Let's talk about Zhejiang dialect. There are 88 dialects in Zhejiang, which may not be understood by each other in the same county. In Zhejiang, Mandarin is the only common language. In China, as long as you can speak Mandarin, there is generally no language barrier to prevent you from communicating. Even if they can't speak Mandarin, students from Shandong will come to Henan and Hebei. Even if you only speak Dongsha dialect, you can communicate roughly, and no one will understand you. But when you get to Zhejiang, you will find that this set doesn't work. From the perspective of dialectology, all dialects spoken by more than 95% people in Zhejiang can be classified as Wu dialect [1].

But when Hangzhou people, Taizhou people and Wenzhou people open their mouths together, they can only switch back to Mandarin awkwardly. In Zhejiang, sometimes even people in the same county may not understand each other's language. Why? Zhejiang dialect has its own encryption function. Although Zhejiang people speak Wu dialect, Wu dialect is different. Zhejiang Wu dialect can be divided into six parts: Taihu Lake, Taizhou, Oujiang, Shangli, Jinqu and Xuanzhou, and Taihu Lake can be divided into four parts [1], which are quite different from each other. As early as 20 15, when the China Language Resources Protection Project was launched, Zhejiang successfully attracted the attention of the research group by virtue of the complexity of its dialect in the province. At the beginning, according to the principle of one county and one point, Zhejiang identified 77 dialect points. But they found that some counties have more than one dialect. Finally, the research group added 1 1 dialect points, totaling 88 [2]. In other words, there are as many as 88 dialects in Zhejiang Province.

Zhejiang people speak their hometown dialect, and they have their own shielding function. 2019 65438+123 October, Huzhou, Zhejiang, two old people were chatting. As a foreigner, even if they don't speak, you can't understand/vision china is a member of Wu dialect area, but the great difference between them is actually related to the division and definition of dialectology. Whether dialects can be classified into one category mainly depends on their phonological features, that is, "feature judgment method".

That is to say, in the northwest of Zhejiang, this village is still a native who speaks Wu dialect, and another village across a mountain or a river may be immigrants from Henan and Hubei who moved in in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, speaking other provinces' dialects. Because of the inconvenient transportation, they have not communicated for generations, and the miscellaneous dialects have been preserved. Not only war immigrants, but also the ancient military and political system will bring dialect islands. For example, the strict words of Guanhaiwei in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province are actually Minnan Island. Jinxiang dialect in Wenzhou has the characteristics of both northern dialect and northern Wu dialect. & GT201March 9 17, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, the influx of a large number of immigrants has made Ningbo full of vitality/vision china, these people moved from Fujian or northern Zhejiang to the coastal areas to engage in garrison activities because of military needs. These military households often live with their families in military strongholds isolated from the surrounding areas, and their household registration cannot be changed from military to civilian. This makes them isolated from the outside world, which makes their dialects preserved [6][7]. Immigrants can not only directly produce dialect islands, but also affect local dialects. For example, when the Southern Song Dynasty moved its capital to Hangzhou, a large number of northern Renye Fang people also moved to Hangzhou. From 1 127 to 1 156 for more than 30 years, the floating population in Hangzhou has surpassed the local indigenous population [8]. Therefore, influenced by the northern dialect, Hangzhou dialect also has a strong northern color. Without an economic center, there is no standard dialect? However, the reason why Zhejiang dialect is so complicated is mainly because it has no standard language of its own.