Unique Zhangjiakou Dialect Culture

Zhangjiakou dialect belongs to Shanxi dialect area or Guangdong dialect area in the northwest sub-dialect area of the northern dialect area, which is the product of the infiltration of many languages into the original Zhangjiakou dialect. Accurately speaking, it is a mixture of Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Shandong dialects, not an independent dialect system. Zhangjiakou city belongs to 7 districts 13 counties within the administrative division. The dialects are mainly Jin dialect, and a few are Jilu Mandarin dialect and Beijing Mandarin Huaicheng dialect.

Before the Ming Dynasty, few people lived in Zhangjiakou except where prefectures, prefectures and counties were located. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the defense against the remnants, the imperial court established a unique garrison system. Soldiers rank in the army and are handed down from generation to generation. Children and grandchildren become soldiers from generation to generation, reclaim land, and combine agriculture with war. At the same time, they immigrated from all over the country to the frontier fortress to cultivate land.

During the period of 1985, the Institute of Language and Literature of Hebei Academy of Social Sciences organized a dialect survey in Zhangjiakou, and found that the dialect in Zhangjiakou was very interesting and full of local characteristics, which was of great research value in historical linguistics, dialectology and Putonghua linguistics.

After the founding of New China, the state popularized Putonghua, and a large number of Putonghua words and standard words were integrated into the spoken language of Zhangjiakou people. Zhangjiakou dialect has changed and continues to change. However, because "Chinese is one of the languages with great differences in dialects in the world", its research work has been going on, and many problems are still inconclusive. Therefore, the development of language is still slower than politics, economy, culture and transportation.