What is the origin of Nanchang?

Nanchang is located in the north of central Jiangxi Province, southwest of Poyang Lake and downstream of Ganjiang River. Its dialect has its own system.

Nanchang dialect is the representative of Gan dialect, one of the seven dialects in China. Due to the internal complexity of Gan dialect, the real Nanchang dialect is limited to the areas under the jurisdiction of Nanchang City and Nanchang County, excluding other counties under the jurisdiction of Nanchang City. Then, as a regional cultural system, how is Nanchang dialect formed? What kind of evolution has it undergone? What is its most striking feature?

As early as ancient times, Jiangxi has been widely developed, and its social economy and culture have reached a considerable level. During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Jiangxi was a place where ancient Miao people lived in compact communities. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guyue people lived in Jiangxi, which was successively under the jurisdiction of Wu, Yue and Chu. The languages used by the residents at that time should belong to Guyue and Chu languages. Under the impact of previous waves of immigrants, Chinese in the Central Plains has been continuously integrated with local dialects that were close to Wu dialect and Chu dialect at that time, initially forming today's relatively complex Gan dialect.

In the early years of Han Dynasty, Nanchang began to build a city on a large scale. Records show that at that time, the urban population of Zhang Yu County ranked fourth in China. The migration of a large number of northerners to the south has brought the influence of northern dialects to the ancient Gan dialect. However, the northern dialect of immigrants did not replace it. On the basis of absorbing foreign languages, Nanchang at that time gradually formed its own dialect pronunciation, namely "? Language. " This is the deepest foundation of modern Nanchang dialect.

The Tang Dynasty was strong in national strength and developed in economy and culture. At this time, the Gan dialect represented by Nanchang dialect is quite mature. Later, in the process of historical changes and population integration, Nanchang dialect was further stabilized, developed and improved, forming the Nanchang dialect we heard today.

The most striking feature of Nanchang dialect is pronunciation. First, the 65,438+00 ancient voiced initial consonant with vocal cord vibration during pronunciation is not voiced in Nanchang dialect, but becomes aspirated unvoiced. Such as "copper", "hole", "independence" and "weight"; Secondly, there are many light words in Nanchang dialect, especially those with three syllables and four syllables, and the last few syllables are read softly. Such as "Thin Bud", "Snake on the Wall" and "Beggar in the Paste".

Dialect is a "living fossil" in pronunciation, which was formed under special historical conditions. Tracing back to dialect can trace back to the source and trace of ancient language, and also reflect and embody many factors such as history, humanities and geography of a region.

Now Nanchang, a little attention will find that there are many fewer people who speak Nanchang dialect than in previous years. With the further popularization of Putonghua, the communicative strength of the same language is constantly emerging, and more people express themselves in Putonghua, which is undoubtedly the progress of the times. But at the same time, there is a hidden worry in front of people, that is, will the homophonic sound of Putonghua eventually replace local dialects? Will dialects die out? How to protect dialect culture?

Nowadays, in many families, parents have forbidden their children to speak Nanchang dialect since childhood, saying that Nanchang dialect is rustic. In some school classes, more than half of the students in the class can't speak Nanchang dialect, even if a few students do, they dare not speak, for fear that students will look down on them. This can't help but make people sigh. What happened to the dialect? Is the promotion of Putonghua at the expense of dialects?

In fact, both Nanchang people and Nanchang outsiders have mixed feelings about Nanchang dialect. Many people resist Nanchang dialect because it is unpleasant, rustic and "blunt", so they don't say it. Except for Mandarin, all dialects can't be described as nice. Some people say that the swearing words in Nanchang dialect are not good to listen to, but where is the dialect swearing? It's because local people can understand Nanchang dialect that it's hard to hear, but we don't understand foreign dialect, so we don't think it's hard to hear! As a cultural feature of a place, people should not exclude dialects. Dialect and Putonghua should coexist, and Putonghua should not replace dialect.

Don't worry about the demise of dialects. He believes that with the development of social culture and economy, the communication between people is increasing day by day, and the importance of Putonghua as a homonym is obvious. Therefore, popularizing Putonghua has practical significance and demand. However, no matter how popular Mandarin is, it is impossible to make dialects disappear and dialects will always exist.

Dialect, as a local variety, will constantly evolve and develop itself. It will only transform and improve itself under the influence of foreign languages and will never be eliminated. Of course not. Dialects don't need protection. Dialect and Putonghua can completely rely on each other. Dialects continue to inject fresh blood into Putonghua, and Putonghua also constantly expands the vocabulary of dialects, influencing each other, and different Chinese cultures will share weal and woe.