Some people say that Hunan dialect is too miscellaneous to even understand what is said between villages and towns. Why?

In addition, Chinese civilization has experienced more than 5,000 years. Although it has never stopped, it has also been divided into generations and sizes. This kind of culture and vassal enfeoffment led to some cultural or linguistic communication problems. Therefore, there is a phenomenon that dialects in different provinces, cities and villages in China are different.

However, no matter how different dialects and languages of different ethnic groups are, Chinese is the inheritance of the Chinese nation's 5,000-year history and culture, forming our distinctive, rich and interesting Chinese dialects today.

I am from Shaoyang, Hunan, and our village is such a wonderful village. There are two dialects in a village, Xinhua dialect and Shaoyang dialect, and the differences between the two dialects are still great. When people who speak Xinhua dialect and Shaoyang dialect meet for the first time, they can't communicate without Mandarin.

I come from Xinshao County, Shaoyang, Hunan Province. Our county was founded in 1952, and was then established by Xinhua County and Shaoyang County. Shaoyang County belongs to Shaoyang City, Xinhua County belongs to Loudi City, and our Xinshao County belongs to Shaoyang City after its establishment, because most of Xinshao County belongs to Shaoyang County. Xinshao County is divided into four townships: 1 1 town. Longxipu Town, Pingzhen Town, Yingguang Township and Daxin Township used to belong to Xinhua County, and all other towns used to belong to Shaoyang County.

There is also a special town, that is, our Jukoupu town, which used to be the junction of Shaoyang and Xinhua, so there are people who speak Shaoyang dialect and Xinhua dialect in our Jukoupu town. Our Caoxiepu village speaks Xinhua dialect, and Maluoqiao village, 800 meters away from our village, speaks Shaoyang dialect. I remember when I was a child, a group of children in our village often quarreled with the children in Maluoqiao Village and would scold us for "eating thatch".

After graduating from high school, I went to County No.1 Middle School. No.1 Middle School in our county is a key high school in Hunan Province. Except for the students in the county seat, students from other places must be the top three in their classes to be admitted to No.1 Middle School, which means that only 10 people can be admitted to No.1 Middle School in a school, and almost 20 people in a town can be admitted to No.1 Middle School. So after entering No.1 Middle School, we found that 90% of the students in the school speak Shaoyang dialect, and we who speak new dialect have become different.

So when I was in high school, my classmates often learned to talk to me. They think our new dialect is very interesting, so let me ask them to speak. At first, I couldn't understand their Shaoyang dialect. What's more, our chemistry teacher still speaks in Shaoyang dialect, and I'm at a loss. About a month later, I can basically understand Shaoyang dialect, but my classmates are not as smart as me. They always don't understand my new dialect, which makes me confused every time I talk to them. They can pretend to speak Mandarin, but they can't understand new words, so I can only imitate them to speak Shaoyang dialect.

If Shaoyang is the most exciting, it must be the famous online Shaoyang North Station high-speed railway station. At present, there are three high-speed railway station in Shaoyang, namely Shaoyang North Station, Shaoyang South Station and Shaoyang West Station. Shaoyang North Station is the first high-speed railway station built in Shaoyang. Why is it wonderful? Because it is more than 70 kilometers away from the center of Shaoyang, it is built in Pingzhen, which is in Xinshao, but it is quite far from our town and the traffic is inconvenient. We don't have a bus to high-speed railway station, so we have to take the high-speed train to the city bus station first, and Hengyang East high-speed railway station is about 70 kilometers away from Shaoyang city center, so many people will choose to take the high-speed train to Hengyang. Shaoyang North Station is meaningless to Shaoyang people. Only in the condemnation of all ushered in Shaoyang South high-speed railway station. Today, Shaoyang North Station is deserted every day.

There are reasons for this multi-dialect.

First, geographical location.

Second, the cause of the war.

Because of the war, people migrated many times. Due to different sources, different times, different words, and the obstacle of terrain, there has been a lack of adequate communication for a long time, and this way of speaking has solidified. Together with the original inhabitants of Hunan, Hunan's colorful dialects have been formed.

Especially at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang's former headquarters had a tug-of-war for many years, which made Hunan people suffer greatly and a large number of Hunan residents fled. After the Ming Dynasty took control of Hunan, a large number of people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places moved to Hunan, all over the land of Sanxiang, resulting in a complex population source and numerous dialects in Hunan.

For this problem, I suggest you read the book Hunan Dialect published by Peng Zerun and Peng Jianguo by Hunan Education Publishing House. This book makes a comprehensive study and description of Hunan dialect.

The historical and cultural formation of these dialects in Hunan is complicated, which is recorded in detail in the book Kui Hunan Dialect.

