Q: Did the ancients speak Mandarin? What do you say if you don t say that?

The ancients did not speak Mandarin. Language is changing, and the language of people varies from era to era. In order to overcome the difficulty of dialect communication, the ancients popularized a common language called Yayu in ancient times, and later such a common language was called Guanhua, which has the same effect as the current Mandarin.

However, the difference between Mandarin and ancient Chinese is too great now.

The standard language of modern Chinese is Mandarin, which is based on Beijing pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect, and exemplary vernacular writings as the grammatical norm. Today it is the mainstream of the language. Northern dialects are spoken over a wide area from northeast to southwest (probably the vast Han region except for the Southern Song Dynasty at the time of the rise of the Mongols). Since ancient times, the north has been invaded, occupied and ruled by foreign tribes in the north many times, so the northern dialect has been influenced by many minority languages, and many changes have taken place, such as the tongue roll sound and the child-shaped sound are the manifestations of the Altaiization of Chinese. In the south, in a relatively stable and closed environment, the language development and change are relatively slow, but it is complex and abnormal, and there are often different sounds across mountains. Only within Guangdong Province and there are three words:

Cantonese dialect, Hakka dialect, and Hokkien dialect (Chaoshan dialect, Fu Lao dialect) cannot communicate with each other, but they all preserve the ancient Chinese relics of different periods. This is due to the complex and changeable geographical environment of the south, the abundance of indigenous peoples (in ancient times), and the migration, exchange, and integration of Han people in different periods.

It's the same as it is now. Beijingers speak Beijing, Wuhan speakers, Chinese speak Chinese, and foreigners speak their native language.

In ancient times, it was the same as now, there were dialects, and there were Mandarin. However, the ancient Mandarin was different from the current one, and the Mandarin at that time was called"Mandarin", and the official language of each dynasty is different, mainly depending on the person who is the emperor of the **, and the official language is the ** words.

The ancient people did not speak Mandarin, different dynasties had different official dialects, and the word Mandarin only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. In ancient China, each dynasty had an official dialect, the official dialect is generally a local dialect, the Shang Dynasty held the Central Plains Yayin, the Yuan Dynasty with the majority of the pronunciation as the standard, the Ming Dynasty Nanjing official dialect was admired, in 1901 the Beiping phonetics were positioned as the Chinese.

Ancient people did not speak Mandarin

The word Mandarin did not appear in ancient times, the word only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, different dynasties in ancient China had different official dialects, and the capital dialect was generally used as the official language. For example, in the Yuan Dynasty, the capital was set in Dagao, with the pronunciation of Dadu as the standard, and in the Ming Dynasty, the capital was Nanjing, with Nanjing official dialect as the official language.

Mandarin appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty

During the Qing Dynasty, the capital was set in Beijing, and in the early stage, Nanjing official dialect was still the mainstream, until the Yongzheng period, the Beiping pronunciation was established as the Chinese pronunciation, and the status of the Beiping pronunciation began to slow down. In 1909, the Qing ** named the Beiping pronunciation as Chinese, changed to Mandarin in 1949, and promoted it nationwide in 1955.

Promote the significance of Mandarin

Putonghua is a common language with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, northern official dialect as the basic dialect, and modern vernacular writings as the grammatical norms. The promotion of Mandarin is not to eliminate dialects, but to eliminate the barriers between people, so that communication can be smoother, which is conducive to the unity of the whole country.

No, the TV series and reality are two different things, in ancient times, there was the so-called official dialect, which is equivalent to the current Mandarin, but the pronunciation is different, in addition to various dialects.

Don't say. If you look at the classical Chinese you learned, they just spoke like that, maybe they didn't have that much literary language in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in modern times, but they were far from Mandarin. Otherwise, how could Hu Shi and Lu Xun advocate vernacular literature.

The ancients didn't speak Mandarin, but people from all over the world all spoke Mandarin together, similar to Mandarin, and came from officialdom!

Of course, don't say it, the ancients all used classical Chinese, and the dialects in different places are very heavy, maybe ** is the Beijing dialect.

Of course not, the pronunciation of ancient Chinese is still very different from that of modern Mandarin.

In ancient times, there was no standard common language, and generally speaking, the dialect of the emperor's capital city or the emperor's dialect prevailed. You see, the official language of the Qing Dynasty was Beijing dialect, but the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were from the Northeast, and after a long period of evolution, the rulers also spoke Beijing dialect, so Beijing dialect became their official language.

It is conceivable that the Qin Dynasty spoke Shaanxi dialect, and the Song Dynasty spoke Henan dialect, and the general ** may speak dialects locally, and when he went to Beijing to see the emperor or go to the higher authorities, he spoke the language of the capital at that time.

That's a sharp question......

In fact, the words of ancient people are different from the classical Chinese we see, and they are not much different from what we speak now, but some of the words are relatively different

In ancient times, there were dialects, and they spoke more than us

Today's Mandarin is formed by absorbing the Beijing dialect on the basis of the northern official dialect. The formation of the northern official dialect has a long history, which can be roughly traced back to the Yuan Dynasty. However, the northern official dialect was obviously influenced by the northern ethnic groups, and the sound disappeared and the tongue curl sounded.

Therefore, there is a big difference between the official dialect of the north and the official dialect of China before the Song Dynasty.

However, even the official dialect before the Song Dynasty was different in the past dynasties, with the Middle Ages from the Six Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, and the ancient pronunciation from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. The difference between these two stages has a lot to do with the influence of the languages of the northern peoples.

However, the official dialect (Yayan) is not the same as what the ancients actually spoke, and Yang Xiong once wrote "Dialects", which can also give a glimpse of the situation of various local dialects during the Han Dynasty. The distinction between official dialects and dialects has been going on for a long time, and the spoken language spoken by the ancients may also have to be specifically distinguished.

No, it's not the current Beijing dialect.

In ancient times, all dynasties had their own official dialects.