In the pre-Qin period, residents of Guangdong's southern Guangdong, western Europe, Luoyue, Fujian and Guangdong were called "Baiyue" in history, each with its own caste. After Qin unified the whole country, people from the Central Plains moved to Guangdong one after another, including generals, foot soldiers, businessmen, mother-in-law, bandits and ordinary people. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, a real person, took advantage of the battle of the Central Plains to establish himself as the king of South Vietnam and defend Lingnan. Because the Central Plains people and the Vietnamese people "live together", they know a little about writing and gradually become polite. ... so I taught him to plow crops, make crown shoes, set up a matchmaker at the beginning, marry at the beginning, set up a school and guide etiquette. "(see" were "). The biography of Nan Man shows that since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the culture of the Central Plains has infiltrated into the primitive culture of Baiyue nationality in Wuling area, and has undergone its own development and evolution. Some Yue people migrated abroad, or merged into another nation, or degenerated into another new nation, such as Li and Liao. The southern Zhuang and Dong language families, including Zhuang, Buyi, Dai, Dong, Li and other ethnic groups, as well as ethnic groups in some Southeast Asian countries, all have historical ties with the ancient Baiyue ethnic group. The Central Plains people who moved in from the north merged with the Yue people in Lingnan, and gradually formed the rudiments of Guangfu, Chaoshan, Hakka and Three Tribes, all branches of the Han nationality. In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, some ancestors called "Mo Yao" entered Guangdong from Hunan and lived in northern Guangdong, which became Yao's pre-democracy. Another ethnic group related to Medog spread and multiplied in the East after entering Guangdong from Hunan, which is closely related to the formation of the pre-democratic body of the She nationality. During the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou became one of China's foreign trade ports. Persian merchants and missionaries who believed in Islam came to Guangzhou via the Maritime Silk Road, and some of them settled permanently and became part of the ancestors of Hui people in Guangdong. In the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, the central dynasty successively recruited officers who believed in Islam in East China, North China and Northeast China, settled in Guangdong and stayed in Guangzhou, forming the main body of the Hui people in Guangdong. During this period, businessmen and religious figures with the same religious beliefs in the northwest also came to Guangdong, forming a Hui group. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, some Zhuang people in the mountainous area of northern Guangxi moved to northern Guangdong. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, the central dynasty recruited "gendarmerie" from Guangxi to defend in Guangdong. After returning to the teacher, a few people stayed in Lianshan and other places in northern Guangdong, which is the main body of the Zhuang nationality in Guangdong. During Zheng De's reign in the Ming Dynasty, some Vietnamese went north and settled in Shu Wei, Wutou and Shanxin, Fangcheng, Guangdong Province, and engaged in fishing (1958 was renamed Jing nationality). From the Ming Dynasty to the Wanli period, the central dynasty sent a group of soldiers from Guangxi to Hainan Island to garrison, and then settled in Hainan, which was called Miao nationality in history. Manchu is a descendant of 1500 Manchu Eight Banners soldiers and their families who moved from Beijing and Tianjin to Guangdong during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Revolution of 1911, the officers and men of the Eight Banners Army stationed in Guangdong, encouraged by the revolutionaries, took the lead in breaking away from the rule of the Qing Dynasty, prompting Guangdong to "peacefully change its flag". The Eight Banners of Manchuria changed from the army to the people and settled in Guangzhou, becoming another member of the multi-ethnic family in Guangdong.

As of September 1949, there are 8 ethnic minorities in Guangdong, including Li, Miao, Yao, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu, She and Beijingers.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the administrative region of Guangdong Province has changed, and so have the members of various ethnic minorities in the province. From 65438 to 0965, the Jing people living in Dongxing Autonomous County of Fangcheng were placed under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. 1988 When Hainan Island was built in April, the Li and Miao nationalities living in Hainan Island changed their ownership. By April 1988, there were five ethnic minorities living in Guangdong, including Yao, Zhuang, Hui, Manchu and She.

After the 1960s, especially after the 1980s of reform and opening-up, brothers from other provinces and regions gradually entered Guangdong, and the number of ethnic minority members and their population (described by the new administrative division after April 1988, the same below) and the proportion of their population in the total population of Guangdong gradually increased. According to the statistics of July 1964, the number of ethnic minority members in the province increased to 43 and182,000, accounting for 0.34% of the total population in the same period. According to 1 July 19901statistics, the number of ethnic minority members in the province has increased to 52, with a population of 350,000, accounting for 0.56% of the total population in the same period of the province. The newly added members with 1000 or more are Miao, Li, Dong, Tujia, Mongolian, Tibetan, Dai and Buyi. Moreover, most of the ethnic minorities who have recently entered Guangdong are in large and medium-sized cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Maoming and other cities were inhabited by a single Han nationality before the first national census in July 1 65433, and did not form cities. By June 1990, the population of ethnic minorities in the above cities exceeded the proportion of 0.56 in the whole province during the same period. Many members of ethnic minorities living in Guangdong recently came to Guangdong from other provinces, among which the Zhuang nationality has the largest number. Except for the increase of 1964, most of the Zhuang people in Guangdong moved in from other places. Most of the newly entered ethnic minorities in Guangdong were short-lived and scattered after the reform and opening up in the 1980s, and a relatively stable community had not been formed by 1990. (See Guangdong Government Portal)