Is there a big difference between Mindong dialect and Minnan dialect?

Min dialect groups are all homologous, no matter in vocabulary or grammar, such as the word "ren", the white pronunciation of Min dialect is trained as "Nong", and so on.

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, in the process of Central Plains immigrants moving into southern Fujian, the first stop was Nanjing and Zhenjiang (their capital was Nanjing), and some came to Fujian via Zhejiang and settled in Fuzhou and Quanzhou (later Quanzhou branch continued to move south to eastern Guangdong), so the ancestors of Fujian people in Fuzhou were of course from the Guheluo area.

The differentiation between Minnan dialect and Mindong dialect should be in the Tang Dynasty. The literary reading method of Minnan dialect mainly comes from the Tangyin in the seventh century, while Mindong dialect mainly comes from the Tangyin in the tenth century, so it is easy to see the difference between them. Moreover, eastern Fujian is close to wuyue, and the phonetic influence of Nanwu dialect is greater than that of Minnan dialect, so the rhyme ending gradually decreases, while Minnan dialect retains all the six rhymes of Tangyin. Moreover, because Fuzhou is the provincial capital and is deeply influenced by Putonghua, the voiced stops and voiced fricatives in initials have disappeared, but some Minnan languages have been retained. It can be seen that many commonly used words in Fuzhou dialect are closely related to ancient Chinese, many of which can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. The unique vocabulary of Fuzhou dialect analyzed above shows that its relevance with The Book of Songs far exceeds that with The Songs of Chu, indicating that the ancestors of Fuzhou people came from Heluo area, not Jiangxiang area, although the latter is closer to Fuzhou.

Among all the chapters in The Book of Songs, the appearance of The Book of Songs and The Book of Songs is particularly noteworthy. As we all know, the first large-scale migration of the Central Plains to Fujian in history took place in 308 AD at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, that is, the so-called "dressing in the south" or "eight surnames entering Fujian". The so-called "eight surnames" are Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu, among which Lin, Chen, Zheng and Wang, who entered Fujian in the late Tang Dynasty, together constituted the four surnames of Fuzhou in the early 20th century. At that time, there was a saying that "Lin Zhenyi and Wang Zheng were mostly in various places" ("Wang Zheng" is homophonic with a local fruit called "Huang Dan" in Fuzhou dialect). The formation of Fuzhou dialect is considered to have occurred before and after "Eight surnames entered Fujian". According to legend, Lin and Gan were given this surname after comparison, which originated from Mu Ye, Henan; Yellow originated from the Yellow Kingdom and was located in Huangchuan, Henan Province. After the national subjugation, it took the country as its surname. After Chen Weishun, the fiefs originated in Chen Guo and Zhou Wuwang were all in Huaiyang, Henan. After the national subjugation, take the country as the surname; Zheng Wei, a member of the Zhou royal family, took the country as his surname in Xinzheng, Henan. These three families are all from Henan, and Taihe Yan is also in Tangyin area in northern Henan, just a stone's throw from the birthplace of the first Lin of the eight surnames. Thus, it is logical that Fuzhou dialect is influenced by ancient dialects in Henan, especially in northern Henan. If the analysis of a single word can't prove the overall situation of Fuzhou dialect, the fact that reading Tang poetry and Song poetry in Fuzhou dialect can rhyme better really makes up for this deficiency to a great extent. I feel that there are more people who speak Minnan dialect.