General situation of Gutian county

Postal Code: Region: Pinyin: Gutian County

Gutian County is located in the northeast of Fujian Province. Geographical coordinates are 2016'-20 53' north latitude and 32'-24' east longitude. A total of 0.6 square kilometers. At the end of the year, the registered population was 425,300, including 71.800 non-agricultural population. Speak Fuzhou dialect in eastern Fujian.

Fuzhou dialect is widely used in Fuzhou. Fuzhou dialect is one of the eight major dialects in Chinese, which was stereotyped in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and occupies an important position in Fujian dialect.

Fuzhou dialect is the lingua franca of the old Fuzhou mansion in the lower reaches of Minjiang River, and the whole eastern Fujian region is designated as the representative dialect. It is popular in 26 counties in 5 districts of Fuzhou today, and can be understood by 25 counties under the jurisdiction of Ningde area today. Some towns and villages in Taishun County, Pingyang County and Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, outside the eastern Fujian dialect area, also have access to Fuzhou dialect. As for northern Fujian, such as Youxi, Jian 'ou, Shaxian, Shunchang and Jiangle. Fuzhou dialect is the second dialect, and overseas Chinese who went out from the eastern Fujian dialect area spread Fuzhou dialect all over the world.

Fuzhou dialect has many sources. Its bottom layer should be the language of the ancient Min and Yue nationalities. In the early period before Wei and Jin Dynasties, ancient Wu dialect and ancient Chu dialect were brought, and ancient Chinese and middle Chinese also obviously remained in Fuzhou dialect.