. The spread of Minnan dialect is mainly due to the migration and immigration of Minnan people in history.