Should dialects be preserved, or should they be abandoned

Each of the 56 ethnic groups must have its own language habits, so dialects naturally appeared. At present, according to the historical and structural characteristics of the formation and development of dialects, the dialects of modern Chinese can be divided into seven categories, namely northern dialects, Wu dialects, Hunan dialects, Jiangxi dialects, Hakka dialects, Min dialects, and Cantonese dialects. Within each type of major dialect, there are also a number of sub-dialects, which play a large role as regional communication tools.

I believe we must have this experience, with the integration of nationalities and social development, Mandarin has become the most used language in our daily life, because it has great advantages, that is, simple and unified, while dialects are increasingly ignored by people, and some even go extinct. Take myself as an example, since elementary school, I have been learning standard Mandarin, I usually use Mandarin in school communication, and I usually use the dialect of my hometown occasionally at home. When I went to university, I liked to communicate in dialects every time I went home or met my fellow villagers at school.

There is a good saying: only those who go abroad know what patriotism is. In the same way, what is the love of hometown called by people who go out In recent years, there is such a phenomenon in society, due to the diversification of film and television programs, dialect programs have been put on the screen, and the dialects that I used to think were not very "photogenic" are now listening to a little taste, and I think it's not bad.

Programs such as Happy Teahouse, film and television dubbing, and hometown news have a great rating. During the summer vacation this year, I went to Huzhou TV to make a guest appearance in a dialect program, called "Film and Television Hahaha", which is to use dialect for movie dubbing, and some Mandarin words are a little difficult to translate into dialects, so you can change the word; Some Mandarin has specific words in the dialect that will sound interesting. But there is a duality to shows like this.

My experience is that in Huzhou, I like to watch programs that speak my hometown, but in Hangzhou, I hate such programs. I think it's not just me, it's a lot of people. The reason is very simple, everyone needs a sense of belonging, and we need such a feeling even more when we are in a foreign land, although we can understand the dialect here, but the psychological feelings are different, and the feeling that such a program brings to non-locals is a kind of exclusion and incompatibility, more or less disrespectful.

Only people from the region can feel the intimacy and shallow pride in the show.

It should be protected, supported. Cultural heritage.

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.

Dialects should be protected. Dialect represents the foundation of a place, dialect refers to the unique language of a region, and each language is not blind and independent of each language, and the influencing factors of language formation also include natural factors, obscure social factors, etc. Therefore, the dialect of a region brings together the unique and distinctive culture of that Brotherhood region.

If a region does not have its own dialect, it is equivalent to losing the culture of that region, and losing the culture is equivalent to losing the roots.

The meaning of preserving dialects is simply about preserving culture and respecting history. To a certain extent, dialect is a "living fossil" of culture, as a kind of local culture, including many local ethnic elements, it has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, and has developed into a language art and a social phenomenon.

Chinese dialects belong to the concept of political science, which generally refers to the spoken language and literary characters unique to a certain region, and this name does not need to consider the kinship between languages, that is, no language is a derivative of a certain language.

Dialects in the European concept belong to linguistics, which refers to the division of languages with different language families, language families, and branches according to the kinship between "languages", that is, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.