Editing Han Chinese (section)

==== Jin–Song wars and Mongol invasion ====
[[File:岳飞像.jpg|right|thumb|[[Yue Fei]], who was a military general of the Song dynasty against the Jurchen (Jin) invasion, is considered a Chinese national hero and is often worshipped alongside [[Guan Yu]] in [[martial temple|martial temples.]]|396x396px]]
[[File:Song Jin Wars.jpg|left|thumb|The Jin–Song wars resulted in the devastation of Northern China and the displacement of more Han Chinese to Southern China]]
The [[Jin–Song Wars]] caused yet another wave of mass migration of the Han Chinese from northern China to southern China,<ref name="PK" /><ref name="SK" /> leading to a further increase in the Han Chinese population across southern Chinese provinces. The formation of the Hainanese and Hakka people can be attributed to the chaos of this period.

The [[Mongol conquest of China]] during the thirteenth century once again caused a surging influx of northern Han Chinese refugees to move south to settle and develop the [[Pearl River Delta]].<ref name="Hunter Publishing, Inc">{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdHeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT16 |title=China's Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou & Shenzhen |year=2010 |publisher=Hunter |isbn=978-1588438119 |series=Hunter travel guides}}</ref><ref name="China: An Environmental History">{{cite book |last1=Marks |first1=Robert B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5638DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA177 |title=China: An Environmental History |date=2017 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1442277892 |edition=2nd |page=177}}</ref><ref name="Lexington Books">{{cite book |last1=Zhao |first1=Zhenzhou |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKaE82DAlQYC&pg=PA243 |title=China's Mongols at University: Contesting Cultural Recognition |last2=Lee |first2=Wing On |year=2010 |publisher=Lexington |isbn=978-1461633112 |series=Emerging Perspectives on Education in China |page=243}}</ref><ref name="Cambridge University Press">{{cite book |last1=Marks |first1=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBsfts9wyRsC&pg=PA53 |title=Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China |year=1998 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=113942551X |series=Studies in Environment and History |page=53}}</ref><ref name="Newspaper Enterprise Limited">{{cite book |last1=Herklots |first1=Geoffrey Alton Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HgcAQAAIAAJ&q=pearl+river+delta+mongols |title=The Hong Kong Naturalist, Volumes 3-4 |year=1932 |publisher=Newspaper Enterprise|page=120}}</ref><ref name="Rowman Altamira">{{cite book |last1=Lai |first1=H. Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZjruI0_XmcC&pg=PA11 |title=Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions |last2=Hsu |first2=Madeline |author2-link=Madeline Y. Hsu |year=2004 |publisher=Rowman Altamira |isbn=0759104581 |volume=13 |series=Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans |page=11}}</ref> These mass migrations over the centuries inevitably led to the demographic expansion, economic prosperity, agricultural advancements, and cultural flourishing of southern China, which remained relatively peaceful unlike its northern counterpart.<ref name="Springer">{{cite book |last1=Yao |first1=Yifeng |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qLquDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 |title=Nanjing: Historical Landscape and Its Planning from Geographical Perspective |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-9811016370 |edition=illustrated |page=95}}</ref><ref name="Six Dynasties">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Six Dynasties |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Dynasties |access-date=30 March 2019 |date=4 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330193129/https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Dynasties |archive-date=30 March 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="MS">{{cite book |last1=Entenmann |first1=Robert Eric |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9nqAAAAIAAJ&q=an+lushan+sichuan+migration |title=Migration and settlement in Sichuan, 1644-1796 |year=1982 |publisher=Harvard University |page=14}}</ref><ref name="QC">{{cite book |last1=Shi |first1=Zhihong |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jE9DwAAQBAJ&q=an+lushan+sichuan+migration&pg=PA154 |title=Agricultural Development in Qing China: A Quantitative Study, 1661-1911 |year=2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004355248 |series=The Quantitative Economic History of China |page=154}}</ref><ref name="China: A New Cultural History">{{cite book |last1=Hsu |first1=Cho-yun |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2_GQpLPPl8C&pg=PA194 |title=China: A New Cultural History |year=2012 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0231528184 |edition=illustrated |series=Masters of Chinese Studies |page=194}}</ref><ref name="The History of China">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QV5Wp2fJbzMC&pg=PA127 |title=The History of China |year=2010 |publisher=Rosen |isbn=978-1615301096 |editor-last1=Pletcher |editor-first1=Kenneth |series=Understanding China |page=127}}</ref><ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3FLAQAAIAAJ&q=an+lushan+sichuan+migration |title=Chinese journal of international law, Volume 3 |year=2004 |page=631}}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=September 2024}}