Dianbai district culture

There are three popular dialects in Dianbai District: Hai dialect (or Li dialect) (which belongs to Min dialect and mainly comes from Putian dialect of Minnan dialect), Ya dialect (which belongs to Hakka dialect) and Vernacular dialect (including other dialects that are not called vernacular but belong to Cantonese, such as Yangjiang dialect). Chronology of Dianbai County in the Republic of China: Dianbai language is more complicated than other counties. To be exact, it can also be divided into three departments, namely, Shanghai dialect, Hakka dialect and Cantonese dialect.

Hai language family: coastal language, belonging to Min language. Min dialect is divided into "Hai dialect" and "Li dialect" in Dianbai. It also includes Ma Ta's "Fujian dialect" and "Raoping dialect". Min dialect is the largest dialect in Dianbai County, with more than one million speakers. The Hainan dialect in Dianbai District is mainly distributed in the eastern and southern coastal areas.

Hakka dialect: Hakka dialect, also known as "elegance", is named after its "I" and "elegance". Hakka dialect is divided into "Da Ya" and "Xiao Ya" (Da Ya is the main dialect in Dianbai area). Daya refers to those Hakka dialects that are less influenced by other dialects, while Xia refers to those Hakka dialects that are scattered and greatly influenced by other dialects. There are more than 400,000 people who speak elegance in the whole area. Ya dialect people live in mountainous areas, so Ya dialect is called "mountain dialect" in Volume III of Dianbai County Records of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, as opposed to "sea dialect".

Cantonese Department: Now white people call Cantonese "vernacular". Cantonese has different names, such as Yangjiaobai and Xianshuibai, and also includes the Siyi dialect of Shuguang Chang and the Danshui Yangjiang dialect of Mata Town. There are more than 200,000 Cantonese speakers in the whole area.

Old adage: The old Dianbai county (that is, Dianzhen) was originally the electric guard of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers transferred from the Central Plains to the capital command post were called the forbidden guards. Their descendants were born in cities, and their language is called "urban dialect" because of their place, and "ancient training" (that is, the correct pronunciation of the Ming Dynasty) because of their time (for the Ming Dynasty), because their language is similar to Mandarin today. The population exceeds 10,000. The folk customs of Dianbai are roughly the same as those of other places in western Guangdong, such as the annual regulations, the Temple Fair of Fairy Lady, and the Christmas hometown of Fairy Lady.