Min-speaking peoples (simplified Chinese: 闽民系; traditional Chinese: 閩民系; pinyin: Mǐn mínxì) are a major subgroup of ethnic Han Chinese people, speaking Min Chinese languages. They mainly live or trace roots from Fujian, Hainan, Southern Zhejiang and Guangdong province's Leizhou and Chaoshan regions. In the Chinese diaspora, they form the majority of people in Taiwan and the majority of Han Chinese in Southeast Asian countries, like Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The first two countries have majority Teochew-speaking Chinese minorities, whereas the last four house Hokkien-speaking Chinese minorities.

Subgroups

A turtle-back tomb surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped or Ω-shaped ridge, the traditional burial style of Southern Fujian.[1]

Mainland China

Fujian

Guangdong

Zhejiang

Hainan

Japan

Taiwan

Philippines

Brunei

Malaysia

Singapore

Indonesia

Myanmar

Thailand

Cambodia

Vietnam

Madagascar

See also

References

  1. ^ de Groot, Jan Jakob Maria (1892), The Religious System of China, vol. III, Brill Archive, pp. 941–942, 1081–1082