The Local Historical Background of Guangji Dialect

Phonetics and words are special, and some expressions of ancient Chu language are preserved, which have similarities with southwest Mandarin in southwest provinces and Fujian and Guangdong dialects. For example, the trunk and trunk pipes are the same as those of Min dialect, Ju, Ji and Zui, and are the same as those of Cantonese (Qiao Hua and Longping are also the same as those of Ji).

Guangji is located in Wutou Chuwei. Before democracy, Jiangxi moved in from Song and Ming Dynasties, and Jiangxi people mainly moved out from Heluo area in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the end of Tang Dynasty. Heluo people moved to Fujian and Guangxi in the south, and moved to Guangji in the north, a piece of Jiangbei Plain. Therefore, there are many medieval sounds in Guangji dialect, which is different from the southwest dialects in other parts of Hubei Province and probably belongs to the mixed area of Gan dialect and Jianghuai dialect. This is normal, because before the Ming Dynasty, Guangji belonged to Lujiang County, Huainan West Road, and it was not adjacent to Jinghu Road in Jianghan area at all. So it seems that Guangji dialect and Minyue dialect have some similar sounds. But Guangji has been an immigrant area since ancient times. Like three people in Guangji dialect, the first person said that we Guangji people called me, belonging to the northern dialect. When we called ourselves me, we belonged to Gan dialect. The second person called you, which is grace in Guangji dialect and belongs to Wu dialect. The third person is even more bizarre. Hequ (hei, kei), a typical medieval dialect. Now it only exists in Hakka dialect in Fujian and Guangdong. Just like why the "canal" in Zhu's poems is so clear, because there is flowing water at the source "is an example.

Most of the ancestors of Guangji County migrated from Fuzhou, Hongzhou and Jiangzhou in Jiangxi before the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Nine times out of ten, eastern Hubei migrated along the Yangtze River from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Plain, reaching between Guangzhou and Huanghai, and arriving at An and Qing in Anhui. The first mother tongue of these immigrants is Gan dialect, which has the characteristics of multiple overlapping of ancient Chinese, middle Chinese and modern Chinese. Therefore, in eastern Hubei and western Anhui, dialects overlap, and immigrants form their own local culture and dialects, which not only retain the characteristics of Gan dialect to varying degrees, but also tend to evolve into Mandarin. In 1948 Investigation Report on Hubei Dialect, Mr. Zhao Yuanren thought that the eastern Hubei dialect was difficult to classify, and classified it as "Chu dialect", while the dialects in eastern Hubei and western Anhui, including Jiujiang in northern Jiangxi, were classified as Huangxiao dialect in Jianghuai dialect.