What is Cantonese culture?

Cantonese is called "vernacular" in Guangfu and Canton in English. Until the new map of the Republic of China published by 1934? Language area map "Cantonese" is called dialect in Chinese. From the linguistic point of view, Cantonese is a unique dialect in Chinese, with a long history and irreplaceable cultural value.

First, Cantonese retains many phonological factors of ancient Chinese, thus retaining many traditional cultures lost in the Central Plains.

Secondly, Cantonese has absorbed many overseas words, thus becoming a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

Thirdly, Cantonese carries a large number of cultural varieties in Guangfu, which fully embodies the distinctive features of Guangfu culture.

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It is precisely because Cantonese completely retains the rhyme system of Chinese before the Tang Dynasty that it also completely retains the rhythm of Tang poetry and traditional poetry before the Tang Dynasty. China's traditional poetry is a treasure in traditional culture, which not only embodies the personality spirit of ancient intellectuals in China, but also forms a complete and unique artistic form including rhythm, fully demonstrating China's art.

Since the Southern Dynasties, traditional poetry has developed independently from Yuefu. "Yongming Style" first applies the four tones of Chinese to poetry creation, and arranges them according to certain rules according to the change of tone combination of Chinese characters, forming the beauty of "cadence".

On the basis of "eternal style", the poets in Tang Dynasty carried out two reforms: one was to make the four tones dual, namely "flat" and "empty"; The second is to solve the problem of sticking to law, from the combination of law and sentence to the formation of law, to get rid of the shackles of Yongming's theories of illness and punishment, to create a new style poem-legal poem with both procedural constraints and broad creative space, and at the same time to derive quatrains.

By the Kaiyuan period, the rhythmic forms of metrical poems and quatrains had reached maturity, which became an important part of the perfect art form of traditional poetry, and organically combined with the vibrant spirit of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, pushing the traditional poetry art of China to the peak. After the middle Tang Dynasty, due to the impact of nomadic languages in the north, the Chinese phonetic system in the Central Plains split. In the Song Dynasty, consonants and vowels were completely integrated.

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