The history of Kunming dialect

Before the Han Dynasty, there was no material about Chinese in the written records about Kunming. Based on this, it is speculated that the common language of Kunming at that time should be the local national language. However, judging from some inscriptions later discovered in Yunnan, such as the giant tablet in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two-cluster tablet in the Jin Dynasty, the mound tablet in the Tang Dynasty and the Dehua tablet in Nanzhao, it is certain that Chinese characters have been used together from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, at least in some important towns in Yunnan.

The formation of Kunming dialect was in the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty, most of the Han immigrants who moved to Yunnan from the mainland lived in Jiangxi, Anhui, Huguang, Nanjing, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and other places. In Qing Dynasty and modern times, immigrants from North China and Sichuan also entered Yunnan in large numbers.

The formation of Kunming dialect is closely related to the migration of Han population to Yunnan in history. The distinction between "new school" and "old school" in Kunming dialect originated in the 1940s. Mainly because after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a large number of refugees from the north and the south fled to Kunming, especially after the national The National SouthWest Associated University moved south to Kunming, which had a great impact on the politics, economy and culture of Kunming. A large number of immigrants played a catalytic role in the evolution of Kunming dialect, and gradually formed a "new school of Kunming dialect."