What do you think of "promoting Mandarin and protecting dialects"?

“Dialects are backward, and I don’t recognize and use local accents very often.”

“Dialects are gradually being assimilated into Mandarin, and children in my hometown can no longer speak dialects. It’s really a sad thing.”

“Dialect vocabulary cannot adapt to more and more new things, and it is inevitable to be replaced.”

“Speaking Mandarin is Chinese identity. Speaking dialects is the identity of one’s hometown, and the cultural importance of dialects cannot be ignored.”

Customally, we divide modern Chinese dialects into seven major regions—Northern dialect, Wu dialect, Hunan dialect, and Gan dialect. , Hakka dialect, Min dialect, Cantonese dialect.

I went back to the village today and suddenly found a slogan from many years ago in a corner of the village: "Learn Mandarin and be a civilized person." I am an undergraduate student in human geography, and I thought about this sentence carefully - has speaking Mandarin become a necessary condition for civilized people?

Let me first state that I deny the idea of ??"Mandarin invading dialects". There is no right or wrong in this matter. It is normal for local languages ??to be changed under the guidance of strong language.

I heard from a friend in the south (I am a northerner) that when he was in elementary school, if a child spoke in dialect, he would be called to criticize by the dean.

I am a northerner. As long as I am in school, basically all children can communicate in Mandarin. Now I am thirty-five years old, and my wife and I also speak Mandarin at home.

So, whenever you take your children back to your hometown or grandma’s house, the children basically don’t understand what the old man’s dialect means.

I now intend to speak some dialects to my children. It may be due to the influence of my professional knowledge in the humanities. I think that the dialects that condense the ancient cultural relics of a region will be passed down to my next generation - the post-10 generation. Disappeared from generation to generation, my heart aches.

We can all imagine the purpose of the country’s promotion of Mandarin: China is a vast country with diverse pronunciations, and the dialects in some places are very difficult to understand (such as Wenzhou dialect, which was also used as a communication dialect during the Anti-Japanese War, with its own encryption effect. Even if it is intercepted, people who are not from Wenzhou will never understand it.)

Promoting Mandarin, which is commonly used across the country, will facilitate communication between various places and will also help enhance national cohesion.

But language is not just for communication, dialect is a blood connection between us and our hometown. Learning Mandarin is about national identity, and learning dialects is about hometown identity. There is no conflict between the two. But after all, in our lives, we speak so many words every day, and dialects and Mandarin always wax and wane. Mandarin is spoken so much that dialects are slowly being forgotten.

I long for a compromise that preserves the diversity of dialects. In this age of the global village, our world has become sufficiently homogeneous - there are similar food streets, similar buildings, and girls and boys dressed in similar styles in every place...

There is nothing wrong with pushing, protect There is nothing wrong with dialects, it’s just that no one is doing it and they are not allowed to push it. Friends who can speak dialects still need to be more persistent.