Why does Oriental Fuma Village attract the attention of the Chinese community in the world?

Fuma Village, located in Sigeng Town, Dongfang City, Hainan Province, was a "Fuma Village" that caused a sensation in the Chinese community in the world in 1983. The original meaning of "attaching a horse" is "taking a horse instead of walking". Since the Sui Dynasty, Changhua River Basin has been a station. At that time, soldiers had dual identities, both military and local. Wear helmets and armour in wartime, abandon armour and return to the fields at ordinary times, and the war horse becomes a means of transportation. In addition, fuma village is adjacent to the stationing station, and the villagers mostly station troops and raise horses, hence the name "fuma village". The village was originally located in the west of Yingxian Village, Sigeng Town. Because it is close to the sea, it is often harassed by pirates./kloc-moved here 0/00 years ago.

Why does Fuma Village attract the attention of the Chinese community in the world? It turns out that there is a unique dialect in the village that has been circulating for 600 years and outsiders can't understand it-Attached Horse Dialect. The villagers in Fuma village use Fuma dialect internally, but they can communicate with the outside world in village dialect, Hainan dialect, military dialect, Danzhou dialect, Lingao dialect and even Li Miao dialect and Putonghua. Anyway, outsiders can't understand Fuma dialect.

Legend has it that during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, many immigrants from different places came to the eastern coastal areas. They speak the local dialect, which makes communication extremely inconvenient. Later, local officials classified all foreign and local dialects and asked each village to choose a dialect as its own village language by "drawing lots". On this day, all the villages chose their own village language, but the representatives of Fuma Village were late. So, they decided to take part of various dialects and form their own village dialect. This leads to the special phenomenon that people in Mafu village can understand other village languages and communicate with the outside world in other village languages, and vice versa.

In the field of language research, there is a saying called "dialect island", which refers to an isolated communication language used by a few people because a certain language or dialect is "surrounded" by other languages or dialects. Therefore, "Fuma dialect", as a typical representative dialect of "village dialect", has attracted the attention and research of Ouyang Juezai, a famous linguist of China Academy of Social Sciences. In 1983, he gave a speech entitled "An Island of Chinese Dialect-Fuma Dialect [1]" at the World Symposium on Chinese Dialect Science, which caused a sensation in the world Chinese community.

Among the dialects in Dongfang City, Hainan dialect, military dialect, village dialect and Li dialect belong to four strong dialect cultures, and some villages speak Danzhou dialect. They have not merged in hundreds of years of communication, but have inherited and developed independently in their respective circles. Therefore, the "dialect island" in the East is a treasure house of Chinese studies and one of the "living fossils" for studying Hainan immigrant culture.