In Changzhou dialect, a spicy sound is that I hit you, spicy is the sound of hitting your head, and a sound is a click. Changzhou dialect is a dialect of Wu dialect, which is popular in Changzhou and its surrounding areas and belongs to Changzhou Prefecture in ancient times. Changzhou dialect belongs to Taihu Lake in Wu dialect. According to the language features and telephone conversation, Wu dialect can be divided into three areas and six pieces, namely Taihu Lake in the north, Taizhou in the south, Dongou, Wuzhou, Chuqu and Xuanzhou in the west.

Introduction to Changzhou Dialect

Taihu Lake is the largest piece, which can be further divided into six small pieces: Piling, Su Hu's home, Shaoxi, Hangzhou, Shaolin and Yongjiang. Changzhou dialect belongs to Wu dialect Taihu Lake, Changzhou dialect, also called Piling dialect.

Changzhou belongs to the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with Suzhou dialect in the south of the Yangtze River, Changzhou dialect has a slightly harder tone. It is not as soft as Wunong dialect in Suzhou dialect, but its tone is refreshing, easy to understand and pleasant to listen to. Changzhou dialect has both the softness of Jiangnan and the liveliness of northern languages. Changzhou dialect is soft in the middle and hard in the middle. Invite friends to Changzhou to listen. It is a dialect peculiar to Changzhou.

What was the accent of Changzhou people in ancient times? It's impossible to find out now. However, it can be concluded that the current Changzhou dialect is the result of many mixed interactions between the local indigenous language and the Central Plains language.

At the end of Shang Dynasty, Taibo and Zhong Yong went to Wudi to combine with local aborigines. The language they spoke was Wu dialect. Every time there was a war in the past dynasties, the residents of the Central Plains had to move southward on a large scale. On the one hand, the residents of the Central Plains live together with the surrounding ethnic groups, forming the current northern mandarin; On the other hand, the residents of the Central Plains mixed with the residents of the Wu dialect area, forming the present Wu dialect.