Chinese Dialects Dialect Map

"fang" means the area where the meaning of "dialect " is only popular in certain regions, there is no word in the Chinese national common language commonly accepted . For example, the Liaoning area of the " zang " as the " Mai Tai ", " Mai Tai " The word is not in the prevailing national common language . Another example is the Shanghai dialect , the " hen " as " jiaoguang " , the " it " as " pay off" and so on. Sometimes dialect is a dialect nicknames , sometimes specifically refers to a class of their own dialects and dialects in different parts of the following characteristics of the branch .
China has eight major dialects area , there are a lot of dialect words . With a " corn " , different regions , respectively, as the " stick " , " corn " " Pearl Rice " ; and " soap" , but also " say soap ," "foreign bases " " Fan , as " different "name ."
Sometimes there is quite a common language to express a dialect word meaning of the word , but in everyone's life they need it , so he took the word absorbed into the common language of the Han people came. Like the word " embarrassing " , was originally the southern area of the dialect, means " look, attitude infrequently ," there is no corresponding word in Mandarin , said this meant, so he absorbed the common language . Such examples abound , like " fool " " tricks " "deal " and so on .
Sometimes, there are national common language and some dialect words corresponding word , but in order to show the color locations, some of the works will selectively use some dialect words. Such as Lu Xun in " home" wrote: " My home is only a busy month , busy, he said to his father , his son could be called a leap of soil to manage Sacrificial ." This passage in the " busy month" is Zhejiang area dialect word meaning : only when the holidays or rental , for others journeyman . Selected this dialect words , highlighting the works of local flavor , showing the author's hometown of deep feelings .
We write this " Chinese dialect dialect map ," according to geographic and dialect area distribution in Mandarin basis , starting from the distinction between voice and semantics , from human geography and tourism viewing angle , fully and vividly describes the different regions, populations dialect dialect .