江淮民系 | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| More than 29.76 million inChina[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (NorthernJiangsu, NorthernYangtze Delta,Huizhou, andShanghai) | |
| Languages | |
| Mandarin Chinese (Jianghuai asprimary,Standard assecondary) | |
| Religion | |
| Atheism,Buddhism,Chinese folk religion,Christianity andTaoism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Jianghuai people,Huizhou people and otherHan Chinese |
TheSubei people (simplified Chinese:苏北人;traditional Chinese:蘇北人), also known asJiangbei People (Chinese:江北人;pinyin:Jiāngběirén), are aJianghuai Mandarin-speakingHan Chinese people of the Subei region (northernJiangsu province).
Due to natural disasters and insurrections in their native region, during theQing and theRepublican periods, they migrated in large numbers to theWu-speakingJiangnan region (south of theYangtze), especiallyShanghai.[2][citation needed]
The Subei culture was seen a symbol of sophistication during the mid-Qing dynasty period, but lost its status after China entered Railway era instead ofCanal Age.[3]
In theMing Dynasty and Qing dynasties, Jianghuai speakers moved and settled into Hui dialect areas.[4]
According to Hirata, however, Hui is composed of many layers: its dialects are spoken in an area originally occupied by the Yue i* tribe, suggestive of a possible substrate, later to be overlaid by migrations from Northern China in the Medieval Nanbeichao period and the Tang and Song dynasties. This was followed by the Jiang-Huai Mandarin dialects of the migrants who arrived during the Ming and Qing periods, and more recently by Wu dialects in particular, acquired by peripatetic Hui merchants who have represented an active