Fortune-telling in Pingjiang Dialect _ Pingjiang Dialect Vocabulary

Pingjiang dialect is the oldest Chinese heritage in China. This is the amazing discovery of Yueyang Evening News reporter Chen Tianwei recently.

The phonology of China language is divided into three major streams, namely, elegance, Central Plains pronunciation and Putonghua.

Yayan was formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, based on the dialect "Yu Xia" in Wang Ji, its capital. It is the earliest written language and common language in China, and it is the Mandarin of ancient China people. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the vassal states became independent, and elegance became the official language of communication between vassal states. If officials can't speak elegance or can't speak it well, they must take "Xu Xiang" (translator) who can speak standard elegance with them when they perform their tasks. It was not only an official exchange, but also an elegant way for scholars to give lectures at that time. Confucius said to his students, "Poetry and calligraphy are polite." (The Analects of Confucius). Confucius used Lu every day, but he used elegant words when he recited poems and attended sacrifices. The development of education has promoted the popularization of Yayan, making it gradually become the common language of communication among all walks of life.

According to the description of Yayan in Qieyun, the first phonological monograph in China, it can be confirmed that the main features of Yayan's phonology are: full-voiced stops and full-voiced stops, with tongue sounds; No warping; There are a whole set of nasal vowels and stop vowels; There are flat, up, far and in tone.

Due to many civil wars and disasters in the north, the northern minorities ruled for a long time, especially in the late Tang Dynasty, most of the Han people moved south, and the elegant speech and rhyme gradually moved south to Jiangxi and Hunan, and moved to Shaoguan and the Pearl River Basin when the Southern Tang Dynasty perished, and then moved to Guangdong and Guangxi on both sides of the Pearl River Basin in the late Song Dynasty.

At present, the phonological features of Yayan can't be found in Mandarin, northern dialects and the northern part of the Yangtze River valley. At present, among the seven dialects in China, Cantonese carries the most critical elements of elegance.

Everyone in the linguistic field agrees that the inheritor of Yayan is Cantonese and the pronunciation of the Central Plains is Hakka. Mandarin (Mandarin, Mandarin) mostly comes from ethnic minorities, and Wu Xiang dialect is the real southern Chinese (inherited from Changsha dialect). Jiangxi dialect, Hakka dialect, Fujian dialect and Cantonese are all variants of ancient northern dialects moving southward.

Through the comparison of the above key elements, we can confirm that Pingjiang dialect and Cantonese are homologous, which is why we find that Cantonese people can understand Pingjiang dialect in our life. It is different from southern Chinese (Changsha dialect) in Hunan. Pingjiang dialect is a branch of ancient Chinese that stayed in Pingjiang as the Han people moved south. Because its geographical location is in the north of Guangdong, according to the law of our ancestors' migration, every time they migrate to a place suitable for survival, they will not leave, and later people will continue to migrate. Therefore, it can be inferred that Pingjiang dialect of Han nationality migrated earlier than Cantonese and moved south earlier, which can prove that Pingjiang dialect belongs to earlier than Cantonese.

Pingjiang dialect is a precious language and cultural heritage handed down by ancestors and a living fossil of ancient Chinese in China. Chen Tianwei suggested that Yueyang City or Pingjiang County set up relevant research groups to organize forces to further verify this conclusion and declare Pingjiang dialect as intangible cultural heritage.