Gaochun has a long history. More than 6300 years ago, in Xuecheng area, there was the earliest primitive village in Nanjing, where the ancestors established a matriarchal clan that made a living by fishing and hunting. 1997 When the "Xuecheng Site" was excavated, experts realized that Gaochun's ancestors were on this land and communicated in the original language. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Wu offered sacrifices for seven years (54 BC1), and the State of Wu built a solid city in Gaochun, gradually forming the Wu dialect.
Gaochun is only 100 km away from Nanjing, but historically, due to the inconvenient land transportation, it has long relied on waterways for cultural and wedding exchanges with Su Xichang and Anhui Xuanlangguang, with less vertical exchanges with Nanjing, while locals rarely go out and are closed for a long time. Traditional agriculture is still its main means of survival.
There have been several immigration incidents in Gaochun's history:
In the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1 1 15), Hui Zong ordered Cai Jing to raise civilian workers in five counties of Jiankang to reclaim Gucheng Lake, covering an area of more than 50,000 mu and named it "Yongfengwei". In the third year of Xuanhe (1 12 1), after Song Jiang was recruited, some Liangshan soldiers moved to settle in Yongfengwei.
In the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1864), Zeng Guofan led the Xiang army to capture Tianjing (now Nanjing). In order to avoid suspicion, he said in the court that "there are too many ministers and troops, and it is planned to abolish 30,000 to 40,000 people to save money". Most of these Xiang troops failed to return to their original places and settled in Gaochun and Lishui counties, such as Hou, Luo, Zeng and Quan in Gaochun Caotang.
1950, Sunan administrative office organized 178 youths from Changzhou and Wuxi to participate in Gaochun land reform. Later, most of them got married and had children in the local area and became the first batch of cadres in Gaochun.
In the 1960s, Gao Chun accepted a large number of educated youths from Nanjing, and in the late 1970s, most of them returned to the cities, but some of them still stayed in the local area and took root in the countryside.
For thousands of years, the migration of a large number of Hakkas did not affect Gaochun dialect, but changed their accents and "assimilated" with Gaochun dialect. This is really a great miracle.
Sweet potato, whose scientific name is sweet potato, is a cheap and healthy food. Legend has it that sweet potato originated in Gaochun, which is a homonym of "mountain encounter" in Gaochun dialect. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Gaochun flooded the fields, and the crops were not harvested. The victims were hungry and cold. One day, a woodcutter at the foot of Jiulong Mountain accidentally saw a wild boar digging in the soil, so he picked it up and tasted it. It is sweet and delicious, and the villagers intend to fill their hunger and survive the famine, so they named it "Mountain Encounter" and began to plant it and spread it all over the country.
In the early years, business transactions were conducted at the negotiating table. If one party finds an excuse to leave the table and talk quietly with his family, it is disrespectful to customers and business often falls through. Gaochun people don't have to worry about content disclosure when they talk about business with foreigners. The boss and Chaofeng (assistant) discussed in Gaochun dialect, but others didn't understand, and the business was soon concluded.
During the period of 1984, a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam occurred on the border of China and Yunnan. At that time, Vietnam understood the military deployment of China's "rear area" and was able to decipher the contact codes of Cantonese, Minnan and Hakka used by our army. Our "cat's ear cave" (fortification) was bombed, the road was destroyed and the first battle was lost. One day, a teacher inspected the frontier position, puzzled by the conversation between two villagers in Gaochun, so he ordered them to convey instructions in Gaochun dialect, which made it impossible for the Vietnamese army to crack this unique military "code"1February, 985, and won the battles in Songmaoling and Xiao Jian, and finally recovered the lost land in the front line of Laoshan. Gao Chun's warriors Ma, Jiang Fangshun, Xie and Kong Xinhua sacrificed heroically and wrote a heroic song of victory. Gao chun's words also made great contributions to the self-defense counterattack.
Gaochun dialect's application for world intangible cultural heritage is another important measure after Kunqu Opera, the oldest opera art in China, was listed in the list. Shen Che, consultant of China Group of UNESCO, visited Gaochun and thought that Gaochun's dialect is unique in China, so it should be scientifically and comprehensively collected, sorted out and protected to carry forward this long and rich cultural heritage.
My hometown is now a world intangible cultural heritage!
I hope I am satisfied.