Groups of hundreds of non-Chinese Yue tribes being native to the Yangtze River, where it is south of the Yellow River. About 5,000 years earlier, the Chinese (formerly called Huaxia) arrived from the Tibetan Plateau, and defeated the Hmongs as well as stealing their homeland to establish the Chinese Civilization. Many Hmongs fled southwards to come in contact to form friendships with certain Yue tribes. Thousands of years later until the Qin dynasty period, the Chinese made a lot of conquests to enslave and assimilate the Baiyue people of different Yue kingdoms, especially the Nanyue Kingdom and Minyue Kingdom, into their empire. The Baiyue people who were left behind in South China after being conquered by the Chinese, and the Sinicization was complete during the Song dynasty period, became Sinicized Viets, notably Hokkien, Cantonese, and Hakka, who acted Chinese culturally, many of them forgotten their Baiyue ancestors, and worship only the Chinese. However, ethnic South "Chinese" retain moderate traces of Chinese DNA mostly on their father side, although they preserve high traces of Baiyue DNA mostly on their mother side with small traces of Baiyue DNA on their father side as a result of intermarriages. The Baiyue people who fled to Southeast Asia and Pacific islands became the Vietnamese, Thais, Laotians, Filipinos, etc. Curiously, Vietnam means "South of Yue" to indicate that the Vietnamese came from the Yangtze River before settling in the Red River Delta.
Baiyue people/Bách Việt people, especially Tai-Kadai and Hmong-mien tribes, practiced rice cultivation, shortening hair, head dressing, teeth pulling, fishing, etc. Baiyue people are more or less the Native Americans of East/Southeast Asia.
by TheUnknown21 January 28, 2020