Dialects in Zhangjiakou area

The dialects here are mainly Jin dialect, and there are a few Hebei-Shandong-Henan Mandarin dialects and Beijing Mandarin Huaicheng dialects. Zhangjiakou dialect belongs to Shanxi dialect area or Guangdong dialect area in the northwest sub-dialect area of the northern dialect area, which is the product of the infiltration of many languages into the original Zhangjiakou dialect.

1. Historical evolution: Before the Ming Dynasty, few people lived in Zhangjiakou except where prefectures, prefectures and counties were located. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the defense against the remnants, the imperial court established a unique garrison system. Soldiers rank in the army and are handed down from generation to generation. Children and grandchildren become soldiers from generation to generation, reclaim land, and combine agriculture with war. At the same time, they immigrated from all over the country to the frontier fortress to cultivate land. Zhangjiakou area has also become a model of military-civilian integration and government-civilian integration.

2. The Ming government implemented the garrison system, and a large number of immigrants from all over the country, combining military reclamation with civilian reclamation, reclaimed land and developed production, so that the population here increased year by year and gradually became a settlement. Ethnic groups include Han, Mongolian, Manchu, Hui and Uygur. Mainly Han nationality. Because immigrants in different periods are scattered among the people, after several generations of integration, the original dialect no longer exists, especially the descendants of their descendants, who all use Zhangjiakou dialect.

3. 1985, the Institute of Language and Literature of Hebei Academy of Social Sciences organized a dialect survey in Zhangjiakou, and found that the dialect in Zhangjiakou is very interesting and full of local characteristics, which has important research value in historical linguistics, dialectology and Putonghua linguistics.

4. Dialect division: the so-called dialect, that is, local (or regional) language. The languages of any nation in ancient and modern times have regional differences in dialects. People always speak in a certain dialect. In fact, the Putonghua we are promoting now is also a "standardized modern Chinese" based on the northern dialect, and it is a "national common" standard language.