Cantonese moved here.

Guyue nationality is the earliest ancestor of Guangdong people, the Maba people site in Shaoguan, Guangdong, from19500 to 135000 years ago. This shows that human life in Guangdong has a long history. When Jin Dynasty crossed south, Lingnan became the rear area where Central Plains people took refuge, and a large number of "well-dressed families" moved south. This "300-year-old wave of immigration climax rippled again and again in Lingnan, changing the structure and appearance of South Vietnamese culture in many ways". During the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, in order to escape the war, the people of the Central Plains began their second large-scale southward migration. "These two immigrants have a large number, large scale, long time, high quality and wide distribution, which have had the most direct and far-reaching impact on the social, economic and cultural development of Lingnan."

According to historical records, most immigrants in the Song Dynasty came from Jiangnan. For example, some immigrants in the Pearl River Delta after passing through Xiazhuji Lane live with local aborigines and assimilate Chinese and slang. Generally speaking, in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Guangfu culture characterized by mixed culture of Chinese and slang was formed. Most of the Hakka ancestors in Guangdong came from the Central Plains. For example, most Hakkas are located in Shaoguan and now Meizhou. There are often couplets on the doors of houses in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, which reflects the historical relationship between the characters of Hakkas today and those of their ancestors in the Central Plains.