Where is the birthplace of Southwest Mandarin?

Born in Xiangyang, Ankang and Hanzhong, originally in Han Xiang dialect.

Han Xiang dialect developed from the southern part of Zhongjing dialect (Luoyang dialect) (Xiwan dialect, now Nanyang ancient dialect). Later, it developed to Chu, Ba and Shu, and formed Shangjiang Mandarin centered on Wuhan, Jingzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu and Luzhou.

Finally, Shangjiang Mandarin spread eastward to southern Anhui, western Hunan, northern and western Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Kangba (Xikang), Tibet, Qinghai and other places, and even some people in northern Guangdong spoke Southwest Mandarin. Since the Song Dynasty, southern Anhui and southwestern Jiangxi have been rarely distributed, while southern Hunan is mainly kept in the southwest.

As the birthplace of Shangjiang Mandarin, Hubei has also become Xiajiang Mandarin in the east, southeast and northeast. Therefore, the southwest mandarin should be called Huayang dialect or Jianghua dialect, which is the real "Chinese".

Extended data:

Southwest Mandarin is widely used in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Guangxi, Beijing, Hanzhong, Shaanxi and North Myanmar, with a population of 270 million. It is the most widely used and populous dialect in Putonghua.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were an important period for large-scale migration of Han people to Southwest China. During this period, Southwest Mandarin gradually formed through the continuous influence and integration of dialects. The conquest of the Yuan Dynasty led to a devastating decrease in the population of the Sichuan Basin in the Song Dynasty. History says that there is no one in a hundred miles, and the Shu language is almost extinct. For some reason, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there appeared for the first time the migration tide of "Jiangxi filling Huguang" and "Huguang filling Sichuan". At the same time, hospitals have been widely established in Yunnan, Guizhou and northern Guangxi, and a large number of Han immigrants have moved in.

The great migration of Ming dynasty completely changed the structure of southwest China with ethnic minorities as the main body. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Han nationality had occupied an absolute advantage in the ethnic structure of southwest China. In the Ming Dynasty, the main way to immigrate to the southwest was military immigrants composed of guards and their families, mainly from Jiangnan, Huguang and Jiangxi. In order to solve the problem of "five different languages" in southwest China, the Ming Dynasty promulgated the Official Rhyme Book to solve this problem.