Gaochun dialect is called the oldest Wu dialect. Why do they all say that?

Let's talk about Wu dialect again. It should have been formed at least in the Southern Song Dynasty, and as we all know, the Song Dynasty was an era with a particularly high level of education, and since the Song Dynasty, the economic center has also moved south, which is very helpful for maintaining culture. As a part of culture, language is natural. Even in daily spoken English, Wu is more like ancient Chinese than Cantonese. People with a good foundation in classical Chinese may not understand Wu, but articles written in spoken Wu can basically understand.

It is still the remains of the bottom vocabulary of ancient Baiyue language. Cantonese retains a lot of ancient Chinese elements, mainly in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Orthodox natural languages such as Eight Tones are classic grammatical norms, while the nine tones of Guangzhou dialect are archaic compared with the four tones of Mandarin. Or simply other minority languages borrowed these inherent words from ancient Chinese, which led people to think that these words in Cantonese were the source of ancient Baiyue, and there is no way to verify them at present.

None of them are close, and they are all seriously influenced by ancient northern mandarin. The onomatopoeic words in Middle Chinese are the closest to Middle Chinese, which are simulated according to the rules of rhyme books and are undoubtedly the closest to Middle Chinese. Cantonese spoken by many people actually refers to vernacular Chinese, not Hakka in the usual sense. The inheritance relationship between Hakka dialect and the later period of Middle Ancient Chinese (subject to the Tang and Song Dynasties) is obvious. China has such a long history, and the ancient Chinese is constantly changing, so we can only analyze which dialect is closest to which era.

We have great cultural diversity in South China, because the accents were completely preserved by Wuyue people and Li people, and now people mainly live in Lingnan and other places in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Later, it was called Baiyue Barbarian, and the "Land Pass Test" said: "From the ridge to the south, the land of barbarians of Tang Yu's three generations is the land of Baiyue." Therefore, people usually refer to the indigenous peoples in the ancient Pearl River Basin as "Baiyue". South Vietnam, Fujian and Vietnam ... Many Vietnamese tribes have different accents, and chickens and ducks don't talk to each other.