Listening to taste is Jiaodong dialect, also called listening to taste, which means smelling taste in Putonghua. Listening to taste has become the symbolic language of Jiaodong dialect in the eyes of foreigners.

Jiaodong dialect is a living fossil of ancient sounds. Therefore, to understand Jiaodong dialect, we must go back to the origin of characters, that is, go back to ancient times and understand characters with the thinking of ancients, but not with the thinking of modern people.

In ancient times, "listening" was actually a description of "big mouth" and "smiling face". So "smelling" actually describes the facial expression when "smelling": when smelling, people's mouth will open or smile. Over time, the facial expression when "listening to the smell" solidified into the meaning of "smelling"

Characteristics of Jiaodong dialect

The characteristics of Jiaodong dialect are basically the same as Donglai dialect, but Qingdao, Pingdu Laiyang and Yexian do not have the consonants and disyllabic values peculiar to most dialects in Jiaodong.

Due to the large-scale migration from Jiaodong to Liaodong in history (mainly in Qing Dynasty), Jiaodong dialect has a far-reaching influence on Liaodong dialect, and they are highly consistent in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. It can be said that Liaodong dialect was formed and developed on the basis of absorbing the original local dialect.