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| approximately 5 million people | ||||||
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Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Irreligion and Chinese folk religion Small Christian minorities |
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Wu-speaking peoples, Min-speaking peoples, other Han Chinese |
The Wenzhou people, is a subgroup of Oujiang Wu Chinese speaking peoples, live primarily in Wenzhou prefecture, in Zhejiang province. Wenzhou is known for its emigrants who leave their native land for Europe and the United States, with a reputation for being enterprising natives who start restaurants, retail and wholesale businesses in their adopted countries.
Wenzhou natives speak Wu Chinese, which is the spoken language of the people of neighbouring Hangzhou and Shanghai. However, geographic isolation and an admixture of Southern Min Chinese speakers from nearby Fujian Province, have caused Wenzhou's spoken language to evolve into a dialect that has been described as "notoriously eccentric." As a result, people from all over China, or even other regions of Zhejiang and Fujian both have trouble understanding what is known as Wenzhouhua ("Wenzhou Speech" Chinese: 温州话). Many Wenzhou natives also speak a Southern Min dialect called Zhenan Min.
Nanxi is a form of Chinese opera developed in Wenzhou.
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