1. There are three important sources for Central Plains immigrants to move into Chaoshan: First, the registration of teachers and officials in the Song Dynasty; Second, some of the soldiers and civilians who fled south with the Second Emperor in the late Southern Song Dynasty were scattered in Chaoshan; Third, the families who moved in from Fujian and Jiangxi in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The third source is the largest population.
2. Han people who moved into Chaoshan area can be roughly divided into two branches: Fulao people and Hakkas. The Fulao people occupy the plains, while the Hakkas live in the mountains. These two branches are also two important branches of Chaoshan people's families today.
3. The most important difference between the two branches of Fulao people and Hakka people lies in language: Fulao people speak Chaoshan dialect in southern Fujian, while Hakka people speak Hakka dialect. Judging from the migration route of Chaoshan, Fulao people moved in from the southern coast of Fujian, while Hakkas gradually distributed from the western mountainous areas of Jiangxi to the mountainous areas of Fujian and Guangdong.
4. Fulao people and Hakkas are both Han people from the Central Plains. Hakka's mother tongue is the elegant language of the Central Plains. After arriving in the south, they absorbed some indigenous languages and formed the present Hakka dialect.
Extended data:
Hakka, a Han nationality whose mother tongue is Hakka, is an important part of local residents in China, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and Taiwan Province provinces. Hakka, as an ancient Han immigrant group in the south, is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups in the world.
Historically, almost all ethnic groups in China have experienced the migration of past dynasties and developed to this day. Today, the aborigines in Beijing and Shanghai are mainly immigrants hundreds of years ago, especially the main ethnic groups in Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces. Therefore, in thousands of years of migration history, Hakkas, like other migrant groups, have become aborigines in many places.
It is estimated that there are about 80 million Hakkas in the world. Among them, about 50 million people are distributed in more than 80 cities and counties in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuan and Hainan provinces. There are about 25 million local Hakkas in Guangdong province, accounting for one-third of the local ethnic groups in Guangdong.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Where do the Hakkas come from?
Baidu encyclopedia-Hakka