The Influence of Three Population Movements on Jurong Dialect

From 65438 to 0853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital. In order to stifle the peasant revolutionary movement, the Qing government built a "Jiangnan camp" outside the stone city, surrounded by heavy troops. Jurong therefore became the main battlefield of fierce fighting between the two armies, which lasted 1 1 year. After wars, wars, plagues, droughts and locusts, the ancient county in the south of the Yangtze River with beautiful mountains and rivers turned out to be "a wasteland full of hazelnuts and bones supporting the sky, with no one foraging for a hundred miles and no one in the countryside." Before the war, there were about 500 thousand residents, and the population plummeted by more than 80%. According to Chen Kangqi, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, in his book nirvana in fire, during the three or four years of Tongzhi (1864- 1865), Jurong and other places "ate people everywhere" and "human flesh sold for 30 Jin at first, but then increased to 80 Jin", which was really terrible!

Jurong city South Township Mopanshan and Fangshan. There used to be ancient wells, temples, villages, giant stone terraces and even an ancient stage on the top of the mountain, which shows that the population is really dense. At the beginning of the war, due to the heavy labor losses in Jurong, survivors and early immigrants gathered farmers from Jiangbei to reclaim wasteland in order to exploit a little surplus value of tenant farmers. However, there are frequent incidents in which Hakkas farmers sweep out cattle fields for rent and flee at night. In order to ease the contradiction and collect more taxes, the local official night government gradually adopted a concession policy, allowing Hakkas to come and settle down and reclaim landless land. Who doesn't want to come to Jiangnan embroidery land? As soon as the hole was opened, a large number of poor people in northern Jiangsu quickly occupied Jurong Beixiang; Immigrants from Henan, Hubei and other places continue to enter Jurong Nanxiang. This also brings an interesting phenomenon to Jurong: at present, Beijiang people mostly use Jianghuai sub-dialect of northern dialect, while Nanxiang people mostly use Henan and Hubei sub-dialects of northern dialect. Although they belong to the same language family, there is a big gap between them.