It is said that Minnan dialect originated in the Luoshui Valley of the Yellow River, moved to southern Fujian in the Western Jin, Tang and Northern Song Dynasties, and originated in Quanzhou, Fujian. Mainly distributed in southeastern Zhejiang, northeastern Fujian, Guangdong, Guangdong, Hainan and most Chinese-inhabited areas in Southeast Asia. More than 70 million people in the world use Minnan.
The word "Minnan dialect" has broad and narrow meanings. Generally speaking, it refers to the collection of Minnan languages, and in a narrow sense, it only refers to the Minnan languages of Fujian and Taiwan Province. Most scholars in Taiwan Province Province and the West believe that this language belongs to the Min branch of Sino-Tibetan language family China. In the classification of continental linguistics, it is a kind of Min language in Chinese. Minnan dialect has different names in different places, such as Quanzhou dialect, Zhangzhou dialect, Xiamen dialect, Fujian dialect, Heluo dialect (ancient Henan dialect) and Xuelang dialect. Taiwan Province Province is also known as Taiwanese, Taiwanese, Heluo or Fuling dialect; There are overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia called Min dialect or Shannon dialect.