What are the characteristics of Beijing people's speech

Humor, bluntness, but also hidden subtlety.

Beijing writer Liu Yida: said the restaurant dishes salty, Beijing people he will not say salty, will say the police came to arrest you. The reason for this is because you have killed the salt seller. This is the unique language of Beijing. In addition to humor, flirtation and frankness, Beijing dialect also hides a kind of innuendo.

Liu Yida believes that the last 40 years have seen the greatest increase in Beijing dialect. "For example, 'taxi' was first in English, and 'cab' came over from Hong Kong, and many new terms were extended from 'taxi', like 'Brother' and 'Sister'. All of these are Beijing vernacular, and all of them are only now available, including some Internet words that are slowly becoming Beijing vernacular."

Expanded:

These features of the Beijing dialect are inseparable from the city's special history and its special political, cultural and economic status. In modern Beijing dialect, you can still find ancient words from the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, such as "wu lei" (meaning distracted or impure) and "shui shou" (water bucket), which were used in the Yuan and Ming dynasties respectively, and which can be found in Yuan and Ming opera books; you can also find a lot of minority words. You can also find a lot of words of ethnic minorities, such as "you", Beijingers often like to call this word, is from the Mongolian people, "doctor" (doctor), is from the female language.

Beijing dialect is a result of a long history of smelting, and the intermingling of the Han Chinese people and the many ethnic groups in the north. This latter point is more important to the formation and development of Beijing dialect, in my opinion. Since Beijing has been under the rule of minority regimes from Liao, Jin and Yuan to Qing Dynasty, it is impossible for the language not to be influenced by minority languages. Language scholars have pointed out that the northern Chinese language had a close relationship with the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongolian languages of the Altaic family more than 1,000 years ago, which should be very natural.

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People's Daily Online - Beijing writers talk about Beijing dialect: humorous, blunt, and subtle