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What dialect is the prodigal son coming back?
The prodigal son turns back to Minnan dialect. A prodigal son refers to a black sheep who fails to do his duty, turns over a new leaf, repents and turns over a new leaf. From dream 81, dream 32. It is said that Minnan dialect originated in the Yellow River and Luoshui Valley, moved to Minnan in the Western Jin, Tang and Northern Song Dynasties, and originated in Quanzhou, Fujian.
Now it is mainly distributed in southern Fujian and Taiwan Province Province, but also widely distributed in northeastern Fujian, southeastern Zhejiang and most Chinese communities in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, Hainan Island and Southeast Asia. There are more than 70 million people who use Minnan in the world. The word "Minnan dialect" has broad and narrow meanings. In a broad sense, it refers to the collection of Minnan languages in academic circles, and in a narrow sense, it only refers to Minnan languages in Fujian and Taiwan Province. Scholars in Taiwan Province Province and the West believe that it is a language, belonging to the Min branch of Sino-Tibetan language family.