What does Aolan mean in Chaoshan?
Aolan means shock in Chaoshan. Chaoshan dialect, Chaozhou, is destined to have an indissoluble bond with the sea because of its geographical relationship. In coastal areas, people who crossed the banks of the river in those days mostly went to Southeast Asia. Therefore, the formation of the word "Aolan" is not unrelated to the hard life of the predecessors in Chaoshan. Most characters can only be passed down from mouth to mouth after forging and refining their lives. Presumably, the formation of the word "Aolan".
Features of Chaozhou dialect:
Chaozhou dialect is characterized by special grammar, rich vocabulary, unique phonology and many ancient meanings. For example, modern Chinese is spelled with four tones, but Chaozhou dialect still retains the phonetic system of spelled with eight tones, with complex pronunciation. Previously, there were sixteen tones, but now it is eight tones, and there are too many local dialects, which are difficult for outsiders to learn. In Chaozhou dialect, guests call people guests, hens call roosters, and hens call their mothers.
The ancient Chinese in Chaozhou dialect is well preserved, and Chaozhou dialect is polysemy. A word "Shi" includes almost all oral food actions such as drinking, eating, drinking, sucking and sucking, such as smoking, drinking wine, chewing sugarcane and drinking water, which can be summarized as special grammar.
The ancient Chinese in Chaozhou dialect is well preserved, and Chaozhou dialect has multiple meanings. A word "eat" includes almost all oral eating actions such as drinking (smoking) cigarettes, drinking (drinking) wine, eating (chewing) sugarcane and drinking (drinking) water.
Function and significance of dialect:
1. Dialect is a unique national culture, and every place has its own unique dialect, which has been passed down for thousands of years and has rich cultural heritage.
2. People have begun to consciously protect history and culture, such as protecting national quintessence Peking Opera and traditional national festivals.
3. It is important to popularize Putonghua, but we can't abandon dialects and national art because of this.
4. As a communication tool between people, it is important to popularize Putonghua, while dialects, as a culture and art, contain strong national characteristics and should be protected. There is no contradiction between them.
5. To some extent, dialects can better represent regional cultural characteristics, and dialects are a social phenomenon.
Main features of dialects:
Although dialects are only popular in certain areas, they also have a complete system. Dialects have phonetic structure system, lexical structure system and grammatical structure system, which can meet the needs of social communication in this region. Various local dialects of the same nation are the same language of this nation, and generally always show the linguistic characteristics of "similarities and differences, differences and similarities". Under normal circumstances, national homonyms are always developed on the basis of a dialect.
According to its nature, dialects can be divided into regional dialects and social dialects. Regional dialects are variants of languages due to regional differences, branches of the national language in different regions, and regional reflections of language development imbalance. Social dialects are different social variants formed by social members in the same region because of social differences in occupation, class, age, gender and cultural upbringing.
among several major modern Chinese dialects 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 Han people in the north went south several times on a large scale, which brought the ancient northern Chinese in different periods and dispersed to various regions in the south of the Yangtze River, and gradually formed six dialects which were obviously different from each other.