In ancient times, there was no Mandarin , how did people communicate?

Updated on history 2024-03-11
17 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    In fact, in ancient times, there were not many people who traveled from south to north, and there were not many people from all over the world, so the problem of communication was not big. If a businessman goes somewhere else, he will speak official language, so he can understand it.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Since the Qin Dynasty, China has unified writing in ancient times, and unified a lot of books, so if you meet people who do not understand the language, you can communicate through writing.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    In ancient China, they all had a unified language, and they would use their own unified language to communicate.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    In ancient times, people had very few mobile populations, and almost all of them spoke their local dialects in the same area, and there were official terms for official correspondence between officials, so there would be no big obstacles to communication.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    In ancient times, each region had its own conventional dialect, and people used dialects to communicate and live.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    In ancient times, although there was no Mandarin, there was also an official dialect, and all those who entered the court as officials, they needed to learn the official language, so that there was no obstacle when communicating in the officialdom.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Because they all had their own dialects, and the transportation conditions were very underdeveloped at that time, there were basically no outsiders, and they could communicate normally in dialects.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    In ancient times, the official language was Yayan, but it was not very popular, and basically only people who read books could understand it.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    The official language is the kind of classical Chinese that is very jerky and difficult to understand, which only some civil officials can speak, and the general public will not speak, so the popularity is very low.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    They just speak some of their own local dialects, which I think are quite high, and even the emperor will be affected by some influences.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Some people say that during the Han and Tang dynasties, China spoke "Shaanxi dialect", and there is nothing wrong with it, but the "Shaanxi dialect" in the Han and Tang dynasties and the current "Shaanxi dialect" are not the same language.

    Because of historical reasons, the Chinese dialect changed greatly during the 500 years of the Warring States period, and then after the unification of the Qin State, the official large-scale immigration almost brought a big shift in the Chinese dialect.

    Later, in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a large number of minority languages were integrated into the Chinese language, and then various historical reasons led to the fact that the current "Shaanxi dialect" and the "Shaanxi dialect" before the Han and Tang dynasties were not the same language at all.

    During the Han and Tang dynasties, a large number of immigrants came to Fujian and Guangdong, and now the Hokkien and Cantonese dialects only retain some of the Han and Tang pronunciations and words, and later these immigrants went to Hainan and other places.

    Dialects similar to "Mandarin" were created during the Qing Dynasty and were later standardized by New China and began to be promoted.

    The current "Mandarin" and the dialects of the Han and Tang dynasties are two completely different languages.

    At that time, people did not speak with a childish voice or a tongue.

    It is a pity that the current "Mandarin" has no pronunciation, while the Hokkien and Cantonese dialects have preserved relatively intact ancient Chinese pronunciation and pronunciation.

    I can tell you with certainty that the dialects spoken in China during the Han and Tang dynasties will definitely not resemble the northern dialects of China today.

    At that time, people did not speak with a childish voice or a tongue.

    If you want to talk about what kind of language it is, I can only tell you that it belongs to the Chinese system, and it is impossible to verify which dialect in China is more similar to the dialect of the time.

    I can only tell you that the pronunciation and wording of the dialects of the Han and Tang dynasties were similar to those of the current Hokkien and Cantonese dialects, and they were just similar.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    It's different! The official language of the Han and Tang dynasties is Shaanxi dialect

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    In ancient times, as in modern times, there are also so-called official words, which are often seen in miscellaneous records. Languages and scripts are different, and even if they are the same clan and place, they evolve very quickly, the so-called "change every thirty years". Therefore, language communication is generally based on official dialect, and there was not much communication between people in different places in ancient times, mainly merchants and officials.

    The role of Chinese characters in Chinese history is immeasurable.

    The landlord probably wants to know the tone of the ancients' speech, right? Our current Cantonese (eastern Guangdong), southern Zhejiang dialect, and northwestern Fujian dialect are the closest to ancient languages, especially Cantonese, which retains many ancient pronunciations that are syllables that cannot be located in modern Mandarin. The language of the Sui and Tang dynasties was roughly like this.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    In ancient times, there was also a unified official language. They are a unified script, otherwise how can they communicate with the emperor. If a ** goes to a place to become an official, he will find a local name. Translation, as it is now called, is the same as translation.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    Although there was no Mandarin in ancient times, they had a common language called "Mandarin", through which people from different regions communicated.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    There must be people in their area who are fluent in various languages and can let them speak. Or just writing.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    Communicate with words, have a unified text, and express their meaning in words.

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