Editing Han Chinese (section)

==== First wave: Jin dynasty ====
[[File:Wu Hu Uprising.png|thumb|Major nomadic groups involved in the Uprising of the Five Barbarians]]
The chaos of the [[Upheaval of the Five Barbarians|Uprising of the Five Barbarians]] triggered the first massive movement of Han Chinese dominated by civilians rather than soldiers to the south, being led principally by the aristocracy and the Jin elite. Thus, Jiangnan, comprising Hangzhou's coastal regions and the Yangtze valley were settled in the 4th century AD by families descended from Chinese nobility.<ref name="Gernet1996" /><ref name="LagerweyLü2009 34">{{cite book |first1=John |last1=Lagerwey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2nWdWbN3MQC&pg=PA831 |title=Early Chinese Religion: The Period of Division (220–589 AD) |first2=Pengzhi |last2=Lü |publisher=Brill |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-04-17585-3 |page=831}}</ref> Special "[[Commandery (China)|commanderies]] of immigrants" and "white registers" were created for the massive number of Han Chinese immigrating during this period <ref name="Gernet1996" /> which included notable families such as the Wang and the Xie.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nicolas Olivier Tackett |title=The Transformation of Medieval Chinese Elites (850–1000 C.E.) |url=http://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/slides/Dissertation.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220551/http://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/slides/Dissertation.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=12 December 2017 |website=History.berkeley.edu}}</ref> A religious group known as the [[Celestial Masters]] contributed to the movement. Jiangnan became the most populous and prosperous region of China.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOzKGAAACAAJ |title=Historical Atlas of the Classical World, 500 BC–AD 600 |publisher=Barnes & Noble |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7607-1973-2 |page=2.25}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Haywood |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQMUNgAACAAJ |title=Historical Atlas of the Medieval World, AD 600–1492 |last2=Jotischky |first2=Andrew |last3=McGlynn |first3=Sean |publisher=Barnes & Noble |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-7607-1976-3 |pages=3.21}}</ref>

The [[Upheaval of the Five Barbarians|Uprising of the Five Barbarians]], also led to the resettlement of Fujian. The province of Fujian - whose aboriginal inhabitants had been deported to the Central Plains by Han Wu Di, was now repopulated by Han Chinese settlers and colonists from the Chinese heartland. The "Eight Great Surnames" were eight noble families who migrated from the Central Plains to Fujian - these were the Hu, He, Qiu, Dan, Zheng, Huang, Chen and Lin clans, who remain there until this very day.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dean |first1=Kenneth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSiwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA341 |title=Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods |last2=Zheng |first2=Zhenman |date=2009 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9047429463 |page=341 |access-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803004031/https://books.google.com/books?id=lSiwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA341 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Xu |first1=Bin |title=From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia |last2=Xie |first2=Bizhen |date=2013 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3643903297 |editor1-last=Li |editor1-first=Tang |edition=illustrated |page=270 |chapter=The Rise and Fall of Nestorianism in Quanzhou during the Yuan dynasty |access-date=29 March 2019 |editor2-last=Winkler |editor2-first=Dietmar W. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYaMuV3N5vUC&pg=PA270}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Szonyi |first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6La08w3cBcAC&pg=PA27 |title=Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China |date=2002 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0804742618 |edition=illustrated |page=27 |access-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802235300/https://books.google.com/books?id=6La08w3cBcAC&pg=PA27 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Zheng |first1=Zhenman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q6l_WOr1lLYC&pg=PA190 |title=Family Lineage Organization and Social Change in Ming and Qing Fujian |year=2001 |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press |isbn=0824823338 |page=190}}</ref>