Present-day Significance
Those who moved to Manchuria were the poor farmers mainly from Shandong who came over land through Shanhai Pass or over the sea, using the Yantai-Lushun ferry that had opened because of the Beiyang Fleet were stationed in Weihaiwei in Shandong Peninsula and Lushun in Liaodong Peninsula. One of the results of this people movement, for example, is that the majority of the older people in Dalian City are from Shandong and that the Dalian Dialect is part of the Jiaoliao Mandarin, the Chinese dialect group spreading from Qingdao to Dalian and Dandong.
In the present-day China, the Chuang Guandong migration is well researched.
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