The Taiyuan Dialect Museum uses digital means to show the current status of dialect protection in the city. Photo by Yang Jing
Zhongxin Network Taiyuan, January 6 Title: Dialect masters "endorsement" pure Taiyuan dialect inherit authentic rural pronunciation
Author Yang Jing
"The young man left home and returned to the old man, and the township voice did not change the sideburns. Children don't know each other, laughing and asking where the guests come from. On January 6, in the Taiyuan Dialect Museum in Shanxi, nine dialect speakers recited the ancient poem "Book of Huixiang Dolls" in the representative dialects of various districts and counties in Taiyuan City, showing authentic rural sounds.
Taiyuan Dialect Museum's audience message book. Photo by Yang Jing
As the first dialect museum in Shanxi, the Taiyuan Dialect Museum displays the dialect and city sound protection achievements of 8 areas in Taiyuan. Zhang Jianming, deputy research librarian of Taiyuan Cultural Tourism Development Center (Municipal Cultural Center), introduced that since 2018, collection personnel have gone deep into 14 collection points in the city to systematically collect Taiyuan dialects, which were all completed in August 2021.
The pronunciation is reciting the Book of Homecoming Dolls in dialect. Photo by Yang Jing
The dialects in Taiyuan City are divided into two parts, divided according to the academic circles, Yangqu County belongs to the Jin language Wutai tablets, and the others belong to the Hezhou tablets. Zhang Jianming said that at present, the use of Taiyuan dialect is shrinking, the main use of the population is concentrated in the middle-aged and elderly groups, and the rural dialect group is better than the urban area.
"After the dialect collection is completed, in order to display the results of the work of dialect city sound protection, the Taiyuan Dialect Museum was built." Zhang Jianming told reporters that the Taiyuan Dialect Museum uses digital means to show the current situation of dialect protection in the city, and the audience can watch the dialect videos of the pronunciation people's lives and labor scenes through projection and audio-visual playback equipment, and the video materials and academic materials of the taiyuan dialect situation, the city sound video materials and the artistic expression materials and academic materials with the Taiyuan dialect as the carrier are also recorded in the museum.
Wang Shen, a dialect speaker in Jiancaoping District, Taiyuan City, explained his recorded dialect video to visitors. Photo by Yang Jing
On the same day, the summary meeting of the Taiyuan dialect city sound collection and recording work was held. Wang Shen, a 72-year-old dialect pronunciation person in Jiancaoping District, Taiyuan City, was commended as a "Pronunciation Speaker of the Taiyuan Dialect City Sound Collection and Recording Project", and he repeatedly pronounced the pronunciation in a closed environment and recorded the dialect of Jiancaoping District in 6 days. "Dialects are also part of nostalgia, and it is very meaningful to preserve and pass them on."
At present, the Taiyuan Dialect Museum has been opened to the public free of charge. "The gradual decline in the use of the Taiyuan dialect and the weakening of the dialect mean that the culture of various forms of artistic expression it carries will also fall into the dilemma of being lost due to the shrinking audience and the inability of the audience to understand the dialect." Song Ping, director of the Taiyuan Cultural Tourism Development Center, hopes to take the construction of the dialect museum as an opportunity to continue to discover, protect and inherit the local culture of Taiyuan.
Taiyuan dialect city voice collection record work summary meeting site. Photo by Yang Jing
In the next step, the Taiyuan Dialect Museum will plan the Taiyuan Dialect Talent Show and promote the intangible cultural heritage such as Lotus Fall and Yangge with the Taiyuan dialect as the carrier into the campus. Zhang Jianming said: "I hope to build a Taiyuan dialect experience hall in traditional streets such as Zhonglou Street, so that the public can understand and perceive the dialect culture at close range. ”
"Dialect is the embodiment of a local cultural folklore and living habits, and it is also the carrier of other intangible cultural heritage. It is hoped that the 'dialect wall' of history will be built and a valuable cultural heritage will be left for future generations. An Junyue, deputy director of the Cultural and Tourism Bureau of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, said. (End)