Hurry up! Dialect dispute: opposing arguments? 1? three

There is a jingle "Putonghua" in the kindergarten textbook: children who speak Putonghua learn to speak. What words? Mandarin. Li Xiaohua, from Guangdong, met Zhang Erwa, from Shaanxi, and became deaf and dumb because of the language barrier. The local dialect is very difficult, and we don't know what we are talking about. In order to understand what is being said, everyone speaks Mandarin. I deeply feel that this jingle is not conducive to communication. Here I only take Chinese dialects as examples, Sichuan dialect, Guizhou dialect, Shandong dialect, Shaanxi dialect, Fujian dialect ... There are many kinds of dialects in China, and there are various classification methods, so I won't say much about the knowledge of dialects. Except Mongolian dialect, Tibetan dialect, Uygur dialect and Korean dialect, other minority dialects and Chinese dialects have no characters or have appeared but now they have disappeared. Written language has the value of reservation, but it does not advocate that ethnic minorities only learn a single language. The existence of a language without words does more harm than good, and it should be advocated to gradually withdraw from the historical stage. I will focus on this issue below. All Han dialects and most minority dialects share a common ancestor-Northern Putonghua (with Beijing dialect as the standard pronunciation, hereinafter referred to as Putonghua). These dialects are derived from Putonghua, resulting in a large language family, and then a small branch, and then continue to branch. I'm from Fujian, and I know a little about Fujian dialect. I have lived, studied or worked in almost all cities in Fujian, and I think dialects have the greatest influence. She nationality (basically Sinicized) has the largest population in Fujian, with only 600,000 people, while other ethnic minorities have a small population, which means that Fujian is one of the least populous ethnic groups in China, but Min dialect (mostly Han dialect) is the province with the largest variety of dialects in China. When I tell you that I can speak Minnan dialect, you will definitely ask whether it is Minnan dialect, Fuzhou dialect or Hakka dialect ... All counties and cities in Fuzhou speak Fuzhou dialect, which is different, but it does not hinder their language exchange. Minnan dialect includes Xiazhangquan, so it is difficult for Quanzhou people to communicate with Zhangzhou people. Jinjiang people in Quanzhou speak Mandarin with the same accent as Nanyue people. Presumably, everyone has seen South Vietnamese speak Mandarin. People in Longyan, Liancheng, Changting, Yongding and other counties and cities in western Fujian can't understand dialects (all Hakka). Jian 'ou language family is the main language family in northern Fujian, but there are also great differences among counties and cities, and some of them can't communicate directly. Besides, there are many places where it is even more difficult to communicate with other dialects. People will think that the dialect should not affect people's life, study and work, but it is not. Dialect has many disadvantages. Let's talk about the following important points first: First, most people can't learn Putonghua well because they use dialects as their mother tongue since childhood. Many northerners and southerners speak Mandarin, and most of them can understand each other, but almost every sentence contains speculation, and they often guess wrong. When I often communicate with northerners, I don't understand. If it's not very important, I'll go over there and stop saying "Oh, what?" Communication with Beijingers is smooth. For the record, I seldom speak dialects, and I have nowhere to speak them. At most, I can only recognize that I am from the south, and I can't hear the dialect. Second, due to economic and other reasons, people in some provinces are less educated. Some people have only studied for a few years or even never studied, so they have basically never really studied Mandarin. I have met many such people in my work and life (many of them are young and middle-aged), mainly from Guizhou and Sichuan. This is also an important factor affecting the quality of our population. Thirdly, the complexity of dialects is also a factor affecting social stability, because dialects cause differences in people's sense of identity. For example, mainlanders who study and work locally will be confined to their hometown life circle and can only speak their hometown dialect. Locals will exclude people who speak foreign languages or dialects, and some people in their hometown life circle have basically no contact with the local society after work. Foreigners who speak Mandarin (or local dialect) well will have a better position in the local area. In addition, because of the problem of identity brought by dialects, there will be opposition from local people, and people belonging to the same dialect language family will be excluded because of the great pronunciation difference. This kind of emotion will be integrated into some local conflicts of interest, which is a kind of accelerant, such as the conflict between villages close to each other and the conflict between early immigrants and local people. There are some villages where early immigrants lived in my hometown, and a similar situation happened. Fourth, sometimes dialects will bring unhappiness to families and affect social stability. Some family members can make their dialects different, or some can speak dialects and some can't. Using dialects in the family will make other members suspicious and cause tension between mother-in-law and husband and wife. 5. Many teachers can't speak Mandarin well, which has a great influence on students and affects the popularization of Mandarin. Dialect has been affecting the communication between different nationalities and regions in China, which has hindered social harmony, stability and economic development to some extent. I really can't figure out where the "benefits" of its existence are, so I am very cold about dialects. Of course, it is impossible to make dialects disappear or have little influence in a short time. It needs to be strongly advocated, from the government to the people, from politics to economy, and effective measures should be taken. What I can do is to encourage everyone to pay attention to Putonghua education, for example, to let the next generation use Putonghua as their mother tongue.