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Expression of person, categorized by generation

The most important event to impact on Hangzhou's dialect was its establishment as Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.When the Northern Song Dynasty was conquered by the Jin Dynasty in 1127, large numbers of northern refugees fled to what is now Hangzhou, speaking predominantly Mandarin of the Henan variety.Within 30 years, contemporary accounts record that immigrants outnumbered natives in Hangzhou.