Although Min Chinese, especially the Fuzhou dialect, is spoken natively by a third of the Chinese population in the city, it is not used as a lingua franca because speakers of other dialect groups do not learn Min.

Min Dong is centered around the city of Fuzhou ( Fuzhou dialect is the standard dialect of Min Dong ), capital of Fujian province, while Min Nan is dominant in the south of Fujian and into eastern Guangdong.

Pu-Xian Min originated as a Min Nan dialect which underwent major phonological influence from Fuzhou Min Dong.

Glossika divides the Min languages into eight: Northern Min ( Min Bei in Nanping prefecture in Fujian, but Jian ' ou dialect is the standard dialect of Min Bei ), Shaojiang ( eastern Nanping and surrounding areas ; in broader classifications treated as a dialect of Min Bei ), Eastern Min ( Min Dong in Fuzhou and Ningde prefectures ), Central Min ( Min Zhong in Sanming prefecture ), Puxian Min in Putian prefecture, Southern Min ( Min Nan in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen ( Amoy ) prefectures and on Taiwan ( Hokkien dialect ), and in eastern Guangdong province ( Teochew dialect ); Hokkien and Teochew are sometimes considered separate languages ), Leizhou ( on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong ), and Hainanese ( on Hainan Island ; in broader classifications Leizhou and Hainanese are treated as a Qiongwen language or as dialects of Min Nan ).

The Matsu Islands (; Fuzhou dialect: Mā-cū liĕk-dō ̤ or less frequently, ; Fuzhou dialect: 馬祖島 Mā-cū-dō ̤) are a minor archipelago of 19 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait administered as Lienchiang County ( 連江縣 ; Lièng-gŏng-gâing ) under Fujian Province of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

He eventually gathered data on 19 different dialects of Mandarin Chinese, as well as Shanghainese, the Fuzhou dialect of Min Dong, and Cantonese, plus the Vietnamese and Japanese pronunciations of the characters in his questionnaire.

* Mā-cū Bò ̤- bò ̤ ( 媽祖婆婆, literally " Mother-Ancestor Grandmother ") in Fuzhou dialect

Residents of Lianjiang, both mainland and Matsu speak Fuzhou dialect, a branch of Eastern Min.

For the first character, the Fuzhou dialect, the Amoy Hokkien and Teochew, show pronunciations with a velar plosive ( k -).

In Southern Min, it is pronounced as ' go ' while in Fuzhou dialect it is still pronounced " ngu ".

Fuqing has its own dialect which is closely related to the Fuzhou dialect, although the two are not completely mutually intelligible.

( note: the names are rendered in the Fuzhou dialect, which is often radically different from Standard Chinese.

* All of the Min Chinese dialects of Fujian, such as Min Bei ( which includes Fuguing ) and Min Nan ( which includes Hokkien ) and Min Dong ( which includes Fuzhou dialect ).

* The Min Kingdom is established in today's Fujian Province, with Fuzhou ( then known as Changle ) as its capital, by Wang Shenzhi.

* A new city is constructed in Fuzhou slightly south of the original city Ye ( the main street of the city has remained unchanged since that time ).

* Fuzhou City is expanded with construction of a new city wall (" Luo City ").

With the coming of illegal Fuzhou immigrants during the 1990s, there is now a Fuzhou Community within the eastern portion of Manhattan's Chinatown which started on the East Broadway portion during the early 1990s and later emerged north onto the Eldridge Street portion of Manhattan's Chinatown by the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Until the 1980s and before the Fuzhou influx, what is now the western section of Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan was the original size of Manhattan's Chinatown with The Bowery at the time serving as the original eastern borderline of Chinatown and this was where the Chinese population mostly concentrated on the Lower East Side, mostly the Cantonese.

What is now the eastern portion of Chinatown just east of The Bowery, which is considered the Lower East Side was still not as fully developed as being part of Chinatown and it was a mixed ethnic neighborhood population of Chinese Cantonese, Jewish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, African Americans and a small significant number of early Chinese Fuzhou immigrants were already in existence there including Fuzhou gang groups.

Once a large influx of Fuzhou immigrants came in, the eastern portion of Chinatown became more fully developed as being part of Chinatown and establishing their own Fuzhou community primarily on the East Broadway and Eldridge Street portion, which has resulted in referring East Broadway as Fuzhou Street No. 1 and Eldridge Street as Fuzhou Street No. 2 becoming known as the New Chinatown of Manhattan separate from the long time heavily dominated Cantonese community, which is the western section of Chinatown or the Old Chinatown of Manhattan.

