There are many elements which can show the status of female in Minnan (South Fujian Province).

"Historically the Hakka people and Minnan people didn' t live peacefully side by side," he said.

"The Minnan ones are older, and there are probably more of them," he added.

The Minnan people also built some of the largest tulou, with diameters of nearly a tenth of a mile.

China industry cluster mainly centres in Pearl River Delta, the Changjiang Delta, ring Bohai Sea Gulf and the south of Fujian Province area.