Wuyue people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 80,102,480 (2013) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 China
|
Zhejiang Jiangsu Shanghai Anhui Jiangxi Fujian |
 Hong Kong
|
As part of Mainlander population |
 Republic of China (on Taiwan) |
As part of Mainlander population |
 United States
|
As part of Chinese American population |
 Australia
|
As part of Chinese Australian population |
 Italy
|
Majority of Chinese people in Italy |
 France
|
350,000 (Wenzhou), largest community of the Chinese diaspora in France |
 Singapore
|
>22,000 |
| Languages | |
| Wu Chinese dialects and Standard Mandarin | |
| Religion | |
| Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion. Small Christian minorities. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Han Chinese | |
The Wu-speaking Chinese, also known as Wuyue people (simplified Chinese: 吴越人; traditional Chinese: 吳越人; pinyin: Wúyuè rén; Shanghainese: [ɦuɦyɪʔ ɲɪɲ]) or Jiang-Zhe people (江浙民系) are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese. They are a Wu Chinese-speaking people who hail from southern Jiangsu province, the city of Shanghai, all of Zhejiang province, as well as smaller populations in Xuancheng prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province, Shangrao, Guangfeng, and Yushan counties of northeastern Jiangxi province, and some parts of Pucheng county in northern Fujian province.
For much of its history and prehistory, the Wuyue region has been home to several neolithic cultures such as the Hemudu culture, Majiabang culture, and the Liangzhu culture. Both Wu and Yue were two kingdoms during the Zhou dynasty, and many such allusions to those kingdoms were attributed in the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Zuo Zhuan, and the Guoyu. Later, after years of fighting and conflict, the two cultures of Wu and Yue became one culture through mutual contact and cultural diffusion. The Chu state from the west (in Hubei) expanded into this area and defeated the Yue state.
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