The Function and Significance of Dialect

The function and significance of dialect;

1. Dialect is a unique national culture. Every place has its own unique dialect, which has been circulated for thousands of years and has rich cultural heritage.

2. People began to consciously protect history and culture, such as protecting the quintessence of Peking Opera and traditional national festivals.

3. It is important to promote Putonghua, but we should not abandon dialects and national arts.

As a communication tool between people, it is very important to popularize Putonghua, while dialects, as a kind of culture and art, contain strong national characteristics and should be protected. The two are not contradictory.

5. To some extent, dialect can better represent regional cultural characteristics, and dialect is a social phenomenon.

The main features of dialects:

Dialect is only in a certain area, but it has a complete system. Dialect has phonetic structure system, lexical structure system and grammatical structure system, which can meet the needs of social communication in this region. All kinds of local dialects of the same nation are the same language of the nation, and generally always show the linguistic characteristics of "similarities and differences, differences and similarities". Generally speaking, national homophones are always developed on the basis of a dialect.

Dialects can be divided into regional dialects and social dialects according to their nature. Regional dialect is a language variety caused by regional differences, a branch of national languages in different regions and a regional reflection of unbalanced language development. Social dialects are different social variants formed by social members in the same area due to social differences in occupation, class, age, gender and cultural upbringing.

Among several dialects of modern Chinese 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 is gradually formed by the continuous southward migration of northern residents in history.

The northern Han people went south several times on a large scale, bringing ancient northern Chinese in different periods, spreading to various regions in the south of the Yangtze River, and gradually forming six dialects that are obviously different from each other.