"Sweet Mile"... The streets and alleys of Handan are filled with this sound

In the roadside markets around Handan City, you will often hear the roadside fruit vendors using a kind of loudspeaker to play a recorded shouting sound in a loop of "*** fruit, sweet mile, sweet mile..."

What does "sweet mile" mean? My understanding is to say very sweet meaning. This kind of authentic Handan accent, if you meet friends from other places, you are really overwhelmed? Especially with a few words of Mandarin in front of it, it is really not unusual, it is simply an innovation with Handan characteristics.

I don't know when the roadside vendors stopped shouting and selling with their voices, but used loudspeakers to make the sound travel farther. However, this is not enough, because the megaphone only transmits sound, can not replace the throat, although the voice no longer uses a lot of strength, but it is still very tired after a long time. At this time, someone came up with a way to replace the voice with a recording, so as not to replace the voice of the person? So there is a recording speaker, that is, the shouting sound is recorded in advance, and then the recording speaker is played in a loop, and people sit there waiting for customers to buy, saving trouble and effort, just consume a little electricity, why not enjoy it? Society is advancing with the times, and the small traders in Handan are also advancing with the times.

In fact, "Sweet Mile" is a local colloquial language, just like Beijingers speak with a "child" sound. For example, "good mile", "stick mile", "dei mile". Handan is the ancient capital of the Zhao State and the birthplace of the Zhao Culture. Its history and culture have a long history, and many of its allusions originated in Handan. For example: "Mao Sui self-recommendation", "Hufu riding and shooting", "Complete Bi return to Zhao", "Huang Liang a dream" and so on.

With the change of modern cities and the influx of people from other provinces and cities, the city of Handan is also quietly changing, the local spoken language is gradually unable to hear, and the old Handan dialect is also less, replaced by the semi-ordinary and semi-local Handan dialect. Now it's hard for you to hear old Handan.

Walking into the wet market, when you hear the shouting sound of the loop played by the recording speaker, it will make you think, maybe in a few years, more than ten years, this pure local colloquial shouting will not be heard, at that time, there will be another voice instead, at that time, will anyone go to collect these local "specialties" and apply for "intangible cultural heritage" protection?

In any case, the "sweet mile, sweet mile..." This kind of shouting sound, from a vendor to the entire roadside market is imitating, swept the entire market, it took less than a year, it can be seen that this kind of shouting effect is really good. In fact, this also reflects the recognition and feelings of the old Handan dialect in people's hearts.

I hope that the old Handan dialect can make people find their feelings in the past.