Is there a big difference between Southwest Mandarin and Wuxiang Dialect?

Southwest Mandarin, also known as Southwest Dialect, is the main language popular in Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places in southwest China, as well as most of neighboring Hubei, western Hunan, southwestern Shaanxi, Xinyang, Henan, and northern Southeast Asia (including Kokang area in Myanmar). Some China people in Laos and Viet Nam also use it. According to the definition given in Atlas of Chinese Language, Southwest Mandarin is a Chinese dialect with a certain tone or four tones similar to those of Chongqing, Guiyang, Chengdu, Kunming, Wuhan and Guilin. Southwest Mandarin has an official position in the First Special Zone (Kokang) of Shan State, Myanmar, and it is one of only three branches of Chinese with official status. In addition, the military dialect in the southeast is sometimes considered as a branch of the southwest mandarin.

The dividing line between Southwest Mandarin and Central Plains Mandarin is: the upper reaches of Huaihe River-Tongbai Mountain-Nanyang/Zhumadian City Boundary-Niutoudian-Zhenpingbei-Chongqing Shaanxi Province Boundary-Zhengyang Southwest-Huali-Langaobei-Donghe-Ziyang East-Hanwang-Hanyin West-Wang Mu-Zhenanbei-Shiweng-Zhashui East-Yingpan-Huo Guang Street-Foping Northwest.

Atlas of Chinese Language classifies all the Southwest Mandarin in southern Shaanxi into Southwest Mandarin. However, there are obvious differences between the east and the west of southwest mandarin in southern Shaanxi. The southwest mandarin in Ankang area in the east is similar to that in northern Hubei, and has the same historical origin. The southwest mandarin in Hanzhong area in the west is similar to that in Chengdu and has the same historical origin. According to the dialect characteristics and historical sources, the east and west of Southwest Mandarin in southern Shaanxi should belong to the north of Southwest Mandarin (or Wutian) respectively.

Hanyin Dialect: Hanyin Dialect belongs to the southwest mandarin area, located in the transitional zone between north and south dialects, at the junction of southwest mandarin, central plains mandarin and Jianghuai mandarin, and has obvious characteristics of dialect integration. Hanyin immigrants are mainly from Hunan, followed by Hubei, Henan and Guangdong. So there are a large number of Xiang words and some Cantonese words in pronunciation and vocabulary. Compared with Shiquan County, Hanyin County is greatly influenced by Sichuan.

There are three or four schools of thought about Hanyin dialect. One school thinks Hanyin dialect belongs to Qin Long dialect in the Central Plains, and the other school thinks it belongs to Southwest Mandarin. However, it is controversial which Hanyin dialect belongs to Chengdu-Chongqing dialect in Southwest Mandarin. However, due to the obvious differences between Hanyin dialect and Shiquan dialect (from the perspective of dialect vocabulary and tone value, it is similar to Jingzhou Changde dialect at the junction of Hunan and Hubei), Shiquan dialect is more typical.

Wu dialect, also known as Jiangdong dialect, Jiangnan dialect and wuyue dialect. The Zhou Dynasty has a long history of more than 3,000 years and profound connotation. In China, it is distributed in Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, southern Anhui, northeastern Jiangxi and northern corner of Fujian, with a population of about 1 100 million. Wu dialect, one of the seven major dialects in China, has an international language code. From the analysis of history, writing style and language characteristics, Wu dialect is very close to the Middle Ages, and inherits the neat framework system of eight tones and thirty-six characters in Middle Ages. Modern Wu dialect has more archaic factors than Mandarin, and its phonetic and linguistic elements are highly consistent with ancient rhyme books such as Qieyun and Guang Yun.

Wu dialect retains all voiced sounds, flat rhymes, sharp sounds and many ancient Chinese words in some areas, which has high cultural value. The grammatical structure of Wu dialect is very different from that of Putonghua, with thousands of unique words and many characteristic words, which is a vivid embodiment of Jiangnan people's way of thinking, living atmosphere and cultural accomplishment. Wu dialect is the mother tongue of Wuyue people, and more than 100 cities constitute the Wu dialect urban agglomeration headed by Shanghai and the Jiangnan cultural circle. Wu dialect is closely related to the culture of Wu and Yue. "The meaning of drunkenness is not wine, but Wu Sheng is charming".

Xiang dialect, also known as Xiang dialect or Hunan dialect, belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family and is the main language used by Huxiang people living in Xiangjiang River basin and its branches. Xiang dialect is divided into new Xiang dialect and old Xiang dialect, represented by Changsha dialect and Shuangfeng dialect. The core area of ancient Chu language is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Chu language is the ancestor of Xiang language. The users of modern Xiang dialect are mainly distributed in a considerable part of Chinese mainland, Hunan Province, including Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, Yueyang, Yiyang, Loudi, Hengyang, Shaoyang and Yongzhou. The population in 20 10 is about 45 million, accounting for about 4% of the Han population. It is the 33rd most populous language in the world.

The regional dialects in Hunan Province include Xiang dialect, Southwest Mandarin, Gan dialect and Hakka dialect, as well as Xiangxiang dialect and Xiangnan dialect, which have not yet been attributed. Xiang dialect is the main dialect in Hunan province, which is a complex dialect area, and there are some Xiang islands outside Hunan province.