Are there many immigrants from Henan in Northeast China?

Northeast dialect is probably the most distinctive and well-known local dialect among many dialects in China today. When you were in college, if you had one or several students from the Northeast, no matter where you came from, your accent would always have a touch of Northeast flavor intentionally or unintentionally. Especially after being popularized by many comedians in Northeast China, it is estimated that most people in the country can speak a sentence or two in Northeast China.

Northeast Dialect in Impression of Home

Today, when we talk about Northeast dialect, we often regard it as the dialect of three northeastern provinces, and few people associate Northeast dialect with Shandong dialect. However, in modern China, the northeast was actually a region dominated by immigrants. Most of the residents in the three northeastern provinces came from North China, among which Shandong was the most.

Since Shandong people are the largest province in China, why are there no Shandong accents in the three northeastern provinces? First of all, although Shandong is the largest immigrant in Northeast China, Shandong people are not the only ones who set foot on the journey to the east. In fact, at that time, poor farmers who could not survive in all provinces of China went to Kanto to fight for survival. Among them, northern provinces such as Henan, Shanxi and Hebei are major immigrant provinces.

Brave the Northeast (barely survive in the northeast of old China)

After these immigrants entered the northeast, they did not gather in all provinces, but scattered all over the northeast. So although there are many people from Shandong who venture to the Kanto, they are scattered all over the northeast and live with immigrants from other provinces, forming a * * *? Big mixed residence, small settlement? Situation. Therefore, under the mutual integration of provincial cultures, a unique northeast accent was finally formed.

Second, although the three northeastern provinces are mainly young provinces composed of immigrants, the history of the three northeastern provinces is still counted in a hundred years. As early as the reign of Kanggan in the Qing Dynasty, Shanhaiguan actually had the practice of the poor.

Brave the Northeast (barely survive in the northeast of old China)

It was only because the Qing government at that time always regarded Northeast China as the retreat of Manchu, and did not want to be assimilated by a large number of immigrants. So the Qing government issued bans again and again, and even set a wicker border to prohibit immigrants from going to the three northeastern provinces.

So, immigration to the northeast has a "de-orientalization" argument? Words, not only shows that the future of immigrants to the cold northeast provinces is uncertain, but also shows the risk of violating the Qing court ban and breaking the ban to enter kanto region. However, because Shanhaiguan really could not survive, nearly 2 million farmers from North China entered kanto region despite various bans imposed by the Qing court.

the Northeast area

But it was not until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China that the real large-scale invasion of Kanto was realized. By the time New China was founded, there were about 40 million people in the three northeastern provinces, most of whom were immigrants or descendants of immigrants. By the time New China was founded, it had been nearly a hundred years since the large-scale invasion of Kanto in the late Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, under such a long historical deduction and the blending and collision of immigrants from the three northeastern provinces, the unique cultural characteristics of Northeast China have been formed. Northeast dialect is naturally one of them.

In fact, there are examples to follow. As early as the early Qing dynasty, Sichuan, once a land of abundance, became a desolate wasteland due to the war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In order to really occupy Sichuan and strengthen its rule, the Qing court began the famous? Huguang fills Sichuan? They immigrated from Huguang area to Sichuan area in large numbers.

Huguang fills Sichuan

At that time, a large number of immigrants from southern provinces of China, such as Hubei and Hunan, moved to Sichuan, but today's Sichuan accent has Sichuan characteristics, which is far from that of Hunan and Hubei. Because, although the immigrants from Sichuan mainly come from Huguang area, they have formed their own characteristics in Sichuan after a long period of evolution.

Third, in fact, not all northeast accents have no Shandong flavor. For example, in Dalian and other places in southern Liaoning, their accents are very similar to those of Shandong Peninsula people across the sea. The accents in Dalian and other places are also very different from what we usually think of as the northeast accent.

The distance between Dalian and Shandong

The accents in Dalian and other places are very similar to Shandong dialect. First, Dalian and Liaodong Peninsula are close at sea, which is one of the important routes for traveling eastward. Besides land transportation, the most important sea transportation is from Yantai, Shandong to Dalian, Liaoning. Therefore, in the nearest city in Shandong, many Shandong people who came to Guandong by boat chose to stay in Dalian.

In the last century, China once found in the census that the proportion of Dalian people whose ancestral home is Shandong is as high as 60% or more. This figure also means that the main population of Dalian during the Dongdu period was composed of Shandong people. Under the influence of Shandong immigrants, it is not surprising that Dalian dialect and Shandong dialect are very similar.