Should dialect culture be protected Why should dialects be protected?

The role and meaning of dialects:

Dialect is a unique national culture, each place has its own unique dialect, it has been inherited for thousands of years, and has a rich cultural heritage.

People have begun to consciously protect history and culture, such as protecting the quintessence of Peking Opera and protecting traditional national festivals.

It is important to popularize Mandarin, but we must not abandon the dialect and the art of the nation because of this.

As a tool for communication between people, it is important for Putonghua to be popularized, but dialects, as a culture and art, contain strong national characteristics and should also be protected.

To a certain extent, dialects are more representative of regional cultural characteristics, and dialects are a social phenomenon.

Key characteristics of dialects:

Although dialects are only spoken in a certain area, they themselves have a complete system of splits. Dialects all have a phonetic structure system, a lexical structure system and a grammatical structure system, which can meet the needs of social communication in the region. Various local dialects of the same nation are the common language of the same nation, and generally always show the linguistic characteristics of "similarities and differences".

In general, the common language of the nation always develops on the basis of a dialect.

According to their nature, dialects can be divided into regional dialects and social dialects, and regional dialects are variants formed by regional differences in languages, branches of national languages in different regions, and regional reflections of the uneven development of languages. Social dialects are social variants formed by members of society in the same region due to social differences in occupation, class, age, gender, cultural upbringing, etc.

Among the major modern Chinese dialects in China, the northern dialect can be regarded as the development of ancient Chinese in the vast northern region after thousands of years, while the southern dialect was gradually formed by the northern residents who moved south on the slow bend of history.

The Han people in the north have gone south on a large scale several times, bringing with them the ancient Chinese of the north in different periods, and scattered them to various regions in the south of the Yangtze River.

Legal Analysis: All ethnic groups have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages. The use of the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities shall be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution, the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy and other laws.

Local language departments and other relevant departments shall manage and supervise the use of the standard spoken and written language of the state within their respective administrative regions.

Legal basis: Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written Language

Article 8 All nationalities have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages. The use of the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities shall be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution, the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy and other laws.

Article 22 Local language departments and other relevant departments shall manage and supervise the use of the standard spoken and written language of the State within their respective administrative regions.