Chapter 341 on the play

During the same period, as the people of the Central Plains entered Guangdong by land, some Han people living in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian moved south to the Chaoshan Plain in eastern Guangdong and became the ancestors of the Chaoshan people.

Therefore, Chaoshan is the same language family as "Hokkien", which is completely different from Cantonese, which is derived from ancient Chinese in the Central Plains.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Chinese language in the Central Plains was still basically maintained in the Han and Tang dynasties, and at that time, the first pronunciation and prosodic book in Chinese history was published by the government, "Guangyun", in which the pronunciation of the characters marked was highly consistent with today's Cantonese.

However, due to the repeated invasion and occupation by the northern ethnic minorities such as Liao, Jin, and Yuan, with the great integration of ethnic groups, the Central Plains Chinese gradually began to be Hu, and by the Southern Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Chinese had gradually evolved from Han and Tang Chinese (that is, Cantonese) to the current Hakka.

However, the remote corner of Guangdong has rarely been affected, and the Cantonese people have always lived a stable life, so that their language has been able to retain the characteristics of the Han and Tang dynasties, and is basically not influenced by the northern nomads.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, the invasion of the Mongols caused a long period of war, which once again triggered the second large-scale southward migration of the Han people in the Central Plains, and this time the Han people moved south until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the plain areas of Guangdong at that time had been occupied by the Cantonese people and Chaoshan people who had moved south before, the Han people who migrated south this time could only move to the mountainous area of Meixian County, which borders northeast Guangdong and Jiangxi and Fujian, and were called "Hakka people" (that is, "people who lived in other people's places"), and the Chinese they spoke in the Central Plains of the Southern Song Dynasty was called "Hakka".

So far, Cantonese has formed three major dialects: Cantonese (i.e., Cantonese), Chaoshan, and Hakka.

Because the tone has been greatly reduced, at this time the Chinese in the Central Plains has been significantly different from the Han and Tang dynasties, in order to avoid too many homophones and seriously affect the communication, the solution is to increase the initials, that is, on the basis of the original ancient Chinese that never had a tongue roll sound, by the "z, c, s" three initials curl the tongue and add the three initials of "zh, ch, sh", which is the origin of the current Mandarin tongue roll.

The life of the Cantonese people has always been very stable, so their language also retains the characteristics of the Han and Tang dynasties, maintaining the nine tones of ancient Chinese and most of the pronunciation of the text.

Therefore, in Cantonese, there is no tongue curl, that is, there is no "z, c, s" and "zh, ch, sh" that even people in the northern region often can't understand, so Cantonese expressions can often be clearer and more definite than Mandarin.

Modern Cantonese was fully formed during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and during the same period, the deeply Hu Mandarin was also formed in Beijing, but its tone was only four tones, which was completely consistent with the northern Hu dialect.

At this point, Cantoness has become the best modern Chinese language that retains ancient Chinese, and it is also the only Chinese language with a complete writing system except Mandarin (Mandarin (the language of the Manchurians), that is, all Cantonese pronunciations have corresponding characters, and the pronunciation can be recorded completely in words.

Because of this, the society has developed to modern times, and a large number of Tang and Song poems can only be read in Cantonese to meet the basic "rhythmic beauty" of poetry.

Take the Tang Dynasty poet "Wang Zhilian" "Climbing the Stork Tower" as an example:

"At the end of the day, the Yellow River flows into the sea;

If you want to be poor, go to the next level. ”

In Cantonese, "liu, lou" is the same rhyme, which meets the requirements that the second and fourth sentences of quatrain poems must rhyme, but in Mandarin, these two words have long been different rhymes.

For another example, the famous poet "Wang Wei", who is also in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the famous work "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9":

"Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of relatives every festive season;

The remote knowledge brothers ascended to the heights, and there was one less person in the dogwood. ”

In Cantonese, "pro" and "ren" are the same rhyme, which meets the rhyme requirements of poetry, but in Mandarin, these two words have different rhymes.

