Minnan dialect is said to have originated in the Luoshui Valley of the Yellow River, moved to southern Fujian during the Western Jin, Tang and Northern Song Dynasties, and originated in Quanzhou, Fujian. Now they are mainly distributed in northeastern Fujian, southeastern Zhejiang, Chaoshan, Huizhou, Hailufeng, Pearl River Delta, Leizhou Peninsula, Hainan Island and most Chinese-inhabited areas in Southeast Asia, as well as southern Fujian and Taiwan Province Province. [ 1]