These villages are Meiyuan Village in the south gate, Lijiang Village in Chuanbu, Shangba Village and Linjia Village under Foziling, Wangxiao Village in Zhu Xi, Tongshan Village in Gui Jing and Baihe Village in Xinjie. These villages still retain some funeral customs of Minnan people ... which can be said to be "dialect islands". Minnan people call eating delicious food, eating sweet potatoes and "people are coming" "Lang is coming". When I was a child, I went up the mountain to get firewood, and I heard someone shouting "Lang is coming!" I thought it was a wolf, but later I knew it was a ranger. "I don't know" in Mandarin and "I don't know" in Yixing. Minnan people say "Oh, my God". "Wa" is the consonant of "I", "Yi" is "No" and "Being" is the consonant of "Beloved". "Wayizai" is actually "I don't know" (I don't know), which is a bit archaic.
Zhang Zhu, Xiang Yang and Xinzhuang are also different "Yixing dialect islands". Zhang Zhuren described "always like this" as "an arrogant guy", a wooden footbath with a handle as "clumsy hands" and "running" as "waves". The author's granddaughter's grandparents are all from Zhang Zhu. They all call running "waves", and the baby is also "waves". Yicheng people call the wheat burnt into powder "Mai Bo", Zhang Zhu people call it "Shubo" and foreigners call it "burnt powder". Foreigners also call the pot cover "pot convex". In Xinzhuang and Yangxi, "Bie" is called "Xiao", and "Xiao" has become a homonym of "Xiao". There are two main reasons for the formation of Yixing dialect island: one is caused by different regions, and the other is caused by immigrants. Zhang Zhu is near Guangde. Xinzhuang and Yangxi are close to Taihu Lake, facing Wuxian and Wujiang across the lake. Both Xiang Yang and Fangzhuang are close to Liyang, and both call the "pot cover" as "pot drum", which seems to be the same dialect island. In fact, there are differences: take Mai Bo as an example, Xiang Yang is called "burnt powder" and Fangzhuang is called "cooked uncle". Yixing and Shanghai are hundreds of miles apart, with obvious pronunciation differences and many similarities. Yixing people say "Zai" is "Le", and Shanghai people also say "Zai" is "Le".
The formation of Yixing "dialect island" is closely related to war troops, famine immigrants and business to make a living. Wu Taibo moved south 3000 years ago, which had a great influence on Wu dialect and Yixing dialect. In the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei led the army to Yi, married and had children in Yixing, and many Yue families in Yixing were his descendants. Taiping Army stationed troops in Yixing for three or four years, and also set up a palace in Yixing. The words "beating white and wandering" were left by Guangxi people. More people from Wenzhou, Henan and northern Jiangsu come to Yixing to make a living. Most places where Wenzhou people gather are mountainous areas, and there are many places for forest protection, firewood and sweet potato cultivation. 1969, the author jumped the queue in Donghong Village, the father of Juglans mandshurica, where most people are from Wenzhou. The author's grandfather has a mountain farm in the lake and rented it to Wenzhou people. After the reform and opening up, people from Wenzhou, Yixing, walked out of the mountains and set up factories to do business, and the Yixing dialect they spoke seemed to have lost some Wenzhou flavor. Changdi, a linguist in the Ming Dynasty, said: "It is imperative to change words and rhymes in ancient and modern times." After several years, Yixing dialect island may change slightly.