The distribution of local Chinese dialects in Hunan is complex, mainly in Xiang dialect and Mandarin, followed by Gan dialect and Hakka dialect, and there are also some dialects with unclear attribution (including Pinghua and Waxiang dialect). The minority languages in Hunan mainly include Miao, Tujia, Dong, Burmese and Zhuang.

According to the history and geographical environment of Hunan, there are many dialects in Hunan, and with the minority languages and dialects, it is entirely possible that what you say in the neighboring village will be different, so I suggest that you communicate in the official language.

As the saying goes, one side of the soil and one side of the people, some places are similar, and some places are very different, just like the crops planted in the north and south fields, which are very different. It is a special phenomenon formed by the close combination of human factors and local natural environment for a long time.

The Japanese army attacked Hunan, and their great failure was caused by intelligence errors. Do you know why? In the market, because our army's spy code is a set of password books in Hunan dialects, Japanese bark is difficult to understand. ...

Not in Hunan, most dialects in the mountainous areas of the south of the Yangtze River are very complicated and difficult to understand. In ancient times, people were confined to a small area without good transportation. Over time, a self-sufficient life has led to different languages. When I was a child, the old people still had many dialects, which changed a lot. Not anymore. No matter what dialect in the south, characters are Chinese characters!

I come from Hunan. I can understand all the Hunan dialects.

The national map of Hunan shows that Xiangxi is a mixed area of Han and ethnic minorities, where there are Tujia, Dong and other ethnic minorities, while eastern Hunan is basically Han, and most of them are descendants of Jiangxi immigrants.

From Xiangxi to Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan, it is a continuation of this map of mixed ethnic groups.

These places are inhabited by Han and ethnic minorities, most of whom are descendants of Huguang and Sichuan immigrants.

Because of the complexity of the nation, languages will influence each other. You have me and I have you, and they will be reconciled into a local dialect. The language harmony of different ethnic groups in each region is different. With a large minority population, the language will be biased towards the characteristics of minority languages, while with a large Han population, it will be biased towards the Han side, resulting in mixed languages and difficulties in mutual communication.

In the future, there will be Southwest Mandarin. No matter what nationality you are, everyone will speak Southwest Mandarin, so the old language will be gradually replaced by Southwest Mandarin, and only the remote areas still retain the original dialect.

This is the general situation of similar languages in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

However, there is no confusion in Yunguichuan's language, and Southwest Mandarin has not been popularized in Hunan. Hunan still retains its original language style. As a result, the southwest mandarin of Yunguichuan is more popular than that of Hunan, which leads to Hunan being less popular than Yunguichuan.

From Yunnan to Sichuan, Guizhou, and then to Hunan, you will feel that when you arrive in Hunan, the language changes tone and it is difficult to understand.

But if you go to eastern Hunan and listen carefully, you will find that the language in eastern Hunan is similar to that in western Jiangxi. Language and vocabulary are the same. Eating is called pinching rice, and sleeping is called drowsiness.

Hunan is influenced by Southwest Mandarin except Xiangxi, and eastern Hunan is not influenced by Southwest Mandarin. It still retains its original appearance. The languages in eastern Hunan are similar, but different. People who started listening didn't understand it, but after a while they got used to it and understood it.

China's language influences and permeates each other, and gradually changes with the extension of the region.

There are primitive language islands among ethnic groups, which are the languages of ethnic minorities, such as the Miao language in Guizhou, and they are still preserved in the deep ditch, but the Southwest Mandarin has not reformed them. Most people in Guizhou don't understand this language.

There are still ancient Chinese dialects in eastern Hunan, but the pronunciation is slightly changed and the vocabulary is the same.

The ancient local languages of the Han nationality include Gan dialect, Cantonese and Minnan dialect. These languages belong to China local languages, especially Gan dialect. Xiangdong dialect is greatly influenced by Chu culture, while Minnan and Cantonese are greatly influenced by Baiyue national language. These languages belong to Chinese influenced by other nationalities.

Is there any ancient pure Chinese in China influenced by other national languages?

Hardly!

China today is being influenced by English. For example, many people no longer use this word, but call it bye-bye Slowly, China's ancient word "goodbye" disappeared and was replaced by bye-bye.

Xiangdong still retains the ancient Xiang dialect of the Han nationality. In the future, with the popularization of Putonghua, these local languages will decrease and eventually disappear.

Hunan dialect is indeed miscellaneous, but what is said between villages and towns is not incomprehensible to people. This is a bit exaggerated, which can expand the scope of this area. If you speak quickly between counties, you won't understand, but if you speak slowly and listen carefully, you can still understand.