In addition, in addition to the advantages of richer tones and the recitation of ancient poems that are more in line with the beauty of rhyme, Cantonese also has a more important advantage, that is, the difference between synonyms.

The biggest problem with Mandarin is that the characters are completely inherited from ancient Chinese, but the pronunciation is "Huhua", so that many commonly used synonyms have the same pronunciation, resulting in confusion in the use of words.

Cantonese, on the other hand, fully meets the requirements of "the same initials, but different finals", so in Cantonese, there will be no confusion between "的", "地" and "得", nor will it use the wrong "do" and "作", but people in the northern region often confuse the above two sets of synonyms.

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Just as Lin Xiao was thinking wildly, the big drama was over, and the crowd began to loosen up.

Lin Xiao came back to his senses and realized that the time for this big drama was not short, so he secretly raised his wrist to take a look, ah, it was half past four!

The little girl Ling'er had completely disappeared from the nervous state she was looking at just now, her face was flushed with excitement, and without saying a word, she took Lin Xiao's hand and left, saying:

"Brother, let's go, let's go to the riverside to play."

"This ......"

Lin Xiao looked at her speechlessly, it was not early.

Seeing Lin Xiao's hesitation, Ling'er said coquettishly: "Brother, you are entangled in official business every day, it is difficult to come out to shop, today Ling'er will take you to see the night market in Guangzhou." ”

"Forehead ......"

Lin Xiao couldn't cry or laugh, what kind of world, children coaxed adults?

Lin Xiaoxin said that the little girl had a rough life and had been miserable for a long time, and it was rare for her to get revenge today, so she would be so happy.

It's just that as the commander-in-chief, he doesn't dare to leave his post for a long time, in case there is an emergency, others can't find him, and it's another trouble.

Thinking of this, he looked at Situ Zheng helplessly, hoping that he could solve the siege, but the kid pursed his lips and smiled, looking like he had nothing to do with himself.

Lin Xiao glared at him, and had to say helplessly: "Then, okay, go shopping." ”

At that moment, the three of them talked and laughed, and walked south.

Guangzhou City, was originally the world's shape and prosperity of the place, coupled with the Ming room to the south, how much attracted some people with lofty ideals who are interested in the Ming Dynasty to come, but also increase the mountains and rivers of the graceful flow, although after several slaughters, was plagued by the Tartars for half a year, but it is still much more prosperous than other places.

In addition, this is the most important treaty port in the Ming Dynasty, is the largest material distribution center for overseas trade, yes, the army has only been restored for ten days, under the painstaking management of the people, it soon began to recover, and many small traders have opened for business.

Soon, the three of them came to the bank of the Pearl River, which was more lively than the city, with many archways along the street, shops and restaurants, and occasionally a few curly-haired and blue-eyed Westerners on the street.

Walking all the way, Ling'er smiled happily, and suddenly sighed: "Today's play is really good." ”

"That's it...... Average, right? ”

Lin Xiao pursed his lips and jokingly said: "It's such a big stage, I always feel a little ...... to sing a big martial arts show."

"It's because the stage is small that it's difficult to perform,"

Ling'er pouted, with a look of what you know, "If you act in some babbling dramas, I don't like to watch it." ”

"Huh? Isn't the literary drama good? ”

Lin Xiaoxin said, if you have watched the Peking Opera of later generations, I am afraid you will not think so, the literary drama performed by the four famous Dans, then it is called a masterpiece, Mei Lanfang will not say it, Cheng Yanqiu's masterpiece "Suo Lin Bag", he never gets tired of watching it.

"Literary drama?"

Ling'er shook her head and smiled, "This kind of drama is a set, Zuo is just some beautiful talents, and it is the most boring." ”

"Why is it boring?"

Lin Xiao was puzzled, aren't talented and beautiful women good-looking? A beautiful girl in the mood for love, don't you love to think the most?

Thanks: "5 and a half lemon c", "love is an eternal topic", "broccoli", "Yang Junyu Yao" for the reward! Thank you!

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