What are the customs in Nanning?

The local customs of Nanning-Nanning dialect

Nanning dialect generally includes Mandarin, Pinghua, local (Zhuang) dialect and vernacular. Among these four basic languages, "Tu" language is the oldest, which was used by indigenous people as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. Before the Republic of China, except for a few people who spoke Tanzhou Mandarin, most people in Nanning spoke Mandarin and Pinghua. Yongning County, Wuming County and suburban rural areas mainly speak Zhuang language and peace. With the changes and development of the times, there are fewer people who speak Pinghua in cities, but more people speak Putonghua, and Putonghua gradually replaces the old Putonghua. Most residents speak vernacular, and those who speak vernacular generally know Mandarin. So in Nanning, both Mandarin and vernacular Chinese are acceptable.

1, Nanning Mandarin

Mandarin, here refers to the mandarin of ancient Yongzhou, similar to the mandarin of Guilin and Liuzhou. It is said that before the Ming Dynasty, it was rarely popular. With the increase of officials in the north, Central Plains culture moved south, and Mandarin gradually rose. At first, only officials or people who went to the government to do business spoke Mandarin, hence the name Mandarin. Nanning Mandarin is actually a northern dialect mixed with local dialects, or a northern dialect dominated by Pinghua and Vernacular. In a word, southerners and northerners are not their original colors, but have been localized. For example, if you say "where to go", Nanning Mandarin means "where to go?"

2. Nanning Pinghua

Pinghua is a commonly used language in the suburbs of Nanning and some villages in Yongning County. People in the suburbs speak Pinghua more, and most rural people have spoken Pinghua for generations. According to legend, the ancestors of Pinghua followed Di Qing in the Song Dynasty to exploit southern Xinjiang, and their ancestral home was Baimayuan, Yidu County, Qingzhou, Shandong Province. Pinghua evolved from the Mandarin spoken by immigrants from the Central Plains and belongs to Qi and Lu languages.

3. Nanning Zhuang Language

Nanning Zhuang language is gradually developed from the language of Luoyue people who lived in this area in ancient times. Zhuang people living in Yongning and Wuming counties account for 965%, 438+0% and 86% of the county's total population respectively. Due to the development of society, Zhuang language often lacks some words to express new things. When encountering new words, they borrow related words from Chinese words, so Zhuang people generally use Chinese characters and Chinese when reading books, newspapers and walking.

4. Nanning dialect

Vernacular is a representative local language in Nanning. In fact, these words are mainly imported from Guangdong businessmen, so they are also called "Cantonese" or "Cantonese". Vernacular Chinese is borrowed from Chinese characters, but its pronunciation is generally different from that of Mandarin. For example, "You Tu" means "Here" and "Solution" means "How".