Settling in Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, they intermarried with the local She and Yao peoples, giving rise to a distinctive ethnicity with its own language and culture.
客家人本是中原漢族，因歷代戰亂南遷，與閩、粵、贛等地的畬族、瑤族通婚，漸漸形成特殊族群，擁有自己的語言及文化。