Chinese descent

The ancestors of the Han nationality were small at first, and the Chinese used was relatively simple. Later, due to the development of society, residents gradually expanded around, or moved to distant places collectively, or came into contact with foreigners, and Chinese gradually differentiated, resulting in dialects distributed in different regions. Chinese dialects are widely distributed, with a population of over 900 million. Mandarin dialect is commonly known as Northern Dialect, that is, Northern Dialect in a broad sense, and is generally called "great north Dialect". Among the main dialects of Chinese, Mandarin has a prominent position and influence. /kloc-In the past 0/000 years, many outstanding literary works in China, from Tang and Song vernacular to Yuan Qu, and then to novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, have been created on the basis of northern dialects, and the northern dialects centered on Beijing have been the political, economic and cultural heart of China since the Yuan Dynasty. They have always used northern dialects in officialdom, hence the name "Mandarin". In fact, it is a communicative language used by people in various dialect areas of Chinese. Putonghua, which is now popularized all over the country, is a modern Chinese language developed on the basis of "Putonghua".

Among several dialects of modern Chinese in China, the northern dialect can be regarded as the development of ancient Chinese in the vast northern region after thousands of years, and the rest dialects are gradually formed by the continuous southward migration of northern residents in history. The early Jiangnan area, mainly inhabited by the Guyue nationality, used Guyue language, which was far from ancient Chinese and could not speak. Later, the Han people in the north went south several times on a large scale, bringing ancient northern Chinese in different periods, which spread to various regions in the south of the Yangtze River and gradually formed six dialects that were obviously different from each other. There are three reasons for dialect differences: first, before the contact between northern Chinese and southern ancient Vietnamese, there were their own regional dialects; Second, the time for northern Chinese to go south is different, and the natural Chinese themselves are different; Third, the southern dialect developed in a certain unique environment. In the development of Han society, there have been different degrees of differentiation and unification, which gradually led to the emergence of Chinese dialects. There are various dialects in modern Chinese, which are widely distributed. The differences between modern Chinese dialects are manifested in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, especially in pronunciation. Some scholars in China believe that most dialects and homonyms have certain corresponding rules in pronunciation and many similarities in vocabulary and grammar, so they are not independent languages. Foreign scholars believe that people in different dialect areas can't talk to each other, so they are independent languages, especially the dialects in Min dialect. According to the characteristics of dialects, the history of their formation and development, and the results of the current dialect survey, dialects of modern Chinese can be divided. At present, Chinese linguists have different opinions on the division of modern Chinese dialects. Most people think that there are seven dialects in modern Chinese.