Pat the smell of fireworks around you
In ancient times, the Tan people had their own unique language, which was not incomprehensible to the Chinese language. During the Song Dynasty, the Tan people were naturalized and compiled as 'Yihu', and their contacts with the Han people became increasingly close. By the Ming Dynasty, except for a small number of Tan people who were relatively closed and did not understand Chinese, most of the other Tan people had gradually mastered the Chinese dialect, but the dialects they spoke retained all the linguistic characteristics of their own people.
Today's Tan people's dialect has undergone a long period of change and development before it has been finalized. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, there have been continuous Tan people who have directly settled down to become naturalized, so that the Chinese language and the Minyue language have been integrated with each other, and the dialect has been stereotyped. During the Northern Song and Southern Song dynasties, a large number of immigrants poured into the Central Plains, forming a relatively stable Han area, and at the same time, the northern Chinese language was combined with the local native language, and finally the dialect was formed. From here, it can be seen that the dialect is a fusion of the Chinese spoken by the Central Plains people and the original dialect of the Tan people; After the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the gradual sinicization of the Tan people, the Tan language evolved towards the Han dialect, and the original Tan language disappeared.
Tanjia is a Cantonese dialect that is close to the vernacular, but with a different accent and a particularly watery softness. In the dialect, they call their mothers "home" and sleep as "mi". The Tan family is very bold and romantic, and their lives have been inseparable from songs for hundreds of years. They called the songs that floated on the water "saltwater songs" and at the same time called "vernacular fish songs". Its songs have a unique style, fresh tunes, and natural melodies, and the songs are cheerful and smooth, lyrical and euphemistic. On the day of the bridegroom's marriage, they expressed their joy with songs. Singing when going out to sea to fish, rocking the boat at sea; Singing when collecting and weaving nets, so the old and young men and women of the Tan family will sing, adding rich colors to their lives and bringing endless joy, and becoming one of the important ways for the Tan family to interact in their daily life.
The tune of "Gu Jiao Mei" is full of unrestrained emotions, and the Tan family likes to sing loudly when they go fishing at sea: "The tail of the oar is rippling, the tail is splashing, Gu Jiao Mei, pull the oar, wait for the brother to shake the .......""Saltwater songs have been sung from generation to generation, and the vernacular fishing songs fully express the various feelings of the Tan family, which is incisive. The custom of singing this kind of song makes these illiterate and unreadable Tan family members who can not intermarry with the shore, their emotions and lives are deeply integrated into the vernacular fishing songs, and have been recorded and well inherited, these ancient tunes record the story of the Tan family, and carry forward the warm and harmonious feelings of the Tan family.