Explore the Huizhou Dialect

Author: Jiang Sheng Wan
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is a discursive collection that takes dialect as its entry point, with the introduction of dialect as its main theme. It blends Huizhou folklore, Huizhou customs, and psychological analysis of Huizhou people into one. It includes the introduction and etymology of dialect words, encompassing nearly 2,400 entries, making it similar to a Huizhou dialect dictionary and also serving as a reference tool. Due to its unique perspective from dialect research, it also offers certain benefits for the study and exploration of Huizhou culture. The book aims to prove that Huizhou dialect is not just an oral, unwritten colloquial language, but one that can be written down, can be annotated with Mandarin phonetics, and possesses its own lexical characteristics. It is a refined and distinctive Southern dialect. Through this book, Huizhou people who use the dialect can learn how to write it, while outsiders can understand what the Huizhou people are actually "saying."