Is there a dialect in Tiantai?

Tiantai dialect belongs to Wu dialect, a small piece of northern Taiwan Province in Taizhou, and retains voiced and entering tones.

Phonetic features:

Qian Fang Town, Pan 'an, near Tiantai, also speaks Tiantai dialect for geographical reasons, but some idioms are different. One * * * is eight tones. Pingsheng and Shangsheng are similar to Putonghua, but the guttural sound is heavier. Many voiced sounds in Putonghua here are different tones, which is roughly equivalent to the way the throat deliberately exhales when pronouncing in a flat voice. In addition, some words, such as the fourth sound and the first sound, may be pronounced in Mandarin, such as Xi Qi, Chang Jia, Ren Ning and Dai.

Dialect features:

Tiantai dialect is difficult to understand, and may rank first among counties and cities in Taizhou (of course, Minnan dialect around Kanmen in Yuhuan is equally difficult to understand). It took me two years to finally understand Tiantai Mandarin, but after a trip to Tiantai countryside, an old Bo dialect slang in his seventies came out and I was dumbfounded. It is said that more than 20 years ago, during the counterattack in self-defense, Vietnamese soldiers deciphered our secret code. As soon as our army commander arrived, he called two rooftop soldiers to act as operators, which made the Vietnamese roll their eyes.

Tiantai dialect is hard and heavy, but Mandarin is clear and clear, and Tiantai people don't speak Mandarin very well. Nine times out of ten Tiantai people over 40 speak Mandarin, which makes people laugh. There is a widely circulated example. A Tiantai man, who is the top leader in Taizhou, made a big fuss at a meeting about the "common bad rooftop". The subordinates looked at each other, not knowing what to say, but sitting under the stage. Zhou Xuefeng, secretary of Tiantai County Party Committee, asked everyone in Tiantai to recite Li Bai's poem "Long Ta Phoenix Que refused to stay and went straight to Tiantai". Tiantai people think that such a good poem should really always talk about their family's aspirations. As a result, Tiantai people used the word "Tiantai ordinary bad" as if they were chanting a mantra.

Tiantai's cultural heritage is so profound that it can be seen from Tiantai dialect that it is called "mud field" at noon, "picking the sun" in the sun, "two" for you in front of the hall, "Xiangxi" for watching a play (or a movie) and "immediately". Tuition is called "bundle training", and the word "bundle training" comes from the Analects of Confucius. An old man in his 70 s asked his grandson if he had paid the tuition, and then he said, "Did you pay the bundle?" Even doctoral supervisors who teach ancient Chinese may not be able to use this word so freely.

Tiantai people speak creatively and vividly. For example, "awesome" is called "evil trap". This "evil arrest" is an ancient yamen punishment, called slapping. When the official says, "Give me a clip", the prisoner's finger will be broken. Another example is to be a mediocre person, which is called "not knot evil spirit", and this "knot evil spirit" refers to the persistent eyes on music. There are also stubborn people who talk and listen to themselves as "stubborn donkeys" and "dead nails", which is also a kind of knowing what they mean.

The interjections in Tiantai dialect are particularly interesting, such as "Ah! The bowl is broken. " "Ah shout! I'm sorry that debt collectors should do something. Use "how good" to express helplessness. " First, I don't know how to farm, and second, I don't know how to do business. "It's amazing to use Fire Falling." There are three kitchens on the roof, and porridge falls in one day. "