[The deceased] Ren Ren Run: I am from Cantonese, I go to my hometown of Wantiya Village, Heshan County, Heshan County every summer

This article on February 19, 2013 Wen Wei Po · Pen Club

Original "Talking about dialects"

China is large and there are many dialects. I am from Cantonese. Everyone speaks Cantonese. In fact, Cantonese dialect is inaccurate. It should be called Guangzhou dialect. Cantonese also includes Chaozhou dialect, Hakka dialect, etc., but in major towns in Guangdong, Cantonese people in different places also spoke in Guangdong Province, which is the communication language of Guangdong Province -Guangzhou dialect. When I was a kid, I was in Guangzhou, and everyone spoke in Guangzhou. At that time, Mandarin was also promoted. The school specially invited a Beijinger from Peiping to teach us Mandarin. However, there is no environment in Mandarin. We did not learn Mandarin except for phonetic symbols and did not learn Mandarin. The Beijing teacher learned Guangzhou dialect.

I go home in the hometown of the summer every summer -Wangzhai Village, Heshan County, Guangdong Province. When I see it, it is almost different in various villages. Our Wangzhai Village and the surrounding ancient labor and Mai Village ... what we say is very different. For example, "I" read NGO in Guangzhou, but Wangzhai Village reads NGAI, and there are villages to read NGOI or something. "How can I" read NGAI, but it looks like I in English? When I grew up, I read the "Heshan County Chronicle" in the Shanghai Library. I don't know what Jin Hua Ren "I" read, but my old friend Ren Daxing is from Xiaoshan, and Xiaoshan is not far from Jinhua. When he first arrived in Shanghai, "I" said as NGA, and it was close to the NGAI of our prosperous house. Maybe this is the origin?

Before liberation, people rarely came south to the north, and the traffic was not developed. As long as I saw Shanghai in Guangzhou, there was no direct train at that time. We take a ship from Shanghai to Guangzhou to Hong Kong to Guangzhou. Dialects have rarely changed due to small population flow.

In fact, the old Shanghai is not the case. The Shanghai dialect that everyone speaks is also the communication language of different people in Shanghai. Suzhou people, Wuxi people, Changzhou people, and Ningbo people try to talk in Shanghai as much as possible in Shanghai. My mother was a little bit of language. She was in Shanghai from an early age. She said that she could say a fluent Ningbo and Shaoxing dialect, because she loved to deal with the neighbors and the neighbors, and my nurse was from Shaoxing. But my mother does not speak a Chinese language, indicating that Mandarin is not popular in old Shanghai.

I will have three dialects. My childhood was in Guangzhou, and I spoke Guangzhou from a small family, so I said the best in Guangzhou. Although I was born in Shanghai, I left at the age of five. When I returned to Shanghai at my teens, I couldn't speak when I returned to Shanghai. I had to learn from scratch. In order to write, of course, I have to learn Mandarin and even learn Beijing dialect. For a long time, I talked to my parents at home, speaking Shanghai dialect to my wife and children, and speaking Mandarin outside. I am a text reform worker, and I learn Shanghai dialect and talk to speak through Pinyin. In the past, there were new texts of Latin, both Mandarin Pinyin schemes and Shanghai dialect Pinyin solutions. I learned these solutions. I can pat my chest and say that my Shanghai dialect and Mandarin pronounce are standard, but it is a bit hard to say. It is not easy to tell the dialect of dialects. I am listening to the evaluation, listening to the Yue drama, and listening to its pronunciation. I feel that it is easy to talk about the dialect, especially the Suzhou dialect. I do n’t even learn that A tone. It's right.

After the liberation, people came south to the north, and our southerners seemed to have two dialects, namely hometown and Mandarin. The Chinese should have two dialects, and Mr. Lu Xun seems to have said. It is a great thing to promote Mandarin after liberation. But one thing needs to be done quickly, that is, record the dialect. Some people have already paid attention to Shanghai dialect, which is good, but not only do big dialects pay attention to, small dialects should also pay attention to, dialect is also a cultural heritage, and should be preserved. First of all, I hope to record the dialects of Wangzhai Village, Heshan County, Heshan County. I hope it is not too late, because I have been away from my hometown for half a century, and this time has changed too much. In the past, I had to cross the boat from Guangzhou to return to their hometown overnight. It is said that I only need to take two hours of long -distance bus now. I am afraid that people in my hometown are already speaking in Guangzhou!

Author: Ren Cunfun

Edit: Qian Yutong

Editor in charge: Shu Ming

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