Salt dialect is an early dialect in Guanhaiwei city, and its intonation is self-contained and cannot be associated with Chinese characters, so pronunciation has nothing to do with word meaning. Tracing back to history, Guanhaiwei was transferred to the army in Weiqi Banner, Funing, Fujian Province, and settled down for inheritance and reproduction. The language took root and became Guanhaiwei dialect. It is said that the guards lived in the city at that time, but the language was unreasonable, and Yan dialect was absolutely dominant in the city. There has long been a saying that "the snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman gains" and "it is difficult to enter the city without knowing the Fujian dialect". After that, the law and order gradually became obsolete, and residents from all over the country entered the city one after another. Soldiers in the city should learn to speak "outside the city".

At present, there are several views on "Yan Hua", which I think are debatable, so I will feature this article and ask experts for advice. First, Yan dialect is Minnan dialect. The author thinks this formulation is quite limited, because Fujian dialect has five systems: western Fujian, northern Fujian, southern Fujian, eastern Fujian and Hakka. Although these five dialects are all descendants of the Han nationality in the Central Plains and share the common characteristics of Min dialect, they are self-contained and cannot communicate with each other at all. Funingwei is located in the northeast of Fujian Province, which is equivalent to the east of Donggong Mountain, Pingnan and the north of Ningde. It belongs to Xiapu County and is a dialect area represented by Fuqing, Changle, Gutian Fuan and other counties and cities in northeast Fujian 17. The southern dialect should be represented by Xiamen, covering Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Dongshan. Northern Fujian dialect, represented by Jian 'ou, is distributed in Jianyang, Songxi and Wuyishan. Therefore, it is difficult for the author to agree to classify Yan dialect as Minnan dialect, and it should be more objective to take Mindong dialect.

Secondly, Yan dialect in Xiangshan County and Juexi Town dialect belong to the same language family. Juexi Town also set up a patrol inspection department and thousands of offices in Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, which also formed a unique dialect area in the city. Its language is very different from Linhai Township, which is separated by a ridge, and Dan Town, which is eight kilometers away. Therefore, some people call Juexi dialect and Yan dialect of Guanhaiwei the second largest language area in Zhejiang. In fact, most of the poor soldiers stationed in Juexi at that time were from the Central Plains, and quite a few of them were from Daming House in Hebei Province, so the northern dialect became popular. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (166 1), "coastal residents entered the mainland". Juexi was surrounded by mountains on three sides and coastal on one side, but survived because of the impassable roads. Therefore, after the expiration of its term of office, the Daming government army remained in the station, thus forming a unique dialect community. Most of its languages retain the basic features of the central plains pronunciation, and its vocabulary also has obvious characteristics of the northern dialect. Such as "Allah", "Nyala", "You Nai" and "Zila" in Dancheng dialect, and "We", "You", "They" and "Who" in Juexi dialect, so they can not only be deciphered, but also be used for dialogue with locals and foreigners. Therefore, Guan's salt dialect and Juexi dialect cannot be merged into "Min dialect".

Thirdly, I think "verbalization" is a mistake of "ideologicalization". Because Qi Jiajun's fight against the Japanese aggressors is very famous among the people, and there are many legends, he recruited troops in Yiwu and thought Yan dialect was a righteous dialect. In fact, Qi Jiajun is very mobile, and his main activities are not in the Guanhaiwei area. There is no data to test whether the army has been stationed in Guanhaiwei for a long time. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Cixi people Shen Ying took charge of customs and affairs, and Sheng Sa wrote a book "Going to Think" to guard Zhejiang and Fuzhou, and when the commander-in-chief of China army knew the Duke of Nantang, there were also records of Qi Jiajun stationed in customs. Therefore, "one" does not have the seeds and soil to take root in Guanhaiwei, not to mention Yan Hua existed more than 100 years before the formation of Qijiajun.

Since going out to sea to make a living has long been an important way out for people around Guanhaiwei, Yan dialect handed down from generation to generation has also been brought abroad. Overseas Chinese often use Yan dialect as a link to spread information and contact with their hometown. For example, people in Nanyang call Yan dialect "dark words". During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the common people also used Yan dialect to contact the 35th detachment to avoid the search of the enemy and puppet troops. The gentleman specially mentioned here also came to watch Haiwei learn Yan dialect and used it as a "secret code" contact in the Shanghai securities (stock) market. It is said that Yan language was once popular in Shili Sheep Farm because it evaded the eyes and ears of foreigners many times and made a fortune. Foreigners in the stock market have repeatedly asked some linguists to decipher the contents of Yan dialect, but the pronunciation of Yan dialect does not involve the meaning of words and cannot reveal its secrets. Therefore, through open and secret channels, someone came to Guanhaiwei to investigate the Yan dialect known as the "living fossil of oriental language", which made the Acropolis a tiny place in history and left an indelible mark on the development history of Ningbo commercial gangs.

After the reform and opening up, many overseas Chinese returned to their hometowns to visit relatives, and some Yan dialects were fluent. It is precisely because "the local accent has not changed." At present, Guanhaiwei people living overseas, Hongkong and Taiwan Province still adhere to the ancestral motto of "I would rather abandon my ancestral fields than forget my ancestral words", and all of them should teach their children to speak a few words of Yan dialect to show that they do not forget their ancestral career and nostalgia. Since 1950s, the author has received dozens of people who accompanied him to inspect Yan dialect. In the early years, the author once took investigators to Yan dialect area near Weixi and Beimen Town in Guan Hai. Almost 65,438+0,000% people can speak Yan dialect, and about 50% people can't even understand "foreign dialect". In 1980s, I was entrusted by the CPPCC Cixi Literature and History Information Committee to investigate Yan dialect. Not many people can talk directly in Yan dialect. When the author investigated the intangible cultural heritage last year, it was difficult to record more than 100 commonly used Yan dialects. And people who know a few words of Yan dialect are still very common in Guanhaiwei and even the whole three northern regions.