What's the difference between Sichuanese?

There is little racial difference, but the social form of Chongqing in Sichuan is different from other places in China. With such a large place and such a large population in Chongqing, Sichuan, except for a few counties and towns that speak Hakka, the grammar, pronunciation and intonation of Sichuan dialect are basically the same, mainly because some people have different names from insects in some places.

For example, Hunan people who often boast about Sichuan immigrants, and those who speak Southwest Mandarin, Xiang dialect, Gan dialect and Hakka dialect each occupy a seat and speak their own words. Also classified as Xiang dialect, there are different sounds in ten miles, and many local dialects can't understand each other and can't communicate.

North to southern Shaanxi and Gansu, south to Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, northern Hubei and Hunan, a small part of Southwest Mandarin which is very similar to Sichuan dialect. How many centuries of education (especially spread by scholars) and immigration have made it possible? The colonial differentiation rule of the Qing dynasty could never allow such a wide spread of interoperable languages. Modern Sichuan dialect must be dominated by the existing languages in Sichuan before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, rather than influenced by immigrants in the Qing Dynasty. We can see the influence scope and height of Chinese civilization in Bashu area before Ming and Qing Dynasties. The labor-intensive industrial economy and the cost of overseas exchange and transportation mainly come from the late Qing Dynasty. The economic, educational and cultural level of Sichuan and Chongqing areas lags behind some places in China, while the disadvantages of transportation and scientific and technological development are weakening.

"Huguang fills Sichuan" is just a legend. Even intellectuals and businessmen of some local nationalities in the Qing Dynasty deliberately distorted and exaggerated Sichuan society for their own interests or in cooperation with the rule of the Qing Dynasty. How can such a high proportion of immigrants only be traced back to a small Xiaogan township in Macheng? Even now, some people say that there is no Xiaogan Township under Macheng. From the language phenomenon and the group social behavior habits of Sichuanese, it can be seen that immigrants did exist in the early Qing Dynasty, but the proportion was not too high. Obviously, immigrants have peacefully integrated into a more unified, mainstream and highly developed primitive Sichuan society.

Modern Sichuan dialect and Sichuanese are still the continuation and inheritance of the mainstream Chinese civilization in Bashu area before the Yuan Dynasty. Take Hanzhong in southern Shaanxi as an example. If Hanzhong was transferred from Sichuan to Shaanxi in the Yuan Dynasty, then if a very high proportion of the population was reduced and assimilated by the culture of immigrants after the Yuan Dynasty, Hanzhong was under the strong influence of Shaanxi's regional political consciousness and the distorted guidance of someone in Hunan (just as Sichuanese could not understand their own civilization inheritance, and few people in southern Shaanxi strongly believed that it was closely related to the civilization in Bashu area a few years ago), how could it form a dialect that was basically consistent with that in Sichuan and Chongqing?

There are only three possibilities for the formation of large areas with the same language. One is that a group of people with the same language continue to multiply and immigrate to the surrounding areas. The other is that there are specialized scholars to spread and teach the language, and the nationalities with higher civilization are scattered and scattered.

Looking at China from south to north. Except for some places, several dialects in a province or even a city are basically completely different or even incomprehensible, and many even do not understand township languages. If immigrants from the same place only entered Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, Sichuanese did not have basic military, political and commercial rights in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, or the social and regional groups in Sichuan were hostile to each other and had serious conflicts. Is it possible to change the language into unified Sichuan dialect?

As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Sichuan was a prosperous place for the Han nationality. There were immigrants who entered Sichuan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there were also conflicts and wars among ethnic groups outside Sichuan, including few modern Sichuanese who bought genealogy and lived together. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the influence of Chongqing officials and businessmen in Sichuan was extremely weak (if there were so-called immigrants with high status in other places, they had to maintain their ranks and social relations to enter Sichuan), indicating that immigrants were basically poor. Immigrants with good economic conditions rarely fled to Sichuan after the war and slaughter, and most of them can cherish the relatively stable social environment in Sichuan. Sichuan people lost their memory of historical inheritance, probably because a high proportion of intellectuals who belonged to officials and businessmen were killed in a certain period in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties (such as Zhang), which is also a typical example that Sichuan civil air defense fans suffered more losses than other places because they were trapped and lured to the east by disasters.

A few immigrants who secretly disagreed with Sichuanese, mainly entered Sichuan and Chongqing during the period of social out of control in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Nowadays, many people think that their ancestral homes are not immigrants from other provinces, especially in the early Qing Dynasty. First in the early Qing dynasty, I received immigration subsidies, and later I bought genealogy. Second, Sichuanese were weak in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some people's ancestral home nominally belongs to provincial officials and businessmen. What's more, some local officials and businessmen and intellectuals divided Sichuan society for their own interests and cooperated with the Qing Dynasty. They may also use the confused Sichuanese to resist and intimidate the Qing court and fabricate and spread it everywhere during the chaotic period of the late Qing Dynasty.