Why do Ganzhou people speak Liuzhou dialect?

This follows the history of the Ming Dynasty. There was an army in the Ming dynasty: although it was stationed in the local area for generations, the dialects spoken were thousands of miles apart, which was collectively called military dialect by later generations. Military dialect is a special Chinese dialect formed by garrisons or military camps in history, which is mainly distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Qiong and Guangxi provinces.

The Ming government sent a large number of officers and men to the national border, the front line of coastal defense or important places, so they got married and multiplied in the garrison areas and became garrison immigrants over time. Because of the special social identity of health clinic soldiers, it is easy to form an isolated small society in the local area, and the dialect island is also produced.

In the Ming Dynasty, the garrison system was established by absorbing the experience of China in past dynasties and referring to the military system of the Northern Dynasties. This is a system of "combining soldiers with farmers" and combining garrison with garrison. This feature of Wei system adapted to the specific historical conditions in the early Ming Dynasty. Years of war caused a lot of idle land in the early Ming Dynasty, and the government was able to redistribute land and put a lot of land directly under the jurisdiction of the health center, which was fully guaranteed.

In the Ming dynasty, the sergeant of the health center was registered as a soldier. The distinction between military and civilian nationalities is extremely strict. The army belongs to the Governor's Office and the people belong to the Ministry of Housing. The army refers not only to men, but also to family members. Keeping the same position in the world, keeping the same family and keeping the soldiers in agriculture are the three main factors that closely link the medical care system with the residents. The headquarters of most health centers have been fixed since their establishment. Du Siwei not only governs non-commissioned officers and military surplus, but also manages a larger number of family members.

Areas with complex terrain, inconvenient transportation, backward economy and culture, and wide disparity in dialects in the region are suitable soil for dialect islands to survive. As a result, a large number of dialect islands have been formed in the western and southern mountainous areas of Zhejiang. Cixi Guanhaiwei is located in Ningshao Plain, with convenient transportation, but a dialect "Yan Dialect" which is different from the surrounding areas has emerged in the northwest corner of the town. This strange phenomenon was caused by the establishment of Guanhaiwei in Ming Dynasty.

So historical development and social changes have led to this phenomenon.