? Yiwu is located in the middle of Zhejiang Province. After the reform and opening-up, the reputation of the small commodity market has greatly increased, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad. Its county has a long history. In the twenty-fifth year (the first emperor), the king of Qin came to power (in the first 222 years), which was located in Jiangnan, Pingbaiyue, and the county name was Wu Shang, belonging to Huiji County. The origin of the name of Wu Shang County is said to be "Qin Yanxiao's son's family, filial piety, burial of relatives, and the ministers supporting Wu, and his beak was injured." Later, the city said it was a bruise, filial piety, and Yiwu, all dutiful sons. "In the seventh year of Tang Wude (624), it was called Yiwu, which belonged to Wuzhou in the Song Dynasty and Jinhua in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Just because of the long history, the local dialect is pure and simple, and the ancient rhyme is long.
Yiwu dialect belongs to the Wu dialect area among the seven major dialect areas in China, and it is a small branch of Wuzhou dialect in southern Zhejiang. But it is different from the familiar "Wu Nong Soft Language" represented by Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect. There are many intonations in Yiwu dialect, which sounds like "Bang Bang" to put it bluntly. It sounds like an outsider listening to the sounds of nature, which is very unpleasant. Some people say that listening to Suzhou people's quarrels is like lovers' sweet words, while I say listening to Yiwu people's sweet words is like quarreling. Nevertheless, this does not affect the fact that Yiwu dialect belongs to the same language family as Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect. In fact, in the pronunciation of some words, there are some traces between them For example, in Yiwu dialect, we call it "Allah" and you call it "Nong", which is basically the same as the pronunciation of Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect.
? Aside from the identity of Yiwu dialect, we can find the preciousness and loveliness of Yiwu dialect by studying a lot of information imprinted by ancient Chinese. Give two examples. When two Yiwu people meet and say hello, just like China people, they will definitely ask, "Have you eaten?" Show concern for each other's food and clothing problems. People in Yiwu are saying that the pronunciation of this sentence is "Have you eaten?" In Yiwu dialect, "eat" is always called "eat", and nouns are used as verbs, such as "eat rice, drink, drink tea, smoke, eat vegetarian dishes, eat meat and eat vegetables". This is a typical usage of ancient Chinese, and many examples can be found in ancient books and documents. It is also a trick for foreigners to learn Yiwu dialect. In my humble opinion, it seems that no local dialect calls "eating" "eating". For example, the "play" in Yiwu dialect is not called "play", nor is it the "white face" in Shanghai dialect, but called "play". As the old saying goes, "The industrious are good at industriousness, but the players are poor". The pronunciation and meaning of "play" in Yiwu dialect are the same as those in ancient Chinese. Besides, in Yiwu dialect, "no" is called "fu", "death" is called "pour", "madness" is called "epilepsy" and "chopsticks" is called "parents" (consistent with the usage in Mulan Ci). The word "sleep" is also quite representative. The pronunciation of this word is different from that of Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect, and it is called "sleep" in Yiwu dialect. Except the word "sleep" is still commonly used in modern written language, the single usage of the word "sleep" can only be found in ancient books. The words "eat", "play" and "sleep" that have disappeared in modern Chinese are precisely the most commonly used and primitive words in Yiwu dialect. This is the most direct and powerful example of Yiwu dialect and ancient Chinese!
In Yiwu dialect, there are some very intriguing words and usages. For example, "staying overnight" is called "staying overnight" and "building a house" is called "repairing a house"; Calling "window" as "window door" seems to be composed of "window" and "door", and its meaning only refers to "window", which is a typical misuse in ancient Chinese. In addition, children are called "paying off debts" when they are smart, "collecting debts" when they are naughty, "committing crimes" when they make enemies, "being neat" when they say they are beautiful, and "being in the morning" and "being in the morning" when they have breakfast (there are a lot of expressions in ancient books such as "being in the morning, cooking at night, marching by the three armies"). There is no adverb "hen" in Yiwu dialect, so it has always been called "danger". When we say "spicy, hot and ice", we will add the word "human" after these words, and "spicy, hot and ice" will indicate the usage centered on "human".
? Yiwu was the territory of Yue State in ancient times, which belonged to Yue State first and then to Chu State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Ancient Yue culture and Chu culture have been passed down in this land, and the most obvious one is Yiwu dialect. When I was in college, there was an old gentleman from Jidong Chen who specialized in classical literature. When he was teaching Qu Yuan's masterpiece Li Sao, he thought that the word Li Sao was taken from Yiwu dialect, which sounded like "impatience" and meant "depression and irritability", and its sound and meaning can still be found in Yiwu dialect. This may be called a new interpretation of the word "Li Sao"
Of course, I have no intention to elevate the status of Yiwu dialect, but in the profound development of China's language and culture, Yiwu dialect is highly homologous to ancient Chinese, intentionally or unintentionally, and a large amount of ancient Chinese information preserved so far is really worth exploring by people of insight.