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On March 24, 2021, President Xi Jinping once again returned to Fuzhou for investigation and research. He said an old Fuzhou saying that he would not leave the tigers to rectify, which aroused the old Fuzhou people’s love for Fuzhou City. Video source: Fuzhou Quyi Troupe Performance address: Yijinfang Shuixie Stage, Sanfang Qixiang, Gulou District, Fuzhou City Fuzhou dialect, also known as Fuzhou dialect, is the common language of the "Shiyi" of the old Fuzhou Prefecture on the lower reaches of the Min River. It is the representative dialect of the eastern Fujian region and the mother tongue used by the Fuzhou folk family. It belongs to the Min dialect of the Chinese family. In addition, Fuzhou Danmin also speaks Fuzhou dialect as their mother tongue. Fuzhou dialect occupies an important position in major Chinese language families. Fuzhou people call this language Bàng-uâ, which means "language used in daily life". The Fuzhou dialect is spoken in Shiyi, Fuzhou Prefecture in eastern Fujian (including the current 6 districts and 7 counties and cities of Fuzhou and the two counties of Pingnan and Gutian now belonging to Ningde City), parts of Ningde City and Nanping City, Sanming Youxi County, and the Taiwan authorities The Matsu Islands in Lianjiang County are under its jurisdiction. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, East Malaysia in Malaysia (Sibu Province in Sarawak is called New Fuzhou) and Sitiawan in West Malaysia (known as Little Fuzhou) Fuzhou dialect is also quite popular. Singapore also has a large number of immigrants from Shiyi, Fuzhou who speak the Fuzhou dialect. In the Hokkien communities in North America such as the United States and Canada, the Hokkien dialect usually refers to the Fuzhou dialect. In addition, many Chinese communities in Argentina, Japan, Europe and Australia also speak Fuzhou dialect.