Despite the large Fuzhou population, most of the Chinese businesses in Chinatown are still Cantonese owned and because of still the large Cantonese population on the Lower East Side, especially with the Cantonese Community still being the main Chinese commercial district for all of Chinatown and with the Cantonese people living in more affluent residencies that are also important customers to Chinatown's businesses, Cantonese is still a strong Lingua Franca in Chinatown even though Mandarin is beginning to sweep Cantonese aside as a Lingua Franca allowing Cantonese to still dominate the cultural standards and economic resources of Manhattan's Chinatown.

As a result, it has influenced many Fuzhou people to learn the Cantonese language as well to maintain a job and to be able to bring more Cantonese customers as additional contributions to their businesses, especially large businesses like the Dim Sum restaurants on what is known as Little Fuzhou on East Broadway ( 小福州 ), the center of Fuzhou culture.

A significant difference between the two separate Chinese provincial communities in Manhattan's Chinatown is that the Cantonese part of Chinatown not only serves Chinese customers but is also a tourist attraction, whereas the Fuzhou part of Chinatown caters less to tourists.

The Bowery and Chrystie Street is the borderline of the Cantonese and Fuzhou Communities in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Now the increasing Fuzhou influx has shifted into the Brooklyn Chinatown in the Sunset Park section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City and is replacing the Cantonese population there more significantly than in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Brooklyn's Chinatown is quickly becoming the new Little Fuzhou in NYC or Brooklyn's East Broadway ( 布鲁克林区的東百老匯 ).

Gentrification in Manhattan's Chinatown has slowed the growth of Fuzhou immigration as well as the growth of Chinese immigrants to Manhattan in general, which is why New York City's rapidly growing Chinese population has now shifted primarily to the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.

Not only did the Fuzhou immigration influx establish a new portion of Manhattan's Chinatown, they also played a role in property values rising up quickly during the 1990s in contrast to during the 1980s when the housing prices were dropping.

There is also concern that they are more likely to make the apartments too overcrowded by subdividing an apartment into multiple very tiny spaces to rent to other Fuzhou immigrants, which is possibly another factor of slowing the growth of Fuzhou immigrants in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Brooklyn's Chinatown is now the new nexus for new arriving Fuzhou immigrants to settle in NYC and many of them in Brooklyn's Chinatown have also illegally subdivided their apartments into tiny rooms to rent to other Fuzhou immigrants.

A statue of Lin Zexu ( 林則徐 ), also known as Commissioner Lin, a Foochowese Chinese official who opposed the opium trade, is also located at the square ; it faces uptown along East Broadway, now home to the bustling Fuzhou neighborhood and known locally as Fuzhou Street ( Fúzhóu jiē 福州街 ).

The Battle of Fuzhou, or Battle of Foochow, also known as the Battle of the Pagoda Anchorage ( French: Combat naval de Fou-Tchéou, Chinese:, 馬江之役 or 馬尾海戰, literally Battle of Mawei ), was the opening engagement of the 16-month Sino-French War ( December 1883 – April 1885 ).

It also furnished part or all of the revenues of such new undertakings as the Peking Tongwenguan, the Jiangnan and Tianjin Arsenals, the Fuzhou Navy Yard, and the educational mission to the United States.

Fuqing (; Foochow Romanized: Hók-chiăng ; also romanized as Hokchia ) is a county-level city of Fuzhou Prefecture in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.

The university is situated in Fuzhou, a historical city and also the capital of Fujian Province.

Can find in Sibu town, Sitiawan, Air Tawar, Sepang & Yong Peng towns of Peninsular Malaysia where predominated by Fuzhou Clan, Fuzhou city of China and even far west to Jammu and Kashmir ( Srinagar ) of India also selling similar kind of bread like this.

He also studied some local Chinese Martial arts while he was there ( Some sources claim he studied Shaolin Kung Fu in Fuzhou, although historically Southern Shaolin was razed to the ground by Qing government forces more than 300 years prior to his visit.

Fuzhou dialect (, Foochow Romanized: ), also known as Foochow dialect, Hoochewese, Fuzhounese, or Fuzhouhua, is considered the standard dialect of Min Dong, which is a branch of Min Chinese mainly spoken in the eastern part of Fujian Province.

Fuzhou dialect is also the second local language in northern and middle Fujian cities and counties, like Nanping (), Shaowu (), Shunchang (), Sanming () and Youxi ().

The western portion of Chinatown is also what was the original size and historic part of Manhattan's Chinatown or known as the Old Chinatown of Manhattan until the eastern part of Chinatown just east of The Bowery became more fully developed due to the influx of Fuzhou immigrants primarily on the East Broadway and Eldridge Street portion, which became the new Chinatown.

Parallel to this Cantonese community, the newly emerged Fuzhou community on the other side of Manhattan's Chinatown on East Broadway also carries another branch of New York Supermarket and a Hong Kong Supermarket did exist there as well, which burned down in 2009 and now the East Broadway branch of New York Supermarket remains as the largest Chinese supermarket for the Fuzhou community.