My hometown is Wangshiwan, Zhuzhou County (now Longchuan Town, Lukou District), bordering Xiangtan, Hengdong, and the three counties. Our accent there is basically the same as that in Xiangtan County, belonging to the same language family. If foreigners listen to the same accent, locals can still tell it as long as they speak. It is said that our ancestors immigrated from Majiayan Township, Xiangtan County, so they belong to the same clan as Xiangtan County. Zhuzhou originally belonged to Xiangtan and was later divided. I remember that in the early years, old people in rural areas built genealogies and ancestral temples. Our Majia Ancestral Temple was also built in Majiayan Township, Xiangtan County. According to the legend at that time, Jiu paid for the ancestral temple and genealogy in Ma Ying, Taiwan Province Province, saying that he paid $800,000 for it, and he didn't know whether it was true or not. However, according to later news reports, Ma Ying of Taiwan Province Province is a native of Xiangtan County, and he also has a sister who goes to middle school in Xiangtan County. According to the Ma family tree, he belongs to our ancestors. Because Zhuzhou originally belonged to Xiangtan, people flow frequently and the pronunciation is basically the same. Even if there is a little difference, there is basically no difficulty for people from the two places to communicate.

We are bounded by a Xiangjiang River with Hengdong County, and the accent difference with Hengdong County is quite big. If the other person speaks too fast and the two sides are unfamiliar, it is basically listening to a foreign language. In the middle of Xiangjiang River in Wangshiwan Township, there is an island called Wanzhou Island. Their accents are half from our side and half from Hengdong, also called "Jiashan accent". Influenced by the voices from both sides, they have formed a unique accent. I remember when we were young, the daughter-in-law of a young man in our production team was from Hengdong, where she gave birth. After living for many years, she still hasn't changed her accent. Adults and children regard learning her accent as a kind of "fun" in life. That was when I learned Hengdong dialect, and it came in handy many years later!

At that time, I was already working in my present unit, and I went to visit a colleague's house, whose home is Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue. By the way, go to the Hengshan scenic spot in Nanyue and use their local accent to "free tickets". When we went to the top of Nanyue Mountain that day, we looked at the door. Everyone has to buy tickets to enter the mountain, but we also see some people don't want tickets. They all spoke with local accents. They said, "What tickets do locals want?" In Hengshan's words, it is "soldiers eat, do you want tickets?" So I also played my language talent and said this sentence with their accent, which saved my ticket.

I come from a remote village in Hunan. Our dialect is really complicated. People in the same county communicate with each other, sometimes they have to pay attention to it and sometimes they don't understand it. They also asked each other, there are many dialects in the same town, and even a village has several dialects. Xiaocun Street is actually a slightly larger house. There are two dialects, sometimes very different. Generally divided by administrative divisions. In other words, the upper part of the street belongs to Jia county (town), which means the dialect of Jia county (town); When the lower half of the street belongs to two counties (towns), the dialect of the two counties (towns) is spoken. My town is at the junction of five counties and cities, close to which county and city, and close to which county and city with high accent, but it's not all their accents. In a word, the accent is strange and neither fish nor fowl. Of course, the other party may think our accent is strange and neither fish nor fowl. Like myself, the accents of these two towns are quite different from those of other towns in the same county, and not much different from those of the four neighboring counties. Of course, under normal circumstances, our communication is no problem! And because everyone is familiar with each other's dialects, some people can imitate the dialects of many counties and cities casually, some can be vivid and flawless, and of course, some of them are identified as imposters in a certain place because of the wrong pronunciation of key words! Border areas often joke and tease each other with strange words or pronunciations of the other dialect, which is very funny! The pronunciation of words that should not be the same is sometimes the same in dialects, and the same pronunciation in Putonghua is sometimes different in dialects as long as the glyphs are different. Many dialect words can't be found in Mandarin. Dialect is very expressive, far more vivid than Mandarin. Because it is very skilled, it is fast to use, faster than shooting an opportunity gun. The difference between dialects is related to the division of administrative regions. The division of administrative regions in many places has not changed much since ancient times. For example, people at the top always associate with the top, while people at the bottom always associate with the bottom. Over time, the dialects of people at the top and people at the bottom are different! If it happens to be in a village or street, then there will be two dialects in this village or street. Also, the handwriting is related to the area where the river flows. In the two towns where the author lives, basically a river flows eastward into other counties, but our dialect is comparable to the dialect in the area where it flows. However, our two towns are in the opposite direction of the mountain. In fact, other villages are all in the area where a river flows. Their river flows southwest, which is different from ours, but the dialects are comparable. It can be concluded that the activities of the ancients have a lot to do with the areas where rivers flow. Answer for reference.