The custom of Shiyang town

Southern dialects can be roughly divided into four categories: elders, peers, younger generations and others. The following are the kinship terms of "Southern Dialect" (belonging to "Southern Hunan Dialect") in Xintian County *** 134. From these words, we can see some distinctive features of Xintian's "Southern Dialect" in word formation, syntax and cultural implication, and at the same time, we can see the traces of interaction between Southwest Mandarin and "Dialect".