Dialects in Different Regions: Quzhou Dialect Culture

Quzhou dialect belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family-Chinese language family-Wu language family-Jinqu dialect-Wu Ke dialect, which is a low-lying Wu language. Quzhou dialect has been deeply influenced by the northern dialect and Hangzhou dialect, the official dialect of Zhejiang, so that Quzhou people can not talk directly with the surrounding rural people, but can easily understand some dialects of Taihu Lake. The reading system of Quzhou, Lanxi, Jinhua and other local dialects is actually a regional variant of Zhejiang Mandarin.

The influence of Zhejiang Mandarin on Quzhou dialect is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

The personal pronoun "you" is taken from the description of Quzhou dialect in Qu County Records, not the original "er".

Phonetic system mainly shows the lag of high rhyme and crab reading instead of white reading, such as crab reading and hairy crab reading; Ribs, ribs, ribs mainly read Quzhou dialect.

With the prosperity of literary sounds, the literary and colloquial readings of Quzhou dialect are very rich. According to the phonetic study of southern Wu dialect, the literary reading in Jinhua and Quzhou is the richest in Wu dialect. Some words are the same as those in Hangzhou dialect, such as: don't be firm, empty fishing, slim, things, what to do, which to do, erosion; Middle-aged and elderly people in Quzhou call money "elegant coin", which is said to come from the words "Masayuki" and "Yahuan" in Song and Ming Dynasties. Hangzhou dialect existed in the spoken language of Fang Xiang before Ming Dynasty.

Quzhou dialect is similar to Changshu and Zhangjiagang. Traditionally, Suzhou and Wuxi were also smooth-tongued women, but now they are only in rural areas. Jinhua and Ningbo were separated until a century ago. In addition, Shanghai dialect has a certain influence on Quzhou dialect. The sentence pattern of "Maote" that emerged in 1990s is Shanghai dialect, which has a certain influence on other Wu dialects in general.