The origin of Minnan dialect

Minnan dialect originated in the Yellow River and Luoshui River Basin. In order to avoid the war, the Han people in the Central Plains moved to southern Fujian on a large scale three times in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and brought Heluo dialect to Fujian. The Minnan language other than Minnan language is the result of the outward migration of Minnan people.

Today's Minnan dialect is a dialect gradually formed by the exchange and combination of Bamin ancient sounds and foreign languages on the basis of Yidi people (indigenous people in ancient Fujian and Vietnam) and northern Han people who moved to Fujian many times, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

The main pronunciation characteristics of Minnan dialect are: 1, most of the ancient voiced words can be flat, and they don't exhale when pronounced today; 2. Recite knowledge, board, etc. , sometimes retaining the split sound, becoming [t] and [I]; 3. No light lip sounds [v] and [F]; 4. It rhymes with [-m], [-p], [-t] and [-k]; 5. There are seven tones, most of which are different from the ancient tone system. In addition, in Minnan language, there are great differences between written language and white language. White pronunciation represents the long-standing source of local dialects. According to textual research, it is a unique phonetic system formed by the combination of Chinese brought by the migration of Han people from the Central Plains to the south in Qin and Han Dynasties and the local languages of Fujian and Vietnam. On the other hand, the phonology is the expression that the local dialect is close to the authoritative dialect (ancient elegance and vulgarity, common language, modern Putonghua, modern Chinese, vocabulary, grammar, etc.).

Minnan dialect retains a considerable number of phonetics and vocabulary in ancient China, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and is called the living fossil of ancient Chinese in China by linguists at home and abroad. Therefore, studying and exploring the development of Minnan dialect will play a positive role in protecting and carrying forward China's ancient language heritage, studying other languages in China and the social, economic and cultural fields of ancient Fujian and Vietnam.

Minnan dialect is mainly used in southern Fujian such as Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and Longyan in western Fujian. In addition, the most widely spoken Minnan dialect in other provinces is Taiwan Province Province, while in the island of Taiwan Province Province, Minnan dialect is almost the same as Zhangzhou dialect and Quanzhou dialect, except in mountainous areas. Among them, the Minnan dialect spoken in Taichung and Taipei is slightly biased towards Quanzhou dialect; Minnan dialect, which is popular in Tainan and Kaohsiung, is slightly biased towards Zhangzhou dialect. In addition to Taiwan Province Province, the languages of Chaoshan, Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island in Guangdong Province as well as Singapore, Philippine, Malay and Sumatra in Southeast Asian countries also belong to Minnan.

Many people know that Minnan is the official language of Tang Dynasty and Northern Song Dynasty, but few people know that Minnan is the official language of Shang Dynasty.

The culture of the Han nationality developed three thousand years ago, that is, the Shang Dynasty (BC 1765 ~ BC 1 122). Shang Dynasty is the beginning of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Chinese characters and China culture, in other words, the beginning of China history.

Today's Minnan dialect is an extension and development of Heluo dialect, which was originally the official language of Shang Dynasty. When these businessmen spread to Zhou Wang, they were destroyed by Zhou Wuwang. The merchants who stayed in Heluo area were forced to move to Luoyi as slave workers to build a new capital "Zhou", and the lower class was assigned to Wei, Lu and Qi as serfs. The tenacious businessmen left in the East had to return to their hometown in the south of the Yangtze River to develop industry and commerce with rich